Beef

Stir Fried Beef with Spring Onion and Ginger

Ingredients:

• 250g Lean Beef, sliced into strips
• Spring onions, white part only cut into sections
• 5 slice Ginger
• 1 tablespoon Oil

Marinade:

• 1/2 tablespoon Chinese Cooking Wine
• 1 tablespoon Light Soy Sauce
• 2 teaspoons Cornflour

Seasonings:

• 1/2 tablespoon Chinese Cooking Wine
• 1/2 tablespoon Oyster Sauce
• 1/2 tablespoon Cornflour
• 1 tablespoon Light Soy Sauce
• 1 tablespoon Sesame Seed Oil
• 4 tablespoon Water

How to do it:

1. Marinate beef and set aside for at least an hour.
2. Mix ingredients for seasonings and set aside.
3. Heat oil in wok.
4. Add spring onion and ginger and saute till fragrant.
5. Add beef and quickly stir fry till 75% cooked.
6. Add seasoning and stir fry in heat heat till sauce thickens and beef is just cooked.
7. Dish and serve immediately.

Note:
Add 3 tablespoon of crushed black pepper to change it to black pepper beef instead. You can leave out the spring onions.

Beef Rolls in Tomato Sauce

Ingredients:

• 8 slices of thinly sliced beef
• 4 baby corn, cut into 4 ‘sticks’ each
• Carrot thinly sliced or shredded.
• 8 cherry tomatoes, diced

Seasoning:

• 1 tablespoon Tomato sauce
• 2 teaspoon Soy sauce (1 each for marinating & sauce)
• 1 teaspoon Sugar
• 200ml Stock or water
• Cornflour mixture (mix 1 teaspoon cornflour with 1 tablespoon water)

How to do it:

1. Marinate the beef with a teaspoon of soy sauce for 10 minutes.
2. In a small pot of hot water, add 1 teaspoon of salt & oil.
3. Blanch the baby corn. Remove & put it in a bowl of room temperature) water to stop it from further cooking.
4. When this is done, roll the beef with a slice of carrot and 2 sticks of baby corn.
5. Hold the beef with toothpick
6. Dust the beef rolls with cornflour.
7. Heat 1 teaspoon of oil and pan-fry the beef roll till the beef roll is cook (about 8 mins)
8. Remove from pan.
9. In the same pan, add in the diced cherry tomatoes and seasoning except the cornflour mixture.
10. When the sauce starts to boils, add in the beef rolls to cook for a while to absorb the sauce.
11. Remove & set aside.
12. Now, add the cornflour mixture gradually to thicken the sauce.
13. Pour the sauce over the beef rolls and serve.

Note:

You can also use enokitake mushroom in it. Do adjust the amount of the seasoning if you prefer more sauce.