It looks like a simple stew of beef, potatoes, and beans, but it’s quite delicious. The beef is cooked in spicy sauce until it is very tender. This prolonged cooking makes the sauce quite tasty and rich. Then the potatoes and beans add even more flavor to the sauce while, at the same time, absorbing some the savory goodness of the beef.
Like many Southeast Asian dishes, this flavorful dish goes best with hot fluffy rice. For sure, you will want to grab a second serving.
Ingredients
350g frying steak (sirloin if you’re feeling flash)
1/4 each of red, green and yellow peppers, chopped
1/2 tsp black peppercorns, crushed
2 1/2 tbsp black pepper sauce (see below)
1/2 tbsp oyster sauce
1 tbsp ketjap manis
1/2 tsp ground turmeric
3 small cloves of garlic, crushed
2 spring onions, finely sliced
1 small onion, chopped
1 inch ginger, finely chopped
1 tsp sugar
Method
1. For the black pepper sauce, fry the garlic in some oil until fragrant, then add the shallots and cook until transparent. Add the rest of the ingredients and stir until combined. Cook for about 5 minutes until reduced.
2. Mix together your black pepper sauce, crushed peppercorns, oyster sauce, ketjap manis and turmeric, salt and sugar and add the meat. Marinate for 40 minutes (or until you lose patience and get hungry).
3. Heat the oil in a wok and fry the garlic, spring onions, onion and ginger until fragrant and softened. Add the meat and any remaining marinade. Cook until the meat is cooked and tender.
4. Add the peppers and cook for a minute or two, until the peppers have softened and the sauce is thick.
5. Serve with rice.
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