Marinated beef

Ingredients?

2 grams of salt

2 grams of edible alkali

3 grams of sesame seeds

10g chili powder

10g chili oil

25g salad oil

250g beef

How to make marinated beef?

Use lean meat with few tendons. Haidilao recommends cucumber strips (a beef part), which are also easy to cut. There is a beef store near my house. Seeing that the beef brain was relatively fresh that day, I bought beef brain.

I used 250 grams of beef, cut into slices. Fresh meat does not need beef rolls, and it does not need to be cut too thin, about 3 mm.

First, add water, yes, add water, 100 grams of water. Don't worry, the water will get into the beef after a while. The more water the beef has, the more tender it will be. However, the premise is that the meat must be fresh. Stale beef will not absorb moisture.

The Haidilao recipe only adds water. I personally like to add 15 ml of soy sauce at this step. You can even add oyster sauce to add some freshness.

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After adding water, add 2 grams of salt and 2 grams of edible alkali, one teaspoon each. Not to mention salt, the function of edible alkali is to make beef tissue soft and tender, making it easier to cook. Meat tenderizer can also be used to achieve the same purpose. Be careful not to add too much or the beef will fall apart.

Then, start stirring.

After stirring for almost two minutes, the water will have completely entered the beef. Look, does the beef become much more moist after absorbing the water?

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Then add 10 grams of chili powder and 3 grams of sesame seeds to increase the flavor and spiciness

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Then add 10 grams of chili oil and 25 grams of ordinary cooking oil.

It is also important to add fat. We know that pure lean meat is easy to cook, and fat can make the meat moist and smooth. In addition, these fats can lock the moisture in the beef. It is not cost-effective to spit out the moisture that has been sucked in.

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Stir evenly again and the beef will be marinated. Doesn’t it look particularly oily and smooth now?

The beef after marinating is actually quite durable and can be stored in the refrigerator for one day.

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The marinated beef can be eaten directly in hot pot, or it can be made into spicy hotpot, stir-fried beef slices, or even boiled beef. I didn't specialize in making hot pot alone. I put on some skewers and made a pot of cold pot skewers.

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Drink beer and eat skewers.