Bagnet Kare-Kare Recipe
How to Cook Your Own Kare-Kareng Bagnet
Kare-Kareng Bagnet is a traditional Filipino dish that uses pork belly as its main ingredient. It’s crispy, savory, and it pairs perfectly with a variety of sauces and toppings.
In this blog post, we’ll take you through the step-by-step process of making Kare-Kareng Bagnet and how to make easy and delicious Kare-Kareng Bagnet sauce.
By following our recipe below, we guarantee that you’ll be able to make an incredibly delicious bagnet kare-kare – one that will be a hit with family and friends!
What You'll Need for Your Kare-Kareng Bagnet
Kare-kareng bagnet is a Filipino classic and a favorite that you can now easily prepare at home. All you need are some simple ingredients, including a few pieces of bagnet, some oxtail, onion, garlic, peanut butter, achuete oil and some vegetables.
Here’s what you’ll need to start cooking:
- Bagnet: A type of deep-fried pork belly that has been prepared with herbs and spices then boiled in its own fat.
- Pork Broth / Pork Stock: Helps deliver meaty pork flavor for this dish.
- Onion: Sliced or diced onion to give depth to cooking and richness to the flavor profile.
- Garlic: Minced garlic for added flavor and aroma.
- Peanut butter: Adds creaminess and nutty flavor to kare-kareng bagnet.
- Annatto water: Alternative for annatto powder and annatto oil
- Vegetables (String beans, eggplant, pechay tagalog): Fresh vegetables provide texture and freshness to the dish.
- Rice flour: Sauce thickening agent
- Fish sauce and pepper: For added flavor
Bagnet Kare-Kare
Course: MainCuisine: FilipinoDifficulty: Medium6
servings15
minutes45
minutes1
hourKare-Kareng Bagnet is a famous Filipino speciality, where bagnet—deep fried pork belly—is cooked in a rich and flavourful kare-kare sauce, usually made from peanut butter.
Ingredients
1 Kilo Bagnet
4 Cups Pork Broth
1 Cup Peanut Butter
2 Tbsp. Crushed Peanuts
6 Cloves Garlic
1 Medium-sized Onion
1 Tbsp. Fish Sauce
1/2 Tsp. Ground Black Pepper
3 Tbsp. Rice Flour
Annatto Water
Water
Cooking Oil
Directions
- Toast rice flour until light brown. Dilute rice flour in water.
- Fry the eggplant and bagnet slices.750×422 jpg
- Blanch the string beans and pechay tagalog for 1 to 2 minutes.
- Saute onion and garlic.
- Add the peanut butter.750×422 jpg
- Add pork broth.
- Add annatto water.
- Add rice flour slurry.
- Add crushed peanuts.
- Stir until well blended. Cover until the sauce thickens.750×422 jpg
- Add fish sauce and pepper to taste.
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Thanks Ryan for sharing your recipes. It is easy to follow and the outcome is indeed delish!
Thank you very much ate Malou! 🙂