“Sizzling Beef” Steak Fried Rice

Steak Fried Rice is simply a spot peculiar due to the fact that it’s uncommon to spot fried atom made with chunks of beef! With marinated, tenderised beef pieces “sizzled” until golden, this is an fantabulous look to marque with economical cuts similar sizzle steak, infinitesimal steak, and pre-cut disturbance fry strips.

“Sizzling Beef” Steak Fried Rice

This is not the archetypal clip I’ve done a beef fried rice. But it’s the archetypal clip I’ve shared immoderate atom crockery with steak pieces alternatively than mince (ground beef) jumbled passim the rice. In fact, it mightiness beryllium the archetypal clip I’ve ever eaten a fried atom with pieces of beef successful it!

Mind you, I’m not claiming this arsenic an archetypal invention. I’m conscionable saying it’s antithetic from the accustomed fried atom made with chickenhearted oregon prawns/shrimp. It’s a spot special. And it is really tasty. It scored highly with the squad astatine RecipeTin Meals, regular recipients of my trials (and errors) successful the kitchen. Those tasty small marinated bits of beef “sizzled” until caramelised truly makes it!

Marinating and tenderising the beef

Sizzled beef steak bites!

Keeping small bits of steak tender

Little bits of steak overcook successful a flash – arsenic in, little than 90 seconds. So the lone mode to marque this genuinely enjoyable truthful we wound into beef that’s caramelised connected the aboveground but tender wrong is to marinate and tenderise it. Otherwise, it’s adust cardboard for meal tonight!!

While marinating adds flavor, regular marinades won’t support the beef soft. To execute that velvety texture you get successful Chinese edifice beef disturbance fries, we request to velvet the beef.

There’s assorted ways to bash it, but the method I find the easiest for location cooking is to usage baking soda (bi-carbonate soda), a tried-and-true method I’ve shared that galore readers love! It’s easy, cheap, and if you’ve ne'er done it before, it’s a game-changer.

Read much astir it present – How to Velvet Beef for Stir Fries.

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Ingredients for Sizzling Beef Fried Rice

Here’s what you request for this fried rice. This crockery is Thai flavoured, utilizing food condiment and oyster condiment arsenic shortcut flavour bumps similar successful classical Thai Fried Rice.

Beef and marinade

• Beef – I similar to usage rump steak (US: apical sirloin) due to the fact that it’s casual to chopped into tiny rectangles that I privation for this look truthful you get bully small bites, it’s got bully beef flavour and texture for a crockery similar this. There’s nary request to splurge connected costly beef, the marinade does wonders tenderising.

  Porterhouse/sirloin (called New York Strip successful the US, among different names) is akin but it’s a small pricier truthful I thin to instrumentality with rump.

  For different beef cuts – spot container below. And yes, you tin usage chicken! See FAQ.

• Baking soda (bi-carbonate soda) – The magic constituent to “velvet” the beef which keeps it bully and tender, accelerated becoming the world’s worst kept Chinese edifice secret! Without, the tiny bladed bites of beef would overcook and adust successful 90 seconds. We lone usage a tiny magnitude truthful you can’t sensation it. See Velveting Beef recipe for much accusation connected this technique.

• Dark soy sauce – stains the beef a affluent mahogany colour and adds soy flavour. Substitute with airy oregon all-purpose soy sauce, though the flavour and colour is not arsenic intense.

• Oyster condiment – shortcut condiment for instant flavour, adding savoury, sweetness and thickens the sauce. Substitute with vegetarian oyster condiment (for shell-fish free, disposable successful Asian and ample market stores these days) oregon Hoisin condiment (alters flavour but plays akin role).

• Water – To bladed the marinade capable to overgarment each the beef, and besides to dilute the marinade a spot (I recovered the beef excessively salty successful archetypal iterations of this recipe).

• Garlic – Like bacon, it conscionable makes everything better!

• Sugar – Just a smidge, for flavour and fantastic caramelisation. White oregon brownish is fine.

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DAY-OLD COLD RICE

You volition request 4 cups of day-old cooked rice. You’ll request 1 1/2 cups of uncooked atom (1 cupful uncooked atom = 3 cups cooked). I usage long-grain rice.

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Beef fried atom sauce

Here are the ingredients for the sauce. Only 3 – due to the fact that the food condiment and oyster condiment are afloat flavoured, positive we get flavour successful the atom from the beef too!.

• Fish sauce – Has much extent of flavour than soy sauce, but tin beryllium substituted with regular oregon airy soy sauce. Doesn’t sensation fishy erstwhile cooked!

• Oyster sauce – See supra beef marinade for statement and substitutions.

• Sugar – To equilibrium the flavour of the saltiness you get from the food sauce. Any benignant of sweetener is good here.

💡This fried atom sauce is intentionally much bold flavoured than a emblematic Chinese Fried Rice due to the fact that I deliberation it suits the beef amended arsenic beef has a stronger flavour than chickenhearted and prawns/shrimp which are the accustomed proteins utilized successful fried rice.

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THE ADD-INS

I utilized greenish bulb and greenish beans due to the fact that I was deliberately going for a green-add-ins fried atom successful this recipe. Just to bash thing antithetic from the emblematic kaleidoscope of colours you spot successful fried rice (carrots, corn, peas!). So consciousness escaped to substitute the greenish beans for different vegetables, and the greenish bulb for a regular onion.

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How to marque Beef Fried Rice

The beef needs 1 hr minimum to marinate but you tin permission it overnight. Note: immoderate alternate cuts of beef suggested request a minimum of 4 hours marinating clip (ie dilatory cooking cuts and immoderate of the much economical cuts). See the beef conception supra oregon look notes for marinating times.

1. MARINATING THE BEEF

1. Cut the beef into 1.5cm / 0.6″ strips

2. Small squares – Then cut those strips into square(ish) pieces astir 3-5mm / 0.2″ thick, truthful you person tons of bladed square(ish) bits of beef.

3. Mix the beef marinade ingredients successful a bowl.

4. Marinade – Then adhd the beef and flip to coat. Marinade for 1 hr minimum, up to 24 hours. I find the other clip doesn’t adhd anything, it doesn’t marque the beef immoderate much tender nor does it adhd much flavour due to the fact that the pieces are truthful thin, the flavour afloat penetrates successful an hour.

   ⚠️ Remember – If you are not utilizing rump / apical sirloin, cheque the recommended marinating time. See Note 1 of the look paper oregon the bluish container supra successful the beef section.

2. PREPARING OTHER INGREDIENTS

1. Green onion – Cut it into 1.5cm / 0.2″ lengths and abstracted the firmer achromatic parts from the greenish parts. We adhd them into the cookware astatine antithetic times arsenic the achromatic portion takes overmuch longer to navigator than the greenish part.

2. Fried atom sauce – Put the ingredients successful a tiny vessel and mix.

3. Cutting greenish beans – Trim the greenish beans past chopped into 1.25cm / 1/2″ pieces.

4. Scrambled egg – Whisk the ingredients past acceptable aside.

OK! Prep done, the navigator portion is bully and quick. Just hold until that beef hits the pan, it smells soooo good!

3. COOKING THE FRIED RICE IS FAST!

This fried atom is cooked successful a ample cookware alternatively of a wok due to the fact that it’s a big-batch of fried atom (enough to service 4 arsenic a meal) that is excessively overmuch to acceptable successful a wok. If you effort to navigator this successful a wok, the atom and beef volition conscionable “stew” and get sweaty alternatively of caramelised and toasty. 🙂

1. Large cookware – Heat 2 tablespoons of the lipid successful a ample non-stick cookware implicit precocious heat. Mine is 30cm / 12″ wide, and is 1 of the astir often utilized cookware successful my room (it’s a Pyrolux, nary that is not an affiliate link, and sadly not precise disposable extracurricular of the Australia).

2. Caramelised beef – Add the beef and navigator until the aboveground seals, astir 1 1/2 minutes. Then adhd the achromatic portion of the greenish bulb and beans and navigator for astir 1 infinitesimal until the beef is caramelised. Add the ail conscionable earlier the extremity (if you adhd it earlier, it volition burn).

3. Rice and sauce – Add the atom past determination the condiment over. Toss for astir 1 1/2 minutes to disperse the condiment done the atom and springiness it a accidental to get bully and toasty.

4. Clear abstraction in the cookware for the egg. This is really the accepted mode ovum is cooked for fried atom successful Thailand, truthful it’s not conscionable maine being lazy! 🙂

5. Scramble egg – Add and swirl 1/2 tablespoonful of lipid successful the cleared space. It volition vigor astir instantly. Then determination the ovum successful and erstwhile it sets a bit, lazily scrape and swirl done it to scramble the egg.

   Don’t worry if immoderate of it gets stuck (like excavation does), conscionable scrape it disconnected and bask crispy small ovum bits successful your rice!

6. Finish and serve – As soon arsenic the ovum is astir cooked, flip it done the atom with the greenish portion of the greenish onion, which wilts precise quickly. Then transferring into a serving vessel oregon disagreement betwixt bowls, and get stuck into it!

Serving arsenic a meal

I privation to archer you that this tin beryllium meal by itself. But to me, it’s excessively airy connected the vegetables to beryllium considered a wholly meal. My parent did specified a bully occupation of encephalon washing maine arsenic a kid! 😖

For a speedy option, conscionable adhd wedges of herb and hunks of cucumber connected the side, nary dressing required. Before you disregard that arsenic boring, it’s not! This fried atom is rather afloat flavoured truthful the freshness of plain vegetables is welcome. Also, it’s legit Thai thoroughfare nutrient style! Plain herb and cucumbers is simply a communal summation to plates of noodles and atom successful Thailand, and arsenic noted supra the condiment utilized successful today’s look is from my Thai Fried Rice.

However, if you privation thing a small much absorbing (and I get it), present are a fewer elemental Asian salads that you could adhd connected the side:

The Spicy Asian Zucchini gets a peculiar notation – such a delicious mode to get a monolithic rootlike hole – and the Asian Slaw is simply a idiosyncratic favourite arsenic it’s a large standby to person successful the fridge. If you’re truly pressed for time, conscionable bargain a pre-cut slaw premix past flip with the dressing successful the Asian Slaw recipe.

Or – by walk each that and conscionable bask a large steamy vessel of the fried atom for dinner. Those juicy beef bits are the best! Try to defy picking retired much than your just sharing and sneaking it into your bowl. (Who me?😇) – Nagi x

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Watch however to marque it

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