Kare Kare is a popular stew in the Philippines featuring a creamy peanut sauce that is thickened with toasted, ground rice. It is usually made with oxtail, pork hocks or stewing beef. Pulo Cuisine’s Kare Kare Toasted Peanut Cooking Sauce has a rich, nutty aroma with a slight hint of palm vinegar, is vegan and also Gluten-Free. This really isn’t your typical peanut sauce, the rich peanut flavour is cut nicely with the acid of the vinegar.
Pulo says that Philippine cuisine is the original fusion so I thought I would take that idea and go somewhere a little unusual with the Kare Kare Toasted Peanut Cooking Sauce. Honestly my first thought was to do a delicious noodle bowl with shrimp and vegetables and the Peanut Cooking Sauce but it seemed a little bit obvious and eventually I came up with this delicious recipe for Kare-Kare Shrimp Quesadillas.
Kare-Kare Shrimp Quesadillas
Ingredients:
1 tbsp oil
1 small onion, Sliced
1 medium carrot, cut into matchsticks
34ish Shrimp, Cooked and Deveined
1 Cup Pulo Kare-Kare Peanut Cooking Sauce
1 tablespoon cilantro, chopped
2 10-inch tortillas
2 cups cheese, shredded
Directions:
Heat the oil in a skilled over medium-high heat.
Add the onion and carrot then saute until tender, about 5 minutes.
Add the shrimp and Pulo Kare-Kare Peanut Cooking Sauce and cook for about 2 minutes to heat through
Mix the onion, carrot and shrimp with the cilantro in a bowl.
Clean the skillet then heat more oil over medium heat.
Layer cheese on a tortilla and top with shrimp, then more cheese, and place another tortilla on top.
Place it in the skillet and allow to brown slightly then flip** to the other side to brown slightly.
Cut the Quesadilla into quarters and drizzle a little extra sauce over the quesadillas or serve with Pulo Kare-Kare Peanut Cooking Sauce for dipping and serve immediately.
**Tip: Place a plate onto the quesadilla in the pan and carefully turn upside to flip it from the pan to the plate, then slide it back into the pan.
Kare-Kare Shrimp Quesadillas
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp oil
- 1 small onion, Sliced
- 1 medium carrot, cut into matchsticks
- 34 ish Shrimp, Cooked and Deveined
- 1 Cup Pulo Kare-Kare Peanut Cooking Sauce
- 1 tablespoon cilantro, chopped
- 2 10- inch tortillas
- 2 cups cheese, shredded
Instructions
- Heat the oil in a skilled over medium-high heat.
- Add the onion and carrot then saute until tender, about 5 minutes.
- Add the shrimp and Pulo Kare-Kare Peanut Cooking Sauce and cook for about 2 minutes to heat through
- Mix the onion, carrot and shrimp with the cilantro in a bowl.
- Clean the skillet then heat more oil over medium heat.
- Layer cheese on a tortilla and top with shrimp, then more cheese, and place another tortilla on top.
- Place it in the skillet and allow to brown slightly then flip** to the other side to brown slightly.
- Cut the Quesadilla into quarters and drizzle a little extra sauce over the quesadillas or serve with Pulo Kare-Kare Peanut Cooking Sauce for dipping and serve immediately.
Nutrition Information:
Serving Size:
1 gramsAmount Per Serving: Unsaturated Fat: 0g
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Disclosure: This post has been sponsored by Pulo Cuisine. All thoughts and opinions are honest and my own.
Elizabeth Lampman is a coffee-fuelled Mom of 2 girls and lives in Hamilton, Ontario. She enjoys travelling, developing easy recipes, crafting, taking on diy projects, travelling and saving money!
G K
Tuesday 25th of October 2016
I've never heard of that sauce, but I love shrimp with basically anything.
Susan T.
Wednesday 9th of September 2015
This looks so delicious and is totally different from any quesadilla I've ever made. Time to try something new!
E
Saturday 23rd of May 2015
This looks lovely -- I'll have to try making it this summer! I might add some hot sauce since I like things spicy. I've never heard of kare kare before -- how intriguing!
Elizabeth Matthiesen
Monday 6th of April 2015
These do look good and I do love my shrimp, don't really fancy the Peanut Cooking Sauce though, I'll have to try and think up a different sauce that would fit. :-)
kathy downey
Tuesday 3rd of March 2015
I will have to make this over the weekend