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How To Make Crispy Shredded Chilli Beef
This honey and chilli crispy beef recipe is way better than takeout. You’re going to be so shocked when you find out how easy it is to make this tasty meal in just 30 minutes!
It’s time to ditch the Chinese takeaway because you can make this deliciously crispy honey and chilli shredded beef at home. Not only is it so easy to make, but this crispy beef recipe is also a quick meal that you can make in only 30 minutes.
I really love eating Chinese takeaway and shredded crispy beef is one of my favourites! It’s full of so much flavour and the sauce is packed with a combination of tasty ingredients such as garlic, ginger, honey and soy sauce.
What’s not to love? Doesn’t crispy beef tossed in a sweet and chilli sauce sound amazing to you? There’s no secret to this recipe and you can make this dish in 5 simple steps. Here I reveal EVERYTHING!
Why You’ll Like This Recipe
- This recipe is super quick, easy and the taste is out of this world
- The meat texture is crispy on the outside but moist and tender in the middle
- You’ll learn how to make crispy shredded beef like the Chinese takeaways near you!
Watch How To Make Chinese Crispy Beef
Recipe Ingredients
Below are the ingredients needed for this recipe:
- Beef: To make this dish you can use the majority of steak cuts; flank steak or sirloin cut into thin strips are great to use. You can also buy beef pre-diced into strips at the majority of supermarkets. I personally like using sirloin as it has a nice beefy taste and the texture always comes out tender.
- Cornstarch: The key and only ingredient to creating your crispy beef batter and crunchy texture. Don’t be tempted to use plain flour, it’s not recommended as the gluten found in the flour can soften.
- Marinade: The marinade adds so much flavour to the meat and helps to tenderise the uncooked pieces of shredded beef. Dark soy sauce makes a great marinade, it adds flavour, colour and is slightly sweeter than light soy sauce.
- Honey and Chilli Crispy Beef Sauce: The stir-fry sauce ingredients are made up of dark soy sauce, Shaoxing cooking wine, honey, vinegar, chilli flakes and hoisin sauce. You can get these ingredients online or in your local supermarkets. I usually use Blue Dragon hoisin sauce but there are so many options available.
You can add tenderstem broccoli to the crispy beef sauce (step 5) or serve it as a side. It makes a great side for many dishes, just like my roasted tenderstem broccoli recipe.
Tips To Getting Your Beef Extra Crispy
Below are three tips I use every time to make sure my beef is always nice and crispy.
- Make sure the beef is evenly coated in cornflour. To ensure a crisp texture in every bite make sure no patch goes uncovered.
- Your oil needs to be hot before putting your beef inside. Put a small piece of beef inside the oil, if the oil is hot enough it will start to sizzle instantly.
- Don’t be tempted to fry all your beef at once, the oil temperature will drop resulting in soggy beef and we don’t want that! I like to cook 3 to 4 at a time, though you can add more or less depending on the size of your wok or deep fryer.
How To Make Chinese Honey & Chilli Crispy Beef
Below is a step-by-step guide on how to make this Chinese crispy beef coated in a sweet honey chilli sauce. Full recipe instructions are on the recipe card:
Step One
Mix the beef strips with the marinade ingredients (dark soy sauce, garlic and ginger paste and black pepper).
Step Two
Put half the beef into a bowl of cornflour and toss it around until evenly coated. Do the same to the remaining half of the beef then leave the beef to sit for 5 minutes.
Step Three
Fill your wok or saucepan with vegetable oil until it reaches 1/3 of capacity. Wait until your oil is hot, you can put a sma