This is also the first time that we significantly changed the ingredients and some of the methods in a Kai recipe. The original recipe used bell pepper and mushrooms, but we increased the amount of mushrooms, decreased the amount of bell pepper, and included carrots. Kai marinated the meat in all the sauce ingredients, whereas we marinated the meat in only soy sauce and corn starch, and added the remaining sauce ingredients at the end of cooking. Additionally, Kai stir fried the vegetables and then added the raw meat near the end of cooking. We stir fried the vegetables, removed them, stir fried the beef with the garlic, and then added the cooked vegetables and sauce to finish the dish.
The ingredients were as follows:
1/2 lb beef, sliced thin
1 tbsp hoisin sauce
1 tbsp oyster sauce
1 tbsp soy sauce
1 tsp rice cooking wine
1 tsp sugar
1 tsp corn starch
2 cloves garlic minced
1/2 red bell pepper
1 pack white mushrooms sliced
1 carrot sliced into thin strips
First the vegetables were stir fried
then the meat was stir fried
the vegetables and beef were combined and the sauce was added
beef and mushrooms was served with jasmine rice
Ian cleans his bowl in approval
With the modifications that we made, this recipe would serve 4 people. The pepper added a slight peppery taste to the entire dish, which was nice but different from the other Kai recipes we've made. The carrots were a first too, and they turned out really tasty. Perhaps Kai has a recipe that calls for carrots we can make.. time to start searching!
Overall, this meal deserves 4 out of 5 carrot bunches
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