I had some steak left over from the other night. Usually I would have made fried rice and added the chopped steak but I decided to cook up some Mongolian beef using a recipe from Simple Chinese Cooking
Mongolian Beef from Leftover Steak
Ingredients
Marinade:
- 2 Tbs sherry or shao hsing wine
- 1 Tbs soy sauce
- 1 Tbs cornstarch
- 1 Tbs diced fresh ginger
- 3 cloves garlic, minced
- 1/2 tsp sesame oil
Mongolian Beef
- 1 cup leftover cooked steak cut into thin strips
- 4 cups thinly sliced green or Chinese cabbage
- 2 tsp salt
- 1/4 cup vegetable oil, divided
- 2 Tbs sherry or shao hsing wine
- 2 Tbs hoisin sauce
- 1 Tbs oyster sauce
- 1 tsp vinegar
- 1/2 tsp sesame oil
- 1 carrot, peeled and thinly sliced
- 1/2 a red pepper, slice into thin strips
- 3-4 green onions, sliced thinly
This was a great way to use up leftover meat in a whole new way.
[…] good! The next day I took the leftover steak and sliced it into thin strips and made a version of Mongolian Beef with it. I just modified the recipe so that I quickly heated the strips of steak rather than needing […]