Five spice slow cooked beef

I have many slow cooker beef recipes. But usually they come put too sweet or too sour. The best results came from adding an alcohol like red wine or stout to give the gravy real body, but this recipe is a really goof compromise. This one is right and ecen got the thumbs up from 배!

Ingredients

500g stewing beef (chuck, briskit or osso bucco are my preferred)

2 medium potatoes, peeled and cubed

1 medium sweet potato, peeld and cubed

4 medium carrots

¼ cup barley

1 onion, chopped

1 tsp ginger paste

1 tsp garlic paste

2 star anise

5 cloves

1 tsp fennel seeds

1 tsp black pepper corns

1 tbsp tomato paste

2 tbsp oyster sauce

2 tbsp soya sauce

1 tbsp djion mustard

1 beef stock cube

Method

1) Saute the beef in batches. Set aside. 

2) Crack the star anise, cloves and black pepper corns with the back of a knife.

3) Saute the aromatics. Add back the beef and vegs.

4) Slow cook for 3 to 4 hours until the beef is tender.