Mongolian Beef...How Do You Make It?

Question

My wife and I love Chinese food, and we eat in Chinese restaurants a lot, but we can't find any Chinese cook-books that tell us how to make the common, ordinary items we find on the menus at the Chinese restaurants. I think if we could learn to make the sauces, we'd be on our way. For example, can anyone tell us how to make Mongolian Beef? Thanks!

Answer 1

MONGOLIAN BEEF


1 lb. sirloin tip steak
1 med. onion (sliced)
1 bunch green onions (cut 2 inches long)
6 to 8 pieces small dried chili peppers
2 to 3 slices fresh ginger root

MARINADE:

1 tbsp. dark soy sauce
2 tbsp. rice wine
2 tbsp. oyster sauce
1 tbsp. corn starch
3 to 4 slices ginger root

Marinade 30 minutes.
Using wok, pour 1/4 to 1/3 cup peanut oil. When oil is hot, add chili peppers and ginger root. When ginger root and peppers turn brown, remove from pan. Stir fry meat. Save extra juice from marinade.

Set aside meat. Stir fry onions and green onions. Add extra juice and meat. Stir together well. Serve hot with rice or over bed of fried bean thread.

Answer 2

Mongolian Beef


1/2 lb. round steak
1 tsp. cornstarch
1 tsp. Kikkoman soy sauce or Tamari
2 tsp. sherry
1/2 tsp. sugar
1/2 tsp. sesame oil
1 1/2 tsp. grated fresh ginger
2 c. finely shredded cabbage
2 tsp. cornstarch
2 tsp. water
2 T. vegetable oil
1/2 c. chicken broth
1 T. sesame oil
1 T. sesame seeds


Slice steak thinly and place strips in bowl. Add next 6 ingredients, stir and allow to stand, covered, while you prepare the rest of the dish.

Shred or slice the cabbage very thin. using a high flame, heat wok or large frying pan. Add oil to hot pot and heat. Add cabbage and stir fry, cooking for a few minutes. Add chicken broth, cover, cook for 6 minutes, stirring occasionally. Uncover, stir and remove cabbage to another dish, set aside.

Reheat pan; add small amount of oil and heat. Add beef and stir-fry. Add the cabbage, stir. Mix cornstarch and water, add to meat and cabbage. Cook until gravy thickens. Pour sesame oil over, stir well. Pour onto serving platter, sprinkle with sesame seeds. Serves 2-3. This dish also can be made with broccoli, celery cabbage or other vegetables. Serve with steamed rice.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

Mongolian Beef Recipe
6 cloves garlic
1/4 cup peanut oil
10 red chile peppers
4 tbsp ground chinese ginger
1 stray dog

Kill stray dog, skin and remove meat.
Chop meat into beef like cubes, and fry in wok with oil with garlic, ginger and peppers, serve on noodles of your choice, serves a family of 12.

Answer 5

Hi!
If you like Chinese Beef with Broccoli, here is a wonderful recipe: go to: www.williams-sonoma.com (on Yahoo!search) ... click on #1 on that page then when you get the Williams Sonoma
page, on the headliner, click on Recipes then when the next screen (Recipes & Ideas) comes up, click on All About Broccoli in the list of things... then under a beautiful picture of broccoli, click on Beef & Broccoli with Oyster Sauce..... what you will find is a very nice recipe!

Also, you should acquaint yourselves with the basic ingredients of the kind of stir-fry you like:
* ginger
* garlic
* salt and sugar
* light and dark soy sauce
* bead molasses or brown sugar
* Chinese rice wine / vinegar
* oyster sauce
* cornstarch
* scallions & onions
* soy or peanut oil
* sesame oil, toasted or plain
* dry red chillies
* spices like star anise or 5-spice powder ...even curry powder ...
* hoisin sauce

and you might like to consider water chestnuts,
bamboo shoots, cashews and peanuts, and, of course, bean sprouts from mung beans (or moath, both of which you can find in Indian stores, too ... as well as Asian), tofu ... noodles of various kinds ...

Mung sprouts: soak a nice handful of the unskinned mung beans in water for about 6
hours, drain and leave in a loosely covered
container and rinse them every 6 hours..leave without water, don't forget.. it takes about 4 days, depending upon the weather where you
]are....as you drain them, from time to time because they start to smell very "agricultural," be sure to float off the green skins that will float to the top of the water ... may be that you won't get them all, but no matter..... (Some people like soy sprouts)


Don't forget: tea, iced tea (make with a very light mix of lemon iced tea mix..), and for dessert: oranges, candied kumquats, almond cookies, ice cream, lychees (fresh or canned), and fresh plums .. all sorts of fruit ices ...spong cake with vanilla custard sauce ... fresh plums...also for a very fancy time, buy some lychee scented tea .. if you like lychee nuts, it is absolutely delicious, sweet and smoky // I think even gingerbread would do for dessert!

If you ever make Moo Shu Pork (or Beef or Chicken), you can make a plum sauce by heating up plum jam or make sauce yourself of those little purple plums and a little bit of water cooked in the top of a double boiler with a touch of sugar ... you may either puree it or leave as is ... lumpy and very good.

Also: while we are busy being good and eating fresh fruit, the Chinese are busy trusting God and
drinking orange soda and Pepsi.... so have some, if you don't already! Also, you might make your own orange crush: bring to boil and cool a syrup of equal parts of sugar and water, then squeeze oranges for the juice and cut up some pieces of the peel and put them both into the syrup; leave for some time to mature, and then strain to remove the peel, pour into glasses filled with ice, mint garnish if appropriate ...

If you ever are in New York City and want to go to Chinatown, on Canal Street, the large main street, is a wonderful Chinese supermarket called Kam Man Foods.... it is much fun, believe me!

Thank you for asking for a Mongolian Beef recipe... I have been for years trying to find a satisfactory replacement for a recipe I found then lost for beef balls made with ground beef, served as cocktail snacks.... except I think mine had allspice and cloves mixed in ... no matter, this recipe is quite nice, don't you thinl (the first one, that is!!!) Peace!

P.S. You should find out about aduki beans, the little dark red beans they cook up with sugar and a little water and use to stuff pancakes ... they are
sensational.

P.P.S. there are sites on the internet that will get you food items, if they are unavailable in your area of the world ....I just found www.chinatown-online.com ... I did not look too carefully since someone called me for lunch ... and there is a wonderful store for Chinese stuff: www.pearlriver.com.... again, have fun.