Hey everyone, it’s me, Dave, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, velveting meat / xo beef. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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Today I'm going to do two things for you. I am going to teach you the technique that Chinese Restaurants and my mum uses to get that super tender. How to tenderise beef (velveting beef). What tenderised beef tastes like - Tenderised beef has a "velvety" texture.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook velveting meat / xo beef using 14 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Velveting Meat / XO Beef:
- Make ready For Velveting the meat:
- Take 400 g- Beef Any cut will do even cheap ones, as velveting with make even the toughest cuts soft, although saying that, I'm using sirloin awks
- Make ready 2 tbsp- Corn Starch/ Fine White Cornflour, this is the real star that will soften the meat
- Get 2 tbsp- Chinese Cooking Wine, this will help add flavour and help the cornflour stick to the beef, also it'll probably help the meat tenderize too but I'm not too sure
- Make ready For The Stirfry:
- Take 2 tbsp- XO Sauce, this is the real MVP of the show packed with so much umami you don't know what to do
- Take 4 - cloves Garlic
- Get 1 - Thumb of Ginger
- Make ready The Velvet Beef
- Get 2 - Red Peppers
- Take 1 Onion
- Get 1 Handful Mangetout
- Make ready 2 tsp- Cooking Oil
- Take 3 - Large Mushrooms
Great recipe for Velveting Meat / XO Beef. Today I'm going to do two things for you. Velveting How To Make Chinese Restaurant Style Beef and Chicken @ Not Quite Nigella. Velveting meat is a Chinese cooking technique used in Chinese restaurants.
Instructions to make Velveting Meat / XO Beef:
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- Firstly we can start by thinly slicing the beef.
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- In a bowl add the beef and equal parts cooking wine and cornflour 2tbsp should be adequate, then mix together ensuring beef is coated.
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- Set the mixture aside for 30mins minimum and that's half the velveting done. Now we can concentrate on prepping the stir fry.
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- Finely chop the ginger there's no need to peel it, I've never peeled ginger, also crush and chop the garlic and put them into the same bowl.
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- Chop the peppers, onions and mushrooms then put it into a bowl with the mangetout whole and prep is done.
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- Now to finish velveting the meat. After the meat has sat for 30 minutes, bring a pan of water to boiling point then add the beef and bring to boil again for 3-5 mins, then drain and we're ready for stir fry! Also, you could fry the meat in 2 inches of oil it works the same but that's fat.
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- Get a fresh frying pan and bring it to a high heat then add the oil.
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- When the pan is smoking hot add the garlic and ginger then mix.
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- Before ginger and garlic start browning, add all the veggies and start stir-frying this is going to happen quickly because the pan is going to be very very hot.
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- Once the veggies start softening a lil add the beef and stirfry!
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- Now add 2 tbsp of XO and mix that baby in then take in those smells. If it seems a lil dry add some water then fry until a thick sauce is formed then you're done. Enjoy with a bowl of rice of something.
Velveting How To Make Chinese Restaurant Style Beef and Chicken @ Not Quite Nigella. Velveting meat is a Chinese cooking technique used in Chinese restaurants. Velveting meats before stir-frying results in tender, juicy protein coated in a thick, glossy sauce. And all you need is cornstarch. Velveting meat—the practice of marinating slices of meat in egg white, wine, and cornstarch—is a Chinese cooking technique that we've covered here on Serious Eats before.
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