Recipe: Simple Black Pepper Beef

I love Chinese Food. They are simple, fast and healthy to eat. One of my all-time favorite is Stir-fry Black Pepper Beef.

This recipe is inspired by a few stir-fry beef recipes that I found on internet:

• Flank steak stir fry – useful tips on how to slice the meat correctly. Bell peppers and onions are omitted in my recipe.
• Stir-fried beef with oyster sauce – from lost5kilos.com, it shows that eating high calorie food moderately is still ok if you want to lose weight. Based on the recipe, I discard the wine and oyster sauce.
• Making Chinese stir fry beef – yet another recipe from a ‘diet blog’, just like the previous one above. This is a short video on how to cook Chinese stir-fry beef.

Based on these blogs/websites, I simplified the recipes and came out with my own recipe; Simple Black Pepper Beef.

Ingredients

• Beef
• Garlic
• Shallot
• Carrot
• Four-angle Bean
• Light Soy Sauce
• Salt & Pepper

Let’s Start Cooking!

1. Cut the beef across the grain into a small pieces. Season it with salt & pepper.
2. Heat up your wok on high heat before putting in the cooking oil. Use about 2 tbsp for now as the beef will release its fat.
3. Toss in the beef and cook it under high heat. Keep stirring to avoid burning.
4. Once the beef’s fat dries out, pour in another tbsp of oil. Throw in the garlic and shallot. Stir until fragrant.
5. Add the light soy sauce, carrot and four-angle bean. Keep stirring until the sauce reduced a bit.
6. Correct seasoning and serve.

You can substitute the carrot and four-angle bean with your favourite vegetable. I used them because it happens to be in my refrigerator.

Happy cooking my friends!

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