Five spice beef
/Ingredients
- 2 beef shanks
- 1 Garlic whole head
- 5 sliced Ginger
- 1/3 cup Soy sauce
2 tbsp Dark soy sauce - 4 tbsp white sugar
- 1/3 cup cooking wine
- 3-4 pieces star anise
- 1 stick cinnamon stick / 1/2 tsp cinnamon powder
- 2 bay leafs
- 1 tsp fennel seeds
- 4-6 pieces of cloves
- 1/2 tsp ground black pepper
- 1 tbsp of green scallions chopped
Five spice beef
Add everything into a pot and add water accordingly. The water should just about covering the meat. Then bring it to boil then turn down the heat to simmer for 2 hours. Check the pot in every 20-25 minutes to make sure there's enough liquid (halfway to the meat at least and turn the meat once in every while. After it's done cooking. Keep the beef in the liquid in the same pot or transfer them to a container to soak for 3-5 hours which will infuse more flavor into the beef. After the beef done soaking, saperete the beef and the liquid. Refreige the beef over night. Then slice into thing slice and ready to service on following day. The left over braised liquid can be reused over and over. More it is used more flavor it becomes.
To reuse the liquid to braise any other meat, just add all the ingredients above, but less salt with the liquid.
