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Mongolian Beef #2
This is a spicy beef dish with a heavy sauce, containing soy sauce, sugar, sesame oil, crushed red pepper, and lots of garlic.
Mix meat with meat marinade. Combine sauce ingredients separately.
Heat wok or cast-iron skillet (deep sided if possible) and add oil. When oil is hot, add the dried chili peppers. Cook stirring constantly for 30 seconds, then add steak and marinade (but not the sauce mixture). Cook stirring constantly until the steak is cooked, then Pour in sauce mixture and let it reduce for 2 minutes over high heat, still mixing. Add the cornstarch/water mixture and cook until the sauce is of the right consistency. Add lastly the green onions and cook for a minute longer.
If desired to thicken sauce, mix 1 TBsp corn starch with 2 TBsp water. Add to wok and cook down.
Serve over rice, or puffed bean threads, or fried rice noodles (recommended).
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Mongolian Beef #3
Yield: 1 Serving
Instructions
Cut beef across grain into long, thin slices.
Combine 1 tablespoon each soy sauce and cornstarch with garlic in a medium bowl; stir in beef. Let stand 10 minutes.
Meanwhile, combine water, remaining 2 tablespoons soy sauce, 2 1/2 teaspoons cornstarch, sesame seed, sugar and red pepper; set aside.
Heat 1 tablespoon oil in hot wok or large skillet over high heat. Add beef and stir fry 1 minute; remove.
Heat remaining 1 tablespoon oil in same pan. Add carrots and white parts of green onions; stir-fry 2 minutes. Add green onion topsl stir-fry 1 minute.
Add beef and soy sauce mixture. Cook and stir until sauce boils and thickens.
Serve immediately with rice.
Mongolian Beef #4
Yield: 4 Servings