HOW TO COOK KARE KARE (RECIPE)

Kare Kare is another dish from the Philippines. It is a dish combination of pork and vegetables. I love Kare Kare because of the delicious thick and creamy soup combined with the taste of vegetables and pork. Not many of us know how to cook Kare Kare because this dish is more complicating but it’s worth it because once you have cooked it right, you would experience a fine meal. There are kinds of meat used in cooking Kare Kare. That is how people cook it. In this recipe we are going to use the pork leg. Like I said, cooking this dish is more complicating than the other dishes I have shared with you so I want you to do this recipe carefully because you would ruin your Kare Kare.

You may use pork tenderloin in this dish but I want to advice you to use pork leg because I found it more appealing. My mother taught me how to cook Kare Kare and later on I made some twist to her recipe and this is how I cook my very own Kare Kare.

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HOW TO COOK KARE KARE

Ingredients

1 kilo of pork leg (cut into serving sizes)

6 cloves of garlic (minced)

1 medium size onion (chopped)

1 Small size Banana blossom (cut into desired sizes)

3 regular size Talong (eggplant)

1 bundle of Kangkong or Pechay

1 cup of string bean (cut into 2 ½ inch long)

½ cup of Peanut butter

1 tablespoon of cream or milk butter

¼ cup of Alamang (shrimp paste)

800ml-1liter of water

¼ cup of Achuete seeds or Annatto seeds (soaked in ½ cup of hot water)

2 tablespoon of flour (dissolved in ½ cup of water)

1 teasppon of ground pepper

Salt to taste

Cooking Procedure

1. In a pressure cooker, bring water to a boil.
2. Add the pork leg, onions and simmer for 30 minutes or until the meat is tender.
3. Add the peanut butter, annatto water, milk butter and simmer for another 5 minutes.
4. Add the dissolved flour and stir.
5. In a pan, saute garlic until light brown.
6. Add the banana blossom in a pan together with talong, and string bean. Add 1 cup of water and simmer for 5 minutes.
7. Put the cooked vegetables into the pressure cooker together with Pechay..
8. Add salt and pepper.
9. In a pan, saute garlic and shrimp paste.
10. Serve the Kare Kare with Sauteed Shrimp paste.