Grab Your Chopsticks!

Preparation Time: 90 mins (including 60 mins tenderising)
Cooking Time: 30 mins
Difficulty: Easy
Serves: 2

Sizzling Steak

Ingredients

500g fillet steak
1/4 cup water
1/4 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
3 onions
4 tablespoons oil
1/4 cup worcestershire sauce
1/2 cup tomato sauce
1/2 cup sugar
1 tablespoon white wine

Method

1. Cut the meat into strips and flatten with a meat mallet, and put into a bowl with the water (I covered the meat with the water) and the bicarbonate of soda. Leave to stand for one hour to tenderise the steak.
2. Heat two tablespoons of the oil in a wok, and cook the meat for two minutes, then drain the oil (and clean the wok if necessary). Next add the remaining 2 tablespoons of oil and fry the meat until golden brown. Remove from pan.
3. Quarter the onions and fry until golden brown in the remaining oil.
4. Drain the oil and return the steak to the wok, adding the combined worcestershire sauce, tomato sauce and sugar, and stir until the sauce boils. Then simmer for two minutes (I added the wine at this stage as well, although the recipe said to add it right at the end).
5. Serve the meat over the onions, or other vegetables.

Result

I really liked this dish, very sweet and yummy! But it really takes ages to make, although I probably could have done it quicker if I didn’t bugger up so many times ;-)

Ranking with the Lemon Chicken, this is probably one of the more authentic Chinese dishes we’ve done so far.

The photo was from a magazine.