Mongolian Beef Stir Fry
Mongolian Beef is a delicious beef stir fry recipe served with lots of onions and a tasty sauce. This flavorful dish is popular in Chinese restaurants, and also actually very easy to make at home – here’s my Mongolian Beef Stir Fry recipe!
- Prep time
- 15 min
- Cook time
- 10 min
- Yield
- 4 servings
- Difficulty
- MEDIUM
Ingredients
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- 1 lb flank steak, cut in to strips or thinly sliced
- 1/2 cup soy sauce
- 2 tbsp cornstarch
- 2 tbsp honey or brown sugar
- 1/2 tsp ground ginger
- 2 tbsp cooking oil, separated
- 1/2 onion, sliced
- 4 cloves of garlic, minced or roughly chopped
- 2 stalks of green onions, cut in to 2 inch length
- 2 tbsp soy paste (aka thick soy sauce)*
- Dried red peppers, optional
Instructions
- 1
In a bowl, add beef with soy sauce, cornstarch, honey (or sugar) and ground ginger together. Combine well and set aside to marinade for 30 minutes or up to overnight in the refrigerator.
- 2
Heat cooking oil in a wok or cooking pan, and add the marinated beef along with the sauce in to pan and stir fry for about 2 minutes or until mostly browned, and then remove from heat.
- 3
Add sliced onions, garlic, and dried red peppers in to pan to the pan, and stir fry for about 2 minutes or until the onions start turning translucent.
- 4
Add the beef back to pan and stir fry for about 1 more minute, then add the green onions, and stir fry until everything is cooked thoroughly.
- 5
Add thick soy sauce and mix well, then remove from heat and serve!