Name: Mongolian Beef Barbecue
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 7 min
Total time: 17 min
Ingredients: 300 grams beef (sirloin, flank steak, eye round, top round and bottom round are great choices, thinly sliced across the grain); 1/2 teaspoon salt; 1/4 teaspoon pepper; 2 tablespoons tapioca (or corn or potato starch); 2 tablespoons cooking oil; 1 tablespoon minced garlic; 2 tablespoons light soy sauce; 1 tablespoon chili sauce; 1 teaspoon sugar; 4 button mushrooms (thinly sliced); 1 small handful julienned carrot; 1 small handful scallions (cut into two-inch lengths); toasted sesame seeds (to garnish)

Mongolian Beef Barbecue

Connie Veneracion

Salty, sweet and occasionally spicy, Mongolian beef barbecue is a Chinese-American dish that traces its origin in Taiwan.

Prep Time 10 mins

Cook Time 7 mins

Total Time 17 mins

Course Main Course

Cuisine Taiwanese

Servings people

Ingredients

300 grams beef sirloin, flank steak, eye round, top round and bottom round are great choices, thinly sliced across the grain
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
2 tablespoons tapioca or corn or potato starch
2 tablespoons cooking oil
1 tablespoon minced garlic
2 tablespoons light soy sauce
1 tablespoon chili sauce
1 teaspoon sugar
4 button mushrooms thinly sliced
1 small handful julienned carrot
1 small handful scallions cut into two-inch lengths
toasted sesame seeds to garnish

Instructions

Place the beef in a bowl. Add the salt and pepper. Mix well. Add the starch and mix to coat every sliced of beef.
In a wok or frying pan, heat the cooking oil to smoking point.
Spread the beef in the hot oil. Sprinkle in the minced garlic. Cook the beef until the undersides are browned then flip them over to brown the opposite side.
Pour in the soy sauce and chili sauce. Sprinkle in the sugar. Toss a few times.
Add the mushroom slices, carrot and scallions. Stir fry for another half a minute.
Serve the Mongolian beef barbecue over rice sprinkled with toasted sesame seeds.

Keyword Beef

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