Beef Stir Fry

Ingredients:

For the marinade

• Rump steak thinly sliced
• 3 cloves garlic crushed
• Thumb sized piece of ginger  chopped to a paste
• 1 tablespoon honey
• 1 tablespoon sweet chilli sauce
• 1 tablespoon sesame oil
• 1 tablespoon dark soy sauce
• 1 teaspoon fivespice

For the stir fry

• 1 clove garlic sliced
• half a chilli sliced
• small piece of ginger sliced
• 2 spring onions sliced
• mixed stir fry vegetables such as  peppers, sugar snaps, leeks etc
• splash of nam pla (fish sauce)
• large splash of dark soy sauce
• dash of sweet chilli sauce
• Sesame oil

To serve

• noodles
• sesame seeds

Method:

1. Marinate the meat in a large shallow bowl with all the marinade ingredients for at least 20 mins.
2. Heat a large wok and add some sesame oil.
3. Add the ginger, garlic, spring onion and chilli to the wok.
4. Then add the beef over a really high heat and stir fry till lightly browned.
5. Add the vegetables and stir fry for a couple of minutes.
6. Add the soy sauce, nam pla, sweet chilli sauce and stir fry for a minute or two longer.
7. If the sauce is too dry add a dash more soy sauce, it it is too wet you can thicken it with a teaspoon of cornflour mixed with a little bit of water.
8. Serve with noodles stir fried in sesame oil and sesame seeds.

Lemon and Ginger Warmer

This isn’t my idea.  I didn’t make it.  Anderoo did. And it is good!

Ingredients:

• half a lemon
• a thumb sized piece of ginger roughly sliced
• a good spoonful of honey
• a pint of boiling water
• a rather large splash of vodka (optional, could also use rum or brandy – also optional!)

How to:

Put all the ingredients except the alcohol  into a jug, pour over boiling water. Allow to steep for about 10 mins, and if you want add the vodka. Strain and drink either hot ot cold.