Szechuan Orange Ginger Beef Recipe 455

Steps:

• In a bowl, mix all marinade ingredients well and let meat marinate in mixture for 20 minutes.
• Combine sauce ingredients; set aside.
• Heat wok over high heat, then add peanut oil (be careful of splattering).
• Remove beef from marinade and stir-fry until browned (3 minutes).
• Remove and let drain through a sieve.
• Pour most of the oil out of the wok, reserving about 2 teaspoons.
• Reheat the oil, and when it's very hot and smoking slightly, add the dried chili peppers and stir-fry for about 10 seconds.
• Return the beef to the pan and add sauce.
• Stir-fry for 3 minutes, mixing well.
• Serve immediately.

Steps:

• Make the sauce: Heat oil in a small sauce pan set over medium-high heat. When it begins to shimmer, add ginger, jalapeño and orange zest and stir to combine. Sauté mixture until ingredients soften, approximately 2 to 3 minutes, then add garlic and continue cooking until it softens, approximately 1 to 2 minutes longer.
• Add orange juice, brown sugar, rice vinegar, soy sauce and fish sauce to pan and stir to combine. Allow mixture to come to a boil, then lower the heat and cook, stirring occasionally, until it thickens and reduces by half, approximately 10 to 15 minutes.
• Meanwhile, prepare the meat: Combine egg white, cornstarch and salt in a bowl. Add steak, tossing to coat the meat with the batter.
• In a large skillet or wok set over high heat, heat oil until it shimmers and is about to smoke. Add beef to the pan or wok in a single layer and cook without stirring until the bottoms of the pieces are crisp and golden, approximately 60 to 90 seconds. Add white pieces of scallion and chiles to the pan, then turn the beef pieces over and cook the other sides, stirring occasionally, about 3 minutes more for medium-rare. Transfer to a platter.
• Pour orange sauce into the hot pan or wok, let it boil and stir it as it thickens. Add meat and white scallions and stir to coat with the sauce. Return meat and sauce to the platter and scatter green scallions over the top. Serve with steamed broccoli and white rice.

Steps:

• *THEORANGE: With vegetable peeler,cut zest from orange into long pieces.
• Cut pieces into thin strips.
• Dry slightly in microwave oven.
• Slice the orange for garnish.
• Steak should be frozen, but still pliable for easier slicing, slice in strips across the grain.
• Coat the meat completely with cornstarch and set aside.
• Combine dried orange peel in a small dish with hot pepper.
• Cut onion and combine in another small dish with water chestnuts.
• Mince garlic and green onion.
• SAUCE: Combine rice wine, sugar, soy sauce, chicken broth, and oyster sauce in a small bowl.
• Put a metal strainer over a large saucepan in kitchen sink.
• Heat wok for two minutes over highest heat.
• Add oil and heat until it is very hot.
• Add beef, stir to break it up.
• Fry for 2 to 3 minutes, til the outside is crispy.
• Transfer to strainer in sink and pour oil and beef into it.
• Place empty wok back on high heat, add garlic and green onion.
• Add hot pepper and orange peel, Stir briefly.
• Add onion and water chestnuts and stir 30 seconds.
• Add sauce and stir well to coat.
• Let mixture boil until it thickens slightly.
• Add hot beef and then sesame oil.
• Put on serving plate and garnish plate with orange slices.
• Serve with rice.