Beef Pares Pressure Cooker, Cook this meal in the pressure cooker makes it way quicker. Star anise and soy sauce were added for a tasty meal.
What is Beef Pares
Beef Pares means pair. In this case, braised beef is served with garlic rice and beef broth to complete a filling meal. Made famous in the Philippines, this meal consists of braised beef with soy sauce, and star anise.
Although you don’t need to serve this meal as I do- serving it with garlic rice and broth to complete the meal, I serve my meal with them. It completes my meal setup.
Before I had my Instant Pot Duo Crisps, I have to boil the beef for one hour, to soften it. With my IP, the cooking time for this meal has been reduced to half. I cook it in my Instant Pot Duo Crisp using the pressure cook setting.
Of course, you can cook it stovetop, and I will show you how to do that too, but let me rave about cooking it in the pressure cooker – Cooking beef pares makes the beef super soft and pressure cooking those delicious meat juices, I think cooking this in the pressure cooker taste so much better.
We all love filling meals and this Beef pares is one of those meals in which you can’t get enough with one serving. You will be requesting extra garlic fried rice and one more cup of beef broth.
Equipment:
Note that I use my Instant Pot Duo Crips appliance. Each Instant Model functions differently, so check your manual.
Ingredients for Beef Pares (Pressure Cooker)
Beef– you can use different beef cut for this, but I prefer pot roast cuts and slicing it in cubes. I prefer some fat to make the braised beef juicy and oily, which makes it so good.
- Beef Bouillon– I prefer to use the beef flavor as it enhances the flavor of this meal. You can replace it with chicken bouillon if you want.
- Star Anise– this herb makes the taste of beef pares set apart from beef stew, so you can’t omit it. Star Anise is sold in the spice section of your grocery store. They are also sold in the Mexican section.
- Soy sauce– A cup or less of soy sauce bring salty flavor to this recipe,, but season according to your liking.
- Onion– I suggest red onion in this recipe since it brings out a tad of acidity. I actually want a lot of onion in mine, since I love onion.
- Garlic -garlic elevates the taste of any meal, and it does the same for this meal. You can add more garlic if you want.
- Rice cooking wine-elevates the liquor taste of the star anise, this Beef Pares has a hint of liquor taste.
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