Crispy Chilli Beef Recipes

Steps:

• Slice the steaks into thin strips and place into a small bowl.
• Add the cornflour, 5 spice, salt, and pepper. Mix until evenly coated.
• Carefully heat the oil in a deep saucepan until it reaches 190°C (375°F).
• Carefully place the beef strips into the oil and fry for about 4-5 minutes, until golden brown.
• Place on some tissue to soak up the excess oil and set a aside.
• Meanwhile, prepare the sauce by adding a tablespoon of oil to a frying pan. Frying the chilies, spring onion, and ginger over a medium heat for a few minutes. Add garlic paste and fry for another minute.
• Stir in the soy sauce, sweet chili sauce, red wine vinegar, and tomato ketchup until thick.
• Stir in the beef steaks until evenly coated.
• Garnish with spring onion and red chilies.
• Enjoy!

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.

Steps:

• Heat oil in deep-fryer to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
• Meanwhile, in a mixing bowl, combine cornstarch, salt and pepper together. Mix thoroughly. Toss the steak slices in the cornstarch mixture and coat well.
• Deep fry the coated steak slices until golden brown. Check to make sure they are cooked through. Remove from oil, and set aside.
• In another mixing bowl, combine the soy sauce, rice vinegar, rice wine and honey. Add sugar, chili paste, water, and ginger. Mix well and set aside.
• Heat a wok or deep frying pan over medium high heat. Add 1 tablespoon of oil, and quickly saute the onion, garlic and red pepper for 30 seconds. Add the sauce mixture, and cook another 30 seconds. Finally, add the strips of fried steak and toss to heat through and coat with sauce.

Steps:

• Slice the beef into strips as fine as you can get it. Add to a zip lock bag with enough cornflour to coat and shake to coat the beef. Get a pan of oil as hot as you can (without blowing yourself and the house up!) and fry the beef for 5-8 mins or until VERY crispy. Meanwhile, stirfry the carrot in a pan with a little oil, when browned a little add the spring onions and cook for a further 3 mins or so. Set aside. When the beef is done and crispy, add to the onions and carrot and add the sweet chilli sauce and chopped chilli.

Steps:

• Heat a 2.5in depth of oil in a wok until very hot.
• Fry the steak in batches until dark and crisp.
• Drain.
• Pour off most of the oil and stir-fry the broccoli, garlic, ginger and chili for 1 minute.
• Tip in the sweetened soy sauce and lime juice and cook for 2 minutes. Toss in the beef and scallions and serve.

Steps:

• Place cornstarch in a large bowl.
• Add water gradually while whisking.
• Beat eggs into cornstarch mixture.
• Toss in beef and stir to coat.
• Pour 1 inch of oil into wok, heat until boiling hot, but not smoking.
• Add a quarter of the beef to the oil.
• Seperate with a fork and cook, stirring frequently, until crispy, Remove, drain on paper towel and set aside.
• Repeat until all the beef is cooked.
• Drain off all oil except for about 1 tablespoons and add carrots, onion, ginger, and garlic in that order.
• Stir fry briefly over high heat.
• Combine last 5 ingredients and add to vegetable mixture.
• Bring to a boil and then add beef.
• Heat thorough and serve immediately.