Perfect dish for a Friday night. Simple dish with very few ingredients which doesn’t take much thinking about, this dish is so rewarding. This dish itself hardly takes anytime you cook, yet again more time spent on the prep so in my case gives me time to shut down after work. The good thing about this dish you can place the beef in the marinade, put the rice on soak and go off and relax!!

Marinade – 1 tsp of garlic paste, 2 tbsp of ginger paste, 2 tbsp of light soy sauce, 1 tsp of dark soy, 1 tsp of brown sugar & 2 tbsp of mirin. Mix all the ingredients together in a bowl then add your steak ( sirloin) that you’ve cut into strips and mix again to coat the meat with all the flavours.

Allow the steak to have a flavour party for at least 20 minutes. I left mine over an hour.

Main ingredients- 1 tbsp of groundnut oil, 150g of bean sprouts, 1 tsp of cornflour mixed with 1 tbsp of water to create a paste, 2/3 spring onions diced.

Heat your wok until it’s smoking. Add the ground nut oil. Remove the steak from the marinade but keep the marinade. As the oil is glistening due to the heat add the steak, watch though due to the heat it will spit.

Cook the beef for 2/3 minutes.

Add the cornflour paste, the marinade and the bean sprouts and and cook for a further 2 minutes.

Add the diced spring onions, stir well and serve. The spring onions add a nice crunch. I served mine with steamed jasmine rice. The rice and book cooked and steamed then left at the side of the hob covered as they retain their heat.

A beautiful simple dish that hardly takes any time to cook yet is so rewarding.

This recipe was taken from Ching-he Huang.

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