Taiwanese Beef & Noodle Soup - soy sauce

Method

• This is a recipe I made in my electric pressure cooker.
• But it can also be cooked on the stove top.
• Pressure cooker takes 30-minutes to cook.
• Stove top takes about 2-hours to cook.
• The instructions below are for pressure cooking:
• First, lets wash the beef.
• Chop it up into bite sized pieces and then put all of the chopped beef shank into the main cooking pot of the pressure cooker.
• Fill it up with water, enough to cover all the meat.
• Press the START button on the pressure cooker.
• This will start the heating element in the machine.
• Its not necessary to shut and lock the lid at this time.
• In about 10-minutes or so, youll start to see particles that you want to get rid of.
• Its sort of foamy and grimy.
• It looks pretty gross.
• Use a spoon and start spooning the gunk out and discard.
• Turn the pressure cooker off by pressing CANCEL.
• Use an oven mitt and pour all the grimy water out.
• Rinse the beef 1-2 times with fresh water and discard the water again.
• Now comes the real cooking part.
• The beef should be inside the main cooking pot still.
• Add the soy sauce, the rice wine, water, and spicy bean paste.
• Chop up all the other ingredients, but leave the star anise and rock candy whole, then add everything into the pot.
• Give it a good stir if you like but its not necessary.
• Shut the lid and turn it counter clockwise to lock.
• Make sure the pressure valve is set to Airtight.
• Program the pressure cooker to 30-minutes by pressing the SET PRESSURE COOK TIME button.
• Now press START.
• Let the machine do its thing.
• At this time, you can start boiling a big pot of filtered water to cook the bok choy.
• Get the water to a rolling boil.
• Add the bok choy to the hot water and only cook them for 5 minutes.
• Remove from heat and use a slotted spoon to pull the bok choy from the water.
• Set aside.
• You can add the noodles to the same water and cook for 10-minutes until they are tender.
• Do not overcook, or they will become mush.
• Remove from the heat and strain the noodles.
• When the pressure cooker has completed the 30-minute cooking cycle, it will beep and automatically go to Keep Warm.
• Release all the pressure by turning the valve to Exhaust.
• Unlock and open the lid.
• Stir the beef mixture and do a taste test.
• If its too salty, add more water.
• Find all the ginger and star anise pieces and discard.
• Put noodles into a serving bowl.
• Top it with 1-2 boy choy clusters.
• Then ladle the beef and soy sauce mixture onto the noodles.
• Garnish with a splash of sesame oil, chopped cilantro and green onions.