Skip to Navigation | Skip to Content

Search Over 15,000 Recipes

Advanced Search




Neil Perry

Szechuan Beef


Serves 4 as part of a shared Asian style banquet.

Serves 4

Ingredients

  • Vegetable oil, for cooking
  • 450g beef fillet, shredded
  • ½ tablespoon hot bean paste
  • ½ tablespoon ginger, chopped
  • ½ tablespoon long green shallots, chopped
  • ½ cup shredded carrot
  • ½ cup shredded celery
  • 1 tablespoon light soy sauce
  • ½ tablespoon shaoxing wine
  • ½ tablespoon caster sugar
  • Dash sesame oil
  • ¼ teaspoon szechuan peppercorns, roasted and ground

Method

  1. Heat a wok and add vegetable oil. Deep fry the beef about 6 minutes, until crispy, then remove from the wok and drain.
  2. Reheat the wok and add ½ Tablespoon oil. Stir fry the ginger and shallot until fragrant, then add the hot bean paste, carrot and celery and toss well. Return the beef to the wok with the shaoxing, soy, sugar, sesame oil and Szechuan pepper. Stir fry 1 minute and finish with a little extra shallot.
No Rating

Notes & Tips

Serve with steamed jasmine rice.

Recipe Rating

3

Share this Recipe

Bookmark and Share

What do you think?

 
  • ozfoodie
    April 2010

    Absolutely delicious. Beautifully balanced flavours - and the crunchiness of the beef comes as a surprise at first, but a pleasant one! Loved it so much I blogged it, so more thoughts here: http://www.ozfoodie.com/food/comments/crunchy-szechuan-beef/

  • More
  • You will need to be a member to leave a comment - Log in / Register
    Add a new comment

Video More Videos

T-bone Steak

Neil Perry


Browse Recipes By...