Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, kare-kare. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

As I promised in my adobong talong post, here is, although a few days late, my take on kare-kare. 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.

Kare-Kare is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Kare-Kare is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

To get started with this recipe, we must 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:

1. Prepare 3 lbs oxtail (cut in 2 inch slices) you can also use tripe or beef slices
2. Make ready 1 bundle sitaw or long beans
3. Get 2 bundles bok choi / pechay
4. Prepare 1 medium eggplant cut into 6 pieces
5. Make ready 6 cloves garlic minced
6. Prepare 1 medium onion, sliced
7. Make ready 1 cup ground peanuts
8. Make ready 1 cup peanut butter
9. Prepare 1/2 cup shrimp paste
10. Prepare 3 cups pork/beef broth
11. Take 1/2 cup toasted ground rice
12. Get 1 tsp achuete powder
13. Make ready 1 tbsp fish sauce
14. Take 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:

1. 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
2. In a wok, sauté garlic and onion
3. Add pork & fish sauce and cook for a 5 minutes
4. Add 2 1/2 cups of pork/beef broth, salt, achuete, ground peanuts and peanut butter and simmer for 5 minutes
5. Add toasted ground rice and simmer for 5 minutes
6. Add vegetables and cook until vegetables are tender. Stir occasionally.
7. Season with salt and pepper to taste
8. Serve with white steamed rice and bagoong (shrimp paste)

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 traditional Filipino meaty stew that is often prepared with oxtail. Filipino cuisinemakes use of a lot of meat, often pork, and seafood.

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