- Prep Time: 15 mins
- Cook Time: 15 mins
- Total Time: 30 mins
- Yield: 2 servings
Forget a takeaway – make this beef and green pepper stir-fry with fragrant lemongrass and ginger instead. Marinate the beef while you prep the other ingredients
Ingredient:
- 350g lean beef, cut across the grain into thin slices (you need a quick-cooking cut, such as minute steak)
- 1 lemongrass stalk, trimmed and finely chopped
- 1 tbsp soy sauce
- 2 tbsp fish sauce
- 4 tsp brown sugar
- ½ tsp chilli flakes
- 1 lime, juiced
- 3 tbsp vegetable oil
- 1 green pepper, thinly sliced
- 2 bunches of spring onions, green and white parts separated and finely sliced
- 6 garlic cloves, finely chopped
- 1 tbsp grated ginger
- small bunch of basil, or purple basil, leaves picked and roughly chopped
- cooked rice (about 250g uncooked weight), or cooked rice noodles
- 50g roasted peanuts, roughly chopped
