Red-cooked beef Archive

Ingredients

• 1 tbsp vegetable oil
• 6 spring onions, sliced
• 4 garlic cloves, sliced
• thumb-sized piece fresh ginger, cut into matchsticks
• 1 tsp roasted Sichuan peppercorns
• 6 star anise
• 6 cloves
• 1 cinnamon stick
• 200ml/7fl oz beef stock
• 75ml/2½fl oz brandy
• 50ml/2fl oz dark soy sauce
• 2 tsp sugar
• pinch salt
• 500g/1lb 1½oz piece topside beef
• 1 red pepper, sliced
• 1 yellow pepper, sliced
• 1 packet ready-made egg noodles, cooked according to packet instructions
• fresh beansprouts
• sesame oil, to drizzle
• handful peanuts, toasted