Hello everybody, it’s Drew, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, kare-kare. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Kare kare works with meat, fish, tofu, seafood as well as vegetables. In fact, you can make it a vegetarian-friendly recipe if you are on your way to cutting out meat from your diet (like me). However, the traditional Filipino kare kare stew calls for oxtail. Kare Kare is a type of Filipino stew with a rich and thick peanut sauce.
Kare-Kare is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Kare-Kare is something which I have loved my whole life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook kare-kare using 14 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Kare-Kare:
- Make ready 3 lbs oxtail (cut in 2 inch slices) you can also use tripe or beef slices
- Make ready 1 bundle sitaw or long beans
- Prepare 2 bundles bok choi / pechay
- Get 1 medium eggplant cut into 6 pieces
- Get 6 cloves garlic minced
- Get 1 medium onion, sliced
- Get 1 cup ground peanuts
- Make ready 1 cup peanut butter
- Make ready 1/2 cup shrimp paste
- Prepare 3 cups pork/beef broth
- Prepare 1/2 cup toasted ground rice
- Prepare 1 tsp achuete powder
- Take 1 tbsp fish sauce
- Get salt & pepper for taste
Lightly browned toasted ground rice is used to. Kare-kare is a Philippine stew complemented with a thick savory peanut sauce. It is made from a variation base of stewed oxtail, pork hocks, calves feet, pig feet, beef stew meat, and occasionally offal or tripe. Kare-kare can also be made with seafood (prawns, squid, and mussels) or vegetables (sometimes exclusively vegetables, becoming Kare-kareng gulay or Guleng Kare-kare in kampangan).
Steps to make Kare-Kare:
- In a large pot boil ox tail until soft then set aside. Usually takes 2 hours. For faster result put in oven and bake for 10 minutes each side at 400 degrees before boiling
- In a wok, sauté garlic and onion
- Add pork & fish sauce and cook for a 5 minutes
- Add 2 1/2 cups of pork/beef broth, salt, achuete, ground peanuts and peanut butter and simmer for 5 minutes
- Add toasted ground rice and simmer for 5 minutes
- Add vegetables and cook until vegetables are tender. Stir occasionally.
- Season with salt and pepper to taste
- Serve with white steamed rice and bagoong (shrimp paste)
It is made from a variation base of stewed oxtail, pork hocks, calves feet, pig feet, beef stew meat, and occasionally offal or tripe. Kare-kare can also be made with seafood (prawns, squid, and mussels) or vegetables (sometimes exclusively vegetables, becoming Kare-kareng gulay or Guleng Kare-kare in kampangan). This perennial Filipino favorite usually starts with a base of oxtails, beef stew cuts, pork hocks or tripe. Traditionally, the choice meat is simmered for hours to desired tenderness and and along with a variety of vegetables such as banana heart, long beans and eggplant, it's pulled together into a stew with ground peanuts for flavor, toasted ground rice for thickening and annatto for coloring. Kare kare is a traditional Filipino meaty stew that is often prepared with oxtail.
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