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Pepper Steak Stir Fry

Published: Jul 13, 2020 · Modified: Mar 26, 2021 · by Khin · This post may contain affiliate links.

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Chinese Pepper Steak Stir Fry Recipe with tender beef slices, crisp veggies, fresh ground black pepper, and savoury sauce. A super quick and easy one-pan dish you can make in under 30 minutes. Serve over a bowl of steamed rice and make it a perfect weeknight dinner!

Pepper Beef Stir Fry Recipe

We love stir-fries and it's a staple in our everyday meals. It can be made with any meat, vegetables, and sauces that you already have in your pantry.

Stir fry beef is one of the most delicious and nutritious dishes that you can make at home with simple ingredients. This dish is soon to be your favourite dinner recipe for busy days.

We love quick and easy dinner recipes for busy weeknights and here are some of our go-to dishes: Chicken Broccoli Noodles, Chicken & Mushroom Stir Fry, Beef and Noodles Stir Fry, and Chilli Pepper Beef . With these recipes, you can make restaurant-quality meals with a minimum budget!

Simple Tips To Make Pepper Beef

We usually use tender steak cut like sirloin, tenderloin, rib-eye for this recipe. Rump steak, flank, or flat iron steak goes well too. Season the steak slices with soy sauce, baking soda, corn starch, and sesame oil.

It's a Chinese method of meat velveting and you can use this method in chicken too. Baking soda and corn starch in the marinade keep the beef juicy and tender when you stir fry with high heat.

How to cut the steak to achieve the tender result? Check the direction of the meat grain direction first, then cut against the grain into thin slices.

Stir Fry Sauce

To create a perfectly balanced savoury stir fry sauce, you will need oyster sauce, light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, vinegar, sugar, corn starch, and water. And of course, the main ingredient, a freshly ground black pepper. All of these sauces are available in most supermarket Asian aisle and Amazon online.

This sauce is very similar to most Chinese stir fry sauces and you can add it to any of your favorite stir-fry dishes like noodles, meat, or vegetables.

You can make this stir fry sauce in a large badge and store it in air-tight jars and keep it in the fridge. It usually lasts in the fridge for up to 7 days. This homemade sauce mixture tastes better than any readymade stir fry sauces!

Vegetables You Can Add

Bell peppers and onions are ideal for this recipe, just like the Chinese takeaways and restaurants recipes. But you can use any of your favourite stir fry vegetables like carrots, mushrooms, snow peas, bamboo shoots, baby corn, etc.

If you like to add broccoli with beef, you might like our stir fry Beef and Broccoli in oyster sauce recipe.

Here is the step by step cooking instructions :

Slice the beef steak into thin slices against the grain. Season the beef with light soy sauce, baking soda, corn starch, and sesame oil. Mix well, set aside, and marinate at least 15 mins.

pepper steak stir-fry
pepper steak stir-fry

Finely chop the garlic cloves and cut the onion and bell pepper into thin slices. As this is a very versatile dish, you can add any of your favourite extra stir fry vegetables.

In a small bowl, mix all the stir fry sauce ingredients and set it aside. Use fresh ground black pepper to bring more flavour to the dish.

Heat the pan into high heat, add the marinated beef, flatten and spread the beef in the pan. Let it cook the beef for 2-3 mins until the beef changed into nice charred colour. Then turn sides and stir fry for another 1-2 minutes. Remove from the pan and set aside.

pepper steak stir-fry

In the remaining oil in the pan, stir fry the chopped garlic for a few seconds. Follow with the onion slices and stir for a few seconds. Then add pepper slices and place beef slices back in.

Pour the sauce mixture in and stir well to combine all ingredients evenly. Continue to cook for another 1-2 mins until the sauce becomes thick and glossy.

pepper steak stir-fry

Turn off the heat and transfer to serving plate. Serve immediately!

How to serve this dish?

You can simply serve this dish with simple cook rice, egg fried rice or stir fry noodles. Pair it with Crispy Fried Wonton, Hot and Sour Soup, Honey Garlic Wings, or Crispy Salt and Chilli Chicken and make it a perfect banquet dinner.

Pepper beef steak

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Pepper beef steak

Pepper Steak Stir Fry

5 from 35 votes
Print Pin Rate
Course: Main Course
Cuisine: Chinese Cuisine
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 10 minutes
Servings: 2
Calories: 210kcal
Author: Khin

Ingredients

Ingredients

  • 250 g Beef steak Ribeye/rump/sirloin/tenderloin steak
  • ½ Large sweet onion
  • 3 cloves Garlic
  • ½ Bell pepper red
  • ½ Bell pepper green
  • 2 tbsp Vegetable oil

Beef Marinade

  • 1 tsp Light soy sauce
  • 1 tsp Sesame oil
  • 1 tsp Potato/corn flour ( starch )
  • ¼ tsp Baking soda

Stir Fry Sauce

  • 2 tbsp Oyster sauce
  • 1 tbsp Light soy sauce
  • ½ tsp Dark soy sauce
  • 1 tsp Sugar
  • ½ tsp Black pepper
  • 1 tbsp Rice vinegar
  • ½ tsp Corn/Potato flour (starch)
  • 3 tbsp Water
Metric - US Customary

Instructions

  • Cut the beef steak into thin slices. Put the sliced beef into a mixing bowl and add ingredients from beef marinade. Mix well, set aside and marinate at least 15 mins.
  • Finely chop the garlic. Cut the onion and bell pepper into thin slices.
  • In a small bowl, mix all the stir fry sauce ingredients. Set aside.
  • Heat the pan into high heat, add the marinated beef, flatten and spread the beef in the pan. Let it cook the beef for 2-3 mins untill the beef gets a nice charred colour and turn sides. Stir fry for another 1-2 minutes. Remove from the pan and set aside.
  • In the remaining oil, stir fry the garlic for a few seconds. Then add the onion slices and stir for a few seconds. Add pepper slices, add beef slices back in.
  • Pour the sauce mixture in.  Mix all the ingredients well with the sauce until well combined. Stir fry for about 1-2 mins until the sauce becomes thick and glossy.
  • Transfer to serving plate. Serve immediately.
  • Perfect with a bowl of steamed rice or stir fry noodle.

Nutrition

Calories: 210kcal | Carbohydrates: 14g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 16g | Saturated Fat: 12g | Sodium: 1310mg | Potassium: 471mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 8g | Vitamin A: 2086IU | Vitamin C: 80mg | Calcium: 37mg | Iron: 1mg
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Comments

  1. Renee says

    March 07, 2023 at 5:08 am

    5 stars
    Delicious and easy. Had to double up on the sauce but everyone enjoyed it ❤️❤️❤️❤️

    Reply
  2. Susan says

    July 10, 2022 at 12:57 am

    5 stars
    I enjoyed making this! Everyone loved it and ask that I make it again.

    Reply
  3. Ron says

    May 08, 2022 at 9:26 am

    5 stars
    Awesome 👌

    Reply
    • Khin says

      May 09, 2022 at 10:25 pm

      Thank you Ron 😊

      Reply
  4. denise says

    April 11, 2022 at 1:16 am

    5 stars
    10..10..10 across the board!!! Stir Fry sauce easy to increase if ya like it saucy!! The best thing tender meat....thank you sir!!!

    Reply
    • Khin says

      April 12, 2022 at 1:26 pm

      Happy that you enjoyed it, Denise. Thanks for trying out and sharing feedback.

      Reply
  5. Naomi says

    March 22, 2022 at 2:11 am

    Absolutely delicious! My husband had 3 plates, I’m looking forward to trying more recipes.

    Reply
    • Khin says

      March 22, 2022 at 2:18 pm

      I am really happy to hear that you and your husband enjoyed the dish Naomi. Thank you so much for sharing with us 😊

      Reply
  6. Teri says

    March 14, 2022 at 4:16 pm

    5 stars
    Delicious and easy!

    Reply
    • Khin says

      March 17, 2022 at 12:24 pm

      Thank you so much Teri 😊

      Reply
    • Ana says

      June 05, 2022 at 9:33 pm

      This turned out perfect & the meat was tender & tasty...THANK YOU...recipe is a keeper!!

      Reply
  7. Julie says

    March 04, 2022 at 8:03 pm

    5 stars
    Absolutely gorgeous and so easy to do thank you.!

    Reply
    • Khin says

      March 04, 2022 at 8:32 pm

      Thank you so much Julie. I hope you enjoy the recipe 😊

      Reply
  8. Rose says

    March 02, 2022 at 2:43 am

    5 stars
    Followed the recipe exactly, and it was delicious. Will definitely make it again.

    Reply
    • Khin says

      March 03, 2022 at 12:33 am

      So happy to hear, Rose. Thanks for trying out and sharing feedback for us.

      Reply
  9. NJ says

    February 24, 2022 at 1:14 am

    5 stars
    Easily made and very delicious….most of all not real salty like restaurants. This will definitely be my go to recipe for pepper steak stir-fry.

    Reply
    • Khin says

      February 25, 2022 at 1:34 am

      I am so glad that you enjoyed this recipe, Nj! Thanks for trying out and sharing feedback.

      Reply
  10. QL7 says

    November 03, 2021 at 1:05 am

    5 stars
    Very good, but salty - soy sauce, no doubt. Will make again. Thanks

    Reply
    • Khin says

      November 06, 2021 at 11:29 pm

      Thank you so much for sharing feedback, QL7. Suggest reducing soy sauce and oyster sauce, according to your preference.

      Reply
      • Ginnifer says

        January 10, 2023 at 3:25 am

        5 stars
        best beef and peppers recipe I've tried. I added a bit more sugar because the soy was a touch too salty. Definitely a keeper. Thank you!!

  11. Kalili lakai says

    September 15, 2021 at 8:56 am

    5 stars
    Amazing

    Reply
    • Khin says

      September 16, 2021 at 11:46 pm

      Thank you Kalili.

      Reply
  12. Jessica says

    July 30, 2021 at 9:55 pm

    5 stars
    Khin, thank you so much for a great beef stir fry! I made this last night in my wok and my family highly enjoyed!’served with veggie lo mein will be making again! Thanks again!

    Jessica

    Reply
    • Khin says

      July 31, 2021 at 5:40 pm

      Perfect with veggie lo mein. ♥ So glad that you enjoyed this recipe Jessica! Thank you so much for taking time and sharing feedback.

      Reply
  13. Alister McInnes says

    March 02, 2021 at 9:23 am

    5 stars
    What a great recipe!!! Absolutely delicious !

    Reply
    • Khin says

      March 24, 2021 at 4:24 pm

      Thank you so much for sharing feedback Alister! Happy that you enjoyed!

      Reply

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