Today is the Lunar New Year, also sometimes called the Chinese New Year, and since it’s a work night I thought that I would share a recipe for a tasty, quick and easy beef and pepper stir-fry! This steak and pepper stir-fry takes only 20 minutes to make, that’s just as much time as it takes to cook the rice to serve it with, so it’s definitely a great meal for a busy work night! Despite being nice and easy to make this recipe is just packed with flavour starting with the usual suspects including soy sauce, garlic and ginger with some chili sauce for heat and a finish of sesame oil for those amazing aromatics! I also like to throw in a not so secret ingredient that adds something special and right now my favourite is sweet soy sauce which has a caramel-y sweet flavour that just makes the dish shine but other equally great ingredients include hoisin sauce, oyster sauce, brown sugar or even molasses; so change it up for something new every time! No matter how you make it this quick and easy beef and pepper stir-fry is sure to please!
Enjoy the Lunar New Year!
Quick and Easy Beef and Pepper Stir-fry
A tasty Chinese style beef and pepper stir-fry that is so quick and easy and so much better than takeout that you will never go back!
ingredients
- 1 tablespoon oil
- 1 pound steak (sirloin or flank), sliced thinly
- 1 green pepper, sliced
- 3 tablespoons low sodium soy sauce (gluten-free or tamari for gluten-free)
- 1 tablespoon sweet soy sauce* (use gluten-free substitute below for gluten-free)
- 1 teaspoon chill sauce such as sambal oelek (or to taste)
- 2 cloves garlic, grated
- 1 teaspoon ginger, grated
- 1 tablespoon cornstarch
- 1/3 cup beef broth (or water)
- 1 teaspoon sesame oil
- 1/4 cup green onion, sliced
directions
- Heat the oil in a pan over medium-high heat, add the beef and stir-fry until just cooked, about 2-4 minutes.
- Add the peppers and stir-fry until just tender-crisp, about 1-2 minutes.
- Add the mixture of the soy sauce, sweet soy sauce sauce, chili sauce, garlic, ginger and the mixture of the cornstarch and water to the pan and cook until it thickens a bit, about a minute.
- Remove from heat, mix in the sesame oil and serve over white rice or noodles, quinoa, etc. garnished with the green onions.
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Oh how I need this for dinner tonight!
This looks like the most perfect weeknight meal!
Sues
Looks SO delicious!
Quick and easy meals are the best!
Stir fry is a definite go-to weeknight dinner. Whenever I feel tired to cook I do some 20-minute stir fry. Also I use the same approach just as you described, add it something new every time. So if you're out of Hoisin sauce, go with Oyster sauce – I like it.
Awesome photography, the shiny sauce looks so delicious!
it says brown sugar in the directions but not in the ingredient part. Do we add brown sugar?
kathy_t: That should have just said sweet soy sauce. I was trying different versions of the recipe with different sweeteners and one used brown sugar, which can be used instead of or in addition to the sweet soy sauce. Enjoy!
Way too heavy on the soy sauce on this one! Unbearably salty!
did you use low sodium like it says? I have low sodium and you can really tell the difference.
This Quick and Easy Beef and Pepper Stir-fry recipe seems so delicious , will love to make this one , thanks for sharing this recipe with us . Will definitely gonna try this one and just excited to make this
Thanks for sharing love to try this this amazing and delicious Quick and Easy Beef and Pepper Stir-fry, will love to try this.
Quick and easy. Thank you for sharing, such a wonderful idea.