What is the secret recipe for beef noodle stew?

Where exactly is beef noodles from? I believe that many people would be curious about its origin after eating this food. In fact, beef noodles are a type of Anhui cuisine and one of the most famous local specialties. The most authentic beef noodles are very particular in their preparation, with more than twenty kinds of ingredients required. I will share this top-secret recipe below, so hurry up and learn it!

The ingredients for ban mian stew are divided into major spices and minor spices. The so-called major spices are the spices with relatively large size. The so-called small ingredients are spices with smaller size. Because the spices are of different sizes, in order to release all the flavors of the spices during the cooking process, we have to cook the small spices first and then the large spices.

The main ingredients of ban mian are: Sichuan pepper, fennel, bay leaves, coriander seeds, thyme, pepper, and cumin.

The main ingredients of flat noodles are generally: star anise, cinnamon, angelica, galangal, cardamom, nutmeg, white cardamom, galangal, fragrant sand, big bo, red cardamom, gardenia, tangerine peel, licorice, grass killer, one mouthful, monk fruit, and galangal.

Is it true that the more ingredients a dish of ban mian has, the better it tastes? Not at all. I have a friend who used to run a ban mian business. He had 38 kinds of ingredients, but the taste was mediocre and he went bankrupt after only half a year. Because the competition is fierce now, if your food is not as delicious as others, you naturally have no way to compete with others. Therefore, the taste of ban mian has no direct relationship with the amount of ingredients, but mainly depends on the reasonable combination of ingredients and the grasp of details when cooking the ingredients.

How to judge whether ban mian is authentic from the ingredients? As a native of Anhui and a veteran in the ban mian industry, I would like to share some tips with you. If there are more than three spices with the same function, it is definitely not an authentic recipe. There are two types of spices: one is seasoning and the other is functional ingredient. The so-called seasonings are spices that change the taste, such as the most commonly used peppercorns and star anise, which are all seasoning spices. The so-called functional ingredients are spices that do not change the taste but have certain effects, such as removing fishy smell, removing mutton smell, reducing heat, and aiding digestion.