A hearty Filipino stew with a rich and thick peanut sauce considered by most as the perfect comfort food as it has meat and veggies. Traditionally cooked using ox tail but for this recipe I used beef. Serve with a small portion of Bagoong or shrimp paste and white rice for the best experience.

Tonight's dinner of Filipino peanut stew was made by special request from my daughter. She actually asked for it yesterday, but because we already had a sushi feast ordered and on its way it had to be deferred to tonight. Normally I would've prepared beef kare-kare (short rib in particular; recipe posted previously). However, because time was short I used chicken thighs instead. Not as decadent, but so much faster. I also tried a few new techniques. First, to avoid the sauce turning runny from all the moisture in the leafy greens, I sauteed then first. Second, I also sauteed the eggplant ahead of time, to avoid them turning into mush and dissolving into the sauce. Third, I added some spices not normally used in kare-kare (and which would horrify my mother), on a hunch that they'd work. These were cumin, for extra earthy depth, and cayenne, for background heat. They worked brilliantly. The stew turned out delicious, and my little girl was happy. Perfect.

Filipino stew with a rich and thick peanut sauce 🥜🥘

Kare-kare is a Philippine stew complemented with a thick savory peanut sauce. It is made from a variation base of stewed oxtail, pork hocks, calves feet, pig feet, beef stew meat, and occasionally offal or tripe. Kare-kare can also be made with seafood (prawns, squid, and mussels) or vegetables (sometimes exclusively vegetables, becoming Kare-kareng gulay or Guleng Kare-kare in kampangan). Vegetables, which include eggplant, Chinese cabbage, or other greens, daikon, green beans, okra, and asparagus beans are added—usually equaling or exceeding the amount of meat. The stew is flavored with ground roasted peanuts or peanut butter, onions, and garlic. It is colored with annatto and can be thickened with toasted or plain ground rice.

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Kare-kare(oxtail and tripe in peanut sauce)

https://nutriasia.com/recipes/bulalo/The name may have been derived from “curry,” and while the color is similar to this Asian dish, the peanut sauce is all our own. So unique is kare-kare’s flavor that it’s one of the first things

This recipe for Filipino peanut stew gives my mother fits, which is why I added the 'my way.' Authentic or not, I like it.

I found the perfect peanut butter for Kare-kare (this Filipino peanut sauce dish)!…But…Yeahyeah nothing beats the grinding of peanuts and laboring of love to make a sauce, of course (✌️ to traditionalists)But this hack makes it so easy, even for beginner cooks!Recipe: sans Annatto / Achiote seeds