When stewing beef soup, you need to add some seasonings, which is of course a very important detail. The use of seasonings is the key to affecting the taste of beef soup. For example, when stewing beef soup, you often Some carrots, potatoes, star anise, etc. will be put in. If you are interested in this food but don’t know where to start, then take a look at the recommended methods below.
Method 1.
Ingredients: Beef, carrots, potatoes, star anise, green onions and ginger, dried chili peppers, coriander, salt, soy sauce, cooking wine, sugar, yellow sauce
1. Material pre-processing: Rinse the beef and cut into small pieces, blanch, remove and set aside. Wash the carrots, peel and wash the potatoes. Cut both into hob pieces and set aside.
Wash the onion and ginger and cut into thin strips, wipe the dried chili and cut into small sections, wash and cut the coriander into sections and set aside.
2. Pour a small amount of oil into the hot pot. After the oil is slightly hot, add shredded onions, ginger, dried chili peppers, and one star anise. Stir until fragrant. Then pour in the blanched beef cubes and add Stir-fry soy sauce, white sugar, cooking wine and a small amount of yellow sauce until the beef pieces are colored and flavorful.
3. Transfer the fried beef to the casserole, add hot water to cover the beef. Simmer over low heat for 1 hour until the beef is tender.
4. Then add the cut carrots and potatoes, add salt, and a small amount of hot water, continue to simmer until the carrots and potatoes are cooked, sprinkle with a small amount of coriander, and serve.
Method 2
800 grams of beef ribs, 3 tablespoons of soy sauce, 3 tablespoons of rice wine, a little beef powder, appropriate amount of salt, star anise, Sichuan peppercorns, green onion slices, and ginger slices.
1. Wash the beef ribs and cut them into pieces of about 2 cm.
2. Wash the onions and ginger, cut them into segments and ginger slices and set aside. Add the onions, ginger and garlic to make the taste really great.
3. Heat the oil in the pan. When the oil is 50% hot, add the peppercorns, star anise, green onion and ginger slices and sauté until fragrant.
4. Then pour the beef cubes into the pot and stir-fry, then add rice wine and stir-fry for a while.
5. Pour enough water to cover the beef pieces and then pour in soy sauce (do not add salt at this time).
6. After the water boils, skim off the foam, cover the pot, turn to low heat and simmer for 90 minutes. The heat is the key, and the time must exceed 90 minutes.
7. Add appropriate amount of salt and Daxida beef powder, and continue to simmer for 30 minutes.
8. Finally, turn to high heat to reduce the juice according to your own taste (the beef stew soup should not be too little, but slightly more).