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Chinese-Style Ginger Beef

Thin slices of good steak are seasoned and added to a beautiful mix of garlic, ginger, soy, and chilies, to make a savory, spicy, hearty mix. Another five minute dinner, this recipe is fast, easy, and delicious when served with steamed rice.
Prep Time5 minutes
Cook Time5 minutes
Course: Main Course
Servings: 4

Ingredients

  • 8 oz NY strip steak
  • 6 scallions
  • 1 Fresno chili cut in rounds
  • 4 oz shiitake mushrooms about 10 mushrooms
  • 1 tablespoon ginger minced
  • 1 tablespoon garlic minced
  • 1/2 teaspoon sambal oolek
  • 1 tablespoon soy sauce
  • 1 tablespoon oyster sauce
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon sugar
  • 1 tablespoon vegetable oil

Instructions

  • Thinly slice your steak, mushrooms, scallions, and Fresno chilis into slices of about 1/8″ thickness. (You should get about 10-12 slices per shiitake mushoom, for example).
  • Season your steak with the salt. This pre-seasoning will make sure enough flavor gets into the very quick-cooking steak.
  • Mince your ginger and garlic, the idea being to flavor the dish without big obvious chunks of ginger, which can be overwhelming to eat.
  • Set all of these ingredients aside.
  • Heat the vegetable oil in a skillet until extremely hot (currents should be running through the oil), then add the garlic, ginger, and sambal for about 20-30 seconds.
  • Add the thinly sliced mushrooms and chilis, stir, then immediately add the soy sauce, oyster sauce, and sugar.
  • Stir everything together in the pan. After the mushrooms shrink down slightly (about a minute for shiitake), add the beef and scallions.
  • Stir-fry until the beef is barely cooked (about a minute), and take off the stove. The residual heat will cook the beef the rest of the way, and keep it from getting tough.
  • Plate, then garnish with some cut up scallions.

Video

Chinese-Style Ginger Beef by straighttothehipsbaby on Jumprope.