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Pata Kare Kare Recipe
Pork hocks and leg stewed until tender and cooked in a rich peanut sauce with a variety of healthy vegetables. This Filipino dish is best served with bagoong alamang (shrimp paste) and eaten with warm white rice.
Prep Time
15 mins
Cook Time
1 hr 15 mins
Servings: 4 people
Calories: 1498 kcal
Course:
Main Course
Cuisine:
Filipino
Ingredients
- 2.5 lbs. pork pata
- 1 piece Knorr Pork Cube
- 2 cups string beans cut into 2-inch pieces
- 1 cup banana blossom sliced
- 2 bunches pechay
- 1 1/2 cups peanuts roasted
- 1/4 cup annatto seeds boiled in 3/4 cup water
- 1 piece eggplant sliced
- 2 tablespoons glutinous rice flour diluted in 4 Tbsp water
- 1 piece onion chopped
- 5 cloves garlic chopped
- 3 tablespoons cooking oil
- 8 cups water
- Ground black pepper and shrimp paste bagoong alamang to taste
Instructions
- Boil pork pata in 4 cups of water for 15 minutes. Discard the water. Let the pata cool down. Wash pata to remove impurities. Set aside.
- Heat oil in a cooking pot. Sauté garlic until it starts to brown. Add onion. Continue cooking until the onion softens.
- Put the boiled pata into the pot. Cook for 2 minutes.
- Pour 4 cups of water. Cover the pot. Let the water boil.
- Add Knorr Pork Cube. Stir. Set heat between low to medium. Cover and continue boiling for 1 ½ hours or until the pork gets tender.
- Prepare the peanut paste by blending using a food processor until a paste-like consistency is achieved.
- Add peanut paste into the cooking pot once the pata tenderizes. Stir.
- Add annatto water and glutinous rice and water mixture. Stir and continue cooking until sauce reaches desired consistency.
- Add eggplant, banana blossom, and string beans. Cook for 3 minutes.
- Season with ground black pepper and ½ teaspoon of shrimp paste. Stir.
- Add bok choy. Cover and cook for 1 ½ minutes.
- Serve with warm rice and bagoong alamang. Share and enjoy!
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Nutrition Information
Calories
1498kcal
(75%)
Carbohydrates
41g
(14%)
Protein
104g
(208%)
Fat
105g
(162%)
Saturated Fat
29g
(145%)
Cholesterol
309mg
(103%)
Sodium
1264mg
(53%)
Potassium
3267mg
(93%)
Fiber
18g
(72%)
Sugar
12g
(24%)
Vitamin A
19171IU
(383%)
Vitamin C
201mg
(223%)
Calcium
614mg
(61%)
Iron
44mg
(244%)
Nutrition Facts
Serving: 4people
Amount Per Serving
Calories 1498
% Daily Value*
| Calories | 1498kcal | 75% |
| Carbohydrates | 41g | 14% |
| Protein | 104g | 208% |
| Fat | 105g | 162% |
| Saturated Fat | 29g | 145% |
| Cholesterol | 309mg | 103% |
| Sodium | 1264mg | 53% |
| Potassium | 3267mg | 70% |
| Fiber | 18g | 72% |
| Sugar | 12g | 24% |
| Vitamin A | 19171IU | 383% |
| Vitamin C | 201mg | 223% |
| Calcium | 614mg | 61% |
| Iron | 44mg | 244% |
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.