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Homemade Black Pepper Sauce

Homemade Black pepper Sauce. You can use it as a sauce for steak or in classic Chinese stir fry.

Ingredients

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1 cup beef broth or water
4 garlic cloves (minced)
1/4 onion (minced)
2 tbsp. light soy sauce + 1 tsp dark soy sauce
1/8 tsp. salt
2 tbsps. Cornstarch + 2 tbsps. water
2 tbsp. vegetable cooking oil or butter
1/2 tbsp. sugar
1 tbsp. oyster sauce
1 tbsp. freshly ground black pepper (or you can reduce to 3/4 tbsp. for a milder taste)

1
Mince red onion and garlic. Try to cut them into similar pieces.
2
Add oil and fry garlic and red onion until slightly soft and aromatic. Then add the beef stock. If you don’t have beef stock, replace it with water.
3
Add ground black peppercorn, oyster sauce, light and dark soy sauce, sugar, and salt.
4
Mix cornstarch with water. Stir well. Then, slow down the fire and pour the starch water in.
5
Simmer for another minute until the sauce is thickened and the aromatics and seasoning flavors combine well.