Hello! Welcome to "Amanda Taste"!
The Chinese Valentine's Day is coming. As a thoughtful people.
I, for sure prepare a "Valentine" recipe for you.
Because it's a traditional festival in China.
I searched for a traditional Chinese recipe about "Couple".
And That is! "Couple Beef Pieces". Let's start!
First of all, you need some beef shin/shank and beef offal.
For the offal, I choose the beef tongue, beef tripe and beef heart.
Notice that we don't use beef Lung.
Now, I demonstrate what to do with the ingredients.
To let you guys see what exactly the beef heart looks like. I specifically bought a whole beef heart to show you. But it's may be a little bit horrible. XD
Cutting open the heart and you will see some blood vessels
and connective tissue. Remove them carefully.
Then carve up the beef tongue and beef shin.
Beef tripe is poached.
Then put all beef into a pot of cold water.
And add plenty of ginger pieces and green onion.
Bring them to a boil.
Now we will make the Marinated Mixture.
I have the ready-made one.
But, I still wanna show you how to make it.
Add the oil into the pot.
And also the spice mixture.
I know you must confuse about what are they. : 3
I wrote an article about the usage and feature of different spice.
You may have a look if you're interested on them.
Fry with low heat until the fragrance comes out.
Then add hot water and boil.
Now the beef is boiling.
Move them to the Marinated Mixture.
Make sure covering all ingredients with water.
You can add more Hot water if necessary.
Add Light Soy Sauce,
Dark Soy Sauce,
Shochu(or rice wine),
green onion,
and a piece of rock sugar. Now you can taste the mixture and figure if it's sufficiently salty.
You may adjust the saltiness according to personal taste.
Low heat about 45 mins.
Then we gonna make chili oil!
I rinsed the dried chilies and then wipe them up.
Put chilies without oil into pot and fry with low heat.
Fry until the fragrance emanated and the color of chilies becomes darker.
Smash chilies in a blender.
:D I also made the cruder chilli powder before.
While I prefer the fine and smooth chili powder for this recipe.
Because the fine one will be more appropriate for seasoning. :)
Pick a Big Bowl.
Add Sichuan Pepper powder, smashed chilies powder,
white sesame seed,
and a pinch of salt.
Put a bowl of oil into the pot with ginger pieces, garlic and green onion.
Fry with low heat. Remove the green onion when it's dehydrated.
And other ingredient is also almost dehydrated, remove them all.
Now the oil temperature is not extremely hot.
You should keep heating about 20-30s.
Then irrigate the powder mixture with oil.
The oil will produce bubbles.
Please make sure you use a big bowl to avoid the oil runs off.
Stir evenly.
Remember we add Sichuan Pepper powder firstly? That's because can be burnt easily. : o
We should avoid the Sichuan Pepper powder touch the hot oil directly.
After the oil cools downs a bit, you can store them In a Bottle.
I use the Mason Bottle which is selling on my store.
The chili oil can be preserved for a long time.
And it works pretty good on cold or spicy dishes.
Now let's fry the peanut.
The skinless peanut is better but I can only get the skinned one.
Pan with low heat, no oil.
Fry until the fragrant then Cool down.
Now the Beef is ready. But keep them into the pot.
Let it soak and cool down in the pot to increase the flavor.
Also, the beef should be sliced up when it is completely cool down.
Otherwise the beef may scatter.
Now let's prepare the side, which is celery.
Chinese Celery would be the best.
Cut Celery stick into chunks with angle.
And chop the Celery leaves.
Now we wanna make the seasoning sauce.
We need some Marinated Mixture.,
and a few teaspoons of chili oil we just made.
This recipe require a big amount of chili oil.
Then Light Soy Sauce,
Sugar,
Black vinegar,
mashed garlic.
Mix evenly.
For the fried and cooled peanut.
You can remove the skin by yourself.
Just rub it gently.
Then blow the peanut skin away.
It's a easy method to remove the skin.
Chop the peanut.
Chop, Chop, Chop. :D
Move the beef out.
Slice it up with a sharp knife.
Remember I said we have to cut the completely cooled beef?
I sliced the warm beef.
That's why the section is not perfectly smooth.
This's a negative example. :D Please avoid it.
The key point is the beef slices should be even and thin.
I just sliced the beef heart, and it's beef tongue now.
Then Beef shank.
Btw, if you have a bread knife,
You can also try to use it.
This kind of knife with sawtooth works well on slicing.
Cut the beef tripe with angle.
Oh! I forget to mention that we should only use the honeycomb tripe.
Don't use the other part pf triple.
Put the celery into the bowl.
And the beef slices.
The amount of ingredient in the recipe I showed, is for two plates of dishes.
So I just add half into the bowl.
Add two teaspoons of seasoning sauce.
Notice that Don't add all sauce.
You should keep some to the last.
Mix evenly.
Dish up time!
Place the pieces together orderly.
I made a raised celery bottom to make a hill shape.
Spread celery leaves around.
And put the smashed peanut on the top.
Then pour the final seasoning sauce.
Make sure the sauce spread evenly.
The red oil on the beef will make the dish looks pretty tasty!
Now the "Couple Beef Pieces" is done!
Well. The people with lover make the "Couple Beef Pieces".
While the single one make the "single doggy Beef Pieces". XD
Anyhow the most important is yummy. Hope you like it!
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