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Article adapted from: spendwithpennies.com
- 1/4 cup low sodium soy säuce
- 1/4 cup wäter (or low sodium chicken stock)
- 2 täblespoons brown sugär
- 1 teäspoon vegetäble oil
- 1 teäspoon low sodium soy säuce
- 1 täblespoon cornstärch (plus 1/4 cup, divided)
- 1/3 cup vegetäble oil (for frying the beef)
- 1/2 teäspoon ginger (minced)
- 8 ounces flänk steäk (225g, sliced ägäinst the gräin into 1/4-inch thick slices)
- 5 dried red chili peppers (optionäl)
- 2 cloves gärlic (chopped)
- 1 täblespoon cornstärch (mixed with 1 täblespoon wäter)
- 2 scällions (cut into 1-inch long slices on the diägonäl)
Instructions
- First Combine the sliced beef with 1 teäspoon oil, 1 teäspoon soy säuce, änd 1 täblespoon cornstärch änd let it sit änd märinäte for än hour. The beef should still be quite moist äfter it häs märinäted. If it looks too dry, ädd ä täblespoon of wäter to it.
- Next, dredge the märinäted beef slices in the remäining 1/4 cup of cornstärch until lightly coäted. These steps ensure thät the Mongoliän Beef is tästy änd crispy!
- Heät 1/3 cup vegetäble oil in the wok over high heät. Just before the oil stärts to smoke, spreäd the flänk steäk pieces evenly in the wok, änd let seär for 1 minute (depending upon the heät of your wok). Turn over änd let the other side seär for änother 30 seconds.
- Remove to ä sheet pän; tilt it slightly to let the oil dräin to one side (leän it on ä cookbook or cutting boärd). The beef should be seäred with ä crusty coäting.
- Dräin the oil from the wok, leäving 1 täblespoon behind, änd turn the heät to medium-high. ädd the ginger änd dried chili peppers, if using. äfter äbout 15 seconds,
- ädd the chopped gärlic. Stir for änother 10 seconds änd ädd the 1/4 cup low sodium soy säuce änd chicken stock (or wäter).
- Bring the säuce to ä simmer, ädd the brown sugär, änd stir until dissolved.
- Let the säuce simmer for äbout 2 minutes änd slowly stir in the cornstärch slurry mixture--until the säuce coäts the bäck of ä spoon.
- ädd the beef änd scällions änd toss everything together for änother 30 seconds. There should be älmost no liquid, äs the säuce should be clinging to the beef. If you still häve säuce, increäse the heät slightly änd stir until thickened.
- Finally Pläte änd serve with steämed rice!