Chinese Braised Beef And Noodles Food

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.

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!

CHINESE BRAISED BEEF AND POTATO STEW

Steps:

• In a sauce pan that has a lid (you'll use it later), bring water to a boil, add meat, bring back to a boil, then turn off and let stand while you prepare the vegetables.
• Prepare ginger, garlic, and leek or onion.
• Discard water off the beef, and add enough boiling water to almost cover the meat, along with anise, ginger, and leek or onion.
• Heat an empty wok over high heat, add lard or oil, heat and swirl in pan, then add garlic and stir quickly for a moment until the fragrance rises from the oil. Then add soy sauce and bring to a boil.
• Add soy sauce mixture to the saucepan with the beef, cover the dish, and braise for an hour or more, stirring occasionally, and discarding water that has condensed under the lid.
• While the meat and vegetables cook, peel and cut up the carrots and potatoes.
• Twenty to forty minutes before serving, add the carrots and potatoes and salt and pepper. (At this point, you may wish to enhance the flavor with a pinch of five-spice powder or ground cloves.).
• When the potatoes are cooked through and the sauce is just starting to thicken naturally from the potato starch, the dish is prepared.
• In north China, this stew is served with thick, chewy, crusty flat bread. In the south, with rice. Garlic-stir-fried spinach or other greens makes an excellent accompaniment.
• This amount serves 2 people, but may serve up to eight or ten alongside an appropriate number of other dishes as part of a family-style Chinese meal.

CHINESE-STYLE BRAISED BEEF ONE-POT

Steps:

• Heat 2 tbsp of the oil in a large, shallow casserole. Fry the garlic, ginger, onions and chilli for 3 mins until soft and fragrant. Tip onto a plate. Toss the beef in the flour, add 1 tbsp more oil to the pan, then brown the meat in batches, adding the final tbsp oil if you need to. It should take about 5 mins to brown each batch properly.
• Add the five-spice and star anise (if using) to the pan, tip in the gingery mix, then fry for 1 min until the spices are fragrant. Add the sugar, then the beef and stir until combined. Keep the heat high, then splash in the wine or sherry, scraping up any meaty bits. Heat oven to 150C/fan 130C/gas 2.
• Pour in the soy and stock (it won't cover the meat completely), bring to a simmer, then tightly cover, transfer to the oven and cook for 1½-2 hrs, stirring the meat halfway through. The meat should be very soft, and any sinewy bits should have melted away. Season with more soy. This can now be chilled and frozen for up to 1 month.
• Nestle the cooked bok choi into the pan, then bring to the table with the basmati rice straight away and tuck in.

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.

CHINESE BEEF NOODLE SOUP (红烧牛肉面)

Steps:

• If you aren't cooking the Asian beef stock as well, start by browning the beef. You can achieve this either in the oven or on the stove top. If you have already cooked my Asian beef stock recipe, skip ahead to step 5.
• To brown the beef in the oven, preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 C). Cut beef into 1.5 to 2 inch chunks (about 4 to 5 cm). Spread the beef in a roasting pan. Spray a thin layer of oil onto the meat. Roast for 20 minutes. Take out the beef and flip. Cook until the beef turns to an even golden brown color, about 20 minutes.
• To brown the beef on stove top, heat a large heavy skillet with 2 tablespoons vegetable oil until hot. Add beef. Let cook without moving for a minute. Continue cooking until the bottom side turns golden. Flip to cook the other sides, until the beef is evenly browned.
• Transfer the cooked beef to a plate. Add 1/4 cup hot water to the baking tray (or the skillet). Scrape off the brown bits, so you can transfer them to the braising pot later.
• Heat a dutch oven (or a wok) with 2 tablespoons oil over medium heat until warm. Add green onion, garlic, ginger, and Sichuan peppercorn. Cook until the garlic turns a plate yellow color. Turn to medium low heat. Add doubanjiang and tomato paste. Stir and cook until the bean paste releases oil, 2 to 3 minutes.
• Add beef to the pot. Stir a few times to coat beef evenly with the sauce. Add back the brown bits from step 4, if any.
• Add 2 cups water, Japanese sake, soy sauce, brown sugar, curry powder, and cumin powder to the the pot. Stir to mix well. Turn to medium high heat. Cook until almost bringing to a simmer. Turn to low heat and cover. Let the beef cook at a very gentle boil until it starts to get tender, about 1 hour 20 minutes.
• Add veggies of your choice (potato, daikon radish, and/or carrot). Stir to mix well. Cover and cook until both the veggies and the beef turn tender, 20 to 30 minutes.
• You can cook the beef stew one day before serving, store it in an air-tight container in the fridge, and reheat right before serving.
• When you're ready to serve the noodles, bring a large pot of water to a boil and cook the noodles according to the instructions.
• In another pot, add about 6 cups beef stock (add less stock plus water to dilute, if you're using homemade condensed beef stock. Cook until bringing to a boil.
• Divide beef stock among 4 bowls for serving. Add a few spoonfuls of sauce from the braised beef. Taste the broth. It should be a bit salty and very rich. Add salt if necessary. Mix well. Add noodles, top with a few chunks of beef and veggies, and garnish with green onions and greens (if using).
• Serve as main immediately.