Recipe - Sliced Beef With Sesame Seeds

SLICED BEEF WITH SESAME SEED
450 g Beef shin
500 ml Bottle of Chinese spice
sauce
1 One half teaspoon Sesame seeds
Cooking oil
3 teaspoon Sugar
1 One half teaspoon Sesame oil

MARINADE
1 tablespoon Fen Chiew Chinese wine (or
Kao Liang Chiew, or sherry)
1 teaspoon Salt
2/3 teaspoon Cinnamon powder
2/3 teaspoon Star anise powder

1. ea Prepare the marinade and marinate beef shin for 24 hours.

2. ea Cook shin in boiling water for 10 minutes, then remove. Simmer
in the spice sauce for 75 minutes. (A special sauce would be
prepared in the restaurant kitchen; bottled sauce is recommended for
homecooking purposes.) Remove, cool and freeze (for subsequent ease
of slicing++ ideally with a slicing machine).

3. Stirfry sesame seeds in a dry wok until they are golden, and set
aside.

4. Thinly slice frozen beef shin, and deepfry in hot oil over medium
flame until crisp.

5. Melt the sugar in 2 tsp of water in another wok, add beef slices
and stir fry until no liquid is left.

6. Sprinkle sesame seeds and sesame oil over slices while still hot.
Gently mix and transfer to serving dish.

From "Champion Recipes of the 1986 Hong Kong Food Festival". Hong
Kong Tourist Association, 1986.

Posted by Stephen Ceideberg; October 26 1992.

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