Chinese beef recipe

[vince]

I have two green chillies and 4 or 5 spring onions left from last night's chilli chicken. I would like to do something with beef, Pak Choi and oyster sauce. A quick Google for recipes doesn't turn up much. Any ideas folks?

[Elleigh]

Here's a Thai Chargrilled Beef Salad recipe thanks to BBC Food.  Some modifications and it might what you are looking for.

Ingredients
1 tbsp jasmine rice, uncooked
2 dried red chillies
500g/1lb 2oz thick fillet steak
2 tbsp sesame oil
75ml/2½fl oz kecap manis (Indonesian sweet soy sauce)
2 tsp sugar
4 tbsp lime juice
3 tbsp Thai fish sauce
1 small cucumber, peeled, de-seeded, halved lengthways and cut into 1cm/0.5in slices
4 red shallots, finely sliced
12 cherry tomatoes, halved
2 red chillies, finely sliced
1 handful fresh mint leaves
1 handful fresh coriander leaves
2 tbsp fresh basil leaves, ripped
4 spring onions, finely sliced



Method
1. Heat a dry frying pan, add the rice and toast until golden but not burnt. Grind the rice in a clean coffee-grinder or pound to a powder and set aside.
2. Reheat the frying pan and add the dried red chillies. Toast until they are smoky, then grind or pound to a powder and set aside.
3. Chargrill or pan-fry the beef for around 12 minutes, until well marked outside and rare to medium-rare inside. Place in a bowl and leave to rest for 10 minutes. Meanwhile, combine the sesame oil with the kecap manis and brush over the fillet. Marinate for two hours.
4. Dissolve the sugar in the lime juice and fish sauce. Combine half a teaspoon of the ground dried chilli powder with half a teaspoon of the ground rice and set aside. Combine the cucumber, shallots, cherry tomatoes, red chillies, herbs and spring onions in a large bowl. Add the lime juice and fish sauce mixture and toss to combine.
5. Slice the beef thinly. Toss the beef and ground rice mix through the salad with any cooking juices that have collected in the be bowl. Pile high on a large platter and serve with a salad of crunchy raw lettuce.

[vince]

Thanks Elleigh. The bachelor version kinda went thus:

200g of lean stir-fry beef
1 head(?) of Pak Choi, broken into leaves
1 green chilli, finely chopped
1" of ginger, finely chopped
2 cloves of crushed garlic
75g of Shitake mushrooms
Oyster sauce out of the bottle
One pack of straight to wok noodles

1. Stir fry the beef. Forget about it momentarily and set the smoke alarm off.

2. Add fiddly ingredients and push them about the wok a bit whilst simultaneously hitting smoke alarm with mop handle.

3. Stir in Pak Choi and try not to let the end bit char. Remember the mushrooms.

4. Add a good dollop of Oyster sauce.

5. Reassure neighbours that everything is ok and open windows in flat to get a through draught.

6. Put in a bit of water and put lid on to see if that sorts the Pak Choi out.

7. Realise that spring onions have been forgotten, quickly slice lengthways and add to mix.

8. Sling in straight to wok noodles and push about until separate. Read back of packet for ingredient list as do so and resolve never to buy again.

9. Realise: a. you bought a multi-pack of noodles, b. you forgot to warm the plate.

10. Tip out onto cold plate and quickly shovel into face before it gets cold.

Delicious 

[Regulator]

Vince

With such culinary skills I am surprised that you're single...