Instruments used: one and a half kilograms of beef (ox-lin meat), 1 small onion, a piece of ginger, 3 cloves of garlic, 5 slices of sesame leaves, cinnamon 1 piece, star anise 2, 2 dry red chili; Pixi Douban sauce 2 tablespoons, 3 tablespoons of soy sauce, 4 tablespoons of cooking wine, rock candy ten, sugar a spoonful of salt in appropriate quantities.
--Cooking steps--
Step 1: cut the beef into large pieces placed into the basin, add submerged beef cold water, 2 spoons of cooking wine, soak for about 2 hours, so that you can make the beef more tender after cooking, if If you are in a hurry, you can skip this step.
Step 2: Bring a pot of water to a boil, add some ginger and bring to a boil. Blanch the beef in the pot for 3 minutes to brown it all, then pull it out and set aside.
Step 3: Add a little oil to the frying pan, add 10 rock candy, stir-fry the sugar color over low heat, and wait for the sugar to melt and blister into a reddish brown color, then pour the beef into the pan and stir-fry it until all the color is gone, then add the small onion, 3 cloves of garlic, 2 dried red chili peppers, 5 spices, and 2 star anise and stir-fry over high heat to make it smell good.
Step 4: Add 2 tablespoons of Pixian bean paste in the pot, 3 tablespoons of soy sauce, 1 tablespoon of cooking wine, 1 tablespoon of sugar, the right amount of salt and stir-fry evenly over high heat, add submerged in the ingredients of the water to boil.
Step 5: Pour all the ingredients and soup into the pressure cooker, cover the lid, on the steam and simmer for 20 minutes, turn off the heat and continue to simmer for 5 minutes. A tender and delicious beef cassoulet is ready.
--Tips--
The practice of stewed beef is more suitable for this lean beef, it is best to use a pressure cooker, because this lean beef want to eat up not firewood, it is best to let the soup quickly soak into the tight beef inside, play the role of the effect of tenderizing and softening the beef. Stewing beef, time must be enough to do, no stewed cooked beef is the most stuffed hard to chew, according to each family pressure cooker situation is different, after boiling on the steam, at least 20 minutes or so to be delicious.