It has been a couple of weeks since I posted my simple recipes. I have written five recipe posts in the past, and you can find the links to each of them here:
- Super Simple Home-Cooked Dish | Airfryer Honey Chicken
- Exotic Food of Kadazan-Dusun People of Borneo | Hivana Tongii a.k.a Raw Fish Salad
- Super Simple Home-Cooked Dish 2 | Minced Pork Vegetables Soup
- Super Simple Home-Cooked Dish | Bitter-Gourd Soup That Anyone Can Prepare
Cooking is definitely not my forte, so I cook mostly simple meals that can be prepared in the shortest time. The recipe I am going to share is no exception. I made this recipe myself, and there is no specific name to it. I simply called it beef in black pepper sauce. Perhaps I should have been more creative, but for the sake of simplicity, let's just stick to that name 😆.
My family seldom eats beef, maybe twice a month if we are lucky. I prefer premium imported beef from Australia to local ones because of the taste and its more tolerable odor than local beef. And, of course, imported beef is expensive, so I don't buy it frequently. Another reason is that I want to consume less red meat because, you know, eating too much red meat is not good for health. And it's not just beef, I seldom cook pork, too, and often only eat it whenever we eat out.
❤️ The Ingredients ❤️
- A clove of garlic and small size ginger.
- Beef (as much as you need). This portion is enough for our family of 4 people.
- Two potatoes. Cut the potatoes in half lengthwise and cut them into cubes or slice them thinly. I prefer to slice them thinly so it cook faster.
- Scallion or a stalk of spring onion.
- Salt and seasoning (optional) - not in photo
- Sugar - not in photo
- Cooking oil - not in photo
- And the secret to make this yummy dish - the black pepper sauce!
❤️ Super Duper Simple Instructions ❤️
- Pour and heat up one tablespoon of cooking oil. Use low heat because you want to use the oil to sauté the garlic and ginger.
- Sauté the garlic and ginger in medium heat until the aroma arises. This take roughly 30 seconds.
- Put in the beef and a quarter cup of water and simmer for 5 minutes in medium heat.
- Stir it occasionally using a ladle so it will cook evenly.
- Put in the potatoes and if it's too dry, pour in more water but not too much, otherwise it will become too soupy.
- Stir occasionally and cook until the potatoes are soft, but not too soft!
- Put in one or two tablespoons of black pepper sauce.
- Sprinkle salts sparingly to taste.
- Sprinkle sugar sparingly to taste.
- It will make the dish taste salty and sweet at the same time but not too overwhelming. It makes the black pepper flavor pop.
- Stir occasionally for one minute and turn off the heat.
- Wash and chop the spring onions and sprinkle them on the dish and voila!
- If you don't have spring onions, you can use other herbs to garnish. I just happened to have spring onions in my kitchen.
- Serve it with hot rice or in my case, I packed it with rice and a vegetable dish for my husband to bring to work.
What do you think of this dish? Will you give it a try or do you have a better idea to tweak the recipe? Share them in the comment below 😃
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