have a taste of my kare-kare !.. :D

I love to cook but because of my work, cooking is so infrequent. I don’t have much sleep last night because I was out partying with my college friends and the sun was about to rise when I came home. I don’t know if it’s just a sort of wanting to have a good shot with my parents after partying all night, maybe part of it.. hehe .. but then I decided to be in-charge for our lunch from buying to the market (at my own expense) to cooking . ^_^

So here’s my masterpiece.

Kare-Kare is a traditional Filipino stew (usually ox tail or pork leg) cooked in thick savory peanut sauce and served with bagoong (shrimp paste) on the side.

i forgot to take a picture of the shrimp paste i cooked
got this picture from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagoong

Actually, I didn’t cook it the usual way. Nowadays, we have lots of instant cooking mix or recipe mix you can buy from the grocery. Thanks to Mama Sita’s Kare-Kare mix, an easy way of cooking.

INGREDIENTS:

1 ½ k Pork Leg

Garlic and onion (sliced)

1 tbsp. cooking oil

2 pouches of Mama Sita’s Kare-Kare mix

3 pcs. Eggplant

1 bundle Sitaw (string beans), cut into 2 inches lengths

1 bundle Petchay

2 small packs of peanuts (crushed)

½ cup Bagoong Alamang (sautéed shrimp paste)

STEPS:

Boil pork leg and simmer until meat is tender.
Sautéed garlic and onion in oil. Add pork leg and Mama Sita’s Kare-Kare Mix (dissolved in pork leg broth). Add the remaining broth and the crushed peanuts. Stir until sauce thickened.
Add eggplant and string beans. Simmer for three minutes. Don’t forget to stir once in a while to prevent the sauce from sticking to the pan.
Add petchay and simmer until vegetables are done. Serve with sautéed bagoong.

And.. DONE !!.. :D

Bottomline??.. They all loved it! (as always..choz! :D)

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