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Easy Beijing Beef Recipe - tender beef with crispy coating and tossed in Panda Express style sauce. Spicy, sweet, and savoury at the same time and made with simple cupboard friendly ingredients.
Super budget-friendly and taste way better than regular take out dishes. Learn how to make at home with our easy step by step instructions.
What is Beijing Beef Panda?
Beijing beef is an Americanize Chinese dish, crispy beef slices tossed in bell pepper, onions, and sweet & tangy sauce. One of the most popular beef dish on the menu of Panda Express American-Chinese fast food restaurant. Another name for Beijing beef is Peking beef, as Peking is a former name of Beijing City in China.
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Here is the ingredients you will need:
Beef marinade:
Most beef steak cut works well for this recipe, we usually use flank steak, ribeye, rump or sirloin steak. Always cut the beef against the grain to get the tender result and marinate with simple basic ingredients, soy sauce, white pepper powder, sugar, sesame oil, and baking soda.
Baking soda: Adding baking soda in the beef marinade tenderize the meat and you will achieve the melt-in-mouth restaurant quality crispy beef.
Why do you add egg white in the coating? Egg white prevent the beef slices soft and tender, even though the corn starch coating is still crispy outside.
It's important to marinade the beef slices before deep frying to prevent the beef from getting tough and dry.
You can swap the beef with chicken and make it a crispy Beijing chicken. Or to make it vegetarian, add tofu slices instead of meat and no need to marinade tofu. Simply season it with salt and pepper and coat with corn starch, then deep fry until the coating is crispy.
Sauces, vegetables and ingredients for stir fry:
As this is a very versatile dish, you don't need to add exactly same vegetables or sauces. Adjust the sauces amount according to your preference and swap or add any of your favourite stir fry vegetables.
To bring a bit of heat to the dish I add fresh red chilli slices. You can also add dried red chilli flakes or you can omit the chilli if you wish to make it less spicy.
Hoisin sauce:
Hoisin sauce is made of fermented bean paste, sugar, sweet potato and Chinese spices. It has a sweet, savoury and salty taste. You don’t need to use much, a tablespoon of sauce can bring the aromatic flavour. If you can't easily get hoisin sauce, substitute with oyster sauce for this this recipe.
How to serve this dish
You can have on it's own with your favourite drink or serve it up with steamed rice, egg fried rice or simple stir fry noodles. Pair it with Hot and Sour Soup, Crispy Fried Wonton, or Chicken Fried Rice and make it a wholesome Chinese banquet dinner. Your dinner guests will definitely amazed by your Chinese cooking skills.
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Beijing Beef Recipe
Crispy shredded beef slices tossed with sweet and tangy Panda Express style sauce. Serve with a bowl of steamed rice or stir fry noodles and make it a perfect dinner!
5 from 23 votes
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Course: Main Course
Cuisine: American-Chinese, Chinese
Prep Time: 15 minutes minutes
Cook Time: 15 minutes minutes
Servings: 3
Calories: 337kcal
Author: Khin
Ingredients
- 9 oz Beef steak about 250 g, cut think slices ( flank, rump, sirloin or ribeye steak )
- ½ Bell pepper cut in small squares
- ½ Onion cut small cubes
- 1 Red chilli pepper cut thin slices ( or red crushed chilli flakes )
- 1 tsp Garlic chopped
- 1 cup Corn starch or potato starch
- 1 tbsp Oil
- 1 Egg white
- Vegetable oil for frying ( or neutral flavour oil, sunflower, canola, grapeseed, etc )
Beef Marinade
- 1 tbsp Soy sauce light soy sauce or all-purpose soy sauce
- 1 tsp Sugar
- ¼ tsp White pepper powder
- ¼ tsp Baking Soda
- 1 tsp Sesame oil
Sauce
- 2 tbsp Ketchup
- 1 tbsp Hoisin sauce or Oyster sauce
- 2 tbsp Sweet chilli sauce
- 1 tbsp Rice vinegar or white wine vinegar
- 2 tbsp Water
- 1 tbsp Sugar
- 1 tsp Corn starch
- 2 tbsp Light soy sauce
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Instructions
First cut the beef steak into thin slices or strips, against the grain. Marinade with soy sauce, sugar, white pepper, sesame oil and baking soda. Set aside for 15-20 minutes.
Prepare the vegetables by cut the onion and bell pepper in small cubes. Cut re chilli into thin slices.
In a small bowl, mix all the sauce ingredients and set it aside.
Break one egg into the marinated beef mix it well. Then dredge the beef slices in the corn starch. Make sure each beef slices are separated and coated well. Toss the excess flour out before frying.
To deep fry the beef, heat the oil into high-heat about 350° F. Fry the coated beef slices for 2-3 minutes, until the coating is crispy. Remove from oil and transfer to paper towel or cooling rack.
In a large wok or pan, add 1 tablespoon oil, heat the pan to medium heat, add chopped garlic and stir for few seconds. Follow with the onion and bell pepper and stir fry for 1 minutes.
Pour the sauce mixture in and stir well until the sauce starts to get thicken. Place the fried beef and chilli slices in. Toss well to combine the beef and sauce evenly.
Transfer to serving plate and serve immediately with plain rice, egg fried rice or stir fry noodles.
Nutrition
Calories: 337kcal | Carbohydrates: 64g | Protein: 5g | Fat: 7g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 1mg | Sodium: 1506mg | Potassium: 408mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 19g | Vitamin A: 1510IU | Vitamin C: 60mg | Calcium: 25mg | Iron: 1mg
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