Recipe of the Day: Kare Kare

Don't you just crave a certain Filipino dish you most likely get to taste only at fiestas and other celebration? I do! That's definitely what I feel for the Kare-Kare. Here's how I satisfied that craving as well as my family's



Ingredients:

1/2 tsp ground pepper
1/2 tsp salt
1 tbsp soy sauce
a dash of sugar
1 small onion, peeled
1/2 kg beef
1/2 tsp ground pepper
1/2 tsp salt
1 tbsp soy sauce
a dash of sugar
1/2 kg ox stripe
1 tsp garlic, minced
1 whole onion, chopped
100 ml peanut butter, preferrable the non-

sweetened one
2 bundles of string beans, cut into 3 inch pieces
3 bundles of pechay
1 young banana heart, cut into round pieces
bagoong

1.Place beef inside a saucepan with water enough to cover the lot. Add pepper, salt, soy sauce, sugar and onion. Bring mixture to a boil andsimmer for 1 hour. (If you have a pressure cooker, which I don't, it would be very nice as it would take around 20 minutes for the beef to be tender...)

2.Place ox stripe inside a saucepan with water enough to cover the lot. Add pepper, salt, soy sauce and sugar. Bring mixture to a boild and simmer for 1 hour. (You may include the ox stripe in the pressure cooker if you have one.)

3. When beef and ox stripe are in perfect eating condition (hehehe), drain them, keep stock, and saute in onion and garlic.

4. Add stock and bring to a boil. Add peanut butter and banana heart. Regularly mix the stew until desired sauce consistency is achieved.

5. Add more salt depending on taste then add a heaping tablespoon of bagoong.

6. Add string beans then pechay around 5 minutes apart and cook for another 5 minutes.

7. Serve with bagoong.


Love lots,