Asian dishes won the hearts of our fellow citizens. This is no longer surprising. And if you study the recipes of some of them, and then conduct a tasting in the family circle, you can inadvertently join the number of fans of Asian cuisine. Today you will learn how to cook your own beef in soy sauce in Chinese. The dish has every chance to become loved and desired on your dining table.
About the sauce and its substitution
Often, chefs can change the initial composition of the recipe. They add their favorite ingredients, and what they don’t like is removed from the dish. We want to warn you right away: Chinese beef in soy sauce will not be called that way if you remove this very sauce from it. Many do not like the taste of seasoning. But, as lovers of this meat assure, over time, the taste of soy sauce becomes familiar. Therefore, we do not replace it with anything else.
So, we will cook beef in soy sauce in Chinese, and recipes with photos of ready-made dishes will whet your appetite and give determination in culinary achievements.
By the way, it is not necessary to use salt in a dish with soy sauce: it contains a sufficient amount of it.
Recipe number 1 - beef with speck
A simple recipe in terms of product range. There are few ingredients here:
- soft part of beef - 600-700 grams;
- garlic - 3 prongs;
- ginger - 1 teaspoon (for this recipe for beef in soy sauce in Chinese we use fresh root, grated on a fine grater);
- soy sauce - 3-4 tablespoons;
- lean oil without aromatization - 2-4 tablespoons;
- generous pinch of red pepper;
- sesame seeds - 1 teaspoon.
Technological process
The Chinese recipe for beef in soy sauce is actually quite simple. But we will describe each step in more detail in order to avoid unforeseen accidents.
First, prepare the meat. As usual - rinse, remove excess moisture. Cut the flesh into long thin slices that look like strips. Their length is not less than 4-5 centimeters. Correct cutting - along the fiber.
Peel the garlic. To grind it we use a sharp knife. Turn garlic cloves into thin circles. For greater authenticity, we do not use a press in any case.
In a deep dish, mix beef, pepper, garlic and soy sauce. Here we send a spoonful of grated ginger. Marinate the meat for at least half an hour.
Chinese style beef soy sauce
Experts say that roasting meat is a very important mission. Only a properly fried product can justify its name.
We take out the garlic from the dishes with beef. Yes, the lesson is not pleasant, but if you cook meat and garlic together, the spicy vegetable will turn into coal pieces. We put all the garlic in a separate bowl.
We heat a frying pan with a thick bottom and high sides. Pour vegetable oil to the bottom. Glow it. We spread the garlic in this oil and fry it for literally 1-2 minutes, no more. Take out of the pan.
Now the meat pieces are sent to sizzling vegetable fat. Cooking over high heat. During frying, beef must be constantly mixed. At this time, a large amount of juice and marinade will come out of the meat. They will foam and hiss. Do not back down - in three minutes everything will normalize.
Now we will roast our Chinese beef marinated in soya sauce to blush. To give beauty it is enough, without stirring, to hold the meat for a minute. Then mix and stand again for a minute.
Done! Can be served. When serving, sprinkle with sesame seeds or pour with your favorite sauce.
Recipe number 2 - beef with vegetables
The first dish was great. However, not everyone likes to eat meat alone. There is a way out of this situation. Asian cuisine has many options for cooking beef in Chinese soy sauce. One of them is meat with vegetables. Component List:
- beef - 500-600 grams;
- bell pepper - 3 pieces (if you want a brighter dish - add colorful peppers);
- green beans - 300 grams;
- onions - 2 pieces;
- garlic - 2-7 teeth;
- soy sauce - 100 milliliters;
- vegetable oil, not having an aroma, - 130 milliliters;
- apple (or rice) vinegar - 30 milliliters;
- potato starch - 100-130 grams;
- ground pepper (red and black) - a pinch;
- dry mustard - optional;
- salt is optional.
How to cook
Let's make a marinade. Mix soy sauce, three crushed garlic cloves and vinegar in a deep cup.
We wash and clean from inedible elements beef tenderloin. Cut the meat into thin, long slices. We spread the prepared beef in the marinade, sprinkling pepper and mustard powder. We set the meat aside for forty minutes.
While it is pickling, we need to prepare all the vegetables. Peel the onion. Shred it in half rings. We clean the seeds from the pepper and, after washing it, cut into long narrow strips. If you have green beans in your recipe, cut each pod into three or four parts.
The meat is pickled. Bread pieces in starch and, having warmed a frying pan with vegetable oil, fry beef. The oil should hide the bottom by one and a half centimeters. Fry over high heat. So that the meat does not stick together, mix the pieces as soon as they seize in boiling oil. We prepare the product for 12-15 minutes.
We take out the fried strips of beef and put it in another bowl. We need the oil left over from frying. We will cook vegetables on it. Put the bell pepper, mix and fry for one minute. Add the onion and fry it again for a minute with pepper. We take out the vegetables with a slotted spoon and send it to the meat.
Fry the beans in the remaining oil. The cooking time is 3-4 minutes. We spread it to meat with other vegetables.
Add the remaining oil from the pan and a tablespoon of fresh. Crush the garlic (3-4 teeth). Sub-powder of ground red pepper. Mix everything and warm the beef in soy sauce in Chinese for 3-5 minutes. You can serve with rice, funchose or eat as an independent dish.