Slow cooker Chinese Pulled Beef

Ingredients

• 2 pounds beef brisket tied with string
• 1 cup beef stock from a stock cube
• 1/2 cup dark soy sauce
• 1/2 cup dry sherry or Chinese cooking wine
• 1 Orange
• 2 tablespoons dark brown sugar
• 5 garlic cloves skin on, smashed
• 2 shallots banana, peeled and roughly chopped
• 1 piece fresh ginger peeled and finely sliced
• 5 spring onions finely sliced
• 3 star anise
• 1 cinnamon stick
• 1/4 teaspoon Szechuan peppercorns crushed
• 1 tablespoon cornstarch cornflour, dissolved in a little cold water
• 1 red chilli finely sliced, to serve

Nutrition

• Calories : 410 calories
• Carbohydrate : 28 grams
• Cholesterol : 110 milligrams
• Fat : 13 grams
• Fiber : 3 grams
• Protein : 43 grams
• SaturatedFat : 5 grams
• Sodium : 1840 milligrams
• Sugar : 7 grams