Szechuan Beef
A Chinese dinner. Ready in about 40 minutes. Difficulty: medium.
- 15 minPrep (about)
- 25 minCook (about)
- 40 minTotal time
- 4Servings
- MediumDifficulty
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Join the waitlist Not nowIngredients
Main ingredient
- 0.6 lb beef Shopping tip: Usually flank or sirloin steak, sliced thin. Ground beef works too.
Fresh & other
- 1 egg white
- 4 tbsp starch
- 1 ¼ tsp ginger
- 1 ¼ tsp garlic
- 1 cup onions
- ⅔ cup carrots
- 1 cup green bell pepper Shopping tip: Bell pepper (UK recipes call it pepper).
- 1 ¼ cups celery
- 1 ¼ cups mushrooms
- 1 ½ tbsp cooking wine
- 1 ¼ cups water
- ¾ tsp hotsauce
- 1 ¼ tsp sugar
Sauces & oils
- 1 ¼ tsp sesame seed oil
- ¼ cup + 1 tbsp oil Shopping tip: Vegetable, canola or peanut oil (good for high heat).
- 1 ½ tbsp oyster sauce
- 1 ½ tbsp soy sauce
Spices & seasonings (2): salt, pepper
- ¾ tsp salt
- 1 pinch pepper
How to make it
Steps in our own plain words.
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STEP 1 - MARINATING THE BEEF.
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Add your beef, salt, sesame seed, 1 ½ tablespoons of oil, Tablespoon of corn starch, egg white and white pepper in a bowl.
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STEP 2 - STIR FRY.
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Heat your beef by adding 2 ½ tablespoons of oil till the beef is golden.
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Set the beef aside.
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Minced ginger, minced garlic in wok add 1 ½ tablespoons of oil.
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Stir-fry for few seconds.
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Add all of the vegetables.
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Add sherry cooking wine plus 1 ¼ cups of water.
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To make the sugar, hot pepper sauce and sauce add oyster sauce.
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Add your cooked beef plus 1 spoon of soy sauce.
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To thicken the sauce.
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Whisk 1 Tablespoon of cornstarch plus 2 ½ tablespoons of water in bowl and slowly add to your mix-fry until it's the right thickness.
On the side: Steamed rice
A side we added to round out the meal. It is not part of the original recipe.
How to make it (25 min)
- Rinse the rice. Simmer it covered in water (2 cups per cup of rice) for about 18 minutes, then let it sit 5 minutes. Fluff with a fork.
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Join the waitlistRecipe from TheMealDB, adapted from the original. Steps rewritten in our own words. Times are estimates.