Cheap Beef with Soy & Ginger
Buy the cheapest cuts of beef from your butcher and turn them into a luscious chinese style dish that will get the family coming back for more!
Ingredients
- 2 tbsp Beef Fat Lard or Oil can be substituted
- 1.5 kg Beef Stewing Beef / off cuts etc…
- 6 Garlic Cloves Grated
- 50 g Fresh Ginger
- 150 ml Soy Sauce
- 400 ml Cider or apple juice
- 2 tbsp Cider Vinegar
- 2/3 Fresh Whole Chillies depending how hot you like it
- Salt & Pepper To taste
Instructions
- Add beef fat to a large oven proof casserole pot, put on the stove on a medium heat.
- Cut the beef into 2.5cm chunks or whatever you can with the cuts you have.
- Fry off in the beef fat, do this in batches, this avoids cooling the pan too much and allowing too much water from the beef to stop browning. Set aside on a plate.
- Preheat your oven to 120°c / Gas Mark Half / shut the vent on the Aga…
- Lower the heat on the stove and add garlic, ginger, soften then add the soy sauce.
- Add the meat back into the pan and add enough cider to cover the meat.
- Add the rest of the ingredients.
- Cook for 3 hours
- Remove Chillies and serve with wilted spinach Fresh egg noodles (which you can make while you wait) or simple boiled rice seasoned with soy.