Beef in Black Bean Sauce

For Marinating the beef :

1/2 Kg steak
1/2 tsp sugar
2 tsp soy sauce

Ingredients :

2 tsp vinegar
1 1/2 tsp cornflour
2 bell peppers thinly sliced
2 green chillies thinly sliced
1 small onion
1 tablespoon fermented black beans
1/2 tsp black pepper powder
6 cloves garlic
4 tablespoons oil for stir-frying
1/2 cup water

Preparation:

Cut the beef into thin long slices. Add the marinade ingredients and marinate the beef for 25 to 30 minutes.

While the beef is marinating, prepare the vegetables. Remove the stems and seeds from the bell peppers and chop. Peel the onion and chop.

Use a cleaver or knife to chop the black beans into tiny pieces or just put it in the chopper. Finely chop the garlic and ginger. Mix the chopped garlic with the black beans.

Heat the wok over high heat. Add 2 tablespoons oil. When the oil is hot, add the beef. Brown briefly, then stir-fry until it changes color and is about 80 percent cooked remove the beef from the wok.

In the same oil, add the ginger, chillies, garlic and black bean mixture. Stir-fry . Add the onion. Stir-fry for about 3 minutes, then add the green pepper. Stir-fry for another minute, then add the remaining pepper.

Pour in the water, let it boil. Add the beef back into the pan, add the vinegar. Reduce the heat and simmer, covered, for a few more minutes. Taste and season with salt, pepper or soy sauce if desired. Serve hot on a bed of noodles or fried rice.

Hot & Sour Meatball Coriander Soup

250 gms Beef Mince
1/2 bunch Coriander leaves finely chopped
3 bsp Worchestshire Sauce
1 tbsp rice vinegar
1 tbsp hot suace
2-3 flakes garlic chopped
1" ginger ( julliene)
1/2 carrot (julliene)
1 green bell pepper (julliene)
3 Cups Water
2 veg. Maggi Cube
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp black pepper powder
1 tbsp white vinegar


Preparation method

Put mince in a bowl, add the worcestshire sauce, hot sauce, rice vinegar, chopped garlic, 1 pinch of salt and 1/4 bunc of chopped coriander. Leave it in the fridge for 15 minutes. Shape them into small meatballs.

Take a pan, put 3 cups of water, add the veg. maggie cube & julliened ginger.
Let the stock boil. Add the meatballs and let it simmer for 10 minutes.
Put off the flame. Add the white vinegar, julliened carrot and bell pepper with 1/4 bunch of finely chopped coriander leaves. Soup is ready to be served

Bell Pepper Beef Stir-fry

Ingredients

½ kg beef (thinly sliced)
3 bell pepper thinly sliced
1 Onion medium sliced
3 tbsp light Soya Choice
1 pod garlic chopped
2 “ pc of ginger finely chopped
½ tsp Salt
½ tsp black pepper powder
1 tbsp tobasco sauce (any hot sauce)
1 ½ tbsp peanut butter
½ cup water
4 tbsp Oil
½ tsp sugar
1 tbsp white vinegar

Preparation Method

Marinate the thinly slice beef with soya sauce, add chopped garlic & ginger, salt, tobasco sauce, black pepper powder. Leave it in the fridge to marinate for 5-6 hours.

Heat the wok add oil, once the oil is hot add the marinated beef and stir fry for 10 minutes until the beef turns light brown, lower the flame add the onion stir fry for another 2-3 minutes. Now add the peanut butter, water and on high flame stir until the water gets evaporated. Add the sugar and the vinegar. Add the Bell pepper stir for another 2 minutes. Its ready to be served with hot steaming white rice.

Saltimbocca Steak

Adrian & me we both love to cook as well as eat. Now we have one more member who loves to eat (I should say loves to hog) Sabrina (sabu) my daughter. As a child she was a bad eater, we had to shout for not eating and now we plead at her to stop eating.

Sabu loves Sizzlers and so do I (winkkkk). While we were in Mumbai we tried Saltimbocca Sizzlers at Poptates. The taste was little sour which we both didn’t enjoy but the steak stuffed with bacon & cheese looked yummy. Adrian brought some steak so dinner tonight is Saltimbocca Steak with mushroom sauce, Mashed potatoes & Couscous salad.