Stir Fried Beef in Oyster Sauce
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Preparation Time: 15 minutes | Cooking Time: 12 minutes | Freezable?: Yes
Delicious quick and easy Chinese recipe for one
- 100g/4oz rump, sirlion or fillet steak
- 15ml/1 tsp sunflower or vegetable oil
- 1 green (bell) pepper, seeded and thinly sliced
- 45ml/3 tsp oyster sauce
- Plain rice to serve
- Cut the steak into thin strips
- Heat the oil in a frying pan, skillet or wok. When its really hot, add the sliced meat and fry or saute for 3 minutes, stirring all the time.
- Add the sliced pepper and continue frying for 2 more minutes.
- Turn the heat down and add the oyster sauce. Heat through gently for a further 5 minutes. Serve with rice or noodles.
Little Extra Tip – add in any green veggies you have in the fridge like broccoli, green beans sugar snap peas and/peppers to add in some relatively low calorie extras in the last two or three minutes of cooking so that they’re just cooked but a bit crunchy. You can also sprinkle over some sesame seeds to make it look extra posh.
This popular Chinese dish is just as good with black bean sauce with its spicier flavour.
What is oyster sauce?
Oyster sauce is a general term describing a number of sauces made by cooking oysters. The most common in modern cooking use is a relatively thick dark brown condiment made from sugar, salt and water thickened with corn flour and flavoured with a little oyster essence or extract, so the better quality sauce you buy, the more oyster essence or extract you get.
A rich sauce made from boiled oysters and seasonings, oyster sauce does not have a fishy taste at all (boiling the oysters takes care of that). A rich sauce with a savoury flavour it’s also used in meat and vegetable dishes, as well as being an important ingredient in Cantonese cooking
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