I’m a big fan of Chinese food with my favourite takeaway dish being chicken fried rice with curry sauce and a chop suey roll – mmmm mmmm delicious! However when I visit a restaurant I choose a beef with ginger and spring onion dish. As there are no Chinese restaurants here I make my own beef with ginger and spring onions. I followed a recipe I found online.
Ingredients
– 4 to 6 jumbo spring onions
– 500g of beef strips
– 1 onion
– a good chunk of ginger
– 2 tbsp oyster sauce
– 2 tbsp soy sauce
– 1 tbsp of white sugar
– some butter
Method
1) Combine the oyster sauces, soy sauce and sugar and stir it for an even sauce.
2) Grate the ginger and add approx half into the sauce.
3) Cook the beef in some oil before adding to the sauce. Be sure to drain the oil from the beef first. Leave o marinade.
4) Chop the onion and spring onions into nice evenly sized slices.
5) Add the onions, remaining ginger and butter into a pan and cook until soft.
6) When the onions are soft add the beef and sauce in and continue to cook until the onions are covered in the sauce.
7) Serve with rice and enjoy!
Costing
You can buy all the ingredients from Tesco so here’s the breakdown of the costs.
– £3.33 for 400g of beef strips (3 for £10)
– £0.95 for oyster sauce (£1.89 for a g jar of which approx half was used)
– £0.25 for soy sauce (£1 for a g jar of which approx 1/4 was used)
– £2 for jumbo spring onions
– £0.16 for onion
– £0.34 for 125g of ginger
– £0.65 for garlic butter (£1.25 for 125g of whih approx 1/2 used
– £0.40 for 2 book in the bag rice
Total cost for 2 person serving £7.89
Comments
I use some garlic butter to give the onions a little bit of a kick but plain butter also works. Also as you can see I use jumbo spring onions so if you’re using normal spring onions you may want to add more in.
If you try this recipe then let me know what you think! 🙂
This sounds amazing! Now to figure out how/where to get oyster sauce in Switzerland…
I think it may well be one of the nicest things I’ve ever cooked! Good luck finding some oyster sauce!
This look so yummy! I am always looking for new things to make! Such a lovely read! Suz x Beauisblue.com
It really was – even if I do say so myself! 😉
Ooh how delicious does this sound?! I’m determined to get better at cooking and experiment a bit more as I am so bored of cooking the sane meals all the time! Thanks for linking up to #Picknmix
Stevie x
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