Vietnamese Beef Stir-fried With Cauliflower

Total Time: 40 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 25 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
• 1 1/2 teaspoons sugar
• 2 teaspoons cornstarch
• 1 tablespoon soy sauce
• 1 3/4 tablespoons fish sauce
• 1 1/2 lbs flank steaks, partly frozen
• 1 cauliflower
• 6 -8 tablespoons oil, divided
• 1 onion, sliced into half rounds
• 4 garlic cloves, minced
• salt, as needed
• ground black pepper, as needed

Recipe

• 1 in a large mixing bowl put the 1/2 teaspoons black pepper, sugar, cornstarch, soy sauce and fish sauce.
• 2 stir to blend.
• 3 take the flank steak and cut across the grain into thin strips.
• 4 add to the marinade in the mixing bowl and let it marinate while you work on the rest of the recipe, stirring occasionally.
• 5 wash the cauliflower and cut into small florets.
• 6 bring a large saucepan of salted water to a boil.
• 7 add the cauliflower and once the water starts boiling again, boil for one minute.
• 8 drain immediately and set the cauliflower aside.
• 9 heat a large nonstick frying pan over high heat and then add 4 table. oil.
• 10 once the oil has had a minute to warm, add the onion.
• 11 stir-fry until the onion has cooked to a light brown color.
• 12 add the garlic and stir-fry just until the garlic starts to brown on the edges.
• 13 remove the onion and garlic into a medium-size bowl, leaving the remaining oil in the frying pan.
• 14 add half the beef to the fryng pan and cook just until the pink disappears, using a spachula to flip over the meat.
• 15 add the meat to the bowl with the onion and garlic.
• 16 if necessary, add a little more oil to the frying pan, add the rest of the beef and cook it like you did the first batch.
• 17 remove the second batch of meat from the frying pan.
• 18 put 1-2 table. of oil in the frying pan.
• 19 heat until hot.
• 20 add the cauliflower and stir-fry until the cauliflower has some brown spots.
• 21 the heat needs to be high for this.
• 22 add a little salt and black pepper.
• 23 turn off heat and readd the meat and onions back into the frying pan and mix with the cauliflower.
• 24 check for salt and pepper.
• 25 this recipe should have a generous amount of ground black pepper.
• 26 good served with plain rice.