When stewing beef, you must remember a few tips:
1, raw beef is best put in cold water. When we buy a piece of raw beef to go home, we should first wash it briefly, and then soak it in a clear water basin for about 2 hours. You can change cold water twice in the middle to let the blood in the beef soak out completely. This seemingly simple operation may be easily overlooked by many friends.
2. Put some hawthorn in the beef stew.
When we wash beef, we can cut it into mahjong-sized squares, put it in a stew pot and add a proper amount of water. At this time, you must add some dried hawthorn to the pot, because hawthorn can easily soften beef. When stewing beef, it can not only reduce the time, but also make the stewed beef worse. Friends who like beef stew, don't forget to put a few dried hawthorn, get twice the result with half the effort.
3. Put some beer when you stew beef.
Beer is an alcoholic beverage brewed by liquid fermentation, which can not only be drunk, but also be used as an auxiliary material in cooking, such as stewed pork ribs, stewed pork belly, stewed chicken, stewed fish and stewed beef. It can not only remove the fishy smell, but also enhance the flavor of the meat and make the dishes brighter. Therefore, when stewing beef, it is usually recommended to add a proper amount of beer to make the dishes taste better.
Don't let go of beef stew;
Don't put pepper and star anise in beef stew. As the saying goes, beef avoids Chili and mutton avoids aniseed. I believe many people still don't know. Beef and mutton have a strong smell, so some housewives will add pepper and aniseed when stewing beef and mutton to remove the smell. As everyone knows, this will only aggravate the smell of beef and mutton, and it will also make the meat black and the taste weak. It is not recommended to put pepper aniseed in all stewed beef, just put fragrant leaves, cinnamon and onion ginger.
I would like to remind you here that it is forbidden to put salt in beef stew too early:
Usually when my mother cooks beef stew, in order to save trouble, after putting the beef into the stew pot, she puts all kinds of spices and salt into the pot and cooks it directly. Actually, that's wrong, because my mother and I have quarreled many times, even quarreled, but she thinks what I said is wrong, so I won't continue to insist.
In fact, when we stew beef, we must stew the beef until it is almost rotten, that is, about 10 minutes before cooking, and then add the right amount of salt. This can be according to your own taste, and then continue to stew 10 minutes! Beef tastes best at this time.
Although beef stew looks simple, if you don't master these tips well, the stewed beef will definitely not be delicious. If you want to stew soft and rotten beef, remember to pay attention to the small details in the cooking process. As the saying goes, "details determine success or failure." In the process of cooking, we should pay attention to the matching of heat and seasoning, and we can also make the taste of the hotel at home. If we master the skills skillfully, it will even be more delicious than the dishes cooked by the chef.