Beer Stewed Beef Shank

A super tasty beef shank stew cooked with beer, great for parties and potlucks.

Beef Shank (牛腱) is probably the best meat cut for this recipe. Most Chinese  grocery stores carry this type of cut. The result from other cuts of beef might not be as tender as using beef shank.

This recipe takes a long time to complete. Prepare the dish over the weekend or one night ahead.


Ingredients

• 3 lb beef shank
• 1 can of beer
• 3 tablespoon soy sauce
• 3 tablespoon sugar
• 2 tablespoon vegetable oil
• 2 green onion
• A few slices of ginger

Preparation Time: 10 minutes
Cooking Time: 4 hours

Servings: 8

Prepare the Beef

1.Boil a pot of water.
2. Cut  2-3 lb beef shank into 2-3 inch big chunks, add to the boiling water, cook for 5 minutes, let the blood come out of the meat. Take the meat out, use cold water to rinse the meat, drain dry.

Cooking Steps

3. Use high heat to heat a wok with 2 table spoon cooking vegetable oil, add the cleaned beef shank chunks to the wok, cover the wok and turn heat to medium high, cook one side for 2-5 minutes or until the side turns golden color.
4. Flip the beef chunks, cook the other sides for 2-5 minutes or until all sides turn golden color.
5. Turn heat back to high, add 2 chopped green onion and a few slices ginger to the wok, stir fry for 1 minute.
6. Add 3 table spoon soy sauce, 3 table spoon sugar, stir fry the meat chunk with the ingredients evenly for 1-2 minutes, add a can of beer, cover the wok.
7. Add 2 cup of water to let the 2/3 of the meat chunks are submerged in the water. Boil.
    Move the soup with the meat chunks to one deeper cooking pan so that all the meat chunks will be submerged in water. Cover and cook for 3 hours with low heat.
8. Remove the cover from the cooking pan, use high heat to evaporate the water for 5-10 minutes or until only a small portion of thick juice is left (be sure to monitor this process to avoid burning the meat).
9. Take the meat chunks out, let them cool down. Cut into think slices, pour the thick juices on top of the meat. Sprinkle fresh chopped green onions.

    Tip: Putting the meat to fridge overnight will make the meat very easy to cut into very thin slices.