Ingredients: beef.
Accessories: onion, ginger, star anise, prickly ash, fennel, cinnamon, angelica dahurica, geranium and rock sugar.
1, beef processing, beef is divided into small pieces of meat with appropriate size by machine in advance, and then soaked in cold water in a basin for 5 hours. If there is enough time, water can be changed once in the middle. Fully soaking is mainly to better remove the residual blood in beef. If the container at home is relatively large, you can soak the whole meat first, and then change the knife and cut it into pieces.
2. Clean the onion and ginger, cut the onion into sections, slice the ginger, cut it and put it aside.
3. Pour the soup stock into the basin for later use. We cook braised beef every day, so it is not surprising that there is soup stock. Like braised beef at home, there is generally no soup stock, so you can not use the soup stock, just adjust the taste.
4, beef into the pot, add enough cold water, cold water can not pass the beef, at first, stew the beef with a big fire. /kloc-in about 0/5-20 minutes, the water gradually boils and the floating foam gradually increases. At this time, turn to low heat and skim off the floating foam, usually 3-5 times.
5. After the floating foam is cleaned, add the onion, ginger slices and stew ingredients: star anise, pepper, fennel, cinnamon, angelica dahurica, fragrant leaves and rock sugar. Then pour in a little soy sauce and color it. The amount of stew is not too much, such as star anise 1-2, cinnamon, angelica dahurica 1-2, fragrant leaves 5- 10, a small handful of fennel, and more pepper.
6. At this point, the soup stock is added to improve the taste, and then monosodium glutamate, chicken essence and salt are added to taste. If you have chicken powder at home, you can also put some chicken powder. Generally speaking, the amount of seasoning for 6 kg of beef (based on the seasoning spoon in the seasoning box at home): 3 tablespoons of monosodium glutamate, 3 tablespoons of chicken essence and 6 tablespoons of salt.
7, and then continue to simmer 1.5 hours -2 hours, if you need to add water in the middle, you should add boiling water. After the stewing time is up, turn off the fire and continue stewing the beef for 6-8 hours, so that the beef is softer and more delicious.
8. After the beef is cooked, it can be fished out, and the spiced braised beef is ready. The spiced braised beef is full of meat flavor, soft and rotten, and its lips and teeth remain fragrant and memorable.