Lengua Estofado

Filipino dish -  Lengua Estofado from PanlasangPinoy.com  

Serves 4

Ingredients:

🥩👅  2 lbs. (897 g) beef lengua boiled until tender and sliced

½ cup all-purpose flour

🍅  1x 14 oz. (414 ml) can diced tomato

1 Knorr Beef Cube

🍷  ¾ cup (177 ml) white wine (Pinot Grigio or Sauvignon blanc)

🧅  1 medium yellow onion minced

🧄  3 cloves garlic crushed and minced

2 tbsp brown sugar

2 tbsp  soy sauce

1 tbsp vinegar

🌿  5 pieces bay leaves

🍄‍🟫  ½ cup sliced button mushrooms

🫒  1 cup pitted olives

🫒  ¼ cup sliced black olives

💧  1 cup water

🧂  Salt to taste

Ground black pepper to taste

🫒  ¼ cup (4 tbsp) cooking oil

Directions:

Heat oil in a wide cooking pot.

Dredge the slice lengua in flour (shake away the excess flour) and then pan-fry in medium heat for 1 minute per side. Set aside.

Add onion and garlic on the pot. Continue to cook until the onion gets tender.

Pour the can of diced tomato and white wine. Stir.

Add the pan fried beef lengua.

Stir-in soy sauce and water. Add the Knorr Beef Cube. Let boil.

Add the bay leaves. Cover and cook in low heat until the sauce reduces to half.

Add the vinegar. Allow the sauce to re-boil.

Add sugar, green olives, black olives, and mushrooms. Stir. Cook for 5 to 8 minutes.

Sprinkle some salt and ground black pepper to taste.