Oriental Spicy Orange Beef Recipes

SPICY, CRISPY, ORANGE BEEF

Steps:

• Combine the orange juice, rice wine vinegar, orange marmalade, soy sauce, hot chili sauce, and brown sugar in a bowl. Mix well and set aside.
• In a medium sized bowl, toss the strips of sirloin steak with 3 tablespoons corn starch and salt.
• Heat the peanut oil in a wok over medium-high heat.
• In small batches, fry the steak in the oil until golden brown.
• Discard all but a tablespoon worth of peanut oil from the wok, and then add the garlic and ginger and cook until fragrant, about 30 seconds to a minute.
• Slowly pour in the orange sauce mixture. Bring the sauce to a boil. Continue cooking until the sauce thickens, about 8-10 minutes. Add cornstarch slurry* if your sauce doesn't seem to be thickening on its own.
• Add the steak for just 2 minutes or so, coating it in the sauce Serve immediately over rice or Chinese-style vegetables. Top with a generous amount of green onions, chopped red pepper to taste, and a bit of orange zest.

ORANGE BEEF

Steps:

• First, prepare the beef: Slice the beef against the grain into 2- to 3-inch (5-7cm) pieces, between ⅛- to ¼-inch (about 0.5cm) thick. Add the beef to a medium bowl, along with the water, cornstarch, orange juice, oil, oyster sauce, baking soda, and five spice powder, if using. Marinate for 1 hour.
• Second, mix the sauce: In a medium bowl, add the warm water and sugar. Stir until the sugar is dissolved. Then add the orange marmalade, orange juice, light soy sauce, Shaoxing wine, sesame oil, and white pepper. Stir to combine, and set aside.

CHINESE ORANGE BEEF

Steps:

• Toss the steak in a little cornstarch.
• Heat the vegetable oil in a non-stick frying pan.
• Stir-fry beef strips in small batches for about 2 minutes, until browned. Remove the beef and set aside.
• Add the garlic, orange juice and soy sauce and bring to the boil.
• Return the beef to the pan, add the scallions and heat through.
• Meanwhile, cook the noodles in a large pan of boiling water following packet instructions. Tip into a colander and drain.
• Serve the beef on a bed of piping-hot cooked noodles.

SPICY ORANGE ZEST BEEF

Steps:

• Combine beef, orange juice, rice vinegar, soy sauce, hot chili paste, brown sugar, and garlic in a large bowl. Cover and refrigerate for 1 to 2 hours.
• Strain beef in a colander set over a large bowl, allowing beef to drain thoroughly, about 5 minutes. Reserve marinade.
• Stir water and cornstarch into the bowl of marinade. Whisk until cornstarch is dissolved, set aside.
• Spray skillet with cooking spray and place over high heat. Cook beef for 1 minute without stirring; cook and stir for an additional minute.
• Stir in light parts of green onion and orange zest; cook for 30 seconds.
• Stir in marinade and green onion tops; cook and stir until beef is no longer pink inside and sauce is reduced and thick, about 2 to 3 minutes.
• Season with salt and black pepper to taste.

CRISPY ORANGE BEEF

Steps:

• Lay beef strips out in a single layer on a baking sheet lined with paper towels. Allow to dry in the refrigerator for 30 minutes. In a small bowl, mix together the sugar, rice vinegar, orange juice concentrate, salt and soy sauce. Set aside.
• Meanwhile, combine rice and water in a medium saucepan. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat to medium-low and simmer for 20 minutes, or until rice is tender. Add more water at the end if necessary.
• Heat oil in a wok over medium-high heat. Toss dried beef in cornstarch to coat. Fry in the hot oil in small batches until crispy and golden brown; set aside. Drain all of the oil from the wok except about 1 tablespoon.
• Add orange zest, ginger and garlic to the remaining oil, and cook briefly until fragrant. Add the soy sauce mixture to the wok, bring to a boil, and cook until thick and syrupy, about 5 minutes. Add beef, and heat through, stirring to coat. Serve immediately over steamed rice, and garnish with broccoli.

SICHUAN-STYLE SPICY ORANGE BEEF

Steps:

• Cut the carrot, chili pepper, garlic, and orange zests. Set aside.
• Add oil into the pot and heat the oil. Add pepper, garlic and orange zest into the pot and stir fry for 4 minutes.
• Add the carrot and beef and stir fry for about 2 minutes to brown the beef.
• Add the water, broth, soy sauce, honey, and orange liqueur. Give it a good stir.
• Bring to boil and turn the heat into low. Cook for a hour. (You can check the softness of the beef for yourself and decide the cooking time. If you would like to have a softer beef then you should cook for more than an hour.).
• Mix the potato starch and water in a small bowl and add the mixture into the pot for another stir.
• Serve with rice, bread, or noodle. You can also take it as a main dish.
• Enjoy!

ORIENTAL SPICY ORANGE BEEF

Steps:

• 1. In Wok heat oil to medium heat and add meat 1/3 at a time.
• 2. Stir fry 3 minutes or until browned.
• 3. Return all beef to wok and add: peel, garlic and ginger.
• 4. Stir fry 1 minute.
• 5. Stir together: corn starch, beef broth, soy sauce, sherry, marmalade and pepper.
• 6. Stir into beef.
• 7. Stirring constantly, bring to boil over medium heat.
• 8. Boil 1 minute.
• 9. Serve over rice.

SZECHUAN ORANGE BEEF (STIR-FRY)

Steps:

• In a bowl, mix all marinade ingredients well and let meat marinate in mixture for 20 minutes.
• Combine sauce ingredients; set aside.
• Heat wok over high heat, then add peanut oil (be careful of splattering).
• Remove beef from marinade and stir-fry until browned (3 minutes).
• Remove and let drain through a sieve.
• Pour most of the oil out of the wok, reserving about 2 teaspoons.
• Reheat the oil, and when it's very hot and smoking slightly, add the dried chili peppers and stir-fry for about 10 seconds.
• Return the beef to the pan and add sauce.
• Stir-fry for 3 minutes, mixing well.
• Serve immediately.