Hunan Beef Stir Fry

Hunan Beef Stir Fry is a famous dish in China. Compared with the compound flavor of Sichuan cuisine, Hunan cuisine is more pure and spicy. They prefer to add dried chilies or chili powder. If you’re a fan of chilies, use only chilies as another ingredient.

I’m not a big chili eater, and it’s better for my taste to add Paojiao or Chopped peppers which were fermented. In this dish, I used Chopped chili peppers instead of dried chilies. Celery and beef are a perfect match.

The point of this recipe is on marinating the beef to cook it tender. Egg white and starch are essential ingredients for marinating beef.

Ingredients

• 330 gram beef, shredded
• 75 gram celery, shredded
• 8 gram ginger, shredded
• 3 cloves garlic, chopped
• Duojiao 1/2 tablespoon
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 tablespoon starch( corn starch or potato starch)
• 1 tablespoon oil for marianting beef
• 3 tablespoon oil for stir-frying
• 1/2 teaspoon pepper powder
• 1/2 tablespoon light soy sauce
• One egg white

Instructions

1. Marinate beef with oil, starch, pepper powder, light soy sauce, salt, egg white for 10 minutes.
2. Add oil to a wok, Heat  over medium-high heat, add marinated beef ,stir-frying for a while, until the beef changes color, transfer to a dish
3. Add garlic and ginger shredded to the wok,, stir-frying for 5 seconds, add Duojiao , then add celery, beef, stir-frying until cooked through.
4. Serve with rice.