Showing posts with label beef. Show all posts
Showing posts with label beef. Show all posts

Thursday, December 4, 2014

Shixcooks: Beef Hor Fan

I'm supposed to go to my cousin's for a girls' night in but decided to cook something for the hubs so he will have something for dinner and this was the planned dish. It's fast, easy and super cheap too.

Prep time: 5mins
Cook time: 10 mins

Ingredients:

Beef Marinade:
400g beef sliced thinly
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
1 tsp ginger juice
2 tbsp soy sauce
1 tsp oil
1 tbsp corn flour
1 tsp salt
1 tsp sugar

Charred noodle:
3 tbsp oil
500g kway teow noodle
1 tbsp dark soy sauce

Gravy:
5 cloves garlic
1 inch ginger
2 cups beef stock
2 cups mustard greens (sawi)
3 stalks spring onions
2 tbsp oyster sauce
1 tbsp corn flour
1/2 cup water
Pinch of salt and pepper
Oil

Method:

1. In a bowl, marinade the beef with the ingredients above and leave it until it's needed (abt 10 min)

2. Heat up the oil in a wok and char the noodles. Once it's lightly golden brown, mix the soy sauce thoroughly. Put that aside.

3. In the same wok place abt 3 tbsp oil. Once heated, fry up the beef till it's almost cooked. Once that's done, put that aside.

4. Heat up another 2 tbsp oil and fry the garlic and ginger. Add in the oyster sauce, greens and spring onions.  Once slightly wilted,  add the beef stock and wait for it to boil. Once that's done, mix up the water and flour and add it in. Add salt and pepper to taste and you're done!

Within 20 mins you should be eating this beautiful and delicious noodles.

Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Shix cooks: Broccoli with beef


Cook time: 10 min
Prep time: 5 min (yes I kid you not)

4 cloves garlic
4 cloves shallots
1 inch ginger
100g sliced beef
1/2 head of broccoli 
4 stems of spring onions
3 tbsp oyster sauce
2 tbsp fish sauce
1/2 cup water
1 tsp starch

Method:
1. In a pan, heat up some oil 
2. While that's heating up slice the onions, rough chop the garlic and matchstick the ginger. 
3. Throw in items in 2. into the pan and let it fry till soft. 
4. While that's happening, quickly cut the broccoli florets. 
5. Once onions are soft throw in the beef. 
6. After about 3 min, add in the oyster sauce and fish sauce. 
7. Stir it up the add the broccoli. 
8. Once the broccoli turns bright green, mix the starch and water and pour it in. 
9. Give it a final stir and we are done!

I cooked this, fried an onion omelet and deep fried some chicken ngoh hiang all at the same time and everything was done in 15 min (not incl cleaning up). So do give it a go. Nothing beats a home cooked meal.