Cantonese stir-fried black pepper beef and potatoes from Christopher Kimball's Milk Street Magazine, Jan/Feb 2025 (page 13)

  • egg whites
  • soy sauce
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  • Serves : 4

  • EYB Comments

    Can substitute dry sherry for Shaoxing wine and jalapeño chiles for Fresno chiles.

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    Can substitute dry sherry for Shaoxing wine and jalapeño chiles for Fresno chiles.

  • Rinshin on March 09, 2025

    This dish is sure to charm traditional meat and potato lovers. A great tip is to boil the cut potatoes with vinegar added to the water to help them hold their shape during cooking — this works really well. Since this was a one-bowl meal for us, I added other vegetables besides onions, such as asparagus, sweet peppers, and garlic. The sauce brings all the flavors together without being overpowering or heavy, with no hint of gloppiness. Next time, I would personally add a bit more sweetness to the sauce and also to cut both the potatoes and beef smaller than 1-inch cubes — perhaps around 1/2-inch cubes for the potatoes and thinner slices for the beef. This makes it easier to pick up a bit of rice with each bite when eating with chopsticks. I marinated the beef slices for about six hours, which really helped to tenderize and flavor the slightly tough flank steak. Interestingly, I wonder if the Peruvian dish lomo saltado might have been influenced by this Hong Kong-style stir-fry.

  • Rinshin on February 08, 2025

    The recipe in the magazine is different from online recipe with similar title which is confusing. And this 1st photo showing to the right is also not the recipe photo in the magazine. No sweet potatoes and no cilantro. i added the photo from this issue recipe which is also found at Milk Street. Found the correct recipe at https://www.177milkstreet.com/recipes/cantonese-stir-fried-black-pepper-beef-potatoes

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