The deep fried Beef strips were inspired by the Kazakhstan recipe we did back in February. We had a piece of top side Beef in the freezer which I found in the discount fridge a month or so ago and Sue’s birthday seems a good excuse.
The ingredients in the fried rice are pretty much up to you. As long as you fried them with grated Garlic and Soy Sauce added at the end before stirring into your Rice, it will have a reasonably Chinese style flavour.
Chilli Sauce.
Ingredients:-
1 Tin of chopped Tomatoes
2 tsp hot Chilli flakes
4 dried red Chillies
1 tsp Soy Sauce
1 tsp Sugar
1 tsp Oil
Method:-
(1) Mix all the ingredients in a pan and bring to the boil.
(2) Turn the heat down and simmer for half an hour to reduce.
Battered Beef strips.
Ingredients:-
1 Top Side steak, cut into strips
1 Egg
Cornflour
Juice of a Lemon
Water
Salt & Pepper
Method:-
(1) Mix all the ingredients and add water if the batter seems too thick. You are looking for a very thin batter consistency.
(2) Flour the Beef strips in Cornflour to help the batter stick.
(3) Deep fry in batches until the batter is crispy.
(4) Keep warm under the grill until ready to serve.
We plated ours with the fried Rice at the bottom, the Beef strips next and a little Chilli sauce over the top. Some of the remaining Chilli sauce can be used as a dipping sauce.
There are allotments nearby and sometimes people leave vegetables out to take. On this occasion there was a Marrow and Gourd, so we based this meal around them.
Ingredients:-
Salami / Chorizo / Smoked Sausage cut into lumps
1 large white Onion, finely chopped
4 Mushroom, quartered
2 red Chillies, sliced
Soy Sauce (GF if available if required)
2 cloves of Garlic, grated
1 Gourd pealed and cut into pieces
A similar quantity of Marrow, slices with the skin left on
Onion Salt
Garlic Powder
Paprika
Oil for frying
Method:-
(1) Fry the Onion until the Onion is softened.
(2) Add the Mushroom, chilli and grated Garlic and fry for a further minute.
(3) Add the Sausage.
(4) Add all the remaining ingredients and fry until the Gourd is soft but remove from the heat before it starts to break down.
We served ours on a bed rice boiled with a Stock Cube.