Ingredients preparation: beef (brisket), carrots.
Practice steps:
1. Bought beef brisket, washed, cut into large pieces, and soaked in clear water (beef brisket is used to stew beef, which is gluten-rich, fleshy and oily, and firewood is not delicious if it is too thin). The soaking time is at least 30 minutes, and I usually soak for more than an hour. It is best to change the water two or three times in the middle and pour out the soaked blood in time. Wash fresh kelp and put it on a plate for later use.
2. Preparation: Put the cleaned carrots, onions, ginger, garlic, hawthorn, cinnamon, star anise, fennel and pepper into the seasoning box.
3, casserole water, beef and seasoning box, cooking wine into cold water, the fire to boil. The surface of beef in hot water tightens rapidly, which is not conducive to boiling blood stains. It is very important: stewed beef must not be blanched. If you blanch it first and then stew it in the pot, the beef will be easily burnt.
4. After the fire boils, skim off the floating foam. Once the water boils, it immediately begins to skim off the floating foam. If the water is boiled for a long time, the floating foam will solidify and float away. It is difficult to skim again, which not only affects the taste and clarity of soup, but also affects the taste of beef.
5. When the floating foam is almost caught, add the soaked and washed kelp and boil it again. Then turn the heat down and add carrot slices. Under normal circumstances, kelp is cooked in a few minutes. Stew for at least two hours, and the delicious beef brisket and carrot soup will be ready.