You’ve read the quick and easy way of how to cook Caldereta but this one that you are reading now is extensive. It is a journey. It is epic. It is not for the faint of heart. This is not quick and easy. It is not of mediocre efforts. And I’m not saying that you are mediocre if you won’t do this, what I’m saying is the effort that you will put in this “how to cook Caldereta” process is a massive one day labor of titans, after you do …

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Now on to the ingredients for a Kaldereta recipe!

As Kaldereta is in the family of Mechado, Menudo and Afritada as you read here, the basic vegetables of this Filipino-Spanish stew is potato, carrots and bell pepper in tomato sauce. I have never seen any Kaldereta in my life that missed any one of those ingredients. But when it comes to the meat used and the sauce thickener, that’s when someone would end up black …

Before you go on reading, click here to know what is the difference between Filipino dishes and Spanish dishes
If you are a Filipino and you haven’t asked yourself what the difference is between Mechado, Menudo, Afritada and Kaldereta, you are not eating good enough. If you have a Filipino food blog and you don’t know what the answer to that question, good luck to you too. I have been looking for a kitchen hermit that can answer this for me and I couldn’t find one. Maybe there isn’t one. Well, …

Click this if you want to read first the History of Filipino Food, Spanish Influence
To the Spanish guy who will talk to us about Spanish dishes, I am still looking for you. I have a relative in Dos Hermanas, Spain but the English language is of no use to him. Filipinos, impressive as we are when it comes to speaking in Spanish, are not all born from Zamboanga. Yes, there is still a part of the Philippines where bastardized Spanish is lingua franca and those are the Chavacanos de Zamboanga, …