How to Cook Pigar Pigar
Pigar-pigar is a popular street food dish in Dagupan city. It is usually made with slices of carabao meat seasoned with salt and pepper.
Servings: 4 servings
Calories: 900kcal
Ingredients
- 1/2 kilo sirloin beef or carabeef (sliced thinly)
- 2 pcs medium white onions sliced
- 2 cups cabbage cubed
- 1 tsp soy sauce
- 1 1/4 tsp magic sarap
- 1 tsp iodized salt
- 1/2 tsp ground black pepper
- 2 cups cooking oil for deep frying
Instructions
How to Cook Pigar Pigar
- Slice the beef as thinly as possible in bite size pieces. This way you can be sure that the beef will not ne chewy when cooked.
- Slice the cabbage in cubes or squares.
- Put the beef in the bowl and add magic sarap, soy sauce, salt and black pepper. Mix to coat the meat with the seasoning. Let is stand for an hour.
- Heat cooking oil in a frying pan and deep fry the marinated beef for 5 minutes. Stir the meat continuously while cooking.
- After 5 minutes. add the cabbage and onions and stir the veggies with the meat for 1 minute with continuous stirring and turning.
- After a minute scoop out the meat and veggies using a strainer. Let it drip the oil for a while and gently press it with a spatula to help drain the excess oil.
- Put a plate on top of the strainer and turn it upside down to transfer the pigar pigar in the plate.
- Serve the pigar pigar immediately while hot and serve with cooked rice.
Notes
Beef or Carabao meat
Cooking pigar pigar requires using carabao meat to make it as authentic as possible. Provinces in the northern parts on the Philippines like pampanga or pangasinan includes carabao meat in their diet because of the abundant supply of carabao meat. Unlike in metro manila or other parts near the metro that beef is the only choice besides pork or chicken.