Taiwanese beef stew, traditional style 紅燒牛肉,台灣口味 is a popular “Taiwanese Street Food”. Most often it is served with thick noodles. Often people also enjoy it with a bowl of rice on the side. Take your pick! Both ways are equally delicious, you could even have boiled potatoes with it too, like people in the west have their beef stew. We hope you enjoy this beef stew, we have it quite frequently. It’s a good dish to cook one day and then refrigerate, it seems to get better and better re-heated!

The ingredients 食材 to serve 4 people, are as follows;

    beef stew cooking

    Taiwanese beef stew, cooking

  • 1kg of beef, flat rib is our favourite but you can use any stewing beef like shin beef or stewing steak
  • 1 onion (we used a red onion)
  • 2 medium carrots
  • 3 tomatoes, and half a cup of ketchup
  • a thumb of ginger
  • 3 spring onions tied together
  • a little coriander
  • one whole chili
  • 4 tbsp of soy sauce
  • 2 tbsp of rice cooking wine
  • oil for browning the meat and onions
  • 1 tbsp of sugar

The method 作法;

  1. chop up all the ingredients
  2. use a little oil to fry the onion, ginger, chili
  3. add the carrot and tomato to the frying pan
  4. add the beef pieces and stir and turn until all of it is browned
  5. transfer to a deep saucepan
  6. add the soy sauce, rice wine, ketchup, sugar and cover on a medium heat for about 5 mins
  7. add boiled water until the food is just covered, turn to a small fire/low heat
  8. cook for 45 minutes
  9. before serving sprinkle some chopped spring onion, chili and coriander over the top
  10. traditionally Taiwanese will have some greens on the side, just boil some and enjoy with rice or noodles

 

Traditional Taiwanese Beef Stew

Traditional Taiwanese Beef Stew

As usual Joanne has recorded a cooking video so you can follow the exact method step by step, as she prepares the Taiwanese beef stew, traditional style 紅燒牛肉,台灣口味. It’s only 7 minutes and is well worth a viewing to see how it all comes together.

How to make Taiwanese beef stew, traditional style 紅燒牛肉,台灣口味, cooking video

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