Braised Beef Shin with Quail Eggs

Ingredients:
Beef Shin (金钱牛展）
Five Spices Marinade Sauce
Five Spices pack (with different spices including star ainse, chinese 
peppercorns, bay leaves, etc which you can purchase in spices shop)
Rock Sugar
Eggs or Quail Eggs

How to Make:

1. Wash the wipe dry beef shin - pack them in vacuum bags and cook in sous vide machine at 80'C for 12 hours. After cooking, remove the beef from the bags and save the juice after sieving.

2. Boil the eggs for 8-10 minutes. Cool them down in ice water. Then remove shells.

3. Prepare your marinate sauce in a deep pot by adding: 1 part of Five Spices Marinate with 3 parts Water + 1 pack of the Five Spices and some rock sugar. Make sure the beef is fully submerged under the marinate sauce. Once boiled, add the beef shin and cook in low heat for 1 to 1.5 hrs until the centre of beef is soft when chopstick is inserted into center. You can add the eggs from the beginning or for at least 1 hour in the marinate sauce.

* If you do not use sous vide machine, you will need to cook for at least 2-3 hrs in low heat to achieve softness in the beef.

* better make the marinate sauce taste light at the beginning as it will become more condensed and tasty after 1 hour cooking. If by that time, taste is not strong enough, you can always add marinate/soy sauce.

4. Remove beef shin and set aside. Once cool down, keep in fridge in an airtight box.

* you can cut and serve immediately, But by chilling it in fridge, you can cut and slice it thinly. If you cut or slice immediately after cooking, it is not possible to have thin slice.

5. For the marinate sauce with the eggs, check tastings and adjust accordingly. Adjust thickness using cornflour solution. Once cool down, keep in fridge in an air tight box.

6. Before dinner, take out beef shin and cut it as thin as you can. Line them up in a plate for steaming.

7. Reheat sauce in a sauce pan and once boil, spoon the sauce and eggs over to the steaming dish lined with the sliced beef shin. Cover with foil and steam for approx 20 -30 min.

Serve with a bowl of rice and Enjoy!!