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A casserole dish serving Chinese beef & aubergine hotpot

Chinese hot pot at home

Name: Chinese hot pot at home
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 3 h 30 min
Total time: 3 h 50 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 5 star anise; 1 cinnamon stick; 3 tbsp sunflower oil; 2kg braising steak (shin is best), cut into large chunks; 1l chicken stock; 3 red chillies split in two and deseeded, plus extra sliced into rounds to serve; 100g galangal (use ginger if you can’t find galangal), sliced; 2 tbsp Thai fish sauce; 200ml soy sauce; 1 tbsp demerara sugar; 6 kaffir lime leaves; 3 aubergines cut into wedges; rice and coriander, to serve

John Torode

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Serves 8

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Prep: 20 mins

Cook: 3 hrs and 30 mins

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Make this beef stew when the nights draw in. With aubergine and Chinese spices, the flavours are warming and it's slow-cooked for deliciously tender meat

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Ingredients

Nutrition

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5 star anise
1 cinnamon stick
3 tbsp sunflower oil
2kg braising steak

(shin is best), cut into large chunks
1l chicken stock
3 red chillies

split in two and deseeded, plus extra sliced into rounds to serve
100g galangal

(use ginger if you can’t find galangal), sliced
2 tbsp Thai fish sauce
200ml soy sauce
1 tbsp demerara sugar
6 kaffir lime leaves
3 aubergines

cut into wedges
rice

and coriander, to serve

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Nutrition: Per serving

kcal389
fat20g
saturates7g
carbs10g
sugars8g
fibre2g
protein38g
salt4.3g

Method

step 1

Heat oven to 150C/130C fan/gas 2. Heat a large casserole dish, toast the star anise and cinnamon until fragrant, then scoop out of the dish. Add the oil, then brown the beef in batches (be careful not to overcrowd the pan). Set the meat aside on a plate.
step 2

Add the rest of the ingredients (except for the aubergine) to the casserole dish, stir well and bring to the boil. Add the spices and meat back in, skim off any fat that comes to the surface, then cover the casserole and cook in the oven for 2 hrs.
step 3

Remove the lid, add the aubergine, and give everything a good stir, then return to the oven and cook for 1 hr uncovered until the aubergine and meat are tender. Rest until cool enough to eat. Scatter over the coriander and sliced red chilli, then serve with rice.

Recipe from Good Food magazine, October 2017

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