Which spice is the most flavorful for beef in sauce?

Beef in sauce can be flavored with star anise, fennel and peppercorns.

Peppercorns, an important spice, are an important symbol of Sichuan cuisine.

Peppercorns can be used as traditional Chinese medicine, which has the effect of warming the middle and driving away cold.

Fennel is a treasure of the whole body, not only is widely used as food flavoring spices, is a high value of excellent spices, and both pharmacological effects, has a high medicinal value, but also as a feed additive and so on.

In food applications, cumin is the main component of artificially formulated five-spice powder, which is widely used for food flavoring. Cumin oil is also commonly used in the preparation of candies and liquors. Cumin is the bulk species of the edible spice plant. In world trade, it is second only to pepper, chili pepper, mustard seed, sesame seed, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, coriander seed, turmeric, etc., and much higher than China's abundant aniseed. The total world production of cumin is more than 30,000 tons per year, ranking No. 7 among the major edible spice plants, and the annual world trade volume is about 6,000 tons. In addition, Li Tianyin believes that fennel is rich in nectar and is an important honey plant.

In terms of medicinal value, cumin fruit seeds are effective in driving away wind, dispelling cold and warmth and strengthening the spleen.

Anise is a plant of the genus Anise in the family Aniseidae.

Anise is a tree with leathery or thickly leathery leaves, obovate-elliptic or oblanceolate, dark green, glossy leaf surface, densely covered with small oil dots visible in sunlight. Flowers pink or deep red, with inconspicuous translucent glandular dots. Aggregate fruits are mostly octagonal. Rarely pentagonal or hexagonal. Follicles full and straight, apex obtuse or blunt, seeds brown, shiny. Octagonal trees are evergreen trees, 10 to 15 m tall. Bark gray to reddish brown. Branches crowded, spreading horizontally. Leaves are simple and alternate, with leathery, elliptic-obovate to elliptic-oblanceolate blades, 5 to 11 centimeters long and 1.5 to 4 centimeters wide. Spring flowers solitary in leaf axils, pink to crimson. Aggregate fruit radial stellate, 3.5 cm in diameter, reddish brown; follicle tip obtuse bird's mouth-shaped, each follicle containing one seed. The seeds are flat-ovate, reddish brown or grayish brown, glossy, and sweet-smelling. The fruit is star-shaped, hence the name. Alias fennel, anise, August pearl. Leaves alternate or spirally arranged, leathery, apex acute or acuminate, base cuneate, entire, dark green above, shiny and glabrous, with transparent oil spots, light green below, sparsely hairy. Flowers solitary in leaf axils, pedicellate; sepals 3, yellowish green; petals 6 to 9, light to dark red, broadly ovoid or oblong; flowering spring and fall, fruiting fall to the following spring. Aggregate fruit stellate. Seeds compressed ovoid, ca. 6 mm, reddish brown or yellowish brown, shiny. Grows in shady, moist, mountainous areas with loose soil. Produced in Guangdong, Guangxi and other places.

Octopus tree on the ecological conditions require relatively strict, afraid of cold, afraid of heat, avoid wind, intolerant of hot sun, intolerant of drought, the original only distributed in the southwestern part of China's middle subtropical south and the northern part of the subtropical south of a long and narrow strip. In Guangxi, Yunnan and Guangdong, Fujian, Guizhou, Sichuan local areas are cultivated. Jiangxi Shangyu County, Anhui Huangshan also introduced. Anise planting 6 to 8 years after flowering and fruiting, 15 to 20 years into the fruiting period, can continue for 50 to 70 years, the natural life of up to 200 years. Star anise is a valuable economic forest species in China, the rind, seeds, leaves can be distilled aromatic oil, called fennel oil or star anise oil. It is used in industry to extract aniseed and synthesize anisaldehyde and anisol. These single spices are mainly used in the food, pharmaceutical, cosmetic and daily chemical industries. Anise fruit is flavoring spices, has a medical value, foreign countries are also used as livestock feed additives.