【Tianjin】Soy Beef

【Tianjin】Soy Beef

Overview

Sauced beef retains the multiple functions of beef, such as replenishing qi, strengthening muscles and bones, and nourishing the spleen and stomach. It can improve the body's disease resistance. It is nutritious and delicious. Due to the rich flavor and rich texture of soy sauce beef, it is often cut into slices and eaten as an appetizer, and is very popular among everyone. Eating beef with soy sauce in winter also has the effect of warming the stomach and dispelling cold. It is one of the best supplements in winter. My family loves to eat beef with soy sauce. During the Chinese New Year and holidays, we always make a lot of it. It is very convenient to take it out from the refrigerator and heat some slices when eating. Anyway, this plate of soy beef is indispensable for New Year’s Eve dinner. In fact, the sauced beef in different places is different, with different colors and tastes. The sauced beef in the north and the south has its own advantages. My mother-in-law likes to use sweet noodle sauce to reduce the sauce when making the sauced beef. The taste is very unique. The sauced beef I made this time basically retained my family’s cooking method,

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Ingredients

Steps

  1. Prepare all the ingredients first, prepare appropriate amounts of fennel, star anise, cinnamon, pepper, bay leaf, angelica, grass fruit, nutmeg, cloves, preferably a little tea leaves, put it into a special seasoning box, or wrap it with gauze.

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  2. Take two spoons of soybean paste and add a bowl of water and mix evenly.

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  3. Strain the soybean paste soup to remove the paste residue and set aside.

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  4. Put the cleaned beef cubes into a pot, add water, onion and ginger and cook.

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  5. After boiling, skim off the foam.

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  6. Remove the beef and put it into a large soup pot.

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  7. Pour the skimmed water into the large soup pot and turn on the heat.

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  8. Add the ingredients prepared in advance.

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  9. Pour in soybean paste soup.

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  10. Pour in cooking wine, about three tablespoons.

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  11. Pour in soy sauce, about three or four tablespoons.

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  12. Add about three tablespoons of salt.

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  13. Add a few pieces of rock sugar (I put too much, and the sweetness was a bit too strong, so I was criticized by the child’s father)

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  14. After the fire boils, turn to medium-low heat for two or three hours, then turn to high heat to reduce the juice. (The juice at my house was confiscated. The child’s father wanted to keep the soup for noodles, so he had to keep it for him)

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  15. There is no need to remove the beef, just soak it in the remaining soup overnight.

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  16. Soaking it in the soup overnight makes it even more flavorful and can be taken out.

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  17. Slice and plate.

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  18. It's ready to eat.

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  19. Isn’t it very tempting and delicious?

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  20. Let’s be beautiful again.

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