Crispy And Sticky Mongolian Beef Recipe 445

CRISPY STICKY MONGOLIAN BEEF

Steps:

• Combine the Beef and Marinade ingredients in a bowl and marinate for 10 minutes (though you could even leave it overnight).
• Mix the cornstarch with a splash of the water. Then add the remaining Sauce ingredients, including remaining water.
• Add 1/4 cup cornstarch and use your fingers to lightly coat the beef.
• Heat 1/4 cup oil in a wok (Note 2) over medium high heat. Add 1/2 the beef and cook the first side for around 45 seconds or until golden and crisp. Then flip (I use an egg flip) and cook the other side for 30 - 45 seconds until golden and crisp. Remove onto a paper towel lined plate. Repeat with remaining beef.
• Discard the oil, leaving behind about 1 tablespoon in the wok.
• Add the ginger and garlic and sauté for about 15 seconds. Don't let it burn!
• Add the Sauce into the wok. Bring it to a simmer and let it cook for about 1 1/2 minutes or until it thickens into a glossy sticky sauce.
• Add the beef and scallions, toss to coat and cook for a further 30 seconds.
• Serve immediately with rice - or for a low carb, low cal option, try Cauliflower Rice!

CRISPY AND STICKY MONGOLIAN BEEF RECIPE - (4.4/5)

Steps:

• First combine the marinade ingredients in a medium bowl and marinate the beef for 30 minutes. Then using your fingers lightly coat each piece in a plate with cornstarch. Heat the oil in a wok or small saucepan on high. Once the oil is hot and about to smoke, reduce the heat to medium high, add the beef in batches and fry on one side for 1 minute. Do not overcrowd the pan. Then flip and cook the other side for 30 seconds or until golden and crisp. Repeat with the remaining beef. If not using a wok, transfer 2 tablespoons of oil used from frying the beef into the bigger saucepan. Heat the pan on medium high and add garlic with ginger. Sauté for 15 seconds, watch for it not to burn. Then add soy sauce, red chili pepper flakes, chicken stock and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat and simmer for couple minutes on low. Add the brown sugar, and stir until dissolved. Slowly incorporate the cornstarch mixture into the pan and stir until the sauce coats the back of the spoon. Add the beef, scallions and mix everything together for 1 minute or so. Serve immediately with steamed rice or noodles.

CRISPY CHILLI BEEF

Steps:

• Put 350g thin-cut minute steak strips in a bowl and toss in 3 tbsp cornflour and 2 tsp Chinese five-spice powder.
• Heat 100ml vegetable 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. Pour away all but 1 tbsp 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 and toss well to coat.
• Serve the beef on noodles with prawn crackers, if you like, scattered with the remaining ½ sliced red chilli and sliced green parts of the spring onions.

SWEET AND STICKY CRISPY BEEF

Steps:

• Slice the steak into 1 cm wide strips and place it in a bowl. (If your steak is more than 1 cm thick, cut the strips in half again length-wise)
• In a food processor, blitz the onion, garlic, and ginger until it is a paste. (If you do not have a food processor, you can grate them or chop it very finely by hand, just make sure the ginger bits are very tiny)
• Add the marinade and 1 tablespoon of soy sauce to the beef and mix well and marinate it in the fridge for 1 hour (or 20-30 minutes at room temperature)
• After the beef has marinated, dust 1/2 cup of potato starch (or corn starch) on the beef and use your fingers to loosely coat the beef with it. Let it sit for 10 minutes
• While you are waiting for the meat to marinate, heat up a heavy bottom pot (or wok) and set the stove to medium heat. Add at least 1 inch of oil to the pot and wait for it to get hot. (It should reach a temperature of 375F). I like to poke a wooden chopstick, or the handle of a wooden spoon into the oil and wait for it to bubble. Once it bubbles, the oil is hot enough.
• Once the beef has marinated for 10 minutes, dust the other 1/2 cup of potato starch (or corn starch) on the beef again to lightly re-coat the beef and lightly dust off any excess starch. Deep fry it immediately.
• Using your fingers separate the beef if they are clumped together and deep fry it in the oil in small batches (make sure the oil is hot but not smoking - to test if the oil is hot enough, add 1 small piece of beef first and see if it instantly sizzles)
• Deep fry the beef for 1-2 minutes, and remove it from the pot onto a plate with parchment paper or newspaper.
• Once all the beef has been cooked once (first fry), add all of it back in for the second deep fry for 1 more minute.
• Remove all the oil from the pot and set it back on the stove on medium low heat
• Add in all the sauce ingredients, except the corn starch slurry ingredients.
• Stir until everything is combined well and wait until it comes to a low rolling boil
• In a small bowl, combine the corn starch and cold water to make a corn starch slurry and add it into the sauce and keep stirring until the sauce has thickened. Turn off the heat.
• Add in the crispy beef and coat it with the sauce
• Serve immediately! Goes amazing with plain rice. :)

EASY MONGOLIAN BEEF

Steps:

• Heat the oil in a wok or large frying pan until very hot.
• Mix the cornflour with a good pinch of salt and pepper and toss the steak strips in the cornflour.
• Cook the steak strips in the oil (turning occasionally) until very dark and crispy. You can do this in two batches, but I usually manage this in one. You just need to make sure the oil is really hot, and then leave the steak cooking in the oil for a good 5 minutes before turning. Don't keep moving it around the pan, or you won't achieve that dark, crunchy coating.
• Use a slotted spoon to remove the beef from the pan. Place it on a plate with some kitchen roll on to drain off excess fat.
• Pour out all but 1 tbsp of oil from the pan, turn the heat down to medium and allow the oil to cool a little. Add the ginger and garlic to the pan and cook for 1 minute - stirring often to avoid burning the garlic.
• Add in the soy sauce, pepper, sugar and water into the wok.
• Give it a good mix and turn up the heat and bring to the boil. Simmer for 2-3 minutes.
• Then add the crispy beef back to the wok and cook for a further 2 minutes.
• Then turn off the heat and stir in the spring onions (scallions).
• Serve over boiled rice.