Crispy chilli beef. Crispy Chilli Beef is a fried shredded beef steak tossed in sweet, spicy and savoury homemade sweet sauce. This recipe is a popular Chinese takeaway style shredded beef strips with a delicious sweet chilli kick. You will be amazed by how quick and easy to make at home with simple ingredients!
Your beef will be flash cooked, so you want thin strips cut against the grain, that is, in a different direction to which the natural muscle fibres run in. The beef is cooked when it is crispy on the outside. This is to keep your family safe.
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Crispy Chilli Beef is a fried shredded beef steak tossed in sweet, spicy and savoury homemade sweet sauce. This recipe is a popular Chinese takeaway style shredded beef strips with a delicious sweet chilli kick. You will be amazed by how quick and easy to make at home with simple ingredients!
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have crispy chilli beef using 13 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Crispy chilli beef:
- {Take 350 g of thin-cut steak strips very thinly sliced.
- {Prepare 3 tbsp of cornflour.
- {Make ready 2 tsp of Chinese five-spice powder.
- {Take 100 ml of olive oil.
- {Make ready 1 of red pepper, thinly sliced.
- {Make ready 1 of red chilli, thinly sliced.
- {Make ready 4 of spring onions, sliced, green and white parts separated.
- {Take 2 of garlic cloves, crushed.
- {Take of thumb-sized piece ginger, cut into matchsticks.
- {Get 4 tbsp of rice wine vinegar or white wine vinegar.
- {Make ready 1 tbsp of soy sauce.
- {Prepare 2 tbsp of sweet chilli sauce.
- {Take 2 tbsp of tomato ketchup.
Take half the beef strips and toss them with the corn flour. Then carefully add the beef strips into the hot oil. Drain on paper towel and repeat with the remaining beef and corn flour. Like the ubiquitous Beef and Broccoli, exactly where, when and how Crispy Chilli Beef came into existence remains as intriguing and mysterious as Josh Hartnett's gaze circa Pearl Harbour.
Instructions to make Crispy chilli beef:
- Add steak strips in a bowl and toss in 3 tbsp cornflour and 2 tsp Chinese five-spice powder..
- Heat oil in a wok or large frying pan until hot, then add the beef and fry until golden and crisp.
- Scoop out the beef and drain on kitchen paper or plate. Pour away all but a little of the existing oil..
- Add 1 thinly sliced red pepper, ½ thinly sliced red chilli, sliced white ends of 4 spring onions, 2 crushed garlic cloves and thumb-sized piece ginger, cut into matchsticks, to the pan. Stir-fry for 3 mins to soften, but don’t let the garlic and ginger burn..
- Mix the 4 tbsp rice wine vinegar or white wine vinegar, 1 tbsp soy sauce, 2 tbsp sweet chilli sauce and 2 tbsp tomato ketchup in a jug with 2 tbsp water, then pour over the veg..
- Bubble for 2 mins, then add the beef back to the pan, toss well to coat..
- Serve the beef with rice. Scattered with the remaining ½ sliced red chilli and sliced green parts of the spring onions on top.
Heat peanut oil in a large stockpot or Dutch oven over medium heat. Heat a wok or deep frying pan over medium high heat. Finally, add the strips of fried steak and toss to heat through and coat with sauce. Crispy chilli beef is amongst the most popular Chinese dishes in the UK, alongside salt and pepper chicken, sweet and sour and crispy duck pancakes. Here's a simple recipe to create the sticky, crispy dish at home in less than half an hour!
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