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Beef and Capsicum Stir-Fry with Rice

A stir-fry built on ginger, garlic and lime rather than soy sauce, because most soy sauce is brewed with wheat and this one needs no substitute to taste like something.

Beef and Capsicum Stir-Fry with Rice. A stir-fry built on ginger, garlic and lime rather than soy sauce, because most soy sauce is brewed with wheat and this one needs no substitute to taste like something.
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Prep 20 minCook 15 minServes 4

Ingredients

Why metric?

Metric avoids regional spoon ambiguity. US uses 5 mL tsp, 15 mL tbsp and 240 mL cup. Small masses stay in grams unless a verified recipe conversion exists. More on measurements

  • 500 g beef stir-fry strips
  • 300 g jasmine rice (dry), rinsed
  • 2 capsicums, sliced (300 g)
  • 300 g broccoli, cut into small florets
  • 1 onion, sliced (150 g)
  • 4 garlic cloves, chopped (20 g)
  • 20 g fresh ginger, finely grated
  • 35 ml neutral oil (32 g)
  • 30 ml lime juice (30 g)
  • 10 ml sesame oil (9 g)
  • 2 g iodised table salt
  • Ground black pepper, to taste

Method

  1. Rinse the rice, put it in a pan with 600 ml water and a tight lid, bring to the boil, then cook 12 minutes on the lowest heat and rest it 10 minutes off the heat without lifting the lid.
  2. Pat the beef dry with paper towel and season it. Wet meat steams; dry meat browns, and this is the single thing that decides whether a stir-fry tastes of anything.
  3. Get a wide pan or wok very hot with a third of the oil and cook the beef in two batches, 90 seconds a batch, moving it only once. Set it aside.
  4. Add the rest of the oil, then the onion, capsicum and broccoli, and stir-fry 4-5 minutes over high heat. Add a splash of water and cover for 2 minutes to steam the broccoli through.
  5. Add the garlic and ginger for 30 seconds, until they smell sharp rather than raw.
  6. Return the beef with any juices, take the pan off the heat and toss through the lime juice, sesame oil, salt and pepper. Serve over the rice.

Serve

If you want the soy note, use a tamari labelled gluten free — ordinary soy sauce is brewed with wheat and is not safe here.

Safety and storage

Keeps
2 days refrigerated below 5°C
Reheat to
steaming hot, at least 60°C

Cooked rice and pasta keep two days rather than three, so this dish takes the shorter time. Cool and cover within two hours, split large amounts into shallow containers, and reheat until steaming hot, at least 60°C.

Where these temperatures come from