Mama Sita's

Kare-Kare Mix Recipes

7 recipes made with Mama Sita’s Kare-Kare Mix

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Kare-kare is tender oxtail and vegetables in a thick, savory sauce of achuete, toasted rice and ground peanuts, and our Kare-Kare Mix makes the classic. These recipes also use it for crispy pata, seafood, a vegetable kare-kare and a dip, and for balbacua (oxtail stew) and beef kulma (beef coconut curry).

All Kare-Kare Mix Recipes

Oxtail and vegetables in peanut sauce in a black clay pot

Kare-Kare

Oxtail in Peanut Sauce

  • Cooking time: Cook 3 hr 40 min
  • Yield: 2-4
  • Difficulty: Intermediate
Balbacua: oxtail stew with green chili and spring onion in a savory brown sauce

Balbacua

  • Cooking time: Cook 4 hr 50 min
  • Yield: 4
  • Difficulty: Intermediate
Beef kulma: beef stew in a coconut curry sauce with green chili and lemongrass

Beef Kulma

  • Cooking time: Cook 3 hr 12 min
  • Yield: 3-4
  • Difficulty: Beginner
Seafood kare-kare with vegetables in a thick sauce

Seafood Kare-kare

Seafood and Vegetables in a Rich Peanut Sauce

  • Cooking time: Cook 20 min
  • Difficulty: Intermediate