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Black Pepper Beef - Easy Chinese stir-fry with beef, black pepper, and onion. This recipe takes 20 minutes to make and is much better than takeout.
Chinese Black Pepper Beef
Everyone loves a quick and easy beef stir-fry, especially Chinese beef stir-fry like sesame beef and Szechuan beef.
This quick and easy pepper steak is from my cookbook Easy Chinese Recipes.
Ingredients To Make Black Pepper Steak
- Black Pepper
- Red and Green Bell Peppers
- Soy Sauce
- Oyster Sauce
- Worcestershire Sauce
- Chinese Rice Wine
- Sesame Oil
See the recipe card for full information on ingredients.
Cooking Tips
If you love the taste and texture of caramelized onion, stir-fry it a little long so the beef (steak) soaks up all the flavors.
Be generous with the black pepper like I do, as it completes the flavor of this popular beef stir-fry and delivers the ultimate black pepper beef that everyone loves.
Frequently Asked Questions
This recipe is only 375 calories per serving.
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Black Pepper Beef
Ingredients
- 8 oz (230g) beef tenderloin, flank steak or flap meat, cut into pieces
- 2 ½ tablespoons cooking oil
- 1 clove garlic, minced
- 1 piece ginger, peeled and sliced
- 1/2 small green bell pepper, deseeded and cut into pieces
- 1/2 small red bell pepper, deseeded and cut into pieces
- 1/2 onion, cut into strips
- 1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- salt , to taste
Marinade:
- 1 1/2 teaspoons Maggi seasoning sauce
- 1/2 teaspoons soy sauce
- 1/2 teaspoon dark soy sauce
- 1 teaspoon oyster sauce
- 1 teaspoon worcestershire sauce
- 1 teaspoon Chinese rice wine , or sherry
- 1/2 teaspoon cornstarch
- 1/2 teaspoon sesame oil
- 1/2 teaspoon sugar
Instructions
- Marinate the beef with all the Marinade ingredients for about 15 minutes.
- Heat 1 tablespoon of oil in a wok or skillet over high heat. Stir-fry the beef until it is browned on the outside but still pink inside. Dish out and set aside.
- Heat the remaining oil in a wok or skillet over high heat. Stir-fry the garlic and ginger until aromatic, then add the green bell pepper, red bell pepper, onion, and black pepper. Continue to stir-fry until you can smell the aromas of the ingredients in the wok.
- Return the beef to the wok or skillet and stir-fry until cooked through, ensuring the center of the meat is no longer pink, about 1-2 minutes. Dish out and serve immediately with steamed rice.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
This was VERY good! We didn’t use the green bell pepper only because I do not like them cooked in food. We added minced garlic, ginger paste, ginger powder, dried onion, white pepper, some left over Shoyu Egg marinade and used Mirin in place of the rice wine or sherry in the marinade and we let it sit in the marinade for a couple of days before cooking. This will be in our regular rotation
Thanks Ani!! :)
I like all your recipes. I first saw, heard of, you on a House Hunters episode. Got curious and had to check I have made many of your meals and all were very good. I’m Asian and yours are better than mine for surd
Thank you! :)
Do you stir fry the beef in the marinade or throw it away?
Stir fry the beef in marinade.
I wanted to know if you can use rib eye or sirloin steak instead?
Sure.
Easy to follow and tasted great. I did need an awful lot more than 1tsp of black pepper to make it taste properly peppery though
Can i use the chinese black pepper paste to make this? (lee Kum Kee)
You can try but I didn’t use it.
You use a 4 inch piece of ginger sliced??? want to make sure. I have made several of your recipes love them this is my first time making this and being a former chemist I want to be exact in my measurement. Thanks
The recipe calls for 1 piece 2.5 cm ginger.
We made this last night. This is the second time making it. We love it! It is superb.
wow your recipe is very interesting to try, i can’t wait to try the recipe that you’ve taught at home soon. thank you for the recipe you’ve given
This a really tasty dish and so simple to make. Thank you.
Thanks for your comment about my black pepper beef recipe.