Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, beef kare-kare. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Beef Kare-Kare is a version of kare-kare or peanut stew that makes use of beef chuck, instead of the traditional oxtail. It is as good as our other versions of kare kare. It was perfect with some spicy shrimp paste.
Beef Kare-Kare is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. Beef Kare-Kare is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have beef kare-kare using 14 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Beef Kare-Kare:
- Get kilo beef cut into cubes
- Get Bok Choy (Chinese cabbage) cut
- Prepare yardlong beans cut into 2 inch long
- Prepare eggplants sliced/cut
- Prepare water
- Prepare ground peanuts or 5 tablespoons creamy peanut butter
- Make ready fish sauce
- Get cornstarch dissolved in 3 tablespoons warm water
- Take medium sized onion diced
- Get garlic minced
- Get Salt and pepper
- Get Cooking oil
- Take Shrimp paste/bagoong
- Prepare Optional: 3 tbs annatto seeds soaked in a cup of water for colour
Kare-kare is a Filipino dish originated from the culinary capital of the Philippines, Pampanga. It is made with fork tender meat and vegetables swimming in a vibrant orange colored peanut sauce. This was a sumptuous pot - adding many parts of the beef, including the marrow, tendon and tripe with mixed vegetable (greens, beans, egg plant and banana flower). A unique savory beef stew with peanut butter sauce.
Steps to make Beef Kare-Kare:
- Saute garlic and onion in oil until garlic is light golden brown and onion is translucent. Set aside.
- Using the same pan earlier, cook beef for about 30-45 minutes or until tender. Push beef to the side of the pan and add sliced eggplants. Fry for about 5 minutes.
- Add cooked garlic and onion, pour in 3 cups water (if using annatto seeds, replace 1 cup of water used to doak seeds in) and dissolved cornstarch and bring to a boil. Add ground peanuts/peanut butter, fish sauce, salt and pepper to taste. Simmer for about 10-15 minutes until sauce thickens.
- Add yardlong beans and bok choy/pechay and simmer for another 5 minutes. Remove from heat. Note: Some prefer to blanch their veggies in hot water to cook separately from the meat and sauce to retain crispiness of vegetables.
- Serve over steamed rice and a little bit of bagoong/shrimp paste on the side.
Images of the sautéed shrimp paste (bagoong), banana blossom flower and 'astuete' seeds are included in the Recipe Introduction. This Filipino Kare-Kare Recipe is a meat and vegetable stew with oxtail, beef or tripe, eggplant, banana buds, pechay, string beans, and other vegetables that mainly flavored with a sweet and savory peanut sauce. Kare-Kare is a well- known dish from Pampanga aptly hailed as the Culinary Capital of the Philippines. Its name derived from the word "Kari" from the word "curry". Kare-kare is a peanut-based beef stew and a Filipino favorite.
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