Beef in Ginger

Serves: 1

preparation time: 10 mins

cooking time: 15 mins

The ingredients I use tend to be whatever the supermarket has on the reduced shelf and this day was just the same. It just so happened some beef steaks were rapidly approaching their sell by date in Sainsburies so I nabbed them for about half price. Never be put off just because meat is near the end of its use by date, as long as you cook it/freeze as soon as possible you will be fine.

Apparently the origins of this dish are in Malaysia and since I love Asian food it seemed like a good idea to make it....and it was. I made this for one person but if your expecting company just double the amount of meat and spices. Enough talking about it I'll tell you how to make it.

Ingredients

• 200g beef steak
• 1 onion
• 1 clove of garlic
• 1 tin of chopped tomatoes
• 1 tablespoon of oil
• 1 teaspoon of ginger
• 1 teaspoon of ground coriander
• 1 teaspoon of sugar
• 1 teaspoon of salt
• ¼ cayenne pepper
• ¼ black pepper

Method

1. Cut the beef into very fine strips, you may find this easier if you put them in the freezer for about 20 minutes and then cut them. chop the onion and garlic very finely and leave to the side.

2. Heat up the oil a wok or a large saucepan on a medium heat and add the chopped onion cooking it until it browns. then add the garlic and ginger and cook for a further 2 minutes.

3. Turn up the heat and add the beef continue cooking, stirring to make sure nothing sticks until the beef is browned.

4. Add the chopped tomatoes and stir until sauce if well mixed then stir in the ground coriander, sugar, salt, Cayenne pepper and black pepper.

5. Turn the heat back down and leave to simmer for another 5 minutes. Serve on a bed of plain rice. Enjoy :)

Tips

Using Chinese stir fry oil instead of ordinary cooking oil can add extra flavour to any east Asian style dish.

I found that this meal is very nice with a glass or 2 of red wine, drinking the whole bottle as i did however is not recommended

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