How to cook spiced beef?

Methods and steps:

First, soak in water.

Soak beef in water for eight hours, preferably with tap water. But from an economic point of view, you can also change the water every two hours. Otherwise, the fishy smell of beef can't be completely removed.

Second, boil in cold water.

Put the soaked beef in cold water in the pot, tie it with chopsticks and cook it until it doesn't bleed. Take it out and wash the impurities on the beef with clear water for later use.

Third, the production of spiced brine

1, fennel 250g, star anise 50g, pepper 1 25g, cinnamon 25g, clove 3, Amomum tsaoko1were washed with clear water, and then put into a seasoning bag together with 50g of onion, 25g of galangal and 75g of ginger.

2, a cow bone, broken and flying, put it in the bottom of the soup bucket, add 7.5 kg of water, then add 250 g of salt and 75 g of rock sugar, turn to low heat after boiling over high fire, put it in spare beef, and turn off the fire after boiling over low heat until it is 80% ripe. It is inedible. It is necessary to soak beef in salt water for another night.

3. After the beef is soaked, a layer of butter will condense on the surface as the temperature of salt water decreases. This layer of butter will hinder the heat dissipation and cause the brine to turn sour, so clean up the condensed butter in time. It is very important that beef can fully absorb the salty taste and aroma of brine during soaking.

Matters needing attention

1. Put more ginger in the brine, not to highlight the flavor of ginger, but to help the five flavors enter the beef during the marinating process, so that the five flavors are more sufficient.

2. The dosage of clove should be careful, its main function is to soften fleshy fiber. Make the beef tender, but don't put too much, or the brine will taste sour.

3. Salt water can be reused after adjustment. Generally, each package can be used twice. For the third time, prepare a new bag with the same weight, put it in salt water and cook it with beef for 30 minutes, and then take it out. When you use it for the fourth time, take out the old bag and put the new one in.