Ingredients: beef, star anise, fragrant leaves, ginger, rock sugar, cinnamon, cooking wine, soy sauce and cooking oil.
Cooking process:
Step 1: Wash the beef, cut it into small pieces about 3 cm, put it in a small pot and soak it in light salt water for 20 minutes, then rinse it with clear water, so as to remove the fishy smell on the beef surface.
Step 2: Pour 3 bowls of water into the pot, beef and 3 tablespoons of cooking wine, and bring to a boil. At this time, don't cover the pot. When you see floating foam on the surface, skim it off with a spoon. The whole process lasts about 2~3 minutes, until no floating foam can be seen, then the torch is turned off and the beef is fished out to prevent all the blood from being forced out and affecting the taste of the beef.
Step 3: Take another pot and pour 50 ml of cooking oil. When heated to 50% heat, turn to low heat, and then add 20 g of rock sugar to stir-fry the sugar color. Pay attention to control the heat here. If the temperature is too high, the rock sugar will be burnt, which will make the beef bitter.
Step 4: Pour in beef and stir-fry evenly, so that each side of beef is covered with caramel color, then pour in 3 star anise, 1 piece of cinnamon and 2 pieces of fragrant leaves and stir-fry for 2 minutes, so that the fragrance of spices can be fully released and the flavor of beef can be more intense. Finally, pour in 3 tablespoons soy sauce and stir-fry for 3 minutes.
Step 5, put the fried beef into the soup pot, first boil the water in the pot with high fire, and then stew it for 2 hours with low fire, so that a pot of soft and delicious beef is ready.
"Braised beef" is delicious and has a knack.
1, when you buy beef, you should choose beef tenderloin, which is fat and thin. It is easier to stew when cooking, and it tastes soft and not easy to plug your teeth.
2. When you put beef in the pot, you should choose to use cold water to put it in the pot, because hot water will shrink the surface of beef, and the blood left in beef cannot be squeezed out, which will cause beef to stink.
Don't dump the remaining beef soup. Rich in nutrition, and because the floating foam has been completely removed, it won't taste bad at all, so it can be eaten directly.