Hunan Beef -A Spicy Beef Stir Fry Popular Across the Country
Hunan style beef stir fry--a classic and popular Chinese beef stir fry recipe
- Prep time
- 15 min
- Cook time
- 5 min
- Yield
- 2 servings
- Difficulty
- HARD
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 200 g beef tenderloin
- 5 Thai red peppers (, or taste)
- 5 pickled yellow pepper (, or replaced by thai chili peppers (Note1))
- 1 bunch celery (, cut into small sections)
- 2 garlic cloves ( , chopped)
- 1 thumb ginger ( , chopped)
- small pinch of salt
- 1/4 tsp. sugar
- 1 tbsp. oyster sauce
- 3 tbsp. cooking oil
- 1 tbsp. cooking wine
- 1 tbsp. oyster sauce (, can be replaced by light soy sauce )
- 1/2 tsp. dark soy sauce
- small pinch of salt (, around 1/8 tsp. )
- pinch of pepper
- 1 tbsp. starch
- 1/2 tbsp. vegetable cooking oil
- 2 tsp. light soy sauce
Instructions
- 1
Cut beef into thin slices (as thin as possible). If you are not skilled at cutting, frozen the beef for around 10 or 15 minutes before cutting.
- 2
Transfer beef into a large bowl and then add salt, dark soy sauce, oyster sauce, light soy sauce, cooking wine, and pepper. Mix competely and set aisde for 15 minutes. Then add starch to mix well. Coat with vegetable cooking oil.
- 3
Prepare all the side ingredients, cut peppers, celery, garlic and ginger.
- 4
Heat the wok first and then also heat up cooking oil in a wok until warm and then spread the beef slices for around 30 seconds. Transfer out.
- 5
Return the extra oil to the wok, and fry garlic, ginger, and all the peppers until aroma.
- 6
Returan the beef in; add celery, oyster sauce and sugar too. Give a quick fry. Transfer and serve with steamed rice immediately.