Veggie Beef Stir-fry

Total Time: 28 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 13 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 2
• 1/2 lb round steak, sliced in thin strips (or flank steak)
• 1/2 cup beef marinade, of your choice
• salt & fresh ground pepper, to taste
• 1 teaspoon olive oil
• 1 1/2 cups suey choy, sliced
• 1 1/2 cups baby bok choy, sliced
• 1/2 fennel bulb, thinly sliced
• 1 cup red onion, thinly sliced
• 2 stalks celery, sliced
• 1/2 cup sweet pepper, sliced, any colour
• 1 small jalapeno pepper, chopped
• 1 cup watercress, packed and roughly chopped (spinach may be used, but you won't get the lovely peppery flavour of the watercress.)
• 1/4 cup reserved marinade (or remainder)
• 2 teaspoons cornstarch

Recipe

• 1 place beef strips in marinade of your choice and marinate overnight.
• 2 remove beef strips from marinade, reserve marinade.
• 3 slice/chop all veggies and place in a large bowl, mix thoroughly, add salt and pepper to taste.
• 4 heat olive oil over high heat, quick brown beef strips, about 3 minutes; reduce heat to medium; add all of the bowl of veggies; stir fry to tender crisp, about 5 minutes, depending on how crisp you like your veggies.
• 5 make a slurry of 1/4 cup of reserved marinade and cornstarch; add to veggies and beef; stir fry until thickened and heated through, about 5 minutes.
• 6 the remaining marinade may be used to thin the sauce if required.
• 7 serve over hot brown rice or noodles.