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Beef & Black Bean Stir-fry

Enjoy this Chinese restaurant beef stir-fry recipe at home by making the umami-packed sauce from scratch – it’s seriously good! Try serving the tender beef, crunchy vegies and savoury upon savoury deliciousness as is, or with steamed rice or noodles.

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Beef & Black Bean Stir-fry

PREP TIME
10 minutes
COOK TIME
30 minutes (plus marinating)
SERVES
4
Ingredients

500g (1 lb) rump steak

2 tbsp vegetable oil

1 onion, sliced

2 capsicums (bell peppers), deseeded, cut into bite-sized pieces

¼ cup oyster sauce

2 spring onions (scallions), roughly chopped

 

Marinade: 

1 tbsp soy sauce

1 tbsp Chinese Shaoxing wine*

½ tsp bicarbonate of soda (baking soda)

3 tsp cornflour (cornstarch)

 

Homemade black bean sauce:

¼ cup peanut oil

8 garlic cloves, finely grated

4cm piece ginger, peeled & finely grated

½ cup salted fermented black beans*

2 tbsp Chinese shaoxing wine

1 tbsp light soy sauce

1 tbsp sugar

1 tsp cornflour (cornstarch)

Steps
  • Step 1

    For the black bean sauce, heat the oil in a wok over high heat. Add the garlic and ginger and cook, stirring often for 1 minute or until aromatic. Add the black beans and stir to combine.

  • Step 2

    Add ½ cup of water to the wok along with the Shaoxing, soy and sugar. Simmer for 15 minutes or until the water has nearly evaporated.

  • Step 3

    Combine the cornflour with 2 teaspoons of water. Add to the wok and simmer for 2 minutes or until thickened. Set aside.

  • Step 4

    Whisk together the marinade ingredients in a large bowl. Then slice the steaks against the grain and on the diagonal to form wide strips that are no more than half a centimetre (3/16”) thick. Add to the marinade and mix well with your hands to make sure each piece of beef is coated. Set aside to marinate for 10 minutes.

  • Step 5

    Heat the vegetable oil in a large non-stick frying pan over high heat. Add the beef and spread out the strips as much as possible and allow to sear for about 2 minutes. Use a spatula to toss the beef around and then cook for another 2 minutes or until nicely seared. Now add the onion and stir-fry for a minute or until slightly softened. Add the capsicum and stir-fry for another 2 minutes.

  • Step 6

    Add 2 tablespoons of your homemade black bean sauce, oyster sauce and 3 tablespoons of water. Stir-fry until well combined. Toss through the spring onion and serve. The remainder of your homemade black bean sauce can be transferred to a sterilised jar.

  • Notes
    Notes:

    – Salted fermented black beans come in vacuum packs or in cans. You can find them from an Asian grocery store or order them online.

    – Chinese Shaoxing wine is a type of cooking rice wine. It’s available in the Asian aisle of some major supermarkets or from an Asian grocery store. If you’d rather leave it out, simply replace with beef stock.

    – You can check out more Asian beef chuck recipes here!

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Sarah
March 7, 2023

Delicious!

I haven’t had beef and black bean since I was a kid, We used to get it every Thursday night from the food court after late night grocery shopping. OMG I’d forgotten how much I loved it and this was soooo good! The beef was super silky and tender and the sauce so salty and umami. Loved it! <3

Justin
February 1, 2023

Out of control good

I made this once before and used a store black bean sauce since I could find the black beans. Just came back to this recipe and made the sauce this time, absolutely delicious.

Graham
November 28, 2022

Perfect

cooked Black bean sauce first, looks and smells amazing, measurements were exact and all come together nicely, I used cheap cut of meat, thinly sliced and marinated in corn flour and Baking soda for 1 hour, was tender and the same as takeaway, perfect. will Definitely be cooking again, after i use the left over Black bean paste, Thank you.

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