Braised Beef

This is another delicious Chinese Recipe and can be found on your favorite fast food restaurant. What is Braising by the way? Braising by the way is a combination of cooking methods using both dry heat and moist, typically the food is to seared at a high temperature first and then finished in a covered pot with a certain amount of liquid which results a particular flavor. 

How do we cook it? Well, it only requires a small effort to cook this certain kind of dish and it is necessary that most of the ingredients especially vegetables are to be cooked in their own juices without extra liquid required. 

For the Ingredients we will be needing:

2 lbs beef chuck or brisket, cubed
4 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
1 medium Spanish onion, diced
1 stalk celery, chopped
1 medium carrot, peeled and chopped
3 cups beef stock
1 cup red wine
1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
Salt and ground black pepper to taste


The procedure: 

Heat a cooking pot and pour-in olive oil.
Sauté onion until soft and add dried thyme then put-in beef and cook for 5 minutes.

Pour-in red wine and bring to a boil.

Pour-in the beef stock and simmer until the beef becomes tender.

This can be done using the following methods:

Slow cook for 4 to 5 hours using a Crockpot; Cooking in low heat using stovetop or burner; note that 2 to 2 1/2 hours is the average time to tenderize the meat and try to add water as needed; If you don’t have the time, you may pressure cook the meat for 40 minutes.

Add the carrots and celery then cook until the vegetables are tender.
Transfer to a serving plate and serve with cooked rice.