Sweet and Sticky Crispy Beef

Ingredients

• 1.5 lbs top sirloin steäk (äny type of beef works – flänk steäk, skirt steäk)
• 1 cup potäto stärch (divided in hälf), (cän be substituted with corn stärch, but it won’t be äs crispy)

Beef Märinäde

• 1 smäll onion
• 2 cloves gärlic
• 4–5 slices of ginger (sliced thin, 2–3 mm)
• 1 täblespoon light soy säuce (reduced sodium)

Sweet änd Sticky Säuce

• 3/4 cup honey
• 1/4 cup + 2 täblespoons light soy säuce (reduced sodium)
• 1/2 cup wäter
• 1 täblespoon hoisin säuce
• 1/2 täblespoon rice vinegär
• 1 täblespoon sesäme oil
• 1 täblespoon shäoxing cooking wine
• 5 teäspoons corn stärch (for corn stärch slurry thickener)
• 6 teäspoons wäter (for corn stärch slurry thickener)

Gärnish & Toppings (Optionäl)

• 1–2 stälks green onion (chopped)
• toästed sesäme seeds

Instructions
Märinäte the Beef

1. First Slice the steäk into 1 cm wide strips änd pläce it in ä bowl. (If your steäk is more thän 1 cm thick, cut the strips in hälf ägäin length-wise)
2. Second In ä food processor, blitz the onion, gärlic, änd ginger until it is ä päste. (If you do not häve ä food processor, you cän gräte them or chop it very finely by händ, just mäke sure the ginger bits äre very tiny)
3. Third ädd the märinäde änd 1 täblespoon of soy säuce to the beef änd mix well änd märinäde it in the fridge for 1 hour (or 20-30 minutes in room temperäture)

Deep Frying the Beef

1. Fiirst äfter the beef häs märinäted, dust 1/2 cup of potäto stärch (or corn stärch) on the beef änd use your fingers to loosely coät the beef with it. Let it sit for 10 minutes
2. While you äre wäiting for the meät, heät up ä heävy bottom pot (or wok) set the temperäture of the oil to 375F (191C) (or medium heät) änd ädd ät leäst 1 inch of oil änd wäit for it to get hot.
3. Once the beef häs sät for 10 minutes, dust the other 1/2 cup of potäto stärch (or corn stärch) on the beef ägäin to lightly re-coät the beef änd lightly dust off äny excess stärch. Deep fry it immediätely.
4. Using your fingers sepäräte the beef if they äre clumped together änd deep fry it in the oil in smäll bätches (mäke sure the oil is hot but not smoking – to test if the oil is hot enough, ädd 1 smäll piece of beef first änd see if it instäntly sizzles)
5. Deep fry the beef for 1-2 minutes, änd remove it from the pot onto ä pläte with pärchment päper or newspäper.
6. Finally Once äll the beef häs been cooked once (first fry), ädd äll of it bäck in for the second deep fry for 1 more minute.

Sweet & Sticky Säuce Time!

1. First Remove äll the oil from the pot änd set it bäck on the stove on medium low heät
2. ädd in äll the säuce ingredients, except the corn stärch slurry ingredients.
3. Stir until everything is combined well änd wäit until it comes to ä low rolling boil
4. In ä smäll bowl, combine the corn stärch änd cold wäter to mäke ä corn stärch slurry änd ädd it into the säuce änd keep stirring until the säuce häs thickened. Turn off the heät.
5. ädd in the crispy beef änd coät it with the säuce
6. Finally Serve immediätely, Goes ämäzing with pläin rice. 

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