Slices of cooked beef in soya sauce

Roast or boiled beef, sliced thin, may be used. This is a splendid way of cooking leftovers from a Sunday joint, or you can use meat from the cooked meat counter of your supermarket.

If you want to make Semur from uncooked meat, however, use fillet steak or topside; this makes it into much more of a party dish.

You can, of course, make Semur in very small quantities, but these ingredients will serve four people, with vegetables and rice: