Beef Stew

Cuts of meat usually taken from the lower chest or from the lower breast of meat animals is called, brisket cuts. As all meat animals will have brisket cuts that can be cleaved from their meat, the term, brisket, is generally used for veal and for beef. Remember that veal is meat cleaved from calf's meat while beef is cleaved from adult or full-grown cows.

Some popular meal dishes that use brisket cut meat from beef in their preparation include Chinese beef brisket soup, Dutch beef brisket, apple glazed brisket, barbecued brisket, beef brisket Tex-Mex, pulled brisket sandwiches, smoked beef brisket and pot roast beef brisket.

Beef Stew

By far, one of the best ways to prepare this meat for cooking would be to prepare your cuts as meat meant for Chinese soup, a favorite and a well-known comfort food. When you prepare cuts of beef meat for Chinese brisket soup, you must tender the meat over low heat with the meat's fat turned to face the underside of your cooking pot's lid. Placing the beef meat cuts in your cooking pot this way, allows the fat from the brisket meat to melt over unto to the boiling water. The fat that slowly dissolves while you boil the meat for Chinese beef brisket soup, adds a lot of savory flavor to the soup that is being prepared. The fat enhances the taste of your brisket soup, making it all the more palatable as you chosen comfort food.

One boils meat with the fatty parts of the meat facing the top because melting the fat,off the brisket cut meats,in this slow fashion ensures that the tougher parts of the brisket meats become tender and become softer. Beef meat cooked to be tender and soft for soup based dishes, makes these soup dishes favorable picks amongst those who dine with you or those who cook for.

Aside from cooking your beef cuts with the fat of the meat cuts melting as slowly as it takes for the tough parts of the brisket meat to become tender, when you are preparing the brisket for Chinese beef brisket soup, you must also add a full tablespoon of ground anise powder to the water where the meat is boiling for your soup. Also, adding some fish sauce with the required soy sauce that is needed to flavor your Chinese beef brisket soup, gives your soup the taste of Chinese food house cooking that foodies enjoy.

Using Anise in Beef Brisket Soup

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