{"id":7010,"date":"2016-01-31T06:36:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-31T06:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/calamariqueen.wordpress.com\/?p=7010"},"modified":"2016-01-31T06:36:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-31T06:36:00","slug":"kare-kare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calamariqueen.com\/?p=7010","title":{"rendered":"Kare-Kare!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi Friends! Hope you’re having a great weekend:) I wanted to share a Filipino dish that I cooked early this week, Kare-Kare. It’s an oxtail dish with a thick peanut sauce. Now a days, in Filipino restaurants and homes they use beef, seafood, and other kinds of meat instead of oxtail (I personally like Oxtail). I rarely make this at home (I think this is my second time to make Kare-Kare (but I always order this if we’re in a Filipino restaurant). It’s a comfort food for me! I watched a couple of youtube videos<\/a> (just searched for Kare-Kare recipes) and checked some kare-kare recipes<\/a>\u00a0online too for inspiration. I used my crockpot to tenderize\/cooked my oxtail meat (just to save gas, instead of the stove). It was cooking for 7 hours then I finished it in the stove to make the peanut sauce. Traditionally, you mix all the veggies in at the end together with the sauce but I decided to plate them separately this time. I saut\u00e9ed the eggplant and steamed the green beans and bok choy. The Hubs and I prefer it this way. Last year, when we visited Manila, I remember we had Kare-kare and the restaurant presented it this way too.<\/p>\n

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Oxtail meat ( I got 4 lbs.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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This is my new crockpot and I’ve been using it a lot lately!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I saut\u00e9ed some minced garlic(3 cloves) and chopped onions(1 medium), then added the cooked oxtails and broth (approximately 6 cups). \u00a0You can add more broth for a thinner sauce;let it simmer. I added the peanut butter (1\/2 a cup) and stirred until it dissolved. In a small bowl I added\u00a01 teaspoon of achiote powder mixed with 1\/2 cup broth,once the powder dissolved I added it to the sauce. The achiote is the ingredient that will give the dish that classic orange color. I then seasoned the sauce with salt and pepper. I didn’t use a lot of salt though because Kare-kare is always paired with shrimp paste when eaten.<\/p>\n

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Almost there!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Saut\u00e9ed eggplant<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Yum!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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My kare-Kare (sprinkled with chopped peanuts).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Extra sauce,rice, shrimp paste<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Happy Cooking and eating Friends!<\/p>\n

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Hi Friends! Hope you’re having a great weekend:) I wanted to share a Filipino dish that I cooked early this week, Kare-Kare. It’s an oxtail dish with a thick peanut sauce. Now a days, in Filipino restaurants and homes they use beef, seafood, and other kinds of meat instead of oxtail (I personally like Oxtail). … Continue reading “Kare-Kare!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-this-week","category-homemaker","category-recipe","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calamariqueen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calamariqueen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calamariqueen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calamariqueen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calamariqueen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calamariqueen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calamariqueen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calamariqueen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calamariqueen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}