🍜 Beef with spring onions and black bean sauce 🖉
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Beef stir-fry with spring onions and a thick black bean sauce.
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⏱ 30 minutes
Added by cp
Jamie's Ministry of Food, p69
Ingredients
sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
200 g long-grain or basmati rice
230 g sirloin or rump steak
thumb-sized piece fresh ginger, finely sliced
2 cloves garlic, finely sliced
1/2 fresh red chilli, finely sliced
2 spring onions
small bunch coriander
2 tbsp sesame oil
groundnut oil
2 tbsp black bean sauce
2 tbsp soy sauce
2 limes ( 1/2 a lime if not serving with wedges of lime )
1 egg
Instructions
To prepare
- Bring a pan of salted water to the boil, add the rice and cook.
- Drain the rice, run it under a cold tap to cool, then dry out in the fridge.
- Trim excess fat from the steak and slice into finger-sized strips.
- Peel and finely slice the ginger and garlic.
- Finely slice the chilli.
- Cut the ends off the spring onions and finely slice.
- Pick the coriander leaves and finely chop the coriander stalks.
- Put ginger, garlic, chilli, spring onions, coriander stalks and steak strips in a bowl.
- Add the sesame oil and mix everything together.
To cook
- Preheat a large pan or work until very hot, then add some groundnut oil and swirl around.
- Add all the chopped ingredients from the bowl.
- Stir-fry for 2 minutes.
- Add the black bean sauce and stir in 1 tbsp of soy sauce and the juice of half a lime.
- Taste and season with black pepper and soy sauce.
- Remove the pan from the hear, transfer everything to a bowl and cover with tin foil.
- Wipe the pan with kitchen roll and put back on the heat.
- Add groundnut oil and swirl around.
- Crack in the egg and 1 tbsp of soy sauce - stir a lot.
- Stir in chilled rice.
- Mix for a few minutes until the rice is hot, then season with soy sauce.
To serve
- Divide the rice between two bowls.
- Add the meat and sauce and sprinkle over the coriander leaves