Steamed Beef with Spicy Rice Powder

Name: Steamed Beef with Spicy Rice Powder (Fen cheng niu jou)
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 1 teaspoon salt; 1 teaspoon sugar; 3 tablespoons oil; 1 tablespoon hot bean paste; ¾ pound beef; 2 green onions; 1 cup rice powder; 1 star anise; 3 slices ginger; 1 tablespoon wine; 2 tablespoons soy sauce

Fen cheng niu jou

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Pei-Mei’s Chinese Cookbook

By Fu Pei-Mei

Published 1969

About

Ingredients

¾ pound beef
1 cup rice powder
2 green onions

Asia
Taiwan
Kweichow
Hupeh
Sichuan
Hunan
Main course
Western China

Method

Cut the beef into small slices about 1-½” square and ⅙” thick; marinate in onion, ginger, star anise, soy sauce, wine, hot bean paste, sugar, salt, and oil for about 30 minutes.
After soaked, dredge each slice of beer with the rice powder. Then steam them in a shallow bowl over high heat for 20 minutes (if you use a special small steamer, the time will be 15 mi