Super Delicious Spicy Mongolian Beef Recipe

 Beef stakes are super delicious but when they are wrapped in the sticky sauce to make Spicy Mongolian Beef, they taste heavenly. This dish has awesome flavour and a lovely dark colour. You just have to buy the right kind of halal meat and you will love this with plain or garlic rice. It is a quite popular fried-beef dish as it is quick, easy to prepare and tasty.

What is Mongolian Sauce made of?

Mongolian sauce is made of hoisin sauce, minced ginger, minced garlic, soy sauce, vinegar, brown sugar, sesame oil, and hot sauce like sriracha, Thai sweet chilli, or hot sauce. You need all these ingredients to prepare the Mongolian sauce. Instead of going to supermarkets, you can subscribe to Meal prep Halal recipe box service and get all the raw materials in ready to cook condition.

Though like most of the chefs, you can give your special touch to it by adding Worcestershire sauce, and dark brown sugar for the extra dark sauce. You can also adjust the spice level by switching hot sauce or cooking oil and play around with vinegar choices. 

How to make Spicy Mongolian Beef soft and tender?

The special technique that is used to make beef soft and juicy to prepare this dish is called velveting. In this method, you have to cover the beef with starch and fry it on high flame to lock the juices in the meat.

How to cut the beef to make Spicy Mongolian Beef?

The right cut of the beef is the key to spicy Mongolian beef. Most of the people use tenderloin or under-cut beef as it is soft and favourable. Other cuts that can be used are sirloin steak and flank steak. All these cuts have short cooking time which makes it perfect for the quick frying process of Mongolian beef. 

Please do not use stewing or pot roast beef or chuck cut for this recipe as you will not get the desired result with those cuts. But if you are using these tough cut beef, you have to tenderize the meat with papaya or meat tenderizer which may spoil the texture of the meat. You can get the perfect cut halal meat for this recipe in Meal prep Halal recipe box. 

What side dishes can go well with Spicy Mongolian Beef?

Spicy Mongolian Beef is best paired with rice. You can choose either plain rice or garlic rice or veg fried rice or cauliflower egg fried rice for low carb or keto. If you are not a rice person then you can pair this spicy dish with some veggies as well. Simply sauté broccoli, bell pepper, carrots, and onions in the same pan after removing the Mongolian beef. 

How to prepare Spicy Mongolian Beef from scratch?

You can prepare it for your weekend dinner as this beef recipe is super quick and easy to make. 

1. Whatever beef cut you choose, cut it across grains. Wipe off any water with a kitchen towel.
2. Add cornflour, salt and pepper to the beef strip and mix well. Dust off the excess flour as you just need a thin layer.
3. Fry the halal meat in a non-stick pan with one tablespoon oil on medium flame. Fry in batches until they turn into bright golden colour. 
4. Spread fried meat strip on a kitchen towel to absorb the excess oil and gather all the strips on a plate.
5. For the sauce, fry ginger, garlic, pepper, chilli flakes and chilli slices in little oil for at least 1 minute.
6. Now, add soy sauce, hoisin sauce, and brown sugar to it and mix well.
7. Mix cornflour and water and add it to the sauce. Cook until the sauce turns translucent and shiny.
8. Add fried beef to it and cook for some time.
9. Now, add sliced onions (green parts only) and serve. You can even use toasted sesame seeds for garnishing the Spicy Mongolian Beef.