Kalderata

I found this Filipino-inspired recipe on Serious Eats a while back and for something so simple, it’s surprisingly tasty, forgiving of substitutions (I made several, noted below) and as such probably won’t require any special trips to the store.

Ingredients
2 lbs Beef eye of round or Round steak cut into 1 1 1/2 hunks*
1 1/2 tsp kosher salt
1 tsp black pepper
1/2 cup olive oil
2 Tbs unsalted butter
1 l onion, chopped (about 1 cup worth)
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 jalapeno pepper, seeded, stemmed & minced*
1/2 cup tomato paste*
1 can crushed tomatoes (28 ounce can)
2 large sweet peppers (1 green and 1 red), coarsely chopped
1 3/4 cup chicken stock*
3/4 cup smooth peanut butter (any kind--no need to use the really good stuff)
2 oz grated cheddar cheese
1/2 cup frozen green peas, thawed *
6 cups cooked white rice, for serving

Directions

1.  Combine oil, salt, and pepper in a gallon ziplock storage bag.  Shake and moosh together to get it to blend a little, then add meat and moosh it around more to get the marinade distributed. Let marinade at room temperature for 2 hours, turning the bag and mooshing it around occasionally.

2.  Add butter to a large pot or dutch oven and melt over medium heat. When butter has just melted, toss in the jalapeno, onion and garlic and sauté until light brown--maybe about 5 minutes. throw the beef to pan and continue cooking over medium heat until the meat is seared on all sides.

3.  Add tomato paste to the pot and stir it into the meat and onion mixture. Add crushed tomatoes, red and green peppers, chicken stock, and peanut butter. Stir well to help break up the lumps of peanut butter then cover and let simmer on low heat for 45 minutes, stirring occasionally.

4.  Add cheese and peas. Simmer and stir for another 5 minutes or so to allow the cheese to melt and the gravy to thicken up a bit.  Serve over rice.

Serves 6-8.
Substitutions

  • The original recipe called for goat.  I like goat, but would have had to drive a 3 hour round trip to a specialty market to get some. Lamb was too expensive, so beet it was.
  • I didn’t have a jalapeno and didn’t want to go to the closest store 6 miles away for just that, so I subbed in not quite 1 Tbs dry crushed red pepper
  • I was also out of tomato paste.  I subbed in a small can of tomato sauce and cut back on the chicken broth by 1/2 cup so it wouldn’t be too soupy
  • the amount of peas called for in the recipe seemed almost useless so I used a whole 1 pound bag of peas

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    Posted by Mike on Monday, February 14, 2011 at 03:25 AM
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