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Oriental inspired beef too vegetable stew

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There are many ways to brand a bowl of comfort beef stew. This non authentic recipe is ane of my favourite in addition to proficient agency to clear upwards the vegetable drawer inwards the fridge. The stew looks ordinary similar whatsoever tomatoey beef stew merely amongst few oriental ingredients this volition gustation quite different. Gochujang gives a lovely chilli flavour without existence likewise spicy hot. Star anise is swell added to whatsoever beef stew to give it a overnice aniseedy flavour. Fish sauce to supervene upon tabular array salt adds a much savoury flavour. Palm saccharide gives a to a greater extent than rounded flavour, if non dearest is also rattling good. Potato improve amongst waxy type, floury white patato may autumn apart if overcooked which may absorb most/all the juice making the stew looks thick in addition to gooey.

This is an economical stew, closed to 1/2 kg of meat volition brand a large pot of stew plenty for the whole household unit of measurement or one-half a dozen people.

Ingredients:
500 - 600g stewing beef (any tougher cutting of beef), cutting into bitesize chunks
modest handful of patently flour (all purpose)
1 medium cooking onion, peeled in addition to cutting into chunks
three - four cloves garlic, roughly chopped
ii large or three - four smaller carrots, peeled in addition to cutting into chunks
1 x 400ml tin give notice of love apple tree (chopped or whole), if whole roughly chopped
1 bowl of waxy white patato chunks or novel modest potatoes, virtually 300 - 350g (I used Bailiwick of Jersey Royal which is all the same inwards season, scrubbed)
ii sweet/bell peppers (any colour)
one-half a large Spanish/mild onion, cutting inwards chunks in addition to thence split
1 - ii large on-the-vine tomatoes (or other meaty tomatoes), cutting into chunks
ii - three heap tbsp gochujang (Korean pepper paste, add together much equally y'all like)
three - four star anise
few tbsp fish sauce to taste
some palm sugar/honey to taste
some freshly soil pepper
some cooking oil

Chopped coriander and/or basil (sweet or Thai) is lovely equally garnish earlier serving

Other vegetables swell amongst this stew are celery, English/button mushrooms, mooli (daikon), kohlrabi, chayote (chow chow), fresh greenish beans, courgette (zuchini), leeks cutting into chunks, fresh love apple tree etc.....

Note: For whatsoever vegetables, add together harder to orbit ones inwards first. Add soft vegetables similar bell pepper, fresh love apple tree in addition to courgette last.

Method:
  • First toss the meat amongst flour. 
  • Heat a pan or wok amongst some stone oil till rattling hot, dark-brown the meat. Do non stir likewise much or the meat volition stew in addition to the coated flour may stick to the pan. When meat is browned or lightly caramelised, remove. 
  • Add a affect to a greater extent than oil, add together onion in addition to garlic, stir till fragrant.
  • Add the browned meat in addition to carrot.
  • Add tin give notice of tomato.
  • Add plenty gojuchang to taste.
  • Add plenty H2O to embrace the meat. Bring the liquid to boiling. 
  • Simmer for virtually 1 hr till meat is almost tender. 
  • Add white patato in addition to other remaining harder vegetables. When tender add together mild onion, sugariness pepper in addition to fresh love apple tree or other soft vegetables, proceed cooking for for some other ii - three minutes. The mild onion in addition to sugariness pepper are cooked rattling briefly to hold them crunchy in addition to sweet, thence equally the love apple tree earlier it started to melt.
  • When done flavor amongst a pinch of soil pepper, plenty fish sauce in addition to palm sugar/honey. 
  • Garnish amongst chopped coriander/basil earlier serving.
  • Serve amongst rice, noodles, pasta or crusty staff of life or baguette to mop upwards the sauce.   

If y'all accept some puffy fried tofu or rattling theatre tofu or frozen honeycombed tofu, this is also proficient added to the stew.

Other meat also industrial plant amongst this stew.  Pork shoulder or lamb shoulder chunks the cooking fourth dimension is slightly shorter than beef. If using Chicken leg meat/small drumsticks, this volition orbit a lot faster virtually 25 - xxx minutes add together most of the vegetables at the starting fourth dimension except pepper, love apple tree or courgette.