Jamie's stir fry

Jamie Oliver Sizzling beef with spring onions and black bean sauce recipe

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Date Published:
22/10/2007

Jamie:

"This works best with rice that has completely chilled down or, better yet, been made earlier and kept in the fridge. But if you can’t prepare rice for this dish in advance, you can still cook it and pop it into the fridge while you're cooking the rest."

Taken from Jamie's Ministry of Food.

Serves 2

Ingredients

  • Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
  • 200g long grain or basmati rice
  • 1 x 230g sirloin or rump steak
  • A thumb-sized piece of fresh ginger
  • 2 cloves of garlic
  • ½ a fresh red chilli
  • 2 spring onions
  • A small bunch of fresh coriander
  • 2 tablespoons sesame oil
  • Groundnut oil
  • 2 tablespoons of good-quality black bean sauce
  • 2–3 tablespoons soy sauce
  • 2 limes
  • 1 egg, preferably free-range or organic

Method: Sizzling beef with spring onions and black bean sauce

To prepare your stir-fry

1. Bring a pan of salted water to the boil, add the rice and cook according to the packet instructions.

2. Drain the rice in a sieve, run it under a cold tap to cool, then allow to dry out in the fridge.

3. Trim any excess fat from your steak and slice the meat into finger-sized strips.

4. Peel and finely slice the ginger and garlic.

5. Finely slice the chilli.

6. Cut the ends off your spring onions and finely slice.

7. Pick the coriander leaves and put to one side, and finely chop the coriander stalks.

8. Get yourself a big bowl and put in the ginger, garlic, chilli, spring onions, coriander stalks and steak strips.

9. Add the sesame oil and mix everything together.

To cook your stir-fry

1. Preheat a wok or large frying pan on a high heat and once it’s very, very hot add a good lug of groundnut oil and swirl it around.

2. Add all your chopped ingredients from the bowl.

3. Give the pan a really good shake to mix everything around quickly.

4. Stir-fry for 2 minutes, taking care to keep everything moving so it doesn’t burn.

5. Add the black bean sauce, and stir in 1 tablespoon of soy sauce and the juice of half a lime. Keep tossing.

6. Taste and season with black pepper and a little more soy sauce.

7. Remove the pan from the heat, transfer everything to a bowl and cover with tin foil.

8. Give the pan a quick wipe with a ball of kitchen paper and put back on the heat.

9. Add a lug of groundnut oil and swirl it around.

10. Crack in your egg and add a tablespoon of soy sauce – the egg will cook very quickly so keep stirring.

11. Once it’s scrambled, stir in your chilled rice, scraping the sides and the bottom of the pan as you go.

12. Keep mixing for a few minutes until the rice is steaming hot, then taste and season with a little soy sauce.

To serve your stir-fry

1. Divide the rice between two bowls or plates.

2. Spoon over the meat and black bean sauce and sprinkle over the coriander leaves. Serve with wedges of lime – great!

Recipe taken from Jamie's Ministry of Food.
This recipe is from Jamie's Ministry of Food (published by Penguin). Photography Copyright © 2008 David Loftus.

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  1. What is meant by "a good lug of oil"?
    Posted by PetePOsts Atkey on 04/11/2009 19:22:26
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  2. had this 2nyt,,,thought it was great!! will defo b havin it again x
    Posted by kazza1888 on 06/01/2009 17:37:20
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  3. Im cooking this tonight for the second time, try sharwoods blackbean sauce, all supermarkets sell this one!!
    Posted by Toni jo on 15/12/2008 19:06:58
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  4. Frankie, look out for the Blue Dragon sachets, they only give you enough sauce for 1 meal so you don't waste any and taste lovely. Hope this helps!
    Posted by Jenn on 18/11/2008 17:27:44
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  5. I agree. Do the sachets count as good quality black bean sauce. Also is sesame oil the same as toasted sesame oil.
    Posted by Bev on 02/11/2008 11:23:47
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  6. Where can we find quality black bean sauce? I thought these recipes were meant to be accessible to all, but I cannot find black bean sauce anywhere. Sure, you can find the 'cooking sauces' whereby you stick the whole jar over your beef and thats it, but surely this isnt what we are meant to use as they cost over a quid for a big jar and need using up within 3 days. I've tried Tesco, Sainsburys, Morrisons, Coop, M&S not to mention Holland & Barratt style shops. I would love to try this recipe if i could actually get my hands on all the ingredients. HELP PLEASE! x
    Posted by Frankie on 30/10/2008 13:46:18
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