Velveting Meat / XO Beef
Velveting Meat / XO Beef

Hey everyone, it’s Brad, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, velveting meat / xo beef. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Velveting Meat / XO Beef is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They are nice and they look wonderful. Velveting Meat / XO Beef is something which I have loved my whole life.

Now to finish velveting the meat. This is how to tenderise beef with a Chinese restaurant method called "velveting beef". Also used for chicken, it's a simple, highly effective technique using baking soda that transforms economical beef so it's incredibly tender in stir fries and stir fried noodles.

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

The ingredients needed to make Velveting Meat / XO Beef:
  1. Prepare For Velveting the meat:
  2. Get 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. Take 2 tbsp- Corn Starch/ Fine White Cornflour, this is the real star that will soften the meat
  4. Take 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. Make ready For The Stirfry:
  6. Prepare 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. Take 4 - cloves Garlic
  8. Take 1 - Thumb of Ginger
  9. Take The Velvet Beef
  10. Make ready 2 - Red Peppers
  11. Make ready 1 Onion
  12. Take 1 Handful Mangetout
  13. Make ready 2 tsp- Cooking Oil
  14. Prepare 3 - Large Mushrooms

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 knowing what the term was but happy that the beef and chicken that we ate was soft in texture-I guess. With a slotted spoon, remove chicken from pot and drain well. Image by Shao Z./Serious Eats Lastly, adding the chicken a few minutes before the dish is complete allows the meat to heat up to the same temperature as the rest of the meal without prolonged exposure to more heat (which will create a loss of moisture and a tougher texture).

Instructions 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.

The Chinese technique of velveting meat is an oft-used yet underappreciated one. It refers to the coating of meat pieces in cornstarch, egg whites, wine, and other seasonings such as garlic and soy sauce, to make it more tender. Learning how to velvet meat is as integral to Chinese cooking as say, browning meat is for the French or Italian. Velveting meat is a common practice in Chinese stir-fries: By marinating strips of meat with egg white and cornstarch, then dipping then in a hot oil bath before finally stir-frying them, the meat develops a texture that is tender, silky, and smooth. But the hot oil bath is cumbersome for home cooks.

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