This flavourful kung pao stir fry beef with peppers and noodles takes just a few minutes to cook and makes a brilliant week night dinner.
This stir fry makes a little beef go a long way, which is always good. It’s made with a sauce of soy sauce, rice wine and rice wine vinegar, which is sharp and savoury – perfect with the hint of spice from the Szechuan pepper.
You could easily make the sauce spicier with a good pinch of chilli flakes or a drizzle of chilli oil too, if you like.
Kung Pao Stir Fry Beef – The Ingredients
- The sauce – this Kung Pao sauce is made from dark soy sauce, light soy sauce, rice wine and rice wine vinegar. These are mixed with a little water and cornflour to make a smooth sauce.
- The beef – use a lean steak for this. It’ll cook nice and quickly in the stir fry and be the perfect texture with no toughness.
- Cashews – cashews add a nice nuttiness which goes beautifully with the beef. A traditional Kung Pao is usually made with peanuts – and you can substitute those here if you like.
- Bell pepper and spring onions– for the vegetable element of the stir fry. You can use any colour of bell pepper – I used yellow.
- Noodles – precook your noodles and simply toss them with the stir fry at the end of the cooking time. You can use any shape of noodle here – udon and flat rice noodles work well too.
- Szechuan pepper – for the hint of spice. As mentioned above, feel free to up the spice level with chilli flakes and/or chilli oil.
More stir fry recipes to whet your tastebuds:
- Hoisin Duck Stir Fry
- Miso Soup with Noodles and Stir-Fried Veg
- Vegetarian Pad Thai
- Easy Pork Dan Dan Noodles
- Vegetable Chow Mein
- Easy Chicken Chow Mein
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Kung Pao Stir Fry Beef With Noodles
November 5, 2024Stir fried beef and peppers with noodles and a sauce made from soy sauce, shaohsing rice wine and rice wine vinegar.
Ingredients
- 2 tsps dark soy sauce
- 1 tsp light soy sauce
- 2 tsps Shaohsing rice wine
- 1 tsp rice wine vinegar
- 1 tsp cornflour
- 2 tbsps vegetable oil
- 80 g cashews
- 225 g beef steak lean, e.g. sirloin
- 1 bell pepper
- 6 spring onions
- 4 garlic cloves
- 3 inch piece of ginger
- 300 g medium noodles precooked
- 1 tsp ground Szechuan pepper corns
Instructions
- To make your sauce, mix together the soy sauces, rice wine, vinegar, cornflour and 2 tbsps water in a small bowl. Whisk until smooth.
- Slice the beef and bell pepper into thin slices. Cut the spring onions into chunks approximately 1 inch in length.
- Heat the oil in a wok. When hot, add the cashews and toast for 30 seconds. Remove with a slotted spoon.
- Add the beef to the wok and cook for 1 minute before adding the bell pepper and spring onions. Cook for another minute before adding the garlic and ginger.
- Cook for 2 minutes until fragrant, then add the noodles, sauce and Szechuan pepper. Stir fry for two more minutes. Return the cashews to the wok, stir and serve.
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