Braised Beef Noodle Soup (红烧牛肉面)

Braised Beef Noodle Soup

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Ingredients

• 1.5 lb beef bone
• 1 lb beef without bone, cut into about 2″ cubes
• beef soup seasoning
  • 5 slices ginger
  • 1 stick cinnamon
  • 2 pieces star anise
  • 1 tsp peppercorn
  • 2 Tbsp black bean garlic sauce
  • 2 Tbsp cooking wine
  • 1 Tbsp light soy sauce
  • 1 Tbsp dark soy sauce
  • 40 g Chinese rock sugar
  • 1 tsp chicken powder
  • .5 tsp chili oil
  • .5 tsp chinese black vinegar
• chopped scallion
• any noodles

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Instructions

1. Wash beef bone and beef without bone. Boil for 5 minutes, then wash.
2. Fry ginger, cinnamon, star anise, and peppercorn in some oil until fragrant. Add beef bone and beef without bone, fry for 5 minutes.
3. Add black bean garlic sauce, fry for 2 minutes.
4. Add the rest of the soup seasoning and enough water to cover the meat. Boil for 2 hours.
5. Remove the bone.
6. Cook the noodles.
7. Pour soup over noodles, top with scallion and beef pieces.

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Notes

• the bone can have some meat
• Cook vegetables separately and add as topping.