This Easy Pepper Steak recipe can be ready to go in 30 minutes, and is full of the great Chinese pepper steak flavors we all love!
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Easy Pepper Steak
This easy pepper steak stir-fry is full of great flavor!
Ingredients
Marinade Ingredients:
- 1/4 cup soy sauce
- 1/3 cup water
- 2 Tbsp. rice wine vinegar
- 1 Tbsp. corn starch
- 1/8 tsp. coarsely-ground black pepper (or more/less to taste)
Pepper Steak Ingredients:
- 1 lb. thinly sliced flank steak or sirloin, cut diagonally across the grain into thin strips
- 2 Tbsp. olive oil
- 12 mini sweet peppers, thinly sliced (or 2 regular-sized bell peppers, thinly sliced)
- 2 scallions, sliced diagonally into 1 inch pieces, white and green pieces separated
- 2 Tbsp. minced fresh ginger
- 4 garlic cloves, minced
Instructions
To Make The Marinade:
- Add all marinade ingredients to a large bowl or ziplock bag, and stir to combine. Add the sliced steak, and toss in the marinade. Cover/seal and refrigerate for at least 15 minutes.
To Make The Pepper Steak:
- Heat 1 Tbsp. oil in a large saute pan over medium-high heat. Add the sweet peppers and white part of the scallions, ginger, garlic, and saute for 3 minutes, stirring occasionally. Transfer to a plate.
- Add the remaining 1 Tbsp. oil to the saute pan. Remove half the steak from the marinade with a slotted spoon (reserving the marinade) and saute about 2-3 minutes until browned, stirring occasionally. Transfer steak to plate with the veggies. Saute the remaining steak, then transfer to plate.
- Add the reserved marinade to the skillet and cook for 1 minute or until thickened. Add the steak, veggies and green parts of the scallions to the skillet, and stir to combine. Cook for an additional minute, then remove from heat.
- Serve immediately over rice or quinoa.
Did you make this?Let me know how it turned out in the comments below!
I would totally eat this for breakfast…truth be told, I actually prefer Chinese food heated up the next day for breakfast! Im so weird, I know! This is beautiful! Definitely going to have to try this one soon!
Gimme some pepper steak. I’d eat this at 6 am! :) Beautiful, as always! XO darlin!!
This recipe looks absolutely delicious. Most of my photography happens during the same hours. If I have to shoot the photos later, I make them dark and moody. Pinned!
LOVE this! Pinning to try!
My step ma loves herself some pepper steak. Ive never had it. I should totally make this for her.
Same here, lady! All that dinner food shooting is right around lunchtime for me.
AND I WANT STEAK.
I love me some pepper steak. This looks so appetising and I love the colours from the peppers. YUM!
Haha, I do the same thing most of the time – the light just isn’t anywhere near as good if I try to photograph dinner at dinner time! Your pepper steak sounds amazing – gorgeous photos too :)
Haha, I never actually cook dinner at dinner time. Always in the morning! Gotta get those photos!
Love this dish and it’s ease. My family would go crazy for it since all they seem to want is steak and all I give them is pasta with butternut squash. LOL! They are boring eaters and want simple, but I never give them all that simple. This looks perfect!
Me too! Not for the lighting though, I just hate cooking at the end of the day.
The steak looks delicious and I guess I certainly understand why you shoot it cold and in the morning, it does have great lighting and at least you have it all done through. I bet it tastes delicious reheated too :P