Crispy beef in sweet chili sauce

original blog post: https://greedygirlcooks.blogspot.com/2017/09/crispy-beef-in-sweet-chili-sauce.html

Ingredients

2 lbs flank steak

2 tablespoon sesame oil

1 ½ tablespoon dark soy sauce

To fry

½ cup corn starch

3 tablespoon flour

½ teaspoon salt

¼ cup sesame oil

¼ cup vegetable oil

Sweet Chili sauce

½ cup Honey

¼ cup Chili paste/sauce

1 tablespoon grated fresh Ginger

2 garlic cloves

Garnish

2 tablespoons Toasted sesame seeds

3 tablespoon scallions

Instructions

• Slice the flank steak into the thinnest strips possible against the grain.
• Season with sesame oil and soy sauce and allow to marinate for 20 minutes
• On a sheet pan combine corn starch, flour and salt
• Add the seasoned steak strips to the cornstarch and coat thoroughly making sure all the beef is coated completely in flour
• Heat sesame oil and vegetable oil in a pan until its almost smoking
• Quickly fry the strips until crispy, with the hot oil this should not take more than 4-5 minutes to cook
• Fry in batches until all the beef strips have been fried
• In a dry hot pan toast the sesame seeds until light golden brown, make sure not to burn by continuously moving the pan around
• In a bowl mix together all the ingredients for the sweet chili sauce
• Coat the crispy beef in chili sauce and toasted sesame seeds
• Garnish with scallion slices and serve on top of noodles or white rice