Bill And Maddys Chicken Or Beef Stir Fry Recipes

CHINESE STIR-FRY SAUCE

Steps:

• In a jar with a tight lid (must hold 2 cups of liquid), combine all of the stir fry sauce ingredients together and shake well.
• This sauce should keep for a few weeks in the refrigerator; all you need to do is measure and pour out what you need for your dish.

BEEF VEGETABLE STIR-FRY

Steps:

• Mix together the marinade ingredients with the beef until well-coated, and set aside for 30 minutes or overnight. Next, prepare your veggies and set aside.
• In a small bowl, mix the water (or beef stock, if using), sesame oil, soy sauces, oyster sauce and sugar, and set aside.
• Heat your wok on high heat and spread 2 tablespoons of oil around the perimeter to coat. Once the wok and oil start to smoke, add the beef, and use your metal wok spatula to spread the beef in one even layer. Sear for 30 seconds. Turn the beef to sear the uncooked sides for another 30 seconds. At this point, the beef should be about 80% done. Turn off the heat and transfer the beef back to the marinade bowl.
• Next, with the heat back on high, add the ginger and 1 tablespoon of oil to the wok. Cook for 10 seconds, and add the garlic. After 5 seconds, add the mushrooms and stir fry for another 15 seconds, giving them a good sear. Add the Shaoxing wine.
• Next, add the snap peas and the bok choy, and stir fry on the highest heat for another 20 seconds until the bok choy begins to wilt. Stir in the beef and your prepared sauce mixture. Gather everything in the center of the wok.
• When everything comes back up to a simmer, and the sides of the wok begin to super-heat, Stir fry everything in a circular motion so the beef and vegetables hit the sides of the wok--this gets you that wok hay flavor!
• Pour the cornstarch slurry in the center of the wok while stirring. The sauce will immediately thicken, so work fast to stir everything together for another 20 seconds to evenly coat the beef and vegetables in the sauce. There should not be any standing sauce - everything should be clinging to the beef and vegetable stir fry. This is the classic restaurant-style preparation, but you can add more stock and salt or soy sauce to taste if you like a saucier stir-fry.
• Turn off the heat and transfer your beef vegetable stir-fry to a serving plate; you can also dish it out individually on a bed of rice for a great one-plate meal. Enjoy immediately. Though you probably don't need us to tell you that.

BILL AND MADDY'S CHICKEN OR BEEF STIR-FRY

Steps:

• Put 2 Tbls. of the oil in a large skillet (I like to use a wok) and heat over medium high heat.
• Add the sliced onion, stir and cook for 2 to 3 minutes. Stir in the bell pepper, garlic and ginger and cook until both the pepper and onion until tender about 4 to 6 minutes. Remove the veggies from the skillet; set aside.
• Pour in the remaining 1 Tbs. oil in the skillet. Season the chicken or beef with salt and pepper and Chinese Five Spice and add it to the oil, and cook, stirring frequently, 2 to 3 min.
• Stir in the frozen veggies and sprinkle in some red chili flakes to taste.
• Reduce the heat to low and stir in the hoisin sauce and water. Simmer for about 1 min. Stir in the peanuts or cashews.
• Add sugar or artificial sweetener to taste and serve over a mound of hot rice or Asian noodles. We like jasmine rice for these types of dishes, it adds a nice nutty flavor.
• *To make this dish with beef instead of chicken, partially freeze a piece of round steak. When it is half-way frozen, it will slice paper thin.