Secret Beef with Youkan Sauce—Eating beef during the Chinese New Year will make you feel awesome

Overview

The Spring Festival is approaching, and a fragrant secret recipe of Youkan Sauce Beef will accompany you to celebrate the New Year. I wish you a new year in 2016 and good luck in the Year of the Monkey!

Tags

• cold dishes
• old man
• northwest cuisine
• autumn recipes
• winter recipes
• banquet dishes
• lunch
• cao guo
• cinnamon
• cooking wine
• ginger
• hawthorn
• old soy sauce
• onions
• rock sugar
• star anise
• yellow sauce
• youkang beef
• zanthoxylum bungeanum
• fragrant leaves
• garlic
• salt
• soy sauce

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Wash and soak the Youkang beef in water for more than 4 hours, changing the water two or three times in between. Replace the soaked beef with water, add ginger slices, green onions, garlic slices and Chinese pepper to the water and soak for more than 1 hour.

   

2. 2 Remove the beef, use a toothpick to poke some small holes in the beef, put it into the pot, add the seasoning water for the last soaking, pour in the cooking wine, simmer for 3 minutes and remove.

   

3. 3 Add water to the pot, add ginger slices, green onions, garlic, peppercorns, star anise, cinnamon, bay leaves and grass fruits

   

4. 4 Pour in cooking wine, dark soy sauce

   

5. 5 Pour in soy sauce and rock sugar

   

6. 6 Stir the yellow sauce with water and pour it into the pot to boil. Put the blanched beef into the pressure cooker and add salt

   

7. 7 Add hawthorn, pour in the cooked brine, and cook in a pressure cooker for 20 minutes

   

8. 8 Put the cooked beef in a saucepan into a basin, pick out the miscellaneous ingredients, and soak the soup and beef together for more than 12 hours.

   

9. 9 When eating, drain the water and slice against the texture before serving