Recipe: Tasty Pork kare-kare

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Pork kare-kare. It is important to tenderize the meat when making pork kare-kare. It has to be tender enough to be chewed easily. Going the extra mile by making it fall-off-the-bone tender is a good idea.

Pork kare-kare 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. You can cook Pork kare-kare using 12 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Pork kare-kare

  1. It's 1 of whole banana blossom.
  2. Prepare 10 pcs of string beans.
  3. Prepare 2 pcs of eggplant.
  4. Prepare 1/2 of kilo cabbage.
  5. It's 1 bundle of pechay.
  6. It's 1 kg of pork.
  7. Prepare 1 pc of onion.
  8. It's 5 cloves of garlic.
  9. It's 1 tbsp of rice flour (pan fried).
  10. It's 1 tbsp of annato seeds (or you may use powder).
  11. It's to taste of Salt and pepper.
  12. Prepare 1/2 cup of peanut butter.

This cooking video will show you how to cook pork kare kare. This recipe makes use of pork pata or hock. It is delicious, tasty, and best eaten with bagoong alamang. Crispy pork belly kare-kare is a modern take on this all-time favorite.

Pork kare-kare instructions

  1. Bring pork to boil. Set aside meat from stock when the pork is tender enough..
  2. In a pot, medium heat oil and put annato seeds and remove once color is achieved. Saute garlic, onion and pork meat for 3 mins. Or once the annato oil covered the meat. Add salt and pepper.
  3. Put in the pork stock in the pot then add the peanut butter. Boil for 10 mins. In a seperate pot blanch all vegetable ingredients..
  4. Make a slurry from rice flour and water. Add to pot and let boil for 5 more mins..
  5. Put in vegetable to pot. Serve with bagoong. Enjoy!.

There is, of course, a recipe for traditional kare-kare in the archive. And that was what I was supposed to cook when, a few days ago, Speedy had a kare-kare craving. He bought all the vegetables that the dish requires but, unfortunately, he was unable to find oxtail. Kare Kare is a type of Filipino stew with a rich and thick peanut sauce. It is a popular dish in the Philippines served during special occasions.