Black Pepper Beef Recipe, How to Cook Black Pepper Beef

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Black Pepper Beef

Chinese name: 黑胡椒牛柳 (hēi hú jiāo niú liǔ)
Style: Guangdong Cuisine
Characteristic: Black pepper beef looks dark in color and tastes strong. The beef in it tastes smooth and tender after frying in the oil; the onion in the dish is fragrant and crispy, while the green pepper makes it more fresh and eye-catching.

One of the local characteristic dishes of Guangdong Cuisine, black pepper beef is a good choice for people who like spicy food. Black pepper is a spicy and hot seasoning, which can help people to withstand the cold and the dampness, so this dish is both welcome in north and south China. Besides beef, Chinese people also cook black pepper chicken and black pepper pork.

Ingredients:
2 green peppers, 28 g (1 ounce); 1 onion, 40 g (1.5 ounce); beef fillet, 250 grams (8 ounces)

Seasonings:
2 teaspoons salt
1 teaspoon cooking wine
2 teaspoons soy sauce
2 teaspoons oyster sauce
1 teaspoon ground black pepper
1 teaspoon meat tenderizer
1 teaspoon monosodium glutamate (chicken bouillon or other cooking stock)
2 teaspoons tomato ketchup
3 cloves garlic
3 cloves green onion
1 small piece ginger

Preparation:
1. Clean the beef and cut it into slices, about 2-3 cm long and 1-2 cm wide. Put it into a soup dish
2. Clean the green pepper and the onion after being peeled. Cut the green pepper into strips and the onion into small pieces. Put into dish separately.
3. Clean the green onion. Peel the garlic and the ginger, and then clean them. Mash them on the chopping board. Put into dish separately.

Steps to Cook Black Pepper Beef

Step 1: Coat the beef by adding in cooking wine, sauce, salt, chicken bouillon or monosodium glutamate, egg white and meat tenderizer. Stir well it with chopsticks until you feel it is a bit sticky.

Step 2: Place a wok over high heat until hot. Add 3 tablespoons of oil, and add in the processed beef fillet slices to be fried for about 10 seconds. Turn off the fire and remove them when they look yellowish-white and put them in a dish.

Step 3: Leave about one tablespoon of oil in the wok, swirling to coat the sides. Add in half of the mashed green onion, 2 teaspoons of oyster sauce and 2 teaspoons of tomato ketchup. Stir-fry over high heat for about 3 seconds. Then, add in the fried beef fillet slices and stir-fry for 3 seconds. And in 1 teaspoon of sauce and 1 teaspoon of black pepper to be stir-fried for about 8 seconds. Pick out them when the beef fillet slices turn dark brown.

Step 4: Turn on the heat. Add in one tablespoon of oil. Add in the mashed green onion, ginger and garlic when the oil is hot. Stir-fry it for about 3 seconds until fragrant. Add in green pepper strips and onion pieces to be stir-fried for 3 seconds. Add in one teaspoon of salt and half a teaspoon of chicken bouillon. Stir-fry for 3 seconds again. Add in the stir-fried beef and stir it together with the others for 5 seconds.

Step 5: Turn off the heat. Remove them from the wok and put them in a fine porcelain plate. Black pepper beef is ready, with an attractive color of brown, white and green.

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