When talking about cooking a complete meal for my family, I always thought of a recipe mixed with pork, sea foods and vegetables. There is one recipe that perfectly match wit this description: Kare-Kare. Kare-kare is a Filipino stew flavored with peanut with bagoong or alamang on the side. You're going to love this recipe because of it's unique delicious taste and the health benefits that you can can from its ingredients especially pork,vegetables, bagoong and peanut.
Ingredients:
- 1 kg.Pork ribs
- 5 cloves minced garlic
- 1 chopped big onion
- 1 tsp. ground black pepper
- atsuete for coloring or you can use an artificial orange food coloring add just a pinch of it.
- Bagoong (shrimp bagoong which also known as alamang)
- Puso ng Saging (Banana Heart) quartered.
- Eggplant(quartered)
- String Beans atleast 10 pieces
- 1 cup Peanut Butter
- msg (optional)
- 250 ml water for boiling the pork
- 1 cup of water to be added to the sauce
Procedures:
- In a casserole, boil pork ribs in a medium heatm for an hour or until the pork is tender. Drain and set aside..
- Saute the Bagoong with garlic and onions then set aside.
- After cooking Bagoong. Prepare the ingredients.Wash your vegetables before cooking to ensure proper hygiene.
- On a deep pan,, saute garlic and onions, add atsuete or food coloring.
- add a little alamang
- put the pork and let it boil for 5mins.
- add the banana heart. Let it boil and put next the eggplant and string beans.
- cook the vegetables for a few minutes then put the peanut butter.
- Add seasoning.
- Serve hot with rice. Don't forget the alamang as the side dish because it will be the one to complete your delicious kare-kare.