Velveting Meat / XO Beef
Velveting Meat / XO Beef

Hey everyone, it is me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, velveting meat / xo beef. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Velveting Meat / XO Beef is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Velveting Meat / XO Beef is something that I have loved my entire life.

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).

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

The ingredients needed to make Velveting Meat / XO Beef:
  1. Get For Velveting the meat:
  2. Prepare 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. Get 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. Take For The Stirfry:
  6. 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
  7. Make ready 4 - cloves Garlic
  8. Prepare 1 - Thumb of Ginger
  9. Make ready The Velvet Beef
  10. Get 2 - Red Peppers
  11. Prepare 1 Onion
  12. Take 1 Handful Mangetout
  13. Prepare 2 tsp- Cooking Oil
  14. Make ready 3 - Large Mushrooms

Velveting beef is a super easy technique that will make ALL the difference is ALL of your stir-fry dishes! "[Velveting] involves marinating the meat in egg whites, cornstarch, water or rice wine, and salt….during which time the mixture forms a gossamer-thin coating on the meat and the alkaline egg. · Velveting meat is a Chinese cooking technique used in Chinese restaurants. The process of velveting is one where you marinate raw meat to tenderise it in cornstarch and egg white or bicarb to give it a soft, velvety texture. For years I watched my mother "velvet" beef and chicken neither of us. Velveting meats before stir-frying results in tender, juicy protein coated in a thick, glossy sauce.

Steps 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.

And all you need is cornstarch. Beef Broccoli-tender beef slices and verdant broccoli florets marry beautifully in a savory Try velveting meat and shrimp for noodle favorites such as Miki Bihon and Pancit Guisado. One of my favorite things about American Chinese food is how easy it is to eat: the pieces are bite-sized, the flavors are addictive, and the meat is always tender and easy to chew. But if you've ever tried to replicate any of your favorite takeout in the kitchen. 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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