The seasonings for braised beef generally include: star anise, cinnamon, bay leaves, pepper, grass fruit, fennel, nutmeg, tangerine peel, cloves, licorice, angelica, amomum villosum, green onion and ginger, etc. Among them, grass fruit, tangerine peel, cloves, and licorice are the main seasonings for braised beef.

Braised beef recipe 1: 10g cinnamon, 16g star anise, 8g angelica, 2g grass fruit, 5g white cardamom, 5g red cardamom, 2g grass cardamom, 3g nutmeg, red cardamom 8 grams of Zanthoxylum bungeanum, 6 grams of galangal, 2 grams of pepper, 1.5 grams of amomum villosum, 1.5 grams of bay leaf, 5 grams of angelica, 3 grams of tangerine peel, 1 g of licorice, 1 gram of cloves, 3 grams of hawthorn, 1 gram of gardenia, 3 grams of black pepper.

Braised beef recipe 2: 40 grams of star anise, 30 grams of cinnamon, 5 grams of cloves, 20 grams of fennel, 15 grams of grass fruit, 10 grams of angelica, 20 grams of pepper, 10 grams of tangerine peel, 10 grams of licorice, Cao Kou 10 grams.

Braised beef recipe 3: 200 grams of fennel, 100 grams of pepper, 100 grams of star anise, 50 grams each of cinnamon and galangal, 20 grams of grass fruit, and 10 grams of cloves.