Description
Chinese Beef Fillet Chop Suey. A delicious Chinese-American recipe that utilizes beef with water chestnuts, onions, mushroom, and bok choy.
Ingredients
Beef
- 500 gr beef fillet (Rump steak also works well) cheaper cuts don’t
- 1 tsp bicarbonate soda
- 1 large carrot
- 1 onion
- ¼ red, green, and yellow peppers
- 2 cups sliced mushrooms
- Sliced Bok Choy
- 100 gr water chestnuts
- 100 gr bamboo shoots
- 200 gr bean sprouts (optional, can be omitted)
- 2 tsp garlic and ginger paste
- 1 bunch chopped spring onion for garnishing
Marinade
- 1 tsp salt
- 3 dashes of white pepper
- 1 tsp sugar
- 1 tbsp. Shaoxing rice wine (or dry sherry)
- 1 tbsp. soy sauce
- 2 tsp cornflour
- 1 tbsp. water
Sauce
- 1 tbsp. cornstarch
- 1 tbsp. light soya sauce
- 1 tbsp. Oyster sauce
- 1 tsp sesame oil
- ½ cup beef/chicken stock (or water)
Instructions
Sauce:
- Whisk all the ingredients together.
Then follow as below:
- Thinly slice beef, add bicarbonate of soda and leave for 10-15 minutes.
- Rinse thoroughly and pat dry.
- Marinade beef. Slice all vegetables thinly and place them in separate bowls.
- Heat oil in a wok and add onions with a pinch of salt to taste.
- Stir for 30 seconds.
- Add peppers and stir fry for 1 minute.
- Remove and set aside.
- Add water chestnuts and bamboo shoots with salt to taste.
- Stir for one minute and remove.
- Add a little more oil to wok add bean sprouts stir for 1 minute and remove.
- Add the mushrooms and stir fry for 1 minute. Remove.
- Add cabbage/bok choy and carrots.
- Sprinkle a little water around the edges to create a little steam.
- Add salt to taste.
- Stir for 2 minutes. Remove.
- Add 2 tbsp oil to wok.
- Add garlic and ginger stir a few seconds then add beef and stir fry.
- When beef changes color you will make a well in the center of the beef, pour in the sauce and allow it to bubble, then mix beef through.
- Add all the vegetables to the beef and mix through.
- Sprinkle with chopped spring onion, and serve with plain Jasmine rice.
Notes
Prepared, tried, and tested Melanie Kramar from The Recipe Hunter: Tried