Easy Beef Hotpot - Homemade Recipe

Stretch a pack of mince to make this hearty dish. It's perfect eaten straight from the bowl with a spoon and some crusty bread on a cold winter's night. 

Ingredients:

2 onions

300g carrots

1kg potatoes

450g lean minced beef

2 beef stock cubes

400g can baked beans

splash of Worcestershire sauce

handful of roughly chopped parsley (optional)

Procedure: 

STEP 1

Cut each onion into eight wedges. Roughly chop the carrots and cut the potatoes into large chunks. Put the kettle on.

STEP 2

Heat a large non-stick pan, add the mince and fry quickly, stirring all the time, until evenly browned. Crumble in the stock cubes and mix well. Add the prepared vegetables, stir them around, then pour in 900ml/1½ pints of hot water from the kettle. Bring to the boil.

STEP 3

Reduce the heat, cover and simmer for 25-30 minutes, until the veg are tender. Stir in the baked beans and a generous splash of Worcestershire sauce and heat through. Taste and add salt and pepper if necessary.

STEP 4

Scatter over the parsley, then ladle the hotpot into bowls. Put the Worcestershire sauce bottle on the table in case anyone fancies a bit more spice.

Easy Gyudo - Food Easy Recipe

Ingredients:

1/2 lb sliced beef (sukiyaki style if you can find it)

1 medium onion (sliced)

2 bowls of steamed rice

1 tsp hon-dashi (soup stock powder)

3 tbsp soy sauce

2 tbsp sake

2 tbsp sugar

1 tsp grated ginger

Cooking Instructions:

1. Place hon-dashi, sliced onion, and 1 cup of hot water in a medium saucepan

2. Boil, then simmer for 6 minutes over medium heat

3. Add mixed spices (soy sauce, sake, sugar, ginger) and beef

4. Boil, then simmer on medium heat (covered) for 10 minutes

5. Serve gyudon atop a bowl of steamed rice, along with some liquid from the saucepan (adjust to your preference, but it shouldn’t be soupy)

Beef Salpicao - Food Easy Recipe

Ingredients:

2 pounds ribeye steak, cut into 1-inch cubes

salt and pepper to taste

¼ cup Worchestershire sauce

¼ cup soy sauce

1 teaspoon sugar

¼ teaspoon red chili pepper flakes

2 tablespoons butter

1 tablespoon olive oil

1 head garlic, peeled and minced

Cooking Instructions:

1. In a bowl, combine beef and salt and pepper to taste. Marinate for about 10 minutes.

2. In a small bowl, combine Worcestershire sauce, soy sauce, brown sugar and red chili pepper flakes. Whisk together until sugar is dissolved. Set aside.

3. In a wide, thick-bottomed pan over medium heat, add butter and oil. When butter begins to melt, add garlic. Cook, stirring regularly, for about 1 minute or until garlic lightly browns.

4. Increase heat to high, stirring garlic continously to prevent from burning. Make sure pan is very hot. Add beef and spread across pan. Allow to sear for about 1 to 2 minutes and then turn to sear on other side.

5. Add Worcestershire-soy sauce mixture and continue to cook, stirring regularly, for about 3 to 5 minutes. Serve hot.

Famous Rodic’s-Style Beef Tapa - Food Easy Recipe

Ingredients:

500 g beef sirloin tapa cut, slice into 1 cm strips against the grain

1/4 cup brown sugar

1/4 cup soy sauce

1/2 tsp garlic powder

1/4 tsp pepper

1 tsp oil

2-4 cups water

garlic rice, to serve

sunny side up egg, to serve

tomato wedges, to serve

Cooking Instructions:

1. Boil together beef, sugar, garlic powder, pepper, oil and water.

2. Boil until beef is tender and easily pulls apart.

3. Once tender, drain from liquid and flake/ shred the meat. Leave the liquid in the same pan.

4. After shredding meat, put back in liquid and continue cooking until all the liquid has evaporated.

5. Turn off fire and set aside.

6. Put rice on plate, top with shredded beef.

7. Serve with fried egg and tomato wedge on the side.

Mongolian Beef - Food Easy Recipe

Mongolian Beef is a recipe that I’ve been cooking for clients for many years for a number of reasons. One, people love anything that tastes like Chinese takeout. Two, the sweet flavor of the dark brown sugar mixed with the salty soy sauce and the strong ginger and garlic is incredibly addicting and three you get to enjoy it over a mountain of steamed rice, which if you are anything like me is your happy place. 

INGREDIENTS:

1 ½ pounds Flank Steak

¼ cups cornstarch

2 tablespoons Olive Oil

½ teaspoons mince Garlic, Cloves

¾ cups Soy Sauce

¾ cups Water

¾ cups Brown Sugar

1 cup grated Carrots

green onions, for garnish

 

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Cut flank steak into thin strips. In a ziplock bag add flank steak pieces and cornstarch. Shake to coat.

2. Add olive oil, minced garlic, soy sauce, water, brown sugar and carrots to slow cooker. Stir ingredients. Add coated flank steak and stir again until coated in the sauce.

3. Cook for high 2-3 hours or on low 4-5 hours until cooked throughout and tender. Can serve over rice and garnish with green onions.

Korean Beef Stew - Food Easy Recipe

I first ate Korean Beef Stew at the old Kimchi Korean Fastfood in the mid-seventies. My love for Korean beef stew inspired me to make my own version similar to the Kimchi Korean beef Stew. Here is my version that is a hit with my guests.

Korean Beef Stew Ingredients: 

1k beef ribs (half kilo is lean and half kilo are beef shanks or short ribs)

1/2 cup sugar

2 tbsp sesame oil

2 tbsp rice wine

3/4 cup soy sauce

1 head crushed garlic

1 onion head

1 Tbsp Ginger, crushed

1 cup green onions, sliced

salt

pepper

2 pieces red sili finely chopped (use more if you want it spicy)

A. Preparation

Combine the first 8 ingredients

Marinate beef overnight

B. Cooking

4tbsp oil

water

Procedure: 

1. Heat oil and sear marinated beef

2. pour marinade

3. add enough water just to submerge beef

4. simmer over low heat (2 hours) until tender or pressure cook for 35-45 minutes. (Tip: test at 35 minuts if beef is tender)

5. season to taste with sugar, salt, pepper and red sili

6. garnish with green onions, 1 tsp sesame oil, sesame seed.