Sweet and Sticky Crispy Beef

Ingredients

• 1.5 lbs top sirloin steak (any type of beef works – flank steak, skirt steak)
• 1 cup corn starch (divided in half)

Beef Marinade

• 1 small onion
• 2 cloves garlic
• 4-5 slices of ginger (sliced thin, 2-3 mm)
• 1 tablespoon light soy sauce (reduced sodium)

Sweet and Sticky Sauce

• 3/4 cup honey
• 1/4 cup + 2 tablespoons light soy sauce (reduced sodium)
• 1/2 cup water
• 1 tablespoon hoisin sauce
• 1/2 tablespoon rice vinegar
• 1 tablespoon sesame oil
• 1 tablespoon shaoxing cooking wine
• 5 teaspoons corn starch (for corn starch slurry thickener)
• 6 teaspoons water (for corn starch slurry thickener)

Garnish & Toppings (Optional)

• 1-2 stalks green onion (chopped)
• toasted sesame seeds

Instructions

Marinate the meat

• Slice the cut into one cm wide strips and place it during a bowl. (If your cut is over one cm thick, cut the strips in half once more length-wise

• during a kitchen appliance, blitz the onion, garlic and ginger till it's a paste. (If you are doing not have a kitchen appliance, you'll grate them or chop it terribly finely by hand, simply certify the ginger bits area unit terribly tiny)

• Add the marinade and one tablespoon of soy to the meat and blend well and marinade it within the icebox for one hour (or 20-30 minutes in area temperature)

Deep cookery the meat

• once the meat has marinated, mud 1/2 cup of corn starch on the meat and use your fingers to loosely coat the meat with it. Let it sit for ten minutes

• whereas you're awaiting the meat, heat up a significant bottom pot (or wok) set the temperature of the oil to 375F (191C) (or medium heat) and add a minimum of one in. of oil and await it to induce hot.

• Once the meat has weekday for ten minutes, mud the opposite 1/2 cup of corn starch on the meat once more to gently re-coat the meat and gently mud off any excess starch. Deep fry it like a shot.

• exploitation your fingers separate the meat if they're clumped along and deep fry it within the oil in tiny batches (make positive the oil is hot however not smoking – to check if the oil is hot enough, add one tiny piece of beef initial and see if it instantly sizzles)

• Deep fry the meat for 1-2 minutes, and take away it from the pot onto a plate with parchment paper or newspaper.

• Once all the meat has been boiled once (first fry), add all of it back sure the second deep fry for one additional minute.

Sweet & Sticky Sauce Time!

• take away all the oil from the pot and set it back on the stove on medium low heat

• Add altogether the sauce ingredients, except the corn starch suspension ingredients.

• Stir till everything is combined well and wait till it involves an occasional rolling boil

• during a tiny bowl, mix the corn starch and cold water to form a corn starch suspension and add it into the sauce and keep stirring till the sauce has thickened. close up the warmth.

• Add within the tender beef and coat it with the sauce

• Serve immediately! Goes superb with plain rice. 🙂