Bitter Beef Stew (Papaitang Baka)

One of Filipino's favorite comfort food "Papaitan".  This dish is mainly compose with innards of beef or goat. It includes small intestines, ox tripe, cow's heart or liver and the bile. The bitter taste or flavor of this dish mainly comes from the bile. It is sometimes bitter-sour stew because other varieties includes tamarind (sampalok). Its a hit among beer drinkers here in our country and it's one of the most requested "pulutan". In manila if you want to eat "Papaitan" just visit the nearest cafeteria or carenderia and I assure that they got a serving for you. Most of my kababayan prefer this as a pulutan but for us it is best eaten with steamed rice.

I've prepared this one on a gloomy afternoon, the richness of this stew can invigorate your body in this kind of weather. You can easily distinguish papaitan meat vendors in the market. Just tell the butcher if how many kilos are you going to buy and they will give you proper portion of the innards. You also need to buy some meat of beef.

My wife enjoyed this one, she even reserve a bowl of papaitan for her to munch while watching TV later that night. I hope you can also enjoy this recipe.

Ingredients

1 kilo beef innards

4 cloves garlic (minced)

2 pcs medium onions (quartered)

5 pcs long green chili

1 thumb ginger (julliened)

sampalok mix

1 sachet Maggi magic sarap

2 tsp freshly ground peppercorn

1 tsp bile

2 tsp oil
5-7 cups water

salt to taste

Instructions 

1. Properly clean the innards by washing it through running water. You may scrub it with salt then rinse.
2. In a large pot or pressure cooker, boil water and add the innards. Wait for 45 to 60 minutes until all the innards are tender.
3. Drain the water and cut the innards into small pieces. Set aside.
4. In a large pot, saute garlic and onion until its soften then add ginger.
5. Put the innards and simmer for 5 to 10 minutes.
6. Add 5 cups of water and let it boil.
7. Put bile and chili's then add salt and pepper to taste. If you want a bitter-sour taste add the sampalok mix.

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