Garlic Pepper Beef

Garlic Pepper Beef ala Jollibee, a delightful addition to their menu that you can also make at the comfort of your own home! Tender beef slices marinated in a delicious base made of a lot of garlic, soy sauce, oyster sauce, and pepper. That’s then made better after being slathered in a buttery mushroom sauce. Try out Yummy Kitchen’s enhanced copycat version of Jollibee’s Special Garlic Pepper Beef Recipe.

Garlic Pepper Beef Recipe:

For the Beef

• 500 grams beef tenderloin, thinly sliced
• 2 tablespoon soy sauce
• 2 tablespoon oyster sauce
• 1/2 teaspoon pepper
• 10 cloves garlic
• Oil for frying
• Water for simmering

For the Sauce

• 2 tablespoon unsalted butter
• 1 cup mushrooms
• 1 tablespoon all purpose flour
• 1 1/2 cup water
• 1 teaspoon soy sauce
• pepper to taste
• 1/2 beef broth cube

Directions :

1. Place the beef slices in a bowl, marinate with soy sauce, oyster sauce, and pepper. Mix well and set aside.
2. Prepare the garlic by mincing or blending in a grinder. Prepare a pan with enough oil and fry the garlic until slightly golden. Strain and set aside, removing some of the oil till only a tablespoon is left.
3. Sauté the beef till it changes in color. Add a bit of the cooked garlic and let these simmer together covered for 10 minutes. Adding more water as needed. Cook till the beef is tender and most of the liquids have reduced.
4. Take the beef off the pan and melt butter, add in mushrooms and sauté these for a few minutes before adding all purpose flour mixing these into a paste. Add a bit of water at a time before mixing in soy sauce, pepper, and the beef cube.
5. Mix and let this simmer till it thickens a bit. Add back the beef and mix till everything is coated with the sauce. Top with the fried garlic before serving.

How to cook Garlic Pepper Beef (ala Jollibee)? 

A seasonal dish in the Philippines, popularly made by the famous Filipino Fast food chain JOLLIBEE, where the tagline “Bida ang Sarap!” rings true. A sure way to get any kid or adult who takes a bite of their number one bestseller ‘Chicken joy’ smile with pure joy and delight! This Garlic Pepper Steak stir fry gets a number of netizens crazy over the dish during the holidays, or nearing the Christmas season. Not to be confused with its typical burger steak counterpart. This beefy version has a close semblance to some “Chinese beef with garlic sauce recipes”.

Not your common beef steak recipe. This version is simple but more impactful. Made of thinly sliced tenderloin beef, marinated in a savory rich soy sauce, oyster sauce, and pepper mix. While setting it aside, minced garlic is sauteed in a pan with a bit of oil till its crips and brown, making for a nice garnish at the end. The golden garlic are removed leaving a nice flavorful amount of garlic oil that the beef will be cooked in. Once slightly colored, the beef simmers in its own juices covered for a few minutes, adding a bit of water at a time to avoid it from burning. Taken out once tender and soft to make the delightfully rich pepper mushroom sauce made of butter, mushrooms, and all purpose flour thats cooked to a paste-like texture, adding small amounts of water at a time, then soy sauce and pepper to taste, finally adding a beef cube for a stronger meaty taste that completes the dish. This is then simmered to a thicker almost sauce-like consistency before the cooked beef is added back then simmered together once more for a better medley of flavors. 

Questions:

• Garlic pepper beef calories?

Garlic Pepper Beef (Jollibee calories) amount to 404 calories per serving. Making it at home and reducing the sodium and oil can help lower the calorie count to around 290 calories.

• Why use tenderloin?

This cut of the beef is one of the most tender especially when cooked right. 

1. But if this is not available you can also use ground beef or ground beef molded into burgers or meatballs. Though when using ground beef, these should only be cooked until it changes in color, then cooked once more with the sauce, skipping the simmering time.
2. Can you use other parts? Yes you can, as long as these are thinly sliced or grounded as these just take a few minutes to cook. Chunk sized cuts might take longer to tenderize.
3. You can also change the beef slices to pork slices to make “Garlic Pepper Pork”.

• What sides suit this garlic pepper beef with mushroom recipe?

This is best served with a side of freshly cooked white rice, garlic rice, sauteed or mashed potatoes, or french fries.

Other Yummy Beef Recipes!

• Beef Ampalaya (Sauteed Beef with Bitter gourd)
• Beef Hofan ( Dry Beef noodles, a Chinese-Filipino fusion dish)
• Beef Salpicao (Buttered Garlic Mushroom Beef)
• Beef Steak (Bistek)
• Beef Tapa with Coke (Marinated Beef with Coke)
• Beefy Tomato Soup
• Beef Bulgogi (Korean Style beef BBQ)

Garlic Pepper Beef Resipi: (Tagalog version)

Mga Sangkap :

Para sa Baka

• 500 gramo beef tenderloin, hiniwa ng manipis
• 2 kutsarang soy sauce
• 2 kutsarang oyster sauce
• 1/2 kutsaritang paminta
• 10 butil ng bawang
• Mantika pang prito
• Tubig pang kulo

Para sa Sarsa

• 2 kutsarang mantikilya na walang asin
• 1 tasa kabute
• 1 kutsarang all purpose flour
• 1 1/2 tasa tubig
• 1 kutsaritang soy sauce
• Paminta panglasa
• 1/2 beef broth cube

Paano Lutuin :

1. Ilugar ang mga hinati na baka sa isang mangkok. Haluan ito ng soy sauce, oyster sauce, at paminta at itabi.
2. Itadtad ang bawang gamit ang blender o grinder. Maghanda ng kawali na may kaunting mantika at iprito ang bawang hanggang magkulay-golden.  Itabi at tanggalan ang kawali ng konting mantika, magtira lamang ng 1 kutsara.
3. Iluto ang baka hanggang magiba ng kulay. Dagdagan ng kaunting pritinong bawang at pakuluin ang ito na nakatakip ng 10 minuto. Dagdagan ng tubig kung kinakailangan. Lutuin hanggang lumambot ang mga baka at wala na masyadong tubig.
4. Tanggalin ang niluto sa kawali at magtunaw ng mantikilya, iluto ang kabute ng ilang minuto bago isama ang harina, Haluin hanggang magmukang pandikit. Lagyan ng tubig ng pakonti konti bago haluan ng soy sauce, paminta, at beef cube.
5. Ipakulo ito hanggang kumapal ng konti. Ibalik ang baka at haluin hanggang matakpan ang lahat ng ito ng sarsa. Dekorasyonan ng prinitong bawang bago ihanda.