Stir-fried Honey Sesame Beef

Name: Stir-fried Honey Sesame Beef
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 2 tablespoons light honey; 1 teaspoon sesame oil; 3 red bird’s-eye chillies, minced; 1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper; 4 cloves garlic, minced; 20 ml fish sauce; 40 ml light soy sauce; 120 g green beans, cut into 2 cm lengths and blanched; 2 teaspoons white sesame seeds, lightly roasted; 40 ml vegetable oil; 500 g beef tenderloin fillet, thinly sliced; 2 handfuls watercress sprigs; 1 bunch garlic chives, cut into 5 cm lengths

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Fire

By Christine Manfield

Published 2008

About

This became one of our ‘star’ bar bites at the London restaurant, a firm favourite with the drinkers and bar diners. Instead of serving it with rice, we added slippery rice noodles with the beef as it was frying, so you have that option as well.

Ingredients

4 cloves garlic, minced
40 ml light soy sauce
20 ml

Asia
Europe
China
United Kingdom
Main course
London

Method

In a bowl, mix together the garlic, soy sauce, fish sauce, sesame oil, honey, pepper and chilli with half the vegetable oil. Add the beef slices, mix well and leave to marinate for 1 hour.

Heat a large wok, add half the remaining oil then throw in half the beef and marinade with half the beans and toss over a high heat so that the beef sears and cooks quickly (use chopsticks to keep the