The best thing about this tasty Asian beef stir fry is as well as tasting delicious, it’s so quick and easy to prepare and costs less than $4 per serve. I use reduced salt soy sauce as this amount of standard soy sauce can make it too salty. You can be flexible with the green vegetables – choose whatever is available and in season. Hoisin sauce is available in your supermarket and gives the dish a great flavour.
Serves 4-5
Ingredients
600g-700g Quality Mark beef rump steak, trimmed and thinly sliced
1 teaspoon sesame oil
1 red chilli, deseeded, finely chopped
3 cloves garlic, crushed
2 teaspoons ginger, finely grated
1/4 cup hoisin sauce
1/4 cup reduced salt soy sauce
2 teaspoons cornflour mixed with 1/2 cup beef stock
3 cups chopped green vegetables (Asian greens, broccoli, cabbage, spinach, celery etc.)
Cooked brown rice, to serve
1/2 cup roasted peanuts, roughly chopped
Fresh coriander
Extra chopped chillies (optional)
Method
Heat a dash of oil in a wok or large frying pan over a high heat. When the pan is very hot, add the beef and sear quickly to brown (do this in two batches to get a nice dark colour and avoid the meat stewing). Set the beef aside.
Reduce the heat to medium, add the sesame oil, chilli, garlic and ginger and stir-fry for a few minutes. Add the hoisin sauce, soy sauce and stock/cornflour mixture and simmer for a few minutes until thickened. Turn the heat to high, add all the vegetables into the pan with the meat and its juices and stir-fry for another few minutes until the vegetables are bright green and just tender.
Serve immediately on brown rice with a sprinkle of peanuts, coriander and chillies.
Tips & tricks
- Sear the beef in two batches to avoid crowding and stewing in the pan, resulting in juicier beef.
- Slice meat across the grain for optimum tenderness.
- Create a leaner dish by trimming all the fat from the beef.
- You don’t need to season the beef before cooking as the soy sauce will add lots of flavour.
- You can use toasted sesame seeds or cashews in place of peanuts if you prefer.
- Using brown rice will enhance the fibre content of the meal.
- For a stir-fry with more of a spicy kick, leave the seeds in the chillies.
Delicious- but first time I made didn’t have hoisin and enjoyed it more. I find hoisin too sweet and far too much sodium. Will fiddle faddle some more ?
Help..I don’t have hoisin sauce nor beef stock …what do you suggest as a substitute. Many thanks. Max.
Hello, this looks delish but I was wondering about the soy sauce…. I would have to use gluten free soy sauce which isn’t low salt… Could I substitute for fish sauce otherwise? Would that be lower? So keen to try this recipe tonight :) thanks Chelsea, I’m loving your recipes!!
Yes you could trying using less soy sauce or making some up with water too :)
Everything I try when it comes to your recipes Chelsea, works. I make bigger batches and add different quantities and the flavours always turn out yummy…so thanks x
We made this tonight & it was a huge hit! The kids came back for seconds. Definitely going to be a favorite in our house
Any chance you can add Pinterest to social share???
Cheers
I have cooked this multiple times and it is so delicious! I’ve made it for family and guests and they have all raved about it. So easy too! Thanks
Hey Chels, would u happen to know the cals per serve? And how many grams a serve would be? I make this most weeks, better than any packaged stir-fry sauce at the supermarket, thanks so much for sharing
Hi Chelsea, can you tell me what brand of hoisin sauce you used? Thanks
hi Chelsea, can you please tell me what brand of hoison sauce you used?
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Second day this week trying your recipes! Omg this is amazing :) Thank you so much for such easy, fast and delicious recipes. Will be bringing some leftovers to work and make everyone jealous haha
Searched online for a beef stir fry recipe and found yours Chelsea. Very yum. I will make this one of my favourites! Thanks!
Yum! My stir fry normally came from the frozen section in the supermarket (I’m ashamed to say) needless to say never tasted good so was put off. This is amazballs! Thanks Chelsea – new staple to my diet :-)
This is the most delicious stir-fry and we have it regularly in our household! Sometimes we swap the beef for chicken to mix it up a bit and it still works perfectly!
Love your recipies Chelsea, always tasty and usually pretty easy too :-)
This looks really good. I need a ‘Pintrest’ button to save for later!
I don’t have printer access from my ipad so I take a photo of any recipes I am intending to use, then once I start cooking I just bring up the recipe photo and work from that.
Quick and efficient.
This recipe is so delicious. A quick healthy week day meal. I added some lime juice in as well. Thanks Chelsea.
this is such a tasty dish!! I really loved the flavours and the fact its so healthy and guilt free…means I can follow it up with something much less healthy! Thanks Chelsea :)
Lovely dish, great flavours and easy to cook. Thoroughly recommended!
Thank you Carol!
Tankee muchee! I was beginning to think I was going do-lally!
Hiya
Hey, am I dumb or is there no way to print this recipe! Sounds yum but my computer’s nowhere near my kitchen!
Cheers
Sorry Leigh, my bad! Have added the print option now!