Apple Stir-Fried Beef Slices

Name: Apple Stir-Fried Beef Slices
Prep time: 2 h 20 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 2 h 35 min
Ingredients: 300 g Beef round (remove sinew, wash, and slice into 4 cm long × 2 cm wide thin pieces); 2 Apple (washed, stemmed, peeled, cored, sliced thin, and soaked in cold water); 20 g Soy sauce (part for marinating, part for stir-frying); 12 g Sugar (for marinating and stir-frying); 2 g Baking soda (for marinating, to tenderize the beef); 15 g Cooking wine (for marinating and stir-frying); 5 g Fine salt (for marinating and stir-frying); 2 g MSG (for marinating and stir-frying); 15 g Cornstarch (part for marinating, part for thickening); 20 g Scallion (peeled, washed, and cut into 3 cm segments); 10 g (roasted) Sesame seeds (part for stir-frying, part for garnish); 150 ml Chicken broth (for stir-frying); 500 g (50 g actually consumed) Soybean oil (for deep-frying the beef slices)

A Korean-style stir-fry of marinated beef slices and apple slices, featuring a soft pink hue, tender beef, and a light, fragrant apple aroma.

2h 35m

Easy

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Ingredients

Beef round (remove sinew, wash, and slice into 4 cm long × 2 cm wide thin pieces) 300 g

Apple (washed, stemmed, peeled, cored, sliced thin, and soaked in cold water) 2

Soy sauce (part for marinating, part for stir-frying) 20 g

Sugar (for marinating and stir-frying) 12 g

Baking soda (for marinating, to tenderize the beef) 2 g

Cooking wine (for marinating and stir-frying) 15 g

Fine salt (for marinating and stir-frying) 5 g

MSG (for marinating and stir-frying) 2 g

Cornstarch (part for marinating, part for thickening) 15 g

Scallion (peeled, washed, and cut into 3 cm segments) 20 g

Sesame seeds (part for stir-frying, part for garnish) 10 g (roasted)

Chicken broth (for stir-frying) 150 ml

Soybean oil (for deep-frying the beef slices) 500 g (50 g actually consumed)

Instructions

Prepare the apples

Wash the apples, remove the stems, peel, core, and slice into thin pieces. Soak in cold water to prevent browning.

Cut the scallions

Peel the scallions, wash, and cut into 3 cm segments.

Marinate the beef

Remove the sinew from the beef, wash, and slice into 4 cm long × 2 cm wide thin pieces. Place in a porcelain bowl, add 5 g of soy sauce, salt, sugar, MSG, and cooking wine, and mix well. Then add 75 ml of cold water in 3 batches, stirring in one direction until all the water is absorbed by the beef. Finally, add 5 g of cornstarch and the baking soda, and let rest for 2 hours.

Blanch the beef in oil

Heat a wok over high heat and add 500 g of soybean oil. When the oil reaches about 150 °C (roughly 50% hot), add the beef slices and separate them with chopsticks. Remove and drain, then pour the remaining oil into a storage container.

Stir-fry and finish

Leave a small amount of oil in the wok and heat it up. Add the scallion segments, and once fragrant, add soy sauce, sugar, baking soda, cooking wine, fine salt, MSG, sesame seeds, and a splash of chicken broth. Bring to a boil, thicken with a cornstarch slurry, add the apple slices, and toss to combine. Add the beef slices, stir-fry briefly, plate, and sprinkle the remaining roasted sesame seeds on top to serve.