Deconstructed Morcon
If there’s one dish that would remind me of my Mom, it would be morcon. She would make it during special occasions like City Fiesta, Christmas and New Year. Morcon is a beef roulade (roll) stuffed with hotdogs, eggs, cheese, carrots, bell peppers and other colorful ingredients to make it look more appetizing. When served, this Filipino dish is sliced showing the rolled meat with its vibrant filling, smothered in tomato based liver sauce . My version of the morcon is the ‘deconstructed’ one or as I call it the lazy version, haha! I followed Mama’s recipe minus the rolling and stuffing part. The taste brings back fond memories of my Mom and my childhood. Here’s my Deconstructed Morcon Recipe.
Ingredients:
- 1 kg beef (cut into 2inch cubes)
- 200 g beef liver
- 8-10 pcs kalamansi
- soy sauce (double the amt of kalamansi juice)
- 1/2 tsp pepper
- cooking oil for frying
- 3 medium onions (finely chopped)
- 1 red bellpepper (finely chopped)
- 250 ml tomato sauce
- 1 large carrot sliced (1inch thick)
- 2 whole pickles sliced (1inch thick)
- 2 jumbo TJ hotdogs sliced (1 inch thick)
- 1 red bellpepper sliced (about an inch squares)
- 1 green bellpepper sliced (about an inch squares)
- 2-4 oz of cheese cubed or grated
- 12-15 pcs quail eggs or 3-4 pcs chicken eggs (hard boiled)
Procedure:
- Marinate beef and liver in kalamansi juice, soy sauce and pepper mixture – 3hrs or overnight
- Heat oil in a pan, fry beef and liver until brownish in color. Keep the marinade, it will be used later. Remove the meat.
- In the same pan, saute onions until translucent. Add bellpeppers.
- While sauteing onions and bellpeppers, chop the liver finely or blend it in a blender/food processor.
- Add the finely chopped liver to the onion and bellpepper mixture. Continue cooking for 2 minutes then add the beef.
- Stir in the toyo-mansi marinade and the tomato sauce.
- Cover and cook the beef until tender for about 1-2 hours in low heat.
- Add carrots, pickles, hotdogs and cheese, stir and cook for another 5-10 minutes
- Add the red and green bell peppers and eggs, stir and continue cooking for 5 minutes.
- Serve hot over rice or with bread. Enjoy!
How about you, what dish reminds you of your Mom? Hope you will try this Deconstructed Morcon recipe. Thanks for visiting, ’til my next post.