Filipino Style Beef Stew called "Caldereta"
Food and eating are important part of Filipino culture. Don't be surprised when you visited a Filipino household, if instead of asking how are you?, they would ask you "have you eaten yet?" Yes, eating and eating out are Filipino's favorite past time so much so that every Filipino gathering is like a feast, with so much food to choose from. Eating is a means to show Filipino hospitality and friendliness. Caldereta is one of the most common dishes that Filipino households serve during any family gathering or get-together. If there's a feast, there must be "Caldereta". Caldereta is also my husband's favorite Filipino food, that's why it becomes a regular dish that I make in the Knight kitchen. Would you like to try it? Here's my own version of it.
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Caldereta on rice for Dinner |
Ingredients:
700 g of lean beef
1 large onion, sliced
1 tbsp minced garlic
3 medium size potatoes cut in quarters
1 large carrot sliced in medium size cubes
1 medium size capsicum sliced in cubes
1 cup tomato sauce
3 tbsp soy sauce
3 tbsp oyster sauce (optional)
3 tbsp vegetable oil
1 tsp pepper
200 g chick peas
1 cup coconut milk
2 tbsp of peanut butter
1 tsp ground chillies (optional)
3 bay leaves
salt (season it depending on your taste)
Method:
Heat the vegetable oil in the deep sauce pan.
Sautee garlic and onion, then add the beef and cover the sauce pan with a lid.
Let it simmer for 2 minutes then add the soy sauce and the oyster sauce followed by adding the potatoes, carrots, and chick peas, then put the bay leaves and then put the lid back. Let it simmer for another 10 minutes.
Add the tomato sauce and coconut milk (you can add chillies as well). Let it boil and then reduce the heat. Let it simmer until the meat, potatoes and carrots are tender. Add the capsicum and peanut butter, stir and let it simmer for another two minutes. Season with salt and pepper.
Serve it on rice.
Serve it on rice.
