Crispy Beef Recipe

Whenever I go to a Chinese restaurant and I see crispy beef on their menu, I immediately get excited like a child in a candy store. Unfortunately, I don’t get to eat Chinese food often even though it is one of my favourite international cuisines.

Crispy Beef food

Ingredients

• 1kg fillet/steak
• 1/2 cup of cornstarch
• Oil for frying
• 1 tbsp soy sauce
• 1tsp brown sugar
• 1tbsp hoisin
• 1tsp vegetable oil
• Thumb-sized ginger
• 1 garlic clove

Method

1. Cut fillet or steak into really thin pieces as shown above.
2. Evenly coat fillet pieces with cornstarch.
3. Heat a wok with some oil and then add well-coated fillet pieces when hot. Fry until crispy.
4. Drain crispy beef and leave to cool.
5. In a clean wok, add vegetable oil then the diced/minced garlic and ginger. Simmer the garlic and ginger for a few seconds, then add soy sauce, hoisin sauce, and brown sugar. Let simmer until bubbly.
6. Add in crispy beef and coat well in the sauce for a few seconds before taking off heat.
7. Enjoy with rice or by itself.