Beef Kare-Kare
Beef Kare-Kare

Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, beef kare-kare. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna 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 favored of recent trending meals on earth. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Beef Kare-Kare is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook beef kare-kare using 14 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Beef Kare-Kare:
  1. Prepare 1 kilo beef cut into cubes
  2. Make ready 100 g Bok Choy (Chinese cabbage) cut
  3. Take 100 g yardlong beans cut into 2 inch long
  4. Make ready 4 eggplants sliced/cut
  5. Get 3 cups water
  6. Make ready 1 cup ground peanuts or 5 tablespoons creamy peanut butter
  7. Get 1 tablespoon fish sauce
  8. Take 1 tablespoon cornstarch dissolved in 3 tablespoons warm water
  9. Get 1 medium sized onion diced
  10. Get 5 cloves garlic minced
  11. Take to taste Salt and pepper
  12. Prepare Cooking oil
  13. Make ready Shrimp paste/bagoong
  14. Make ready Optional: 3 tbs annatto seeds soaked in a cup of water for colour

Images of the sautéed shrimp paste (bagoong), banana blossom flower and 'astuete' seeds are included in the Recipe Introduction. 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).

Instructions to make Beef Kare-Kare:
  1. Saute garlic and onion in oil until garlic is light golden brown and onion is translucent. Set aside.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. Serve over steamed rice and a little bit of bagoong/shrimp paste on the side.

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". Beef Kare Kare is a rather unique way to cook beef. This Filipino dish combines stewed beef and yummy stir fried vegetables with a delicious, taste-bud friendly sauce made of peanut butter and 'bagoong' - a sautéed dried shrimp paste!

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