I am always looking for new recipes online and in magazines that I subscribe to. Usually, they are not very good. I always pick losers. BUT... Yesterday, I picked a winner. I found it in my January edition of Sunset Magazine. Here's the recipe because it is amazing:
Chinese-style beef, sweet potato, and bok choy stew
Serves 4 (Really 2-3: maybe we eat a lot!) Time 35 minutes
4 large garlic cloves- minced
So, this is the recipe given in the magazine. It is very good just like this, BUT... we would change a few things.
Chinese-style beef, sweet potato, and bok choy stew
Serves 4 (Really 2-3: maybe we eat a lot!) Time 35 minutes
4 large garlic cloves- minced
1 piece of fresh ginger (1 inch square-grated)
1 1/4 lbs beef rip-eye steak
1 TBS Vegetable oil
1/2 tsp. kosher salt
2 tsp. Chinese five-spice powder
3 cups beef broth
2 TBS Soy sauce
1 Sweet Potato/ Yam
12 oz. bok choy
2 green onions
2 green onions
1. Combine together garlic and fresh ginger. Trim fat from steaks and cut across grain into 1/4-inch slices, descarding poskets of fat. Sprinkle meat with garlic mixture and salt.
2. Heat oil in a 5 qt. pan over high heat. Brown half the beef lightly, stirring occasionally, 3-6 minutes. Transfer meat to a plate and repeat with remaining beef.
3. Reduce heat to medium. Stir into same pan: five-spice powder, broth and soy sauce. Peel sweet potato, halve lengthwise, and cut into 1/3 in.-thick slices. Add to broth. Cover and bring to boil over high heat, then reduce heat and simmer for 2 minutes.
4. Meanwhile, trim ends from bok choy, rinse, seperate leaves, and cut in wide diagonal slices. Stir bok choy into stew and simmer just until wilted, about 2 minutes. Stir in beef and cook until hot, 1-2 minutes. Cut green onions in 3-in slivers.
5. Ladle stew into bowls and garnish with onions.
So, this is the recipe given in the magazine. It is very good just like this, BUT... we would change a few things.
1. Next time, instead of sweet potato, we will add in Rice Noodles. The sweet potato tasted just fine, but the recipe is almost like a Pho noodle soup missing the noodles. So, we would put noodles in instead.
2. SRIRACHA Hot Chili Sauce is the best. This recipe needed some heat. So we added that in at the dinner table. Mmmm.... so good.
3. We didn't try this but it would most likely be very good with some fresh basil leaves or some sprouts (I love sprouts!) and possibly some Hoisin Sauce.
3. We didn't try this but it would most likely be very good with some fresh basil leaves or some sprouts (I love sprouts!) and possibly some Hoisin Sauce. 
This recipe was oh-so-good! I want to eat some more today. Mmmm...
3 comments:
Sounds delicious! Maybe Scott and I will try it out next week :)
I like to do the same thing. I subscribe to cooking magazines and get them from my parenting magazines as well as Ladies Home Journal. Even if you sometimes pick losers it can't hurt to try!!
Exactly Ashley! I have thrown a few down the drain because we just couldn't even eat it, it was so disgusting. But overall, everything I have made has been at least edible. It was nice to have a recipe to actually add to our favorites!
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