Braised Beef with Brown Sauce

Name: Braised Beef with Brown Sauce (Kuwi dwi niu jou)
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 2 star anise; 5 cups soup stock; 2 carrots; 1-¼ pounds beef (chuck); 3 tablespoons oil; 1-¼ pounds beef (chuck); 1 tablespoon wine; 1 tablespoon catsup; 1 tablespoon sugar; 3 tablespoons soy sauce; 2 green onions; 2 slices ginger; ½ tablespoon soybean paste; 1 tablespoon hot bean paste

Kuwi dwi 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 (chuck)
3 tablespoons oil
2

Asia
Taiwan

Method

Cook the whole piece of beef in 10 cups boiling water for a half hour, remove and cut into pieces 1” wide by 2” long by ⅓” thick.
Sauté ginger and green onions in oil, add hot bean paste, soybean paste, and catsup.
Season with wine, soy sauce, and sugar, then add the beef. Stir-fry over low heat for 3 minutes. Pour in 5 cups soup stock, add the diamon