Kare-kare

🧂 Ingredients

• 1 kilo pork belly

  (washed and cut in cubes approx. 2 inches)
• ½ cup peanut butter
• 1½ tbsp annatto powder
• 2 tbsp cooking oil
• 3 cloves garlic

  (crushed)
• 1 medium onion

  (sliced)
• 1 cup string beans
• 1 aubergine/eggplant
• 1 bunch bok choy
• 4 cups water

  (add more if needed)
• 1 tbsp salt

Instructions

• 1 In a pot, boil water with salt and add the cut pork bellies until half-way
  tender. Remove meat from water and set aside.
• 2 Save the stock where the meat was boiled and set aside.
• 3 Separately boil the string beans and aubergine until soft then remove from the
  water and set aside.
• 4 In the same pot where the vegetables were cooked, blanch the bok choy until it
  turns bright green and slightly tender, approx. 40 seconds.
• 5 In another cooking pot. Saute garlic and onion until translucent. Lower heat and
  add peanut butter stir for 5 seconds then add the annatto powder and stir until
  incorporated.
• 6 Add the pork belly cubes and mix until the meat absorbs the sauce. Pour in the
  stock and cover the pot. After 10 minutes check that the meat if fully cooked.
• 7 Add the vegetables and mix until coated with sauce. Serve with shrimp paste as
  condiment and rice. Bon Appetit!

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