Ingredients: beef tendon 1 piece, tsaoko 1 piece, 2 star anise, 3 pieces of cinnamon, 4 pieces of fragrant leaves, fennel 1 teaspoon, pepper 1 teaspoon, dried pepper 1 spoon, 4 pieces of ginger and a few pieces of onion.
Practice: 1, prepare the materials, and it is best to use tendon meat to make braised beef. Beef tendon is the muscle in the thigh of the cow, and the tendon is connected with the meat. The meat is chewy and can't burn wood. The braised beef tastes good.
2. Clean beef tendon, cut it into small pieces, soak it in clean water for 2 hours, and change the water three times in the middle, until the blood is completely separated out and the meat is a little white, so that the blood and impurities in beef can be soaked out, thus achieving the effect of removing fishy smell. The beef tastes more mellow and positive, and it is not easy to shrink after being marinated. This is the first point of marinating good beef.
3. Pour an appropriate amount of cold water into the pot, add cooking wine, onion and ginger, put the soaked beef into the pot, blanch it, and then remove the floating foam.
4, add enough water to the rice cooker, add spices, let live, the more spices are not the better, like Amomum tsaoko, star anise, 1, 2 is enough.
5. When the fire boils, add beef, then add 3 tablespoons of light soy sauce, 2 tablespoons of dark soy sauce, 1 spoon of oyster sauce, 1 spoon of soybean sauce, a proper amount of crystal sugar, and then pour in a can of beer. When the fire boils again, turn to low heat and simmer for 1 half an hour. In the process of marinating, the temperature must be well controlled. First, boil it with high fire, and then turn to low fire for marinating 1 half an hour. This is the second point of marinating good beef.
6. Cook until it can be easily inserted with chopsticks. Add appropriate amount of salt to taste and put it in the pot for one night. Don't add salt first until the last. The marinated beef can't be taken out immediately. It should be soaked in the marinade, and it is best to stay overnight, so that the beef can absorb enough marinade. This is the third delicious point of marinated beef.
7. Just take out the slices the next day. Remember to put it in the refrigerator if it is hot.
8. The braised beef made in this way is soft and delicious, not firewood at all, and very delicious.
Tips:
1, boiling water must be cooked in cold water. If hot water is used, protein will instantly solidify, which will not be easy to boil, and the nutrition will be destroyed.
2, mastering the heat is also the key to marinating good beef, first simmer on a big fire and then simmer on a small fire.
3, marinated beef is best soaked overnight, so that the beef is fully flavored, so it is delicious.