Braised Beef With Noodles Food

BRAISED BEEF NOODLE SOUP (红烧牛肉面)

Steps:

• First place the aromatics in a piece of cheesecloth tied tightly with kitchen string or disposable/fillable tea filter bags. That's the cinnamon, black cardamom, fennel seeds, star anise, cloves, tangerine peel, bay leaves, white peppercorns, licorice slices, sand ginger, and amomum white cardamon. Phew. It'll be worth it. Trust me.
• Next, rinse off the beef under cold running water. In a soup pot, add 16 cups of water, the ginger, and beef. Bring to a boil and cook for a few more minutes until you see some foam floating on the top of the water. Skim the foam off. You don't want these impurities from the beef making your soup cloudy. Turn off the heat, fish out the pieces of beef, and strain the resulting broth through a fine-meshed strainer, into a heatproof bowl or other pot. Set aside, along with the ginger pieces.
• In another large, thick-bottomed soup pot, heat the oil over medium heat. Add the rock sugar, the white parts of the scallion, and the garlic. Cook for a few minutes until the scallions are lightly seared. Add the beef, turn up the heat, and mix everything well.
• Cook for about 5 minutes, and stir once or twice in between. Now add the Shaoxing wine, dark soy sauce, and light soy sauce, and stir everything together well so that the beef is coated in the soy sauce.
• Now add the aromatics, plus the daikon, and the broth and ginger pieces that you boiled the beef in. Bring everything to a boil and immediately turn the heat down to medium. Simmer for 90 minutes. The broth should be steadily simmering where you can see water moving in the pot, but not at a rolling boil.
• After 90 minutes, turn off the heat and let it stand (with the lid on) for another hour. Now your soup base is ready. Reheat, remove the aromatics, and add salt to taste before serving. Just remember, adding salt too early will dry out the beef.
• Cook the noodles according to the package instructions, strain, and transfer to a large serving bowl. Blanch a handful of your leafy greens of choice in the noodle water, and add it to the noodles. Then, ladle in the beef and the soup. Top with the chopped green parts of the scallions you set aside earlier and some chopped cilantro (optional). And if you really can't resist a bit of spice, add a spoonful of chili oil. Wink! Wink!
• Enjoy!

BRAISED BEEF OVER EGG NOODLES

Steps:

• Place all of the marinade ingredients into a medium sauce pan and bring to a boil. Cover, lower heat to medium low and cook for ten minutes. Remove cover and cool to room temperature.
• Lay the chuck roast on your cutting board and cut along the natural fat separations in the roast. Trim and discard any large pieces of fat or gristle.
• You should have about three or four large pieces of beef at this point. Cut these into pieces about 3-inches square. You should have about 12-14 pieces of relatively equal size. (Don't worry about getting these pieces perfect). Add these to a gallon zip lock bag.
• Once the marinade is at room temperature, pour the entire contents over the beef including the vegetables, seal and refrigerate overnight.
• Three hours before serving, remove the beef from refrigeration and using tongs, pick out the pieces of beef but do not discard the marinade.
• Preheat the oven to 300 degrees F with an oven rack in the bottom third of the oven.
• Pat the beef dry with paper towels and sprinkle all sides with the salt and pepper.
• In a large oven proof pot or Dutch oven that has an oven safe lid, heat half of the light oil over medium high heat and once hot, sear half the beef on all sides. Remove to a plate and repeat with remaining light oil and beef. Remove the second batch of beef.
• Keep the burner on medium high and add the marinade, including all the vegetables and with a wooden spoon, scrape the brown bits up from the bottom.
• Add the beef stock and the seared beef back in and once the pot starts to bubble, cover and place in the oven for two hours. Check at the two-hour mark for tenderness and continue cooking until the beef is tender. Ours took 2 ½ hours.
• While the beef cooks, saute the vegetables. In a large saute pan or braiser, heat two tablespoons of butter and one tablespoon of olive oil over medium high heat and cook the mushroom pieces to brown, about eight minutes. Remove to a large bowl.
• Reduce the heat to medium and add one tablespoon each of butter and olive oil and saute the onions until soft, about five minutes. Remove to the bowl with the mushrooms.
• Add the remaining tablespoon of butter and olive oil and add the pepper strips. Saute until somewhat soft but with a little texture. Use tongs to remove cooked pieces to the bowl as they cook and continue to cook until you have removed all the pepper strips to the bowl with the mushrooms and onions. Set these vegetables aside.
• Also, while the beef cooks, cook the noodles in boiling salted water and cool. Set aside.
• Once the beef is tender, pick the pieces of beef out with tongs and set aside on a platter.
• Pick out and dispose of the two bay leaves.
• Use an immersion blender or carefully pour the pot contents into a blender and puree until thick and creamy.
• Add the beef back in with the sauce and the reserved sautéed vegetables. Taste, season if needed and heat to serving temperature.
• Reheat the noodles by dipping in boiling water and serve with the braised beef.

BEEF AND NOODLES

Steps:

• Heat a skillet over medium-high heat; cook steak, working in batches, until seared and browned on all sides, about 5 minutes. Transfer seared steak to a plate.
• Melt butter in the same skillet over medium heat and saute onion until softened, 5 to 10 minutes. Add steak to onion and pour beef stock over steak; season with bay leaves, thyme, salt, and pepper. Bring to a boil, reduce heat to low, cover skillet with a lid, and simmer until steak is tender, 50 minutes to 1 hour 50 minutes. Stir peas and cornstarch into steak mixture; cook uncovered until liquid thickens, about 10 minutes.
• Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Cook egg noodles in the boiling water, stirring occasionally until cooked through but firm to the bite, about 5 minutes; drain. Serve beef mixture over noodles.

CHINESE BRAISED BEEF AND NOODLES

Steps:

• Cook the noodles in salted boiling water just until tender; drain, and rinse under cold water.
• Cut the beef into very thin slices.
• Mix together the garlic, salt, ginger, and five-spice powder, and add the mixture to the beef; mix.
• Heat the oil and saute the beef over high heat for 2 minutes.
• Mix together the soy sauce and broth, and add it to the beef; bring to a boil.
• Mix the cornstarch with the remaining 4 tsp water, stir into the beef and cook until smooth and thick.
• Add noodles, mix well and heat thoroughly.
• Add the green onions, and stir for another minute.
• Serve immediately.