Friday, September 21, 2012

Kare-Kare - Our Rainy Weekend Pleasure Food

Kare-kare is one of the Authentic Filipino Food that am sure most Filipino is most aware of. It is also one of the most served food in every Filipino occasions. September is actually my sister's birth month so I thought of preparing something a little bit extra specials that we could indulge in.

So here's how my friend Anton did the cooking. Please excuse me for the picture quality as it was taken via a phone camera.



Ingredients

  • Pork Pata / Ox Tail
  • Peanut Butter
  • Ground Rice
  • Atswete
  • Bawang/Gralic
  • Sibuyas / Onion Bulb
  • Talong / Egg Plant
  • Sitaw / Stringed Beans
  • Puso ng Saging
  • Pechay
  • Kamatis / tomato
  • Salt
  • Oil (corn oil or vegetable oil)
  • Bagoong
How to Cook
  1. Boil Pork Pata / Ox Tail for one and half hour to achieve tenderness together with onion and garlic.
  2. Separate the stock
  3. Saute onion and garlic along with atswete (make sure that atswete is crushed).
  4. Then add the stock and make it boil however set aside a bowl of stock.
  5. Dissolve the ground rice into the small bowl of stock before putting it into the pot.
  6. Make it boil then add peanut butter and then mix until the peanut butter is fully dissolved.
  7. Add the vegetables starting with eggplant, stringed beans and puso ng saging. Add salt to taste.
  8. Then add meat (pata) add let it boil for at least 15 minutes.
  9. Serve while hot
For the Dip
  1. Sautee bagoong along with onion, garlik and tomato.
  2. Also you can add chili but it is optional.

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