Beef and Pickled Mustard Greens is Cantonese home-cooked comfort food. Haam choy, sweet bell peppers, and melt-in-your-mouth velveted beef make for a simple, quick, yet delicious recipe.
Prep Time35 minutesmins
Cook Time10 minutesmins
Total Time45 minutesmins
Course: Beef
Cuisine: Cantonese, Chinese
Servings: 4
Calories: 267kcal
Author: Bill
Ingredients
For the beef and marinade:
12ouncesflank steak(thinly sliced against the grain)
Place the beef slices into a bowl with the cornstarch, baking soda, water, oyster sauce, and vegetable oil. Mix until thoroughly combined. Set aside for at least 30 minutes, or even overnight.
Meanwhile, prepare the ginger, pickled mustard greens, garlic, scallions, and bell pepper. Also, mix the sauce by combining the chicken stock, sugar, white pepper, oyster sauce, light soy sauce, and sesame oil, and set aside.
Heat your wok until it just begins to smoke, and spread 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil around the perimeter of the wok. Add the beef to the wok, spreading it in a single layer. Sear the meat for 1 minute on each side. Remove the beef from the wok, leaving any oil behind, and set aside.
Next, set the wok to medium heat, and add another tablespoon of oil, along with the smashed ginger. After 15 seconds, add the pickled mustard greens, and stir-fry for 30 seconds, until the greens are seared and slightly dry.
Increase the heat to high, and add the smashed garlic, white parts of the scallions, and red bell peppers. Stir-fry for another minute.
Add the Shaoxing wine around the perimeter of the wok to deglaze it, and stir everything together for another 30 seconds.
Stir up the prepared sauce mixture and add it to the wok, mixing everything together until combined. Then push all of the ingredients to the middle of the wok and cook for 1 to 2 minutes, or until the liquid comes to a simmer.
Add the seared beef—along with all of the juice that has collected in the bowl––and the green parts of the scallions. Cook for another 30 seconds.
Add enough of the cornstarch slurry to thicken the sauce (you don’t have to use it all, and you should go by your personal preference and taste). Stir for 20-30 seconds. Plate and serve with steamed rice.