Stirfry Green Bean with Ground Beef

This dish usually cook with Chinese string beans, since i live in small town where Asian grocery who sell Chinese string beans has their item back order, so i substitute the string beans with green beans. 

Ingredients:

• 250 gr green beans
• 200 gr ground beef
• 2 Thai chili pepper
• 2 cloves of garlic

Sauce: (in the small bowl)

• 1 Tbsp hoisin sauce
• 1 Tbsp oyster sauce
• 2 tsp sugar
• 1 tsp salt
• 1/2 tsp white pepper

1. Heat the wok, and add 5 Tbsp of oil into the wok, and fry the green beans until tender crisp. Remove the green beans from the wok, and set aside.
2. With the remaining oil in the wok, fry the garlic and the chili pepper until fragrance, and then add the ground beef, stir until the beef change its color, and then add the beans and the sauce, stir to mix.
Remove and serve in the serving dish.

Black Pepper Beef

Black-pepper-beef, originally uploaded by djoelia.

Ingredient:

• 500 gr beef sliced thinly
• 1 tbsp soy sauce
• 1/2 tsp garlic paste
• 1/8 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp sesame oil

1. Mix all of the ingredient above in a bowl and marinate for 1-2 hour in the refrigerator.
2. Pre-cook the meat first, heat the 2 tbsp oil in the wok, add the 1 tbsp oil to the marinate meat, to separate the meat.
3. Fry on high heat for 3-5 minutes, until meat change its color, set aside.

Sauce:

• 1/2 onion cut wedges
• 1/2 bell pepper (optional)
• 1 green onion cut 1 inch each
• 1 tsp of chopped garlic
• 1 tbsp oyster sauce
• 1 tbsp soy sauce
• 1/2 tbsp of kecap manis (substitute with 1/2 tbsp of sugar)
• 1 tbsp black pepper
• a bit of water

1. Mix all of the ingredient except onion, garlic, bell pepper and green onion in a bowl
2. Heat the wok on high heat, add 1 tbsp of oil. Fry the onion and garlic till fragrance, add in the beef, stir quickly, add the bell pepper, green onion, and the sauce. and serve.

p.s: If the sauce happens to be quite watery, thicken the sauce with maizena flour mix with cold water.

Fried Tofu with Spicy Beef

Ingredient:

• Half block of tofu, chopped squarely
• 100 gr of ground beef
• 3 red chilli pepper, slice thinly (or more to make it hot)
• 2 shallots, chopped finely
• 2 garlic, chopped finely

Sauce:

• 1 tbsp hoisin sauce
• 3 tbsp soy sauce
• 2 tsp sugar

1. Deep fried the tofu until it turn golden yellow, set aside.
2. Heat the wok on high, add 3 tbsp of oil, fry the shallots and garlic till fragrance, add in chilli pepper, stir.
3. Add the ground beef, stir until the beef turn color, pour down the sauce.
4. turn down the heat to medium, cook til the sauce thicken out, and add in the tofu, stir fry quickly and serve.