Philippine Kare-Kare

Ingredients:

1/2 kilo beef cut into chunk cubes preferably tender cut from sirloin or round

2 oxtail

2 pig hocks

7 cups water

Pinch salt & pepper

1/2 cup oil

4 tablespoons atsuete oil

2 heads garlic minced

2 medium sized onions diced

1/2 cup bagoong alamang

3 cup ground nuts or 4 cups of peanut butter

1/4 cup ground toasted rice

5 pieces eggplant sliced into rings

1 banana bud cut to almost proportional to eggplant slices, blanch in boiling water

1 bundle sitaw (string beans) cut to 2" long

Cooking Instructions:

Boil oxtail, hocks, beef in a casserole with low fire. Simmer until all meat cooked. Remove all scum that rises to the

surface. When meat are tender, take out from the casserole and set aside, keep the soup stock. In a pot, heat oil and atsuete oil. Saute garlic, onion and bagoong alamang and toasted rice and nuts (if using nuts). Add oxtail, hocks and beef, pour in the stock, season with salt and pepper and add peanut butter (if using peanut butter). Simmer, then add the vegetables. Do not overcook the vegetables. Serve hot with bagoong with calamansi and chili pepper.

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