Shui Zhu Beef (Water-Boiled Beef)

Name: Shui Zhu Beef (Water-Boiled Beef)
Total time: 40 min
Yield: Serves 3–4
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 400 g beef flank or sirloin, sliced thin against the grain; 1 tsp (5 g) salt, 1 tbsp (15 ml) Shaoxing wine, 1 egg white, 1 tbsp (10 g) cornstarch; 3 tbsp (45 ml) neutral oil; 2 tbsp (30 g) doubanjiang, mashed; 8 whole dried chillies; 1 tbsp (10 g) ginger, 4 cloves garlic, sliced; 700 ml beef or chicken stock; 200 g bean sprouts or the celery's lengths, blanched to the bowl's bed; 2 tbsp (20 g) whole Sichuan peppercorns; 3 tbsp (25 g) dried chilli segments; 5 tbsp (75 ml) neutral oil, taken to the 230 °C smoke

Chinese · Medium · Serves 3–4

The water-boiled canon's original master at the record's own concise seat: the #42 record's whole doctrine — the velveted beef's silk, the spiced broth's brief poach, and the raw crown's smoking-oil bloom — the dish that carried the family's name (the shui zhu yu's #106's and the family's other registers' own foundation). This record runs the master's whole law at the beef's original argument; the technique carries unchanged, the crown's poured theatre the family's one signature.

Quantities live in the recipe card.

The beef and its velveting

The broth and the crown (the #42 law)

- The master's whole doctrine carried: the #42 record's full method at the beef's original register — the velveting's whisper, the broth's doubanjiang build, the 40-second poach (the beef's mercy-of-seconds clock), and the raw crown's smoking pour at the table's final theatre.

Step 1. The broth's build and the beef's 40 seconds (the #42 law). The doubanjiang's red release and the aromatics' bloom, the stock's simmer — the velveted slices' 40-second poach to the opaque's turn and the whole poured over the sprouts' bed. Checkpoint — the beef's just-opaque slices at the broth's spiced body — the master's mercy clock, unchanged.

Step 2. The crown's poured theatre. The raw peppercorns' and chilli segments' heap over the beef's crown, and the 230 °C smoking oil's pour at the table's moment — the bloom's explosive perfume the family's one signature. Checkpoint — the eating test: the beef's velveted silk under the crown's numbing-fire — the master's whole argument at the original's own seat, and the rice bowl's honest companion. Chef’s Note — the #42 record's full doctrine (the two notes' whole argument — the crown's volatile bloom and the beef's mercy clock) carries at this record's every law; the family's wider canon (the #106 fish's register and the pork's argument) the one doctrine's other seats at the water-boiled canon's own table.