Ginger Beef Recipe


It’s time for more Chinese food; here is a delicious recipe for ginger beef. Ginger beef is crispy strips of steak tossed with a sweet and spicy sauce. If you are a fan of
Mongolian beef, you will love this recipe. As pretty much always, I deep fried the steak strips but they can be fried in the wok as well in about 1 inch of oil. This dish uses vegetables such as green onions and carrots but you could add others as well. It calls for 3 teaspoons of red pepper flakes but you can add more or less to adjust it to your tastes. Serve with white rice. Enjoy.

Ingredients:
1lb sirloin steak (sliced into thin strips)                                                                                             
¾ cup cornstarch       
½ cup water
2 eggs
1 large carrot (julienned)
3 green onions (chopped)
¼ cup fresh ginger (minced)
5 garlic cloves (minced)
Canola oil (for frying)
3 tablespoons soy sauce
4 tablespoons rice vinegar
1 tablespoon sesame oil
½ cup sugar
3 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes

Cooking Instructions:

Step 1:
In a bowl add cornstarch, gradually add water while whisking. Beat eggs into cornstarch/water mixture. Add sliced steak strips and toss to coat. Pour 1 inch of oil into a wok, heat oil to 375 degrees or until oil is hot enough to fry the steak strips. Add a quarter of the steak strips at a time to the wok. Separate with a fork and cook stirring frequently until crispy. Drain on paper towels. Repeat until all the steak is gone (*you can also use a deep fryer for this).
Step 2: Drain all oil out of the wok except for 1 tablespoon. Add green onion, carrots, ginger and garlic. Stir fry for 30 seconds-1 minute.

Step 3: In a small bowl combine soy sauce, rice vinegar, sesame oil, sugar and red pepper flakes. Add to the wok and bring the mixture to a boil. Add beef, heat thorough and serve.
(Makes 2 Servings)

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    17 Comments so far

    1. giz on August 13th, 2009

      Thank you so much for posting this recipe. Ginger beef is my absolute favourite dish. I’ll be making this very soon.

    2. greg_t on August 13th, 2009

      Made it today – great recipe. A bit spicy though with 3 tspns of crushed red pepper. But great otherwise! Also, my meat turned to be too crispy – but that’s my own fault :-)

    3. mary on August 14th, 2009

      i just stumbled upon this website when i googled a recipe and wow this blog is awesome. i will def try like 90% of these recipes. thanks so much. the pics are awesome too btw!

    4. Gabe on August 14th, 2009

      Looks absolutely delicious!

      I know what I amgoing to cook tonight.

      This one is added to my poersonnal book, thank you!!

    5. Miakoda on August 14th, 2009

      Ginger stir-fry recipes are the best! There’s something so fragrant and lovely about them. Looks great :)

    6. Karine on August 14th, 2009

      This looks delicious! I love beef and ginger… I am making this recipe next week!

    7. gaga on August 15th, 2009

      I don’t use ginger nearly enough as I should, it’s such a great flavor and goes so well with beef. This looks great!

    8. Peggy on August 16th, 2009

      sounds delicious!! will try soon!!

    9. HoneyB on August 17th, 2009

      I love your Chinese recipes!!

    10. Karine on August 17th, 2009

      And yeah I made it, that was delicious and I published a post about it!

    11. Nick Frost on August 21st, 2009

      Made it last night Bobby, its yet another delicious chinese recipe! Fantastic mate keep them coming :)

    12. Brooke on September 16th, 2009

      Hey Bobby-
      Is there anything I can use to replace rice vinegar?

    13. Bobby on September 16th, 2009

      brooke- sure, try cider vinegar.

    14. Heinz on October 28th, 2009

      Looks interesting, with some modifications for speed I’ll give it a try for my food vending business, thank you.

    15. Kristy on July 28th, 2011

      This recipe is one of my faves, I make it and serve it over chinese noodles. I will never order ginger beef again, this is so fantastic, mmmmmm did I mention how awesome this recipe is??

    16. michelle on March 5th, 2012

      A 1/4 CUP of ginger?

    17. Bobby on March 5th, 2012

      michelle- yes 1/4 cup of fresh ginger.

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