Mix the beef strips with the marinade ingredients (dark soy sauce, garlic and ginger paste and black pepper).
375 g Beef Strips, 2 tbsp Dark Soy Sauce, 2 tbsp Garlic And Ginger Paste, 1 tsp Black Pepper
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.
64 g Cornflour
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 small piece of beef inside the oil to see if it’s hot. If the oil starts sizzling, then it’s ready.
Vegetable Oil
Take a couple of beef strips and put them in the oil and cook for 2-3 minutes and repeat until all the beef has been fried. Drain the beef in a paper towel to remove any excess oil.
Time to make the lovely sauce! With a clean wok or saucepan heated over a medium heat add the dark soy sauce, vinegar, honey, chilli flakes, Shaoxing wine and hoisin sauce and simmer for 3 minutes or until you can see that the sauce has thickened.
4 tbsp Dark Soy Sauce, 1 tbsp Hoisin Sauce, 2 tbsp Shaoxing Cooking Wine, 43 g Honey, 2 tbsp Vinegar, To taste Chilli flakes
Add the crispy beef into the sauce and mix until evenly coated. You can also sprinkle spring onions and sesame seeds on top!
2 tbsp Spring Onion
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Notes
Is This Recipe Gluten-Free?
This Chinese crispy beef recipe is gluten-free! Cornflour is used to make the beef crispy instead of flour. Double check the ingredients in the cornflour before buying.
Can I Freeze This Recipe?
It is not recommended to freeze crispy chilli beef because the beef will go soggy when reheating.
Recipe Variations
I sometimes have small pieces of garlic and ginger in my marinade, so when the beef is deep fried you'll end up with lovely bits of crispy garlic and ginger too!If you prefer, you could use a garlic and ginger press to avoid getting chunks and for a smooth texture if you can't find the paste.