Beef with Black Bean Sauce

Beef with Black Bean Sauce. Ultra tender juicy beef stir fried in a delicious savory black bean garlic sauce with bell peppers, snow peas, garlic and ginger. Ready in 30 minutes. This will be the best black bean beef recipe you'll ever make at home!

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Prep Time 23

Cook Time 7

Total Time 30

Course dinner, lunch

Cuisine Chinese

Servings

Calories per serving 321 kcal

Ingredients

½ lb flank steak or sub with skirt steak, hanger steak, flat iron steak or tri tip steak
1 red bell pepper diced
1 cup snow peas ends trimmed (or sub with snap peas)
2 cloves garlic minced
½ inch ginger peeled and sliced
¼ cup water cold
1 tablespoon vegetable oil or any neutral oil

Beef Marinade:

½ tablespoon regular soy sauce (not dark soy sauce)
2 teaspoon cornstarch or sub with potato starch/tapioca starch
1 teaspoon Shaoxing wine or sub with rice vinegar
¼ teaspoon baking soda
⅛ teaspoon white pepper or sub with black pepper
1 tablespoon vegetable oil or any neutral oil

Stir-fry Sauce:

3 tablespoon black bean garlic sauce
½ tablespoon oyster sauce or sub with vegetarian stir fry sauce
2 teaspoon white granulated sugar
2 teaspoon Shaoxing wine or sub with rice vinegar
1 teaspoon sesame oil toasted kind
1 tablespoon cornstarch or sub with potato starch/tapioca starch
½ cup chicken stock unsalted (or sub with beef or vegetable stock)

Instructions

Thinly slice flank steak against the grain. Slices should be just less than ¼-inch thick. Transfer steak slices into a medium bowl. Optional tip: to easily slice steak thinly, freeze thawed flank steak for 45-60 mins. Once it’s hardened on the surface, it'll be much easier to slice into thin pieces with a sharp knife.
Marinate beef with Marinade ingredients as listed above for 20 minutes.
In a small bowl combine Stir Fry Sauce ingredients. Set aside.
In a wok or large frying pan on medium heat, heat vegetable oil or any neutral oil. Fry marinated beef in hot oil in a single layer until 95% cooked. Remove and set aside.
Increase to medium-high heat, add ginger, garlic, red bell pepper, snow peas into pan. Then add cold water. Cook until veggies are crisp but tender, about 1 minute.
Pour in stir fry sauce. Mix with veggies. Simmer sauce to thicken.
Once sauce has thickened, add back in cooked beef. Toss everything together. Serve and enjoy!

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