Beef Kare Kare Recipe

How To Cook Beef Kare Kare Recipe

Beef Kare Kare Recipe - Kare-kare is made from peanut sauce with a variety of vegetables, stewed oxtail, beef, and occasionally offal or tripe. Meat variants may include goat meat, chicken or rarely fish. It is often eaten with bagoong (shrimp paste), sometimes spiced with chili, and sprinkled with calamansi juice. Traditionally, any Filipino fiesta particularly in the province of Pampanga is not complete without the kare-kare dish.

beef kare kare recipe

Kare Kare is a traditional Filipino stew complimented with a thick savory peanut sauce. The commonly used meats for this dish are ox tail, tripe, and pork leg; on some occasions goat and chicken meat are also used. Besides the peanuts, this dish depends on the shrimp paste on the side in order to be fully enjoyed. Traditionally, “palayok” clay cooking pot is used to cook this dish and it is also used as the serving pot.
I almost tried every meat that can possibly used in cooking Kare-Kare and in my opinion ox tail, pig’s leg, cow’s face yes, face off, and tripe are the ones that I like. Ask every Filipino that you know and I’m sure that they have a lot to say about this wonderful dish.

Beef Kare Kare Recipe INGREDIENTS:

For the stew

• 1 kg ox tail
• 1 cup unsalted peanut butter
• 1/4 cup ground toasted rice
• 1 large red onions, diced
• 4 cloves garlic, crushed
• 1 whole garlic, minced
• 1/4 cup annatto seeds soaked in 1/2 cup boiling water
• 3 tbsp brown sugar
• 4 cups beef stock
• Water
• Salt
• oil
• Freshly ground black pepper
• Bagoong

For the vegetables

• 3 pieces eggplant, sliced
• 1 bundle string beans, sliced
• 1 bunch Baby Bok Choy

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. In a pot add oil and sauté onion and garlic, once onions turn translucent remove then set it aside.
2. Now using the same pot add ox tail then brown all sides.
3. Pour the beef stock and a cup of water into the pot then bring to a boil, cover and simmer for 1.5 hours or until meat is tender (Add water if needed).
4. Turn of the heat then remove the ox tail from the pot and leaving all the liquid, set ox tail aside.
5. Add sugar, ground toasted rice, peanut butter and water from soaked annatto seeds into the pot then mix thoroughly until it’s even in consistency. Turn on the heat to medium then let it boil.
6. Once sauce is boiling, turn heat to low then add the ox tail and simmer for 15 minutes. Season with a dash of salt and freshly ground pepper.
7. Now cook the vegetables separately by blanching string beans, eggplants and bok choy.
8. Pour stew on a deep bowl and add cooked vegetables on the side. Serve with bagoong.

Additional information About Kare-kare

History

As with many things in the Philippines, there are several stories as to the origins of this rather unusual yet distinctly Filipino dish. The first one is that it came from Pampanga. Another, from the regal dishes of the Moro elite who once settled in Manila before the Spanish arrival interestingly enough, in Sulu and Tawi-Tawi, Kare-kare also remains a popular dish.Another is from Sepoy conscripts that settled in Philippines during the British Occupation of the Philippines.Homesick,they improvise their own cuisine with available materials.They call it kari-kaari,curry,and now,kare-kare.It's a comfort food for Filipinos, and is a perennial family favorite in both local and overseas Filipino households

Preparation

Oxtail, with the skin on and cut into 2-inch lengths, and ox tripe are boiled until tender. Sometimes pieces of ox feet or shins are added. When the meat is tender, the soup becomes gelatinous and to this is added ground roasted peanuts or peanut butter, ground roasted glutinous rice to make the soup thicker. Atsuete annatto is added to give color. The basic vegetables for kare-kare include young banana flower bud or "heart" puso ng saging, eggplant, string beans, and Chinese cabbage (pechay). Kare-kare is often served hot with special bagoong alamang sauteed salted shrimp paste. Source: Kare-kare

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