Recipes with beef

Spaghetti and meatballs

An Italian-American dish, spaghetti and meatballs is comfort food for generations. I’ve cooked it so many times but I have to admit that it’s only recently that I found the real secret to the best meatballs for this dish. Lighter and bouncier meatballs. Not overbearingly dense. That’s how I like them.

Cook time: 20

Servings: 4 people

Spicy beef kaldereta

One of the many tomato-based meat stews that evolved in Filipino cuisine after over three centuries of Spanish colonization, beef kaldereta (from the Spanish caldero or cauldron, the traditional pot for cooking stews) is a popular holiday dish in the Philippines.

Cook time: 2 30

Servings: 4 people

Beef stew a la House of Kimchi

Inspired by the soupy sweet and spicy beef stew served at the food court in a mall named in honor of boxer Muhammad Ali.

Cook time: 7 15

Servings: 6 people

Beef salpicao

Wagyu cubes are marinated in garlic, pepper and olive oil, seared and braised in a mixture of liquid seasoning and Worcestershire sauce. Button mushrooms complete the dish.

Cook time: 5

Servings: 4 people

Sweet soy sauce beef ramen

Salty sweet broth, greens, beef, noodles, kamaboko and raw egg. Think sukiyaki but simpler because this instant ramen hack has fewer ingredients. Mushrooms (shimeji and enoki, especially) are good additions.

Cook time: 10

Servings: 2 people