Velveting Meat / XO Beef
Velveting Meat / XO Beef

Hey everyone, it is Brad, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, velveting meat / xo beef. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Velveted inexpensive cuts of beef turned ultrasilky in a soup seasoned with ginger and black pepper. The cornstarch not only softened the meat but also thickened the broth, giving the soup an. Also used for chicken, it's a simple, highly effective technique using baking soda that transforms economical beef so it's incredibly tender in stir fries and stir fried noodles. Make sure to remove the white sinewy bits as they will not soften and will make the meat chewy.

Velveting Meat / XO Beef is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. They are nice and they look fantastic. Velveting Meat / XO Beef is something that I’ve loved my whole life.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have velveting meat / xo beef using 14 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Velveting Meat / XO Beef:
  1. Prepare For Velveting the meat:
  2. 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
  3. Make ready 2 tbsp- Corn Starch/ Fine White Cornflour, this is the real star that will soften the meat
  4. Make ready 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
  5. Get For The Stirfry:
  6. Get 2 tbsp- XO Sauce, this is the real MVP of the show packed with so much umami you don't know what to do
  7. Prepare 4 - cloves Garlic
  8. Make ready 1 - Thumb of Ginger
  9. Prepare The Velvet Beef
  10. Prepare 2 - Red Peppers
  11. Prepare 1 Onion
  12. Make ready 1 Handful Mangetout
  13. Prepare 2 tsp- Cooking Oil
  14. Get 3 - Large Mushrooms

In most cases, we prefer to sear the meat in a hot wok, since having a wok full of oil at home is simply not practical. The Chinese technique of velveting meat is an oft-used yet underappreciated one. It refers to the coating of meat pieces in cornstarch, egg whites, wine, and other seasonings such as garlic and soy sauce, to make it more tender. Learning how to velvet meat is as integral to Chinese cooking as say, browning meat is for the French or Italian.

Instructions to make Velveting Meat / XO Beef:
    1. Firstly we can start by thinly slicing the beef.
    1. In a bowl add the beef and equal parts cooking wine and cornflour 2tbsp should be adequate, then mix together ensuring beef is coated.
    1. Set the mixture aside for 30mins minimum and that's half the velveting done. Now we can concentrate on prepping the stir fry.
    1. 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.
    1. Chop the peppers, onions and mushrooms then put it into a bowl with the mangetout whole and prep is done.
    1. 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.
    1. Get a fresh frying pan and bring it to a high heat then add the oil.
    1. When the pan is smoking hot add the garlic and ginger then mix.
    1. 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.
    1. Once the veggies start softening a lil add the beef and stirfry!
    1. 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.

It refers to the coating of meat pieces in cornstarch, egg whites, wine, and other seasonings such as garlic and soy sauce, to make it more tender. Learning how to velvet meat is as integral to Chinese cooking as say, browning meat is for the French or Italian. Velveting meat is a Chinese technique and therefore suited to Chinese cooking, but it's also something you can do in quick stews or pasta dishes. My favourite application of this is to add a few pieces of velvet chicken to a briny puttanesca sauce - the coating gets clingy with the olive oil and capers and tomato juices, and the chicken. Velveting is a common Chinese cooking technique.

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