Beef chilli dry is a Chinese – Pakistani dish available in Cafes, oriental restaurants and continental restaurants in Pakistan. It is my favorite because I love the flavor of green chillies, garlic & braised tender beef.

I have created this recipe after numerous failed recipes….. here it is 🙂

Ingredients:

BEEF:

• ½ kilo chuck steak/ beef schnitzel (cut against the grain into thin slices)
• 2 tbspns olive oil
• 2 tbspns ginger & garlic paste
• A generous pinch of salt
• ½ tspn black pepper
• A pinch of white pepper
• 2 tbspns soy sauce
• 2 tbspns lemon juice
• 3 tbspns corn flour

FOR STIR FRY

• Some oil for frying
• 2 tbspns sesame oil
• 1 tbspn ginger garlic paste
• 4 large green chillies (remove seeds and julienne cut)
• Some green part of spring onions chopped
• 2 tbspns oyster sauce
• Some sesame seeds to garnish at the end

Method

1. Cut steak into thin slices and marinate in all the ingredients given for beef. Mix and keep aside for 40 – 50 minutes, refrigerated.
2. Heat oil in a pan for shallow frying and fry beef slices in batches. 5 minutes on medium heat per batch. Do not over crowd the pan while frying.
3. Keep the fried beef aside until needed.
4. In a wok, heat some sesame seed oil and fry ginger garlic paste until fragrant. Add green chillies, spring onion sprigs and saute’ for a minute on high flame.
5. Add oyster sauce, mix & add beef strips. Give a final stir for 1 minute on high flame and serve hot with boiled rice with garnish if sesame seeds.