Deep Fried Hot Beef Shreds Food

STIR-FRIED HOT BEEF SHREDS

Steps:

• 1. Shred beef. Add soy sauce and sherry and toss. 2. Peel and shred carrots. Shred celery and ginger root. 3. Heat oil. Add beef and stir-fry until it begins to brown. Remove from pan. 4. Heat remaining oil. Add shredded ginger root and stir-fry a few times. Add hot pepper flakes and stir-fry a few times. Add carrots and stir-fry 1/2 minute. Add celery and stir-fry 1/2 minute more. 5. Add salt. Return beef and stir-fry only to reheat. Serve at once. NOTE: The vegetables in this dish should be quite crisp. The Thousand Recipe Chinese Cookbook. ©1994 by Gloria Bley Miller.

CRISPY CHILLI BEEF

Steps:

• Put 350g thin-cut minute steak strips in a bowl and toss in 3 tbsp cornflour and 2 tsp Chinese five-spice powder.
• Heat 100ml vegetable oil in a wok or large frying pan until hot, then add the beef and fry until golden and crisp.
• Scoop out the beef and drain on kitchen paper. Pour away all but 1 tbsp oil.
• Add 1 thinly sliced red pepper, ½ thinly sliced red chilli, sliced white ends of 4 spring onions, 2 crushed garlic cloves and thumb-sized piece ginger, cut into matchsticks, to the pan. Stir-fry for 3 mins to soften, but don't let the garlic and ginger burn.
• Mix the 4 tbsp rice wine vinegar or white wine vinegar, 1 tbsp soy sauce, 2 tbsp sweet chilli sauce and 2 tbsp tomato ketchup in a jug with 2 tbsp water, then pour over the veg.
• Bubble for 2 mins, then add the beef back to the pan and toss well to coat.
• Serve the beef on noodles with prawn crackers, if you like, scattered with the remaining ½ sliced red chilli and sliced green parts of the spring onions.