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Preparation
30 minutes
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Cooking
30 minutes
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Difficulty
Easy
Beef brisket hotpot is a delicious and attractive dish, thanks to the sweet aromatic broth made from simmered bones mixed with a light sourness from pineapple and tomatoes, and especially the nutritious, tender fattiness of beef brisket, making anyone who eats it fall in love immediately. So today, let’s go to the kitchen with TasteVN to prepare this hotpot dish right away.
Ingredients for Cooking Beef Brisket Hotpot Serves 3 people
Beef brisket 600 gr Beef bones 1 kg Tomatoes 3 pieces Pineapple 1 piece Onion 2 bulbs Star anise 50 gr Ginger 2 pieces Green onions 3 stalks Celery 50 gr Coriander 50 gr Cinnamon stick 50 gr (about 4 sticks) Shallots 3 bulbs Fish sauce 1 tablespoon Satay 1 teaspoon Cooking oil 3 tablespoons Common spices a little (salt/ sugar/ monosodium glutamate/ pepper)
How to choose fresh ingredients
How to choose fresh beef brisket
- Beef brisket is the part located near the chest, extending from the breast to under the cow’s neck, it will have a slightly chewy texture because it is the part of the muscle that is heavily worked during the cow’s chewing and swallowing process.
- When buying fresh beef brisket, you should choose pieces that are bright red, have a fragrant smell, and are not spoiled. Avoid choosing pieces with too much lean meat or too much fat.
- Fresh meat is when you press it, you feel it is elastic, the meat fibers are still tightly connected, the surface of the meat has a slightly sticky film but dries quickly and does not leak water or become mushy.
How to choose fresh tomatoes
- You should choose tomatoes that have a bright red outer skin, uniform color. The outer skin should be intact, without scratches, and plump is a sign of fresh tomatoes.
- You should choose tomatoes that still have the stem on, and the stem should still be fresh and not wilted.
How to choose fresh pineapples
- Delicious ripe pineapples usually have an eye-catching yellow color, sometimes mixed with green spots. These are the fruits that have ripened well and reached a certain level of sweetness.
- You should choose fruits that are slightly round and short in shape because these will have more flesh compared to long-shaped ones.
- If the pineapple is just ripe, you will feel a moderate softness when touching it. The skin of ripe pineapples is usually slightly wrinkled.
How to Prepare Beef Brisket Hotpot
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Prepare and Boil the Beef Brisket
Wash the beef brisket you bought, then put the meat into a pot of water along with 1 piece of roasted ginger, 3 shallots, and 1 roasted onion, boil until the water boils, then remove the meat and rinse with cold water.
Next, boil the beef brisket for about 40 – 50 minutes until the meat is cooked, then remove it to cool and cut it into thin slices.
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Prepare Other Ingredients
Pineapple, peel, wash, and cut into small pieces.
Wash the tomatoes and cut them into wedges. Wash the onion and slice it thinly.
Wash the scallions, cilantro, and celery and cut them into 2 cm pieces.
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Simmering the hot pot broth
Clean the beef bones, blanch them in boiling water, then place them in a pot with 2.5 liters of water. Simmer for about 3 – 4 hours to achieve the best broth.
When half of the simmering time has passed, add 50g of cinnamon sticks, 50g of star anise, and 1 crushed ginger root to simmer together, which will help create a fragrant broth.
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Cooking the hot pot
Place a pan on the stove, then add 3 tablespoons of cooking oil. After waiting for the oil to heat, add the onions, lemongrass, and tomatoes, and stir well. Then season with 1 tablespoon of fish sauce, 2 teaspoons of monosodium glutamate, and half a teaspoon of pepper. Continue to stir until these ingredients are cooked.
Next, add the vegetables to the pot of broth, then continue to season the broth to taste.
Once the broth is ready, add the beef brisket and cook for another 10 minutes until the meat is tender. After that, you can ladle the hot pot into an electric hot pot, dip in celery, green onions, and cilantro, and you can enjoy it right away.
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Finished product
After completing, you will have a hot pot of beef brisket that is incredibly delicious with a blend of sweet and sour broth along with tender, flavorful beef brisket pieces that are very appealing and nutritious.
You can also dip some tofu and enjoy it with noodles or rice vermicelli, which is also very tasty!
So the dish beef brisket hot pot is complete, what could be better than having the whole family or a group of friends gathered together enjoying a delicious pot of hot pot with fragrant steam rising while happily discussing fun and interesting stories on the weekend.
