In Suzhou, you must know six healthy ways to cook beef

Everyone knows that beef is delicious and highly nutritious, and eating beef regularly is especially good for your health, but some people are not very familiar with cooking beef dishes. Actually, it is not difficult. Today I will explain in detail the many ways to cook beef.

Six healthy ways to cook beef

1. Braised beef

Cut the beef into chunks, blanch briefly in hot water and drain. Heat oil and saute scallions and ginger until fragrant. Add doubanjiang (fermented broad bean paste), add the beef and stir-fry, then add soy sauce, sugar, pepper, wine, MSG and star anise. Add water to cover the beef, and simmer over low heat until the sauce thickens and the meat is tender and fragrant.

2. Poached beef in chili oil

Slice the beef and the high bamboo shoots; cut the scallions and dried chilies into sections. Marinate the beef briefly with seasonings. Heat oil to 50% hot, add the dried chilies and Sichuan peppercorns and stir-fry, then add the scallion sections, bean sprouts and lettuce slices and stir-fry evenly, add meat broth, slide in the beef slices to separate them, and cook until the beef slices unfurl and look glossy.

3. Tomato beef

Cut the beef into chunks, add refined salt, Shaoxing wine, ginger slices and scallion sections, mix well, and marinate for half an hour. Heat oil to 70% hot, add the beef and fry until brown, then remove. Leave oil in the wok and heat to 40% hot, add fresh broth, add the beef and refined salt, and reduce the braising sauce over high heat.

4. Potato stewed beef

Cut the beef, potatoes and carrots into chunks, and cut the green beans into sections after blanching in boiling water. Put the beef and shredded ginger into the pot and stir-fry, then add the potatoes and carrots. Add baijiu and stock and simmer over low heat. Then add cooking wine, granulated sugar and soy sauce and cook for 10 minutes, pour in the green beans and cook for 5 minutes.

5. Stir-fried beef with green peppers

Cut the beef into shreds and add seasonings; add 1 tablespoon of warm oil before putting it in the wok. Heat 1 tablespoon of oil, add the beef shreds, stir-fry until the beef is 90% cooked, then remove. Blanch the green pepper shreds in boiling water for about 1 minute, then remove. Heat oil, add the beef, green peppers and seasonings, and stir-fry quickly and evenly over high heat.

6. Twice-cooked beef

Cut cooked beef into thin slices, and cut green garlic sprouts into 3 cm sections. Place the wok over high heat, heat the wok and add peanut oil; when the oil is 40% hot, add sweet bean sauce and stir-fry until fragrant, then immediately add shredded scallions and ginger and the cooked beef, add seasonings and stir-fry for 2 to 3 minutes, then add the green garlic sprouts.

Dietary restrictions for beef

1. People with nephritis should not eat much

Beef is a high-protein food, so people with nephritis should not eat much of it, to avoid increasing the burden on the kidneys. When used together with drugs such as aminophylline, it can also reduce their efficacy.

2. Do not eat it in excess

Traditional Chinese medicine holds that beef has the effects of supplementing the middle and boosting qi, nourishing the spleen and stomach, strengthening the tendons and bones, resolving phlegm and calming wind, and quenching thirst and stopping drooling. It is suitable for patients with insufficient middle qi, shortness of breath and bodily weakness, sore and weak tendons and bones, chronic illness with anemia, sallow complexion and thin body, and dizziness. The suitable amount is about 80 grams per meal; eating it in excess may increase the risk of colon cancer and prostate cancer.

3. The elderly and children should eat less

Beef is high in cholesterol and high in fat, so the elderly, children and people with weak digestion should not eat much of it.

4. Avoid eating it together with baijiu

Eating beef together with baijiu can cause gum inflammation; baijiu is a strongly warming and heating item, and drinking baijiu while eating beef is like adding fire to heat for people with a warm-hot constitution, and can easily cause a red face and hot body, and worsen sores and boils.

5. Beef is not suitable for grilling

Beef should not be smoked, grilled or cured, to avoid producing carcinogens such as benzopyrene and nitrosamines.

Beef is rich in nutrients and delicious, but note that when eating it you must cook the beef thoroughly, otherwise the bacteria in the beef will be brought into the human body and cause disease.