Beef with Oyster Sauce

Name: Beef with Oyster Sauce
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Thailand
Ingredients: 5 spring onions, sliced; 3 tablespoons oyster sauce; 1 tablespoon finely shredded fresh ginger; 2 large fresh red Thai chillies, seeded and sliced; 3 tablespoons groundnut (peanut) oil; 2 tablespoons coarsely chopped garlic; 450 g (1 lb) lean beef steak; 1 tablespoon light soy sauce; 2 teaspoons sesame oil; 1 tablespoon Shaoxing rice wine or dry sherry; 2 teaspoons cornflour

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Ken Hom Cooks Thai

By Ken Hom

Published 2001

About

This classic southern Chinese dish is now a Thai staple; indeed, some Thai cooks maintain that, au contraire, they taught the Chinese how to make it!

Whatever the case, the Thai touch is manifest here and the dish is equally delicious as its Chinese cousin. Remember: oyster sauce is rich but never ‘fishy’.

Ingredients

450 g (1 lb) lean beef steak
1 tablespoon light soy sauce

Asia
Thailand
Dinner
Spicy
South East Asia

Method

Put the beef in the freezing compartment of your refrigerator for 20 minutes. This will allow the meat to harden slightly for easier cutting. Then cut it into thin slices 5 cm (2 in) long and

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