Umami Cooking

Meaty with a dash of veggies

Modern Filipino

Boiled beef shank, marrow and vegetable soup (bulalo)

Boiled beef shank, marrow and vegetable soup (bulalo)
In the Philippines, bulalo refers to (1) the bone marrow from the beef shank, (2) a cut of bone-in beef shank, or (3) a meat and vegetable soup cooked with beef shank with the marrow intact.
In this recipe, we cook the soup and vegetable dish in the slow cooker.
Cook time: 6 hours
Servings: 4 people

My grandmother’s almondigas

Filipino meatball and misua soup (almondigas)
A Filipino meatball and noodle soup, it is quite probable that almondigas is an adaptation of the Mexican meatball soup called albondigas.
Cook time: 20 minutes
Servings: 4 people