Morcon Recipe

The Morcon Recipe is a very popular Filipino beef recipe especially during occasions like fiestas, birthdays, special family gatherings, Christmas Eve, and New Year’s Eve. The Morcon is a Spanish-inspired dish and is actually a Filipino version of the meat roll. It is stuffed with your favorite ingredients like sausages, hotdogs, carrots, hard-boiled eggs, pickles, and cheese. The Morcon is a household favorite on special occasions because of its unique and flavorful taste, and the way it presents itself on the table.

Preparing Morcon is easier than you think. I used to order lots of Morcon every time we have special family gatherings or to celebrate an occasion. But now, I am very proud to say that I already make or cook my own special home-made Morcon. The Morcon Recipe I have prepared below is perhaps one of the easiest and the most basic Morcon Recipe. All you need are some beef sirloin, hotdogs or sausages, eggs, some carrots, sweet pickled cucumber, cheddar cheese, some flour, lemon juice or calamansi juice, and soy sauce. If you know how to fry and simmer then cooking this holiday dish won’t be a problem.

Here is my Morcon Recipe.

Ingredients:

2 lbs beef flank steak cut into 1/2 inch thick large sheets
2 pieces beef cubes dissolved in 3 cups boiling water or 3 cups beef stock
1 piece lemon or calamansi juice
1 piece medium sized carrot, cut into long strips
4 pieces hotdogs cut lengthwise
2 pieces sweet pickles or sweet pickled cucumber cut lengthwise
3 pieces hard boiled eggs sliced
3 ounces cheddar cheese cut in strips about 1/2 inch thick
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 cup soy sauce
1/2 cup flour
1/2 cup cooking oil
pepper
sugar

Cooking Procedure:

Marinate the beef sheets in soy sauce and lemon or calamansi juice for at least 30 minutes
Place the beef sheets in a flat surface and arrange the hotdogs, pickles, carrots, cheese, and eggs
Roll the beef sheets enclosing the fillings and tie with a cooking string to ensure it will not open-up
Place cooking oil in a pan and apply heat
Dredge the rolled beef in flour
Fry until the color of the outer part turns medium brown
Transfer the fried rolled beef in a casserole
Pour-in the beef broth then bring to a boil
Add half of the soy sauce-lemon juice marinade and simmer for an hour or until the meat is tender
Season with salt, pepper, and sugar
Remove the strings and slice into serving pieces
Place in a serving dish and add the sauce.