Shredded Beef with Celery

Name: Shredded Beef with Celery
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: China
Ingredients: 15 ml/1 tbsp rice wine; 15 ml/1 tbsp light soy sauce; 450 g/1 lb beef sirloin, loin or fillet/tenderloin; 10 ml/2 tsp lightly toasted sesame seeds, to garnish; boiled rice, to serve; 150 g/5 oz Chinese celery sticks, with leaves; 1 large onion, halved and thinly sliced; 10 ml/2 tsp oyster sauce; 2.5 ml/½ tsp ground white pepper; 45 ml/3 tbsp vegetable oil

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

China

By Terry Tan

Published 2020

About

In Chinese cuisine, shredded beef requires a piece of sirloin or loin to be first sliced and then shredded with a sharp knife, or even a fine-edged metal spoon or ladle. This method yields exceptionally tender beef, which can then be used for quick stir-frying over high heat.

Ingredients

450 g/1 lb beef sirloin, loin or fillet/tenderloin
15

Asia
China
Main course

Method

Cut the beef into thin slices then cut the slices across with a half-cutting, half-scraping motion to make thin, fragile julienne strips.
Combine the soy sauce, rice wine, oyster sauce, pepper and 15ml/1 tbsp of the oil. Add the beef and gently mix to coat. Cover and leave to marinate in the refrigerator for 15 minutes.
Cut the celery sticks into 2cm/