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My Shallow Fried Ginger Beef

February 8, 2013 by Suzie the Foodie 4 Comments



With Chinese New Year coming up and me happy to celebrate it every day of the year, I was excited to try making (and eating) ginger beef for the first time.

I know I have mentioned it before but I have to mention again the awesomeness that is the cookbook The Everything Chinese Cookbook: From Wonton Soup to Sweet and Sour Chicken-300 Succulent Recipes from the Far East (Everything Series). Their version is deep fried and I did not want to use 5 cups of oil to make one dish so this is my version which is pretty much the same recipe, just using a different cooking technique.

The Recipe: The Marinade

My Shallow Fried Ginger Beef

I love that you can start and finish the marinading process in the time it takes to do all the prep for the recipe. No planning ahead, woot!

The marinade for the 3/4 lb of flank or sirloin steak cut along the grain into matchstick strips is: 2 tbsp soy sauce, 1 tsp rice wine (mirin or use sherry), 1/2 tsp sugar and 1 tsp of ginger juice.

My Shallow Fried Ginger Beef

Ginger juice? Yes, I had the same question. Not something at my store. Thankfully there is a note on the page that says, “Ginger juice is easy to make – just grate the ginger and squeeze out the fresh juice.”

Too easy to be true? Not at all! I couldn’t believe it, I managed to get the juice out of the pulp and put it in the marinade. No problem.

My Shallow Fried Ginger Beef

Coat beef and marinade for 30 minutes. I let it sit at room temperature.

The Sauce

My Shallow Fried Ginger Beef

To make the sauce for the dish combine 6 tbsp soy sauce, 3 tsp rice wine (mirin or use sherry again) 5 tsp sugar, 1 tsp ginger juice, 2 tsp sesame oil, up to 1/4 tsp chili flakes and 1/2 cup of water.

The Batter

My Shallow Fried Ginger Beef

Combine 3 tbsp flour, 2 tbsp cornstarch and 2 medium eggs.

My Shallow Fried Ginger Beef

Whisk until less lumpy.

Bringing it together

My Shallow Fried Ginger Beef

For complete “mis en place” have 1 clove of garlic and 1 coin of ginger minced. Also have 1 tsp of cornstarch ready to add 4 tsp of cold water to to make the slurry. Now is also a good time to start making your rice and warm up your oven to around 250F.

My Shallow Fried Ginger Beef

Coat the beef in the batter.

My Shallow Fried Ginger Beef

Add enough canola oil to a hot pan to cover the bottom. Add enough beef to brown without crowding the pan too much.

My Shallow Fried Ginger Beef

After it has browned (a couple of minutes) turn over and brown on the other side. Put strips onto paper towel, season with some salt and pepper and put in the oven to keep warm. It took me 3 batches to cook all the beef.

My Shallow Fried Ginger Beef

Put all the beef in the oven (not overlapping but side-by-side) and add a little more oil if needed. Saute the garlic and ginger for a minute and then add the sauce.

My Shallow Fried Ginger Beef

Once the sauce is hot and bubbling, add water to cornstarch and whisk the slurry into the sauce.

My Shallow Fried Ginger Beef

The sauce will get all bubbly and will thicken.

My Shallow Fried Ginger Beef

Add the beef to the sauce and toss to coat.

Foodie Results

My Shallow Fried Ginger Beef

I served the ginger beef over some rice and peas and it was delicious! A little sweet, which seems to be a bit of a trend with this book, but wow, so yummy. That ginger juice makes all the difference. Adds so much flavour and a bit of heat.

I wish the beef had gotten crispy but no, it didn’t. But I don’t care, I loved it. You can go ahead and deep fry if you want but I loved it as-is. You can omit the chili flakes if you do not want the spice and I promise, it will still be super tasty.

Made this way, I give this recipe four and a half out of five wooden spoons. Thanks The Everything Chinese Cookbook for the inspiration! I am learning so much every time I make something from your cookbook. Not to mention, I am totally falling in love with the food.

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Comments

  1. Baking is my Zen...sweet nibbles for the soul says

    February 8, 2013 at 8:09 pm

    BOOKMARKED! Nice photo tutorial…

    Carmen
    http://bakingismyzen.wordpress.com

    Reply
  2. Helene Peloquin says

    February 8, 2013 at 10:42 pm

    I haven’t seen that cookbook but I should make this dish because it looks crazy good. Thanks for sharing.

    Reply
  3. Debra She Who Seeks says

    February 9, 2013 at 4:13 am

    First I’ve ever heard of ginger juice! The meal looks great.

    Reply
  4. Rana says

    February 9, 2013 at 5:04 am

    THis looks so, so good. Thanks for posting it, I can hardly wait to try it myself.

    Reply

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