Beef in oyster sauce
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| Beef in oyster sauce | |
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| Beef in oyster sauce with red rice | |
| Servings: | Serves 2 |
| Ready in: | 30 minutes |
| Prep. time: | 20 minutes |
| Cook time: | 10 minutes |
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When I came to make this I discovered that all of the spring onions had run to seed, so, I used a very finely sliced red onion and cooked it for slightly longer. I'm not so keen on bamboo shoots so used extra carrot instead.
Ingredients
Ingredients
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- 225g (8 oz) sirloin or braising steak
- 2 tablespoons oyster sauce
- 1 tablespoon rice wine or dry sherry
- 1 tablespoon cornflour
- 4100g (4 oz) broccoli
- 100g (4 oz) bamboo shoots - omit and add extra carrots if preferred
- 1 carrot, sliced
- 100g (4 oz) button mushrooms (or 4 dried mushrooms)
- 3 slices ginger root, peeled
- 1 clove garlic, crushed
- 1 dried red chili, crushed
- 2 spring onions (scallions) sliced diagonally
- 4 tablespoons vegetable oil
- ½ teaspoon light soy sauce
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- ½ pint chicken stock or water
Method
- If using dried mushrooms, soak in boiled water for 20 minutes, squeeze dry and discard stalks
- Cut the beef into very thin straw-like slices
- Mix the oyster sauce, sherry and cornflour. Marinate the beef in this mixture for 20 minutes
- Cut the broccoli into small florets and the bamboo and carrots into slices about the same size as the beef
- Cut the ginger into match-like sticks
- Heat the wok and add half of the oil, stir-fry the beef for 3 minutes. Remove and keep warm
- Add the remaining oil to the same wok and heat.
- Add the ginger, garlic, chili and spring onions, followed by the rest of the vegetables, sugar and soy sauce and half of the stock
- Cook for 5 minutes
- Return the beef to the wok, add the remaining stock and bring to the boil, reduce slightly if to too thin, then serve
Serving suggestions
Serve hot with plain rice or noodles