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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.
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‘the ultimate black pepper beef that everyone loves’. I’m a Londoner and not familiar with this dish, but your recipe turned out very well. And went well with red wine. Thanks for posting.
Thanks for trying my black pepper beef recipe.
I am having a very hard time finding a few things that are used in your recipes. One is Tamarind Juice and Goma Shabu Sauce and do the Honteri Miran… can you please tell me where to find them? I have looked on 2 Web sites.. Asian Supper market and Asia Food Grocer.. also they might have different names that I don’t know about….
Thank you, Rae
Can I substitute Maggi seasoning sauce with something else?
You can skip it and add a little bit soy sauce.
also in my local restaurant in this dish there are very small white ingredients what appear to be some kind of nuts cut up do you know what this would likely be
Can you substitue the maggi for MSG
This a really tasty dish and so simple to make. I like it just bit saucier as a personal preference but I will be making this again … and again.
Just double the sauce on the black pepper beef. :)
I am a muslim. Is there any substitution for rice wine??
You can skip it.
Thanks for sharing the recipe. I have made it many times and my family loves it!!!
Can I use lamb or mutton as a substitute to beef?
Of course.