Chinese influence in Filipino cooking is evident considerign the popularity of noodle dishes, dimsums and dumplings.  Siomai is one of  these dishes all filipino love.  In siomai recipes we normally used half pork meat and half shrimp for filling.  But don’t you know doing it in beef is also delicious?

Beef Siomai

Ingredients:

half a kilo of ground beef

half a kilo of ground pork

* you can either use one kilo of beef if you prefer

1 onion minced

some spring onions chopped

a thumbsized ginger pounded

2 teaspoons of sesame oil

2 tablespoons of soy sauce

1 teasepoon of sugar

1 teaspoon of tabasco (optional)

siomai wrapper

Procedure:

Mix in a bowl all the ingredients except the siomai wrapper.  Mix them well using your hands.  Taste if it additional salt is needed. Wrap them in wonton wrapper.  Steam and serve with soy sauce and kalamansi juice.

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