Beef stew, remember not to blanch directly! Teach you the correct way, the beef is soft and rotten, not fishy or woody
Spring is coming, but the weather is still cold, especially the rain, no different from winter, go out or dress warmer, so as not to catch a cold, as the saying goes, spring covers autumn frost, now must not be too early to dress too thin, but also pay more attention to the diet, often eat some nutritious food, such as beef, eat more in spring to supplement nutrition for the body, enhance immunity.
When it comes to beef, many people will say that it is delicious and difficult to make, especially beef stew, which not only takes a long time to cook, but also is easy to make badly, and there is a situation where it cannot be chewed or has a fishy smell. If you do the same with beef stew, it's not the right way.
Many people stew beef, cut the beef into pieces and blanch it in a pot, and then add water to stew it when it is done, which seems to be no problem, but in fact it is wrong. If you want the beef stew to be delicious, remember not to blanch it directly! This is because there is a lot of blood in the beef, and direct blanching cannot be cleaned at all, which will cause the beef to smell fishy and not fragrant.
In addition, you also need to master some small skills to make the beef stew soft and flavorful. Let's teach you the right way to do it, do it in the future, and no longer be afraid of bad stewing, so let's take a look.
【Beef stew】
Prepare beef (brisket, ribs, and tendons), potatoes, carrots (if you like pure meat, you don't prepare vegetables), ginger, green onions, garlic, cooking wine, star anise, cinnamon, bay leaves, light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, salt, and cooking oil. (Make it at home, you don't need too many spices, just use these common ones, bean paste, dried chili peppers are selectively prepared)
1. Cut the beef into larger pieces, otherwise it will become smaller if you cut it too small and cook it. After cutting, put it in a basin, add an appropriate amount of water, cover the beef pieces, and soak for half an hour.
2. When the time is up, keep changing the water and washing until the water is no longer so red.
3. After washing, take out the beef pieces, drain them, then put them in the pot, add water, cover the amount of beef and a large spoon of cooking wine or rice wine, and turn on the fire.
4. After boiling, use a spoon to skim off the foam, stir the beef pieces after it is clean, cook for another two or three minutes, and then skim off if there is still foam.
5. After processing, take out the beef and dry the water. Stir-fry garlic, ginger, star anise, cinnamon and stir-fry until fragrant, and then pour in beef and stir-fry.
6. Pour in a spoonful of cooking wine or yellow wine and stir-fry to remove the alcohol flavor, then add light soy sauce and dark soy sauce and stir-fry to color.
7. After frying, turn everything in the pot into the pressure cooker, then pour in boiling water, cover the beef, add bay leaves and green onions, cover with a lid, simmer for 25 minutes after steaming.
8. After stewing, remove the bay leaves and green onions, and then put the beef and soup into a casserole or wok.
9. Then turn on the high heat, add an appropriate amount of salt, add the potato and carrot pieces, wait for the water to boil, then turn to low heat, cover the lid and continue to simmer until the potatoes and carrots become soft.
10. Finally, look at the soup situation, turn to high heat to collect it if there are more, remember to turn it over and avoid pasting the bottom, so that the beef stew is ready, very fragrant, soft and delicious.
To make beef stew, in addition to remembering not to blanch directly, you should also remember to add boiling water to stew, the beef is not hard or woody, try it when you have time. Welcome to leave a message to discuss, if you think the article is useful to you, please give me a favorite, like, comment, forward, follow, so that more people can see it, let everyone learn together, thank you for your support to me, we will see you next time!