Kare-Kare

Name: Kare-Kare
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 3 h 10 min
Total time: 3 h 40 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Filipino
Ingredients: 1kg oxtail or beef shin, cut into pieces; 200g peanut butter; 1 tbsp annatto powder; 2 eggplants, sliced; 1 bunch snake beans; 1 banana blossom (optional); 1 onion; 4 cloves garlic; bagoong shrimp paste to serve

A Filipino oxtail stew, simmered in a thick, nutty peanut sauce and traditionally served with shrimp paste, bagoong.

Total time

220 min

Prep

30 min

Cook

190 min

Difficulty

medium

Cuisine

Filipino

gluten-free

Ingredients

1kgoxtail or beef shin, cut into pieces

200gpeanut butter

1 tbspannatto powder

2eggplants, sliced

1 bunchsnake beans

1banana blossom (optional)

1onion

4 clovesgarlic

bagoong shrimp pasteto serve

Instructions

Boil oxtail in water 2–3 hours until very tender.

Reserve 1L stock. Fry garlic and onion in annatto oil.

Add peanut butter and stock. Stir to a smooth sauce.

Add oxtail. Simmer 20 minutes.

Add vegetables and cook 10 minutes.

Serve with bagoong on the side.

Nutrition (estimated)

Per serving, based on a standard 4-serving portion and standard nutrition references — not a lab or USDA-verified measurement. Some ingredients in this recipe couldn't be matched to a reference value, so treat this as a rough estimate.

Calories

366

Protein

15.3g

Fat

25.7g

Carbs

27g

Fiber

10.3g

Sodium

236mg

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