Mechado

Beef Mechado is a Filipino-style beef stew made of larded beef chunks, braised in tomato sauce with potatoes and carrots, onions, and bay leaves; until the liquid reducing to a thick gravy. It’s a delicious and filling dish that pairs well with steamed rice.

Over the years, the name of the dish has increasingly come to encompass variations that use thinner slices or even bony cuts of beef and that have dispensed with the larding process altogether. Newer variations of the dish resemble more like a beef stew. A popular incarnation of mitsado features tomatoes predominantly in the braising liquid, as well as cuts of potatoes.