Beef Chilli
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Beef strips marinated a night before is very easy and quick to make.
Total servings: 4-6
Calories:
Pre-Prep time: 2 hrs
Preperation time: 45 min
Occasion: Any
Cuisine: Pakistani
Effort: Average
Best for: All
How to serve: Hot
Ingredients:
500g Beef (fillet/topside)
1 egg white
1/2 tsp baking soda
3 tsp cornstarch (for marinade)
2 cup chicken stock
1/3 cup light soya sauce
1 tsp shreaded fresh ginger
20 green chilli slit with seeds removed
1/2 cup carrot slices
6 green srping onions sliced
3 tsp cornstarch (for thickening)
1/2 cup oil
1/2 tsp monosodium glutamate
Preparation:
The night before cooking, remove fat from beef, freeze for 2 hours (to make it hard) and using a sharp knife slice against the grain into 1 to 2mm thick slices.
Place the beef slices in a bowl.
Mix together the egg white, 1/2 cup water, baking soda and cornstarch for the marinade, pour this over beef and mix.
Cover and leave overnight in fridge.
The soda tenderises the beef.
Pour the oil into a wok or large Karahi and heat until it smokes.
Add 1/4 of the beef, and quickly stir fry for a few minutes.
Remove and continue this till all beef is fried.
Reheat the Karahi utnil the remaining oil starts to smoke again.
Add the ginger, chillies, onion and carrots and stir fry for few minutes.
Add the soya sauce, chicken stock and the beef and cook for 3 minutes.
Mix cornstarch for thickening with 1/2 cup water.
Add enough cornstarch to the Karahi with stirring to thicken the gravy.
Add the monosodium glutamate and stir.
Remove from heat and serve with rice.
