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This recipe for takeout-style orange beef is a variation on one the Brooklyn chef Dale Talde included in his new cookbook, "Asian-American: Proudly Inauthentic Recipes From the Philippines to Brooklyn," with a slightly more intensely flavored orange-flavored sauce. Mr. Talde's key insight is protected, however: Use very good steak, and cook it fast, so that below the lovely crust of its egg-white-and-cornstarch batter, the meat remains rare and luscious. Serve with steamed broccoli and white rice. And make it a few times. What appears difficult the first time through — the coating of the beef, the making of the sauce, the stir-frying of the aromatics, the stir-frying of the beef — is in fact fast and easy work, and much, much better than takeout.
Ingredients
  • subheading: FOR THE SAUCE:
  • 1 tablespoon neutral oil
  • 1 1 ½-inch piece fresh ginger, peeled and minced
  • 1 jalapeño pepper, seeded and minced
  • 2 tablespoons orange zest, plus the juice of one orange
  • 3 garlic cloves, peeled and minced
  • ¼ cup light brown sugar
  • ¼ cup rice vinegar (do not use seasoned rice vinegar)
  • ¼ cup soy sauce
  • 1 tablespoon fish sauce
  • subheading: FOR THE BEEF:
  • 1 large egg white
  • 1 tablespoon cornstarch
  • 1 pinch kosher salt
  • 1 boneless rib-eye steak, approximately 1 to 1 ½ pounds, cut into 1-inch pieces
  • ¼ cup neutral oil
  • 6 scallions, white and green parts cut into inchlong pieces and separated
  • 2 to 4 dried red chiles, or to taste
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