Our Favorite Beef Stir Fry

Beef Stir Fry

A beef stir fry can be a very succulent and juicy dish if it is sautéed perfectly with a very savory sauce.  This is a great solution if you want to have beef for dinner mixed with vegetables.  Because stir fries are now very popular in the globe, the internet would be the best source for wonderful recipes for home cooking.  Many housewives depend on cookery sites in the internet for their recipes and often choose beef stir fries as their favorite dishes for weeknights.  A single slice of steak can even be extended to serve two to three persons as long as you have the vegetables and stir fry sauce at hand for the cooking.   Simply cut the steak into bite sizes and with the vegetables, throw them in high flame in your wok and then sauté it with your favorite stir fry sauce, then you have dinner in your table.   We love beef as protein for our stir fries at home.  Maybe because we love the aromatic fragrance of beef when they are cooked especially if they are sautéed with the main ingredient for stir frying which is the soy sauce.  The taste makes it very familiar to what we have acquired through the years of stir frying.   We will share in this article a traditional beef stir fry that we always do at home.  This recipe has been with our family for more than three generations.  We love it so much and hope you will like it too.

TENDER JUICY BEEF STIR FRY:

WHAT YOU NEED TO HAVE:

• One pound of half a kilo of beef fillet
• black pepper, please ground
• ½ cup soy sauce or tamari
• ¼ cup honey or Mirin
• 1 tbsp brown sugar
• Canola oil or olive oil as needed
• 1 Spanish onion, please cut them into quarters
• 2 sprigs of spring onions, please chop them
• 200g green beans, please them cut them into halves or snow peas if you prefer
• 10 small button mushrooms, please cut them into quarters
• 4 cloves of garlic, please slice thinly
• 4 slices of fresh ginger, please dice them

HOW TO MAKE IT:

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• Start by slicing the beef fillet thinly and season well with freshly ground black pepper.  The thin slices will make the beef tender when cooked at high flame.
• In a small mixing bowl or cup, mix together the soy sauce, honey and sugar and stir till smooth.
• Begin frying by heating oil in a wok or large skillet over high flame in your American stove.  Add the oil and when it just starts to smoke, fry the beef slices in batches on single layer.
• Fry for only 10 seconds on each side to brown the beef.  Please turn over the beef cuts to brown the other side.  Transfer to a plate and repeat with the remaining beef until everything is cooked.  Reserve.
• Return the wok and add more oil in it.
• Then add the onion, the spring onions and the beans. Stir fry until the onion has separated and begins to caramelize.
• Then add the mushrooms and continue to stir for two of minutes.
• Then add the garlic and the ginger and stir to combine.
• Then add back the beef to the wok plus the soy sauce mixture.
• Toss and stir carefully until the sauce thickens and coats with the meat and vegetables.
• Serve this beef stir fry while hot with steamed rice.

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THE AMAZING BEEF STIR FRY

Beef Stir Fry

In everyone’s list of menus, you could always find a recipe for beef stir fry.  A balanced menu would suggest all types of protein in every other means of cooking to provide a variety in ones dining experience.  It would be very dull moments if one takes the same diet everyday no matter if it is perfectly cooked every time, to find yourself losing your appetite upon seeing the same dish every time on your table.  That is why we always share various types of recipes in the internet for you to have that variable experience.  We believe that in this manner, we have contributed to a happier dining experience for your families. 

In this article, we are sharing a beef recipe that is so delicious and delectable you won’t stop eating till you are told.  Every time this recipe is done in the house, there are no left-overs on the platters.  Everything is wiped out clean after dinner.  This is very easy and quick to prepare and you can surprise your family by serving this on their table.   Have fun and enjoy making this recipe.  Let us do this together now.

STIR FRIED VEGGIES AND BEEF:

WHAT YOU NEED TO HAVE:

• One pound lean beef, please slice them thinly
• One half cup soy sauce
• One fourth cup sherry or cooking wine
• One cup onions, please slice them
• One cup celery, please slice them diagonally
• One cup broccoli florets, remove stems and please slice them
• One package of hot stir fry mix, this is flavoring mixture you can buy in Asian stores
• Twelve lg.  mushrooms, please slice them
• One fourth cup vegetable oil
• Two small garlic cloves, please mince them
• One tablespoon of cornstarch
• One medium size tomato, please chop them for you garnish
• One and a half cup of water
• Water chestnuts (optional) please use one can, drain and discard liquid. 

HOW TO MAKE IT:

• Begin by preparing your beef protein.  In a small mixing bowl, mix the beef strips with the soy sauce and the sherry.  Coat the beef well with the ingredients and cover the bowl.  Marinate the beef for thirty minutes at room temperature.
• Next, you can prepare the vegetables.  Please sliced, chopped or cut the vegetables according to the instructions in your ingredient’s list above.  Please keep them in separate piles near your stove for easy reach when frying.  Set them aside and reserved for frying. 
• To begin your frying, heat your wok or a large skillet over high heat in your American stove.  Add the vegetable oil and wait till it gets hot enough. 
• When the oil starts to smoke, add the garlic and sauté for a few seconds until it gets fragrant. 
• Then remove the beef from the marinade and add to the wok without the marinade but reserve it for later.  Cook and stir until the meat turns brown in color.  Make sure that the meat is brown all over by stirring them on high heat. 
• Then without removing the beef, add the onions and celery, the broccoli and mushrooms to the wok. Then cover the wok and let it steam for about five minutes, until the veggies are tender but still crisp. 
• Then mix water with cornstarch and the stir fry mix in a cup or a small bowl, and add the reserve marinade.  Pour the mixture to the pan. Continue to heat the wok until boiling point.
• Then lower the heat and let it simmer until the sauce thickens.
• Transfer the cooked dish to a platter and garnish with your sliced tomato.
• Serve immediately while it is hot and enjoy it with your hot steaming rice. 
• This beef stir fry recipe is easy and fast to prepare.  Have fun and continue stir frying too.

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This Sesame Beef Stir Fry Is An Easy Chinese Recipe

Beef Stir Fry

This sesame beef stir fry is a creation from scratches in our kitchen and we wanted to share it in this article for added fun and adventure in your kitchens.  Provided you are not a vegetarian, it is important to include red meat in your child’s diet, as red meat provides the richest source of iron, and iron deficiency is the most common nutritional deficiency in children today. This Sesame Beef stir fry is an easy Chinese recipe that will introduce new flavors exactly the same taste and soft texture as proper steak fillet.  It can be prepared in three minutes and cooked in twelve minutes.  The recipe can yield four servings on regular sizes, and it is also good for kids aging four to ten years old.  Our creativity led us to create this recipe starting from scratch, but with basis on Chinese cooking.

THE INGREDIENTS:

• One tablespoon of sesame oil
• One garlic clove, crushed
• One medium carrot cut into matchsticks
• 100 grams of baby sweet corn cut into quarters
• One half yellow bell pepper, seeded and cut into matchsticks
• One courgette (approximately one hundred grams), cut into matchsticks
• Three hundred grams of beef fillet, or rump steak cut into very fine strips
• One tablespoon of cornstarch or corn flour
• One hundred fifty ml beef stock
• Two tablespoons of dark brown sugar
• Two tablespoons of soy sauce
• A few drops of Tabasco sauce
• One tablespoon of sesame seeds

THE PROCEDURE:

• Start by cooking the veggies first.  Heat your wok or a large skillet over high heat on your American stove.  Add the oil and wait till it is hot.
• Then add the garlic first and stir for a few seconds, then add the carrots, the baby sweet corn and the courgette.  Stir fry for another three to four minutes until the veggies are tender crisp.
• Then carefully add the beef strips and continue to stir fry for another four to five minutes.  Make sure that the beef are well distributed in the wok and in stir frying, make sure that most of them pass through the center of the wok where the heat is.  Do not burn the ingredients.
• The mix the corn flour or cornstarch with a tablespoon of water and stir to the beef stock.  Add this mixture to the pan with the soy sauce, the sugar and the Tabasco and sesame seeds.
• Heat until it boils then lower the heat to simmer till the sauce thickens.  Taste-test the sauce if it is not so spicy for the kids. If spicy, add a few tablespoons of water.
• Serve immediately while hot.  Great to pair with steamed rice.
• Enjoy this beef stir fry and it is easy and fun to do in your own kitchen.   If you are not serving kids, you can be creative by adding more Tabasco sauce for added heat.  Some even like more heat so they use red pepper flakes according to their desire.   If you are familiar with the Sriracha sauce, it had more bite and heat in it.  You can substitute Tabasco with it and enjoy the heat you desire.  This great to go with bear too.  Have fun and enjoy this dish at home.  

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Simple and Quick Beef Stir Fry Recipe

Beef Stir Fry

There are several recipes for beef stir fry in the cookbooks but sometimes, we grow tired of choosing which one is best for tonight.  Here is a simple and quick beef recipe that can alter your routine in cooking stir fries and suggest a new dimension on preparing a succulent and fantastic meal for the evening dinner. 

Beef stir fries are the easiest meal to prepare since beef can easily blend with any type of vegetables and can contributing on its meat flavor to any combination of veggies blended with the special sauces.  It can go well with saltiness, sweetness, bitterness and spiciness.   Let us start cooking then.

THE STEAK AND POTATO STIR FRY:  The recipe can serve four persons. It can also be prepared in less than 60 minutes.

INGREDIENTS:

• twelve ounces of well trimmed steak, halved lengthwise and cut at an angles into one fourth inch wide slices
• Worcestershire sauce, three tablespoons only, but is desired more, you can add according to your taste (for marinating the beef)
• one teaspoon of minced garlic
• three tablespoons of vegetable oil, plus one teaspoon of oil divided
• six medium size green onions cut into pieces
• one cup of frozen whole kernel corn
• three cups of frozen potatoes O’Brien, thawed (wedges)
• one half teaspoon salt

THE PROCEDURE:

• Before everything begins, mix the steak with the Worcestershire sauce and the garlic in a mixing bowl.
• Then prepare the other ingredients according to the instruction in the list of ingredients as well.
• Heat a wok or a large skillet over high heat on your American stove or Dutch oven.  Add one tablespoon of oil to the pan and swirl to coat the pan’s bottom.   As it is about to start smoking, add the beef mixture to the pan and stir fry for one and one half to two minutes until the beef steak is no longer pink on the insides.  Spoon the beef and the juices out of the pan to a plate and set aside.
• Reheat your wok and add one teaspoon of vegetable oil.  Then you can start cooking the vegetables adding the green onions first then the frozen corn kernels.   Continue stirring them and toss them if you can to cook them evenly.  Stir fry for one and one half minutes until the vegetables are crisp tender.  Then slowly add them to the plate of the beef. 
• Lastly, reheat your wok and add two tablespoons of vegetable oil to the skillet.  Then once hot enough, add the potatoes to the wok and stir fry them for three to three and one half minutes till the potatoes are tender. 
• Finally pour in the juices from the bowl holding the beef and vegetables and continue stir frying the potatoes for one minute more.  Scrap up the brown bits from the bottom of the pan and keep the potatoes stirred at the same time. 
• When the potatoes starts to turn golden brown, add back the beef and vegetables to the pan.  Stir to combine and then sprinkle with salt according to your taste.  Stir and toss for one minute more till everything is blended and heated through.  
• Serve immediately while it is hot.  It can go well with steam cook rice. 
• Others prefer gravy on the side.   You can prepare the gravy separately and serve it  side by side with this dish.
• Enjoy this simple and fast beef stir fry recipe at home. 

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Beef Stir Fry

Beef Stir Fry

Beef stir fry recipes are commonly describe as a combination of a little beef strips with a lot of vegetables sautéed by a choice of herbs and spicy sauces.   These recipes are made popular through Chinese Cuisines and Oriental restaurants that go very well with steamed cooked rice.  
We are not lovers of Chinese food but children like my son have learned to like them so we have been trying a few new dishes for him.  There are some we like but there are really those that we don’t think we will ever like.

The biggest problems with Chinese food are its salt content.  Our blood pressures have slowly been rising for a few years now and so we are trying to control the amount of salt in our food hoping to avoid future preventive medication and maintenance.  So in our research, we found this recipe that we believe is healthy yet still tasty and savory to our taste. This one is easy to make and definitely has a lot less salt than most recipes. 

THE BEEF AND BROCCOLI STIR FRY RECIPE.

INGREDIENTS:

• One half cup cold water
• Two tablespoons of cornstarch
• Two tablespoons of soy sauce (choose the low sodium type)
• One pound of stir fry beef (ready cut into strips)
• One tablespoon of vegetables oil or canola oil
• One fourth teaspoon of freshly grated ginger
• One head of broccoli. cleaned and cut
• One cup of carrot matchsticks (using a large carrot, peel and cut into halves then sliced into matchsticks)
• One cup of orange juice (freshly squeezed if you have them on hand)
• Four cups of hot steamed rice

THE PROCEDURE:

• In a mixing bowl, combine together the water, the soy sauce and the cornstarch.  Stir them until smooth and the cornstarch is dissolved leaving no lumps.  Then rest for frying.
• Soaked the broccoli florets on warm water for a few minutes to soften.  Drain the water and pat dry the florets.
• To begin frying, heat a wok over medium high heat on your American stove.  Add the vegetable oil and wait till it is hot. 
• Then you can add the beef strips to the wok and stir fry them till lightly browned.  
• Then you can add the garlic and the ginger and continue stirring.  Then add the carrots to the wok.
• Simmer until the beef is browned perhaps for 2 to 3 minutes. 
• Without removing the beef strips, add the broccoli florets and stir fry until the beef is thoroughly cooked and the broccoli and carrots are as tender as you desire.  This method differs from the other method of removing the beef, before stir frying the veggies after which the beef strips are returned. Try it, it is simple and easy.
• Then add the orange juice and heat the wok until boiling. 
• Then stir in the cornstarch mixture and cook for one to two minutes more until the sauce thickens.
• Serve immediately while hot over hot steamed rice.  This is a saucy dish and you will enjoy them well.
• You can prepare this beef stir fry in your kitchen in exactly 30 minutes.  Have fun and continue stir frying too. 

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Beef Stir Fry

Beef Stir Fry

The Teriyaki Beef Stir fry Recipe is a popular recipe in Pine Beach, New Jersey, where people there serve this delicious dish more frequently.  You can also substitute the beef with chicken, shrimp, or tofu and add a healthy mixture of water chestnuts, some bean sprouts and garnish it with ground nuts and oh walah, a delicious stir fry recipe to go.  This beef fry recipe is very healthy, quick and simple to prepare but most of all diabetic friendly.

INGREDIENTS:

THE MARINADE:

• ½ cup water
• 1/3 cup reduced-sodium soy sauce
• ¼ cup honey
• four garlic cloves, minced
• one tablespoon of fresh minced gingerroot

THE OTHER INGREDIENTS:

• one beef flank steak (3/4 pound), sliced into thin strips across the grain for tender results
• two teaspoons of canola oil or vegetable oil
• two cups of broccoli florets
• one medium onion, chopped into quarters
• ½ cup of chopped green pepper, medium in size
• ½ cup of chopped red pepper
• one cup of sliced fresh mushrooms
• one teaspoon of cornstarch or corn flour
• Cook some rice

THE PROCEDURE:

• In a small bowl, combine the first 5 sauce ingredients; the ½ cup water; the 1/3 cup soy sauce; the ¼ cup honey; the four minced garlic cloves; the one tablespoon minced gingerroot.  Pour 1/2 cup of the mixture into a ziplock plastic bag and add the beef strips.  Seal the bag and turn the bag over to coat the beef with the mixture.  Refrigerate for at least an hour, but for a better turnout if marinated overnight to give enough time for the meat to absorb the sauce.   Please cover and refrigerate the remaining marinade. 
• Remove the beef from the refrigerator and drain and discard marinade from the beef. 
• Heat a wok on medium high heat or if you are using a large non-stick skillet, heat it on medium heat and pour the vegetable oil.  Once oil is hot enough, add the beef and fry in batches in batches for 2-3 minutes until it is no longer pink in color, but almost cooked through.   Remove the beef from the wok and set aside on a plate.
• Be sure to season your oil before stir frying your beef (when wok is hot, add oil, and once it starts to smoke, add garlic and ginger to season the oil, and stir till fragrant). 
• Heat the pan again and add oil.  Once the oil is hot, add the garlic and the gingerroot.  Stir till the garlic turns brown in color and add the vegetables.   In adding the vegetables, start with the broccoli florets, then the onion and the peppers last.   Continue stir frying for about four minutes till the broccoli is tender and crisp.  
• Then return the beef to the pan.  Stir and toss to completely mix the beef and vegetables.
• Finally, add the cornstarch and the reserved marinade into the pan.   Simply bring to a boil by not cover the pan.  Stir and toss the ingredients until the sauce thickens. 
• Serve hot with cooked rice if desired.   This recipe yield approximately three servings.    
• Have fun and fancy your kitchen with these beef stir fry recipe at home.

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