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!
This recipe is my go to for peppered steak! Thank you for the delicious recipe!
Such a great recipe! I use half rice vinegar and then about 1/4 cup white cooking wine (Holland House). Try to shave the steak as thin as possible and only cook for a minute. It is still a little pink when I remove. It will cook a little more at end but the more rare , the more tender. Thank you for a terrific recipe. Love that you can do all prep work well ahead of time. It comes together in about 15 minutes.
This is a favorite in my house. My kids LOVE it too! We don’t ever have shallots or fresh ginger so I sprinkle onion powder and ground ginger on the peppers while they are cooking. I always add extra garlic. And my mouth is watering just thinking about it.
Great recipe! I simply added a little sesame oil and chili oil to the marinate. BTW, here’s an interest fact: In China and other parts of Asia, it’s considered bad luck or taboo to stick chopsticks into rice so that they stand straight up (vertically). The visual looks too much like incense sticks burned at temples, often as offerings to dead ancestors. Vertical chopsticks are used as a symbol of death. Innocently, I did this once as an exchange student in China during dinner with my host family. The family was VERY QUICK to correct me and nicely explain their concern over my action.
I know it’s an old recipe post but I made it for the first time tonight. Very good! Even my son who is not much of a beef fan enjoyed it. Made it as is but increased the marinade ingredients because we had more than 1lb. Beef. Will definitely make it again!
I made it today I love it, my family loves it too. Thanks so much.
I tripled the amount of garlic and ginger and let the meat marinate for most of the afternoon! I served it over black and red quinoa! Perfect!
Made as written. So flavorful, my husband and I really enjoyed it
Yummy to my tummy!
Omg I made this and it was so bomb!! My husband was like oh you have to make this again! Great recipe to serve up in 2018 ;)