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Crispy chilli beef with pepper, carrot and spring onion freshly tossed in a wok
Crispy chilli beef piled high – lacquered strips with red chilli and spring onion, still glistening from the wok.

Crispy Chilli Beef

Crisper than the takeaway, because the beef meets the sauce at the last second. Have the rice ready before you start.

Prep
20 mins
Cook
20 mins
Total
40 mins
Serves
4
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Kitchen roadmap

Before you cook

The details that make or break this dish, mapped to the exact step where they matter.

  1. Make sureDry the beef thoroughly
  2. Watch forThe coating should look powdery
  3. Avoid thisProtect the oil temperature
  4. Watch forSauce first, beef last

Ingredients

  • Sauce
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Method

8 steps

  1. Pat the beef dry, then mix it with the egg white.

  2. Combine the cornflour and AL Mix.

    Coat the beef thoroughly.

    Thin beef strips separated and covered in a dry powdery cornflour coating in a kitchen bowl

  3. Fry at 180°C for 2–3 minutes until crisp, working in small batches.

  4. Stir-fry the pepper and carrot for two minutes in a clean wok.

  5. Mix the sauce ingredients and add them to the vegetables.

  6. Bubble for 1–2 minutes until sticky.

    Crispy beef resting on a wire rack beside a wok of bubbling sticky chilli sauce before the final toss

  7. Add the beef and toss very briefly to coat it.

  8. Finish with spring onions and serve immediately.

    The beef loses its crispness if it sits in the sauce.

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