Sweet & Sour Stir Fry Beef Salad

Sweet & Sour Stir Fry Beef Salad

Published on 02/04/2017 | In By
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Sweet and sour stir-fried beef salad

In the hot hot summer, how does your appetite go? If you are not so hungry, try this sweet & sour beef salad. The sour vinegar and hot chilli flavours will improve your weak appetite. The citric acid works on your tiredness, and the capsaicin in the chill helps your appetite also helps you to sweat and burn calories! This sweet & sour beef salad goes with rice, bread, and any noodles. Get some energy for the hot (we hope!) Summer!

Ingredients

  • 400g thin sliced beef
  • 3cm fresh ginger
  • 1 chili
  • 2 spring onions (or 1 onion)
  • 1 tomato
  • 200g lettuce
  • 100g rucola
  • 3tbsp white vinegar
  • 3tbsp soy sauce
  • 4tsp sugar
  • 1tbsp sake (or white wine)
  • Olive oil or cooking oil
  • Chive for finishing decoration

Instructions

  1. Chop the ginger and the chill finely. Slice the white part of spring onion and chop the green part. Chop the chive finely. Cut the beef slices into 2cm strips.
  2. Cut the tomato and lettuce into small pieces by hand and mix with the rucola. Place them on a plate.
  3. Put the cooking oil, ginger and chilil into a frying pan, and cook with a low heat until you start to smell the ginger. Add the spring onion, and stir with a medium heat until it becomes soft, then add the beef. Keep stir frying until the colour of the beef changes. Turn the heat up to medium high, then add the sugar, vinegar and soy sauce. Stir for 30 seconds after the sauce starts to bubble.
  4. Spread the beef over the lettuce, rucola and tomato. Drizzle olive oil or nutty oil (eg: sesame or hazelnut oil) from the top, and sprinkle with the chopped chives.