Tomato Beef Stir-Fry
November 08, 2020
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Tomato Beef, one of my all-time favorite Chinese dishes.
To quote the Cookbook:
"Thick wedges of tomato cook with oyster flavored sauce and beef that has been stir-fried with ginger to make a flavorful and delicious sauce to serve over rice. Oddly enough, this is amazingly good even when tomatoes are not in season.
Just add some rice, a salad and a nice glass of red and you'll be happy.
Gather up some soy sauce, sesame oil, rice cooking wine, cornstarch, baking soda, ginger, onion, tomatoes and beef.
If you don't have access to rice cooking wine, dry sherry or dry white wine are good substitutes.
I had a top sirloin steak so I used that, cut it into slices, then into strips. Add the strips to a bowl and sprinkle with the baking soda.
Then, mix up the soy sauce, sesame oil, cooking wine, and corn starch, and add it to the meat.
While the meat is marinating, time to make the stir-fry sauce. You'll need the ginger you sliced and some oyster sauce.
The recipe doesn't call for onion other than the scallions added at the end, but I always add about 1/4 - 1/2 an onion, thinly sliced, and stir-fry that with the slices of ginger. Add the meat, searing well then remove the meat mixture and set aside.
In the same skillet add the tomatoes, I only had cherry tomatoes so I used them, and cook until they begin to soften. I don't add the sugar the recipe calls for. Add the oyster sauce and water, cover, and cook for a couple of minutes or until the tomatoes are limp.
Add the beef and any juices that have accumulated back to the skillet, and the scallions and stir-fry for about 1 more minute.
I've also been known to add veggies to this, but honestly, I prefer it just as it is.
Enjoy!
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And that's that!