Quick & Easy Beef with Black Bean Sauce
Ultra tender beef stir fried in a delicious savory black bean garlic sauce with bell peppers, snow peas, and ginger. This quick and easy beef with black bean sauce is made in one pan! A tasty main dish for the whole family to enjoy.
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 on an angle into ¼-inch thick pieces. Transfer beef into a large bowl. 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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Nutrition
Calories: 321kcal | Carbohydrates: 26g | Protein: 31g | Fat: 9g | Saturated Fat: 3g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 3g | Cholesterol: 70mg | Sodium: 788mg | Potassium: 709mg | Fiber: 4g | Sugar: 12g | Vitamin A: 2398IU | Vitamin C: 107mg | Calcium: 62mg | Iron: 4mg