Hi welcome to Asian garden stable
Today's dish is very simple
I would cook it every week for the family
It is not very fancy but I guarantee it is delicious
The ingredients: a handful freshly-picked Chinese celery
a small red pepper, a little bit ginger
and a piece of beef
First we need to give everything a good rinse
Vegetables grow in the soil
Before you do anything else, make sure your vegetables clean
The pepper..
Ginger...
How are we going to handle the Chinese celery?
I only picked the young stems. It is very tender.
But I still recommend you to remove the fibers
Break from the top...
Pull the fiber along the stem...
Then turn 180 degree, break it
and remove the fiber from the other side of the stem
You see the fiber? Just pull it down
Remove it..
Turn 180 degree, break it
You will see more fiber on this side
Just remove it. Keep doing this.
See you can remove most of the fibers
After you cook it, the celery will be very crispy and tender.
You will not have any fibers that bother you.
It is a little time-consuming. Just take your time.
It takes time to prepare a good meal right?
When your family sit down and enjoy the meal, it is worth all the work.
Chinese celery has very strong celery flavor compared to the celery you can buy from supermarket.
Fresh celery even has better flavor.
So this dish, although I will not add a lot of other ingredients, it is still going to be flavorful.
OK celery is done! Here we go.
For the ginger I am going to mince it.
I don't recommend to use other spice, flike garlic or onion.
because garlic and onion have much stronger flavors,
also celery also has strong flavor.
If you add too much garlic or onion, it will take over the celery flavor.
Put it here.
I use a very small pepper here. It will make the dish more colorful.
Just slice into thin pieces. Almost the same size with the celery.
For the beef we need to make sure we are going to cut it cross the direction of the muscles.
Make it into strips similar shape with the celery.
When you prepare the ingredients, it is important to keep them the same shape.
It will make the dish looks nicer, and also when you cook them, it will cook them evenly.
If you marinate the meat it will make it more tender and juicy, also have better flavor.
I do marinate my meat sometimes but I don't like to add too much starch.
Because I don't like my food coated with a very thick starch.
A half tea spoon of corn starch
A half tea spoon of soysauce
Give'em a good mix. Massage really well.
This is my homemade sauce paste. It is the best sauce paste I'd ever have
The reason that I like to add sauce paste is because I can use the sauce paste to mix with the spice
When you fry the sauce paste it will release very good aroma and flavor.
This is something that you cannot use soy sauce to replace.
I just add a little sugar to enhance the flavor from the sauce paste.
I am going to give them a very good mix to make sure
the sauce paste, ginger and sugar all melt together.
After you cook the sauce paste it brings very good umami and flavor into the meat.
Soy sauce of course is very yummy, but it is like
it gets into your mouth and release all the flavor and taste immediately
But for sauce paste it releases layers and layers.
The more you chew on it the more you will taste it.
I will introduce some sauce paste in the future if you want to give it a try.
So now I am ready to cook.
My cook top's power is 20K BTUs.
For home cook it is pretty powerful.
So I turn the heat on now at high
It will heat up the wok quickly.
Just add a little bit oil.
I am going to save the oil later for cooking the meat.
I am going to cook the pepper first
I know a lot of people like raw pepper but I like it to be fully cooked
It is better to burn the edge a little bit I think that way it tastes better.
I see some brown edge. I am going to put it aside.
I am going to rinse the wok really quick.
So now it is our celery.
The same thing just add a little bit of oil to lubricate the wok
Add in our celery.
Give it good stirs.
If you want you can toss it. Flavor it will a little salt.
Just like that. In order to keep celery's crispy texture,
you don't want to over cook the celery.
If you prefer the raw celery, you don't even need to cook it.
Just about a minute, it is cooked but still crispy.
Take the celery out.
Always rinse your wok.
Especially before you cook the meat, it is important that you rinse your wok really well.
Turn the heat at low.
Add about 2~3 table spoons of peanut oil. Coat the wok with oil.
And then we are going to add in our sauce paste and ginger.
Fry our sauce paste and ginger slowly.
You can smell the sauce paste and ginger immidiately.
It gets stronger and stronger.
Just fry about 15~20 seconds.
Now I turn the heat at high and quickly add in the meat.
Fully mix it and stir it.
Quickly mix it and turn it over.
You can see that most of the beef already loss the pick color.
Add a little bit salt.
I am going to add a little bit soy sauce which will add a good flavor into the meat.
And then add in all our vegetables
Give them quick stirs.
You can always do this, right? It is quick.
OK turn off the heat.
Our dish is ready now. Dish out.
Before you do anything else always wash your wok.
Don't let a dirty wok sit around.
Wok is your best friend in the kitchen.
It helps to take care your family . You need to take care of your wok.
Heat up your wok again.
Now we need to dry all the water in the wok.
It is a cast iron wok, you need to make sure it is water free.
If not it will get rusty.
And here I have some oil in the sprayer,
Just like that. And turn the heat off.
You can keep your wok like this until next time you use it.
Celery and beef
Beef is very tender. Celery flavor just burst into my mouth.
Our colorful, flavorful and delicious Chinese celery stir-fry with beef is ready
So I hope you enjoyed it.
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