How to Make Delicious Meatless Kare-Kare (Peanut Sauce)

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How to Make Delicious Meatless Kare-Kare (Peanut Sauce) Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Meatless Kare-Kare (Peanut Sauce). Kare Kare is a type of Filipino stew with a rich and thick peanut sauce. It is a popular dish in the Philippines. The peanut sauce can make or break your dish.

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 is a classic Filipino slow-cook stew, usually using oxtail and/or ox tripe, with deliciously thick deep yellow peanut sauce with some vegetables.

You can have Meatless Kare-Kare (Peanut Sauce) using 10 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Meatless Kare-Kare (Peanut Sauce)

  1. It’s 1 block of firm Tofu, cubed.

  2. You need 1 bunch of Pechay.

  3. You need 2 of medium Eggplant, cut 1in. lengthwise.

  4. It’s of String beans, cut 1.5 in.

  5. Prepare 2 cloves of Garlic.

  6. Prepare 1 of medium Onion.

  7. It’s 1 of pouch Kare-Kate mix (Mama Sitas), dissolved in 2 cups water.

  8. It’s 1 Tbsp of Peanut butter.

  9. Prepare of Cooking oil.

  10. Prepare of Bagoong Alamang (Shrimp paste).

It has a very subtle taste because it is traditionally unsalted, allowing the flavors of the peanut sauce and the meat to surface and be enjoyed.

Kare-Kare is a classic and beloved Filipino stew made of meat and vegetables in thick and creamy peanut sauce.

Traditionally, Kare-Kare comes with a condiment of shrimp paste or bagoong as well as a side of rice.

Filipinos often reserve Kare-Kare for big parties like town fiestas, christenings, even.

Meatless Kare-Kare (Peanut Sauce) instructions

  1. Fry tofu until golden brown, set aside.

  2. Heat oil (1tbsp) in a sauce pan, sauté onion and garlic.

  3. Pour in Kare-kare mix, simmer..

  4. Add in string beans, eggplant, tofu..

  5. Put peanut butter, mix until it dissolves.

  6. Add pechay last when other vegetables are half cooked, simmer..

  7. Served with shrimp paste..

Make this amazing kare kare recipe.

It is a rich Filipino stew made with oxtail, however you can also make it with beef, pork, vegetables, tofu or seafood.

What makes it unique is the thick peanut sauce which adds that lovely sweet and nutty flavour.

You should definitely try this delicious kare kare recipe.

Lee Zalben aka "The Peanut Butter Guy" is the Founder and President of Peanut Butter & Co.