I have the impression before that this dish is quite complicated so I never dared to prepare one. Actually it’s the mixture that I find complicated. I asked my friend for the recipe and tried it. I have to modify though some of the ingredients, mainly the pork was substituted with beef.
Ingredients you’ll need
- 1/2 kg beef tripe (tuwalya), with some laman. You may use also oxtail.
- Mama Sita’s Kare-kare peanut sauce mix.
- Barrio Fiesta Sautéed shrimp paste (bagoong alamang)
- Vegetables (eggplant cut into quarters, string beans cut into 3” length). You may add banana heart (puso ng saging) and pechay. I did not add more as it will be way too much for me & kuya.
- 3 cloves of Garlic
- 1 onion sliced
- 1 tablespoon cooking oil
- 6 cups water
Step by step cooking
- Cook the meat for 30 minutes in a pressure cooker just until tender.
- Dissolve the Mama Sita’s mix in 1 cup of water.
- Sauté garlic and onion in the oil until cooked and translucent. Drop the meat into the pot and stir-fry.
- Add the dissolved mama sita’s mix. Add the remaining broth from the cooker. Stir and simmer until the sauce thickens.
- Add the vegetables (if you are adding peachay, leave it at the end). Cook for another 3 minutes.
- Lastly, drop in the pechay and cook for 2 more minutes or until the vegetables are cooked.
- Serve while hot with bagoong and rice.
After I finished preparing, I realized it wasn’t at all hard to cook this dish. Of course, except looking for the achuete ingredient in this country (the reason why I used the Mama Sita’s mix).
You will never go wrong with this dish, I mean it will never be a fail as you don’t even need to season it with salt. It’s just a matter of mixing the meat, the sauce and the veggies and you’re done! The bagoong will complete the dish!
