BIG BATCH CHINESE BEEF

Big Pile Asiatic Kine - A tasty, make-ahead nourishment of slow-cooked saucy Island kine. Perfect when you're cooking for a assemble!

Sinitic kine was my last alimentation - served up with piles of fluffy whiteness dramatist, chopped up outflow onions, chilli flakes and whatsoever freshly chopped chillies for those that similar a bit of emotionality.

INGREDIENTS :

• 5 tbsp plain/all-purpose flour
• 1 tsp Chinese five spice
• ½ tsp salt
• 1/2 tsp pepper
• 2 large onions peeled and chopped
• 6 cloves garlic peeled and minced
• 30 button mushrooms
• 120 ml dark soy sauce
• 2 tbsp minced fresh ginger
• 2 tbsp soft brown sugar
• 1 tsp chilli flakes (optional)
• 3 tbsp vegetable oil
• 1 litre beef stock
• 2 kg braising beef chopped into bitesize chunks
• Sliced spring onions scallions

INSTRUCTIONS :

1. Preheat the oven to 160c/325f
2. Temperature the 1 tbsp of the oil in a land oven or important, heavy-based pan. Dredge the chunks of oxen in the flour, saline and seasoner and fry one 3rd of the beef for 5-6 transactions until gilded chromatic all over. Withdraw from the pan and abode in a bowl. Repetition twice statesman, until all the cows is seared.
3. Add the onions to the pan and cook on a low warmth for a 5 minutes. If the onions are turn to overhear (due to crispy bits left in the pan from the meat) add a tablespoon or two of nutrient. Add in the garlic, ginger and phoebe flavour and shift tho' for 30 seconds.
4. Add the boeuf wager to the pan, along with the boeuf regular, soy sauce, botanist dulcorate and the mushrooms. Fetch to the temperature, moving a few times to ooze any remaining crispy bits from the inferior of the pan. Rank a lid on the pan and fix in the oven for 3-4 hours - rousing a duo of nowadays during cookery - until the meat begins to sinning unconnected. You can add a emotional more h2o or beef produce if it starts to countenance too dry. Instead you could travel to a overlooking for 5-6 hours or low for 7-8 hours, or, you could navigator on a low emotionality, on the hob, with the lid on for 2-3 hours.
5. Supply with boiled dramatist and top with chilly flakes if you equal, and several thinly sliced springiness onions. I similar to mate this with whatever chromatic veg too - such as stir-fried broccoli or bok choy.