Trying New Recipes

The other day I was searching recipes online and stumbled across this recipe called Chinese Pepper Steak.  I decided to try it out since I had most of the ingredients and I didn’t need to do a lot of prepping. The recipe turned out really good I used 2 steaks so I added 1 - 1/2 more of every ingredient. I will be posting the original recipe and write what I changed at the bottom. (This recipe is not mine)

(Original)

Ingredients:

1 Pound beef top sirloin steak

1/4 cup Soy sauce

2 Tablespoons white sugar

2 Tablespoons cornstarch

1/2 Teaspoon ground ginger

3 Tablespoons vegetable oil, divided

1 Red onion, cut into 1 inch squares

1 Green bell pepper, cut into 1 inch squares

2 Tomatoes cut into wedges

Directions:

1. Slice the steak into 1/2 inch thick slices across the grain
2. Whisk together soy sauce, sugar, cornstarch, and ginger in a bowl until the sugar has dissolved and the mixture is smooth. Place the steak into the marinade, and stir until will-coated
3. Heat 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil in a wok or large skillet over media-high head, and place 1/3 of the steak strips into the hot oil. Cook and stir until the beef is well browned, about 3 minutes and remove the beef from the wok to a bowl. Repeat twice more, with the remaining beef, and set the cooked beef aside
4. Return all the cooked beef to the hot wok, and stir in the onion. Toss the beff and onion together until the onion begins to soften, about 2 minutes, then stir in the green pepper. Cook and stir the mixture until the peppers has turned bright green and started to become tender, about 2 minutes, then add the tomatoes, stir everything together and serve.

Now here is what I did differently, for the most part everything is pretty much the same just more ingredients because I used more steak and I cooked all the meat at once instead of taking it out and repeating multiple times. I am too lazy for that.

Ingredients:

2 Beef top sirloin steak

1/4 cup and 2 tablespoon Soy sauce

3 tablespoon Sugar

2 1/2 tablespoon Cornstarch

1 teaspoon Grated ginger (I am using one from a tube)

2 tablespoon Olive oil (or cooking oil of your choice)

1 Red onion cut into 1 inch squares

2 Green bell peppers cut into 1 inch squares

1 Large tomatoes cut into wedges and then halves

1 teaspoon garlic (I am using dried garlic fresh is fine)

Directions:

1. Slice the steak into 1/2 inch thick slices across the grain
2. Whisk together soy sauce, sugar, cornstarch, and ginger in a bowl until the sugar has dissolved and the mixture is smooth. Place the steak into the marinade, and stir until will-coated
3. Let marinade for about 30 minutes; take out of fridge 10 minutes before cooking
4. Heat oil in pan add garlic stir for 30 seconds or until you can smell the garlic before the garlic starts to brown
5. Add all beef and stir fry until almost done
6. Add in onions and bell pepper cook until bell pepper is tender
7. Add tomatoes cook for another 2 minutes so that tomatoes warm up and starts to soften
8. Serve with rice.

If you are starving and don't want to wait for the meat to marinade, you can start cooking right away after mixing and coating the meat into the marinade.

I packed this for my boyfriends lunch for work.  He said he loved it!  He added sriracha and a little bit of soy sauce to his rice as well.  He really likes eating sriracha and soy sauce with white rice doesn't matter what he's eating with the white rice if he can get his hands on those 2 he will added it.

Garlic in Olive Oil

Marinaded beef ready to go.

Remember a recipe is just a base for you guys to explore new flavors. You can always adjust these ingredients to your liking like I did. So please enjoy, explore, and have a happy belly.