How to Prepare Delicious Vietnamese Style Beef Kidney

Vietnamese Style Beef Kidney. Very nice, really good, and as long as you don't overcook the kidney, tender, like butter almost. Something I rarely find anymore, and it's cheap! Something I rarely find anymore, and it's cheap!

Cover and bring water to a boil over medium high heat. Reduce the heat, add kidney and leave the lid cracked to allow heat to escape. Place the beef kidneys on a cutting board and cut them in half lengthwise. You can have Vietnamese Style Beef Kidney using 19 ingredients and 17 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Vietnamese Style Beef Kidney

1. It's 1 1/2 pounds of beef kidney.
2. It's 1/2 cup of vinegar.
3. Prepare 1 of water to cover.
4. It's of Marinade.
5. You need 1/2 tsp. of Ground black pepper.
6. Prepare 2-4 cloves of garlic.
7. You need 1 of Tbl. Fish sauce.
8. It's 1 of Tbl. Soy sauce.
9. You need 2 of Tbl. Oyster sauce.
10. You need 1/2 of Tbl. Sugar.
11. It's 1 of Tbl. Hot sauce (optional).
12. You need of Main.
13. You need 1/2-1 of onion.
14. You need 2-3 cloves of garlic.
15. It's 1 of inch/1 Tbl. fresh ginger.
16. It's 2 of Tbl. Fish sauce.
17. It's 1 of jalapeno (optional).
18. You need of Garnish.
19. Prepare of Cilantro, scallions, sesame seeds.

Remove as much of the lump of fat inside as possible. If there is any membrane surrounding the kidneys, peel it off and. The beef kidney has a very thick white cord connecting the various nodes of the organ. Ensure that you use a very well sharpened knife, I like a boning knife.

Vietnamese Style Beef Kidney instructions

1. Clean kidneys, this is how they look out of the package for me..
2. Cut them in half lengthwise.
3. Thinly slice across, about 1/4 inch thick.
4. Then use your knife to remove the fat and connective tissue.
5. Place in a bowl large enough to hold the meat, plus water..
6. Add vinegar, and enough water to cover kidney. Let sit 2 hours..
7. After 2 hours, drain and rinse, throw out the water vinegar mix..
8. Place in a bowl.
9. Add marinade ingredients.
10. Mix well, set aside 30 minutes, but I like a couple hours myself..
11. Prep your Main things, slice onion, dice garlic, jalapeno and ginger.
12. Add some oil to a wok/stir-fry, heat on medium.
13. Add onion, garlic, ginger and jalapeno, cook until onion is translucent.
14. Drain kidneys, add to wok, toss marinade.
15. Kidney is one of those things that you cook really quick, or a long time. Everything in between means a rubbery, chewy piece of meat. We are going quick for this one..
16. Add the fish sauce, and stir constantly. This should take about 5 or 6 minutes to cook. You want the kidney just done. You have to tell by look mostly, but a picture looks the same as uncooked..
17. I served mine with rice.

Try to get all the white cording out, this is a time-consuming task, so know that going in and take your time with it, it's actually really interesting. Rinse the beef kidneys thoroughly under cool, running water. Pat the meat dry with paper towels. For this recipe, you really don't need any extra dipping sauce as it's well marinated. The beef is marinated with stock powder, minced garlic, salt, sugar and pepper.