Dish · filipino
Kare Kare
Oxtail and vegetables braised for hours in a thick peanut sauce, usually served with a side of fermented shrimp paste stirred in at the table for salt.
Where it comes from
The stew's oxtail-and-tripe base points to a dish built to use cheap cuts, and its peanut sauce sets it apart from the coconut- or tomato-based stews found elsewhere in the Philippines.
What cooks argue about
Cooks argue over thickening the sauce: ground toasted rice for a nuttier, more traditional base, or peanut butter alone, which is faster but can turn the sauce sweeter than intended.
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What goes in it
Each one opens everything else made with it.
peanut butter
eggplant
green beans