Red Braise Beef 红烧牛肉 (Sichuan style)

Ingredients

• 1 kg Beef chuck
• 2 tbsp Light soy sauce
• ½ tbsp Dark soy sauce
• 1 tsp Sugar
• 1 ½ tbsp Chinese cooking wine
• ½ tsp White pepper powder
• ½ tsp Chicken Bouillon powder
• Salt to taste
• 750 ml Water
• 3 tbsp Oil
• 1 tsp Whole dried Sichuan peppercorns
• 1 stick Cassia bark OR Cinnamon bark
• 4 Slices of ginger
• 2 Bay leaves
• ½ cup Chopped onion
• 2 Whole dried chillies
• 1 ½ tbsp Fermented broad bean chilli paste
• 3 Star anise
• 1 Chinese black cardamom pod
• 3 Cloves
• 2 Green onion stems