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Dinner · 40 min · Amounts not specified

Peanut braised pork with green beans

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Peanut stew, Filipino. Loosen the peanut, pork first. Bagoong would be traditional; salt and garlic will do.

The sheet · 4 bowls · 40 min

medium

Why tonight. Peanut stew, Filipino. Loosen the peanut, pork first. Bagoong would be traditional; salt and garlic will do.

What it needs

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  • pork
  • peanut butter
  • green beans
  • onion
  • garlic

Good if you have them, fine if you do not: eggplant.

Method

  1. Braise the pork until tender first, then build the sauce — the peanut goes nowhere near a long cook.
  2. Peanut butter loosened with hot braising liquid before it joins the pot, or it clumps and catches.
  3. The sauce should be thick and coating rather than soupy. Reduce it rather than thickening it.
  4. Green beans in at the very end for three minutes. Traditionally served with shrimp paste on the side, salty against the mild sauce.

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Published minimum internal temperaturesWhole cuts of beef, pork, lamb and veal: 63°C, 145°F, plus a 3 minute rest.Whole cuts of beef, pork, lamb and veal63°C / 145°F + 3 min rest40°C50°C60°C70°C80°C

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pork
The forgiving meat. Shoulder takes hours and rewards them, chops take minutes and punish you for one too many, and the fat is the flavor in both cases.
peanut butter
Fat, salt and body all at once, which is why it thickens a sauce as it flavors it.
green beans
They want either a very short cook or a very long one.
onion
The base under most of this library.
garlic
Burns in seconds and turns the whole dish bitter, so it almost never goes in first.

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