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Stir-fry - the quick and easy supper
Stir-fry - the quick and easy supper
Created by urbanfoodie, Thursday, 06 August 2009
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Some evenings you just havent got time to cook but you don't fancy a ready meal or a takeaway. There's only one thing for it - stir-fry.

Ingredients
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Serves
2
  • 200g highest quality lean beef steak
  • 1 carrot
  • 2 small heads pak choi
  • 2 or 3 spring onions
  • small thumb of ginger
  • 1 chilli (I like a big red one)
  • 1 fat clove garlic
  • glug of soy sauce
  • glug of dry sherry
  • splash of seasame oil
  • glug groundnut (or other flavourless) oil, for cooking
Method/steps

1 Cut steak into very fine strips, chop garlic, ginger and chili finely - if you're having rice I'd put it on now too
2 Mix in beef strips with garlic, ginger, chili, seasame oil, sherry and soy sauce, leave to marinade whilst you prepare veg
3 Wash and chop veg into bite size strips
4 Heat the groundnut oil in a wok until very hot, swirl round to cover the whole of the wok
Open some windows, its about to get smoky - add spring onions and carrots to the pan cook for 30 seconds
5 Add pak choi and then 15 seconds later the beef with its marinade
6 Cook until beef is just no longer pink, serve with rice and chopsticks - they're much more fun than forks

Additional tips

This is beef stir-fry is one of my favourites, you don't need much meat with stir-fry so you can afford a really good cut. You marinade for just a few minutes whilst you prepare the rest, but with delicate meat or fish that is plenty, I'm not that up on cooking with tofu but I'm pretty sure that the same principles will apply here too.

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