When stewing beef, you also need to put some beer, black tea bags, hawthorn and dried tangerine peel. After adding these four seasonings, the beef stew is soft and delicious.

Beer is put in beef mainly to make beef soft and rotten. We all know that beer is made by fermentation, which contains more yeast and gas. Moreover, the boiling point of beer is relatively low, which gradually increases with the temperature in the pot. In this way, the bubbles in the beer will impact the beef, which will be soft and rotten when stewed.

So why add black tea bags to beef? Because tea contains a variety of tea polyphenols, this special substance can remove free radicals from beef. After the free radicals in beef are removed, the whole beef will become particularly soft and rotten. Moreover, black tea contains a special smell and will not dilute the taste of beef. But also make beef taste more fragrant.

When stewing beef, the most essential thing is to put hawthorn. Hawthorn contains more maslinic acid, which can promote the activity of protein decomposing enzyme. Protein and fat in beef can disintegrate quickly, so this piece of beef can be softened quickly.

No matter when cooking beef, pork or mutton, the dried tangerine peel should be put evenly. Pericarpium Citri Tangerinae has the function of deodorizing and enhancing fragrance, and can well remove the fishy smell in beef. So when we stew beef, we must remember to put dried tangerine peel. In addition to these four seasonings, it is more important to put the following three seasonings when stewing beef, namely, softening meat, relieving boredom and enhancing flavor.

Representative seasonings such as softened meat are: beer, black tea bag and hawthorn. The above are the specific principles of these three seasonings.

Seasonings to relieve boredom are: dried tangerine peel, cooking wine, rice wine and white wine. Adding rice wine and white wine to beef mainly uses alcohol to depress the greasy taste, and at the same time, it can enhance the flavor of beef. So when we make beef, we have to remove the seasoning.

Seasoning spices include tangerine peel, ginger, pepper and other similar spices. When we make tomato and egg soup, the most indispensable seasoning is pepper. Pepper is spicy, so stewed beef won't smell fishy.