Easiest Way to Prepare Delicious Pork kare-kare

Pork kare-kare. Try this Pork Kare kare recipe. Let me know what you think. This is a recipe for Pork Kare Kare.

It's a popular Filipino specialty dish from Pampanga, you see this in menus of Filipino restaurants. There is, of course, a recipe for traditional kare-kare in the archive. And that was what I was supposed to cook when, a few days ago, Speedy had a kare-kare craving. You can have Pork kare-kare using 12 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Pork kare-kare

1. It's of whole banana blossom.
2. It's of string beans.
3. Prepare of eggplant.
4. You need of kilo cabbage.
5. Prepare of pechay.
6. It's of pork.
7. Prepare of onion.
8. It's of garlic.
9. Prepare of rice flour (pan fried).
10. It's of annato seeds (or you may use powder).
11. You need of Salt and pepper.
12. It's of peanut butter.

He bought all the vegetables that the dish requires but, unfortunately, he was unable to find oxtail. This is a creative version of the pork pata kare-kare where the pork pata or pork hocks are cooked first as a crispy pata. The pork pata is boiled first and added with aromatics until tender then deep fried. The kare-kare sauce is made and cooked separately unlike the usual kare-kare dish where the sauce and the meat are cooked together.

Pork kare-kare instructions

1. Bring pork to boil. Set aside meat from stock when the pork is tender enough..
2. In a pot, medium heat oil and put annato seeds and remove once color is achieved. Saute garlic, onion and pork meat for 3 mins. Or once the annato oil covered the meat. Add salt and pepper.
3. Put in the pork stock in the pot then add the peanut butter. Boil for 10 mins. In a seperate pot blanch all vegetable ingredients..
4. Make a slurry from rice flour and water. Add to pot and let boil for 5 more mins..
5. Put in vegetable to pot. Serve with bagoong. Enjoy!.

Pata Kare-kare is my version of pork kare-kare. This recipe uses pork shank (pig's leg) or pata along with some veggies. You will notice that the sauce in this recipe is thicker and chunkier compared to our previous recipes. I tried adding more crushed peanuts because it adds life to this dish. Kare-Kare's Basic ingredients There are other versions of Kare-Kare where they substitute Beef with Pork.