Braised Beef with Brown Sauce

Name: Braised Beef with Brown Sauce (Huang men niu jou)
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 2 tablespoons sugar; 2 tablespoons wine; ⅔ cup soy sauce; 3 star anise; 4 tablespoons oil; 1-¼ pounds beef (briquet or hind shank); 3 green onions; 5 slices ginger; 1-¼ pounds beef (briquet or hind shank); 1-¼ pounds beef (briquet or hind shank)

Huang men niu jou

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Pei-Mei’s Chinese Cookbook

By Fu Pei-Mei

Published 1969

About

Ingredients

1-¼ pounds beef (briquet or hind shank)
3 green onions
5

Asia
Taiwan
Shantung
Hopeh
Honan
Shansi

Method

Cut the beef into 1” wide, 1-½ long, ½” thick pieces. Add 8 cups boiling water to cook 3 minutes, lift the pan from fire. Remove the beef. Add sugar to the pan and let stand. This causes the soup to clear, the impurities will sink and should be discarded.
Heat oil in frying pan, fry the green onion, ginger, add soy sauce, wine, star anise and beef. Stir-fry a f