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Beef Tofu Stir Fry Recipe

 ·  ☕ 5 min read  ·  ✍️ Chris Waters

Beef Tofu Stir Fry
Beef Tofu Stir Fry

Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, beef tofu stir fry. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Beef Tofu Stir Fry is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look wonderful. Beef Tofu Stir Fry is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

Even at home, Beef Tofu Stir Fry is one of those dishes that we make over and over again. People think food bloggers never eat the same thing, because they always experiment and cook huge volumes of food, and, yes, that is true some of the time. But we usually get together just a couple days a month. RECIPE BELOW: This delicious saucy beef tofu is a favorite lunch item at many Chinese restaurants.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook beef tofu stir fry using 18 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Beef Tofu Stir Fry:
  1. Get For the beef & marinade
  2. Take 10 ounce flank beef, sliced 1/4 inch thick
  3. Take 1 tbsp water
  4. Take 1 tsp vegetable oil
  5. Prepare 1 tbsp soy sauce
  6. Make ready For the rest of the dish
  7. Get 2 tbsp vegetable oil
  8. Prepare 3 thin slices ginger
  9. Make ready 2 clove garlic, minced
  10. Get 2 scallions
  11. Take 2 tsp Shaoxing wine
  12. Prepare 3/4 cups chicken or beef stock
  13. Make ready 2 tbsp oyster sauce
  14. Make ready 1 tsp soy sauce
  15. Prepare 1/2 tsp sesame oil
  16. Make ready 1/4 freshly ground white pepper
  17. Get 1/4 tsp sugar
  18. Prepare 1 block soft tofu, cut into 2-inch square, 1/2 thick

From broccoli beef to beef with black bean sauce, these beef stir-fries are all quick and easy to make. Stir-frying is a quick and healthy way to get dinner on the table on a busy weeknight but delicious enough to serve at a gathering with friends. Beef tofu is one of a handful of dishes that instantly reminds me of dinner at home with my family. Stir-fries are like salads : you can put almost whatever in it and it will be a quick, healthy, delish meal.

Steps to make Beef Tofu Stir Fry:
  1. For velveting beef, combine the beef, water, vegetable oil, cornstarch, baking soda, and soy sauce in a medium bowl. Let the beef marinate for 20 minutes.
  2. Heat the wok until smoking and spread 2 tablespoons of oil around the perimeter. Sear the beef for 20 seconds on each side. You want the beef seared on the outside and about 80% done. Transfer back to the marinade bowl, and set aside.
  3. Add the ginger, and let caramelize for 20 seconds. There should be oil in the wok from searing the beef, but add another tablespoon of oil if needed. Next, add the minced garlic and the white portion of the scallions. Stir fry for 10 seconds, and add the Shaoxing wine.
  4. Stir again for 10 seconds, and add the chicken stock, oyster sauce, soy sauce, sesame oil, white pepper, and sugar. Stir-fry until combined, and then gently slide the tofu into the wok. Be careful––the pieces are delicate and will break up easily without proper handling!
  5. Let the tofu and the sauce come up to a boil, and drop in the green portions of the scallions and the seared beef, including any juices from the marinade bowl.
  6. While everything is coming up to a boil, use your marinade bowl to mix your cornstarch slurry. (Another dish saved from washing duty!) Check the seasoning of the sauce, and add more salt or soy sauce if desired, but remember it will get saltier after it thickens!
  7. Carefully stir in the cornstarch slurry, and lower the heat to medium as the sauce thickens. Be as gentle as possible when stirring so as to minimize tofu breakage. A pushing/stirring motion to rotate the mixture around the wok usually
  8. Ready to serve and ENJOY!

Beef tofu is one of a handful of dishes that instantly reminds me of dinner at home with my family. Stir-fries are like salads : you can put almost whatever in it and it will be a quick, healthy, delish meal. I've put in my favorite veggies into this recipe, but please feel free to substitute whatever hearty vegetables you have on hand. Growing up, my father even put iceberg lettuce in the mix, which I. Try our easy to follow Tofu & Beef Stir-Fry With Noodles recipe.

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