Woo Can Cook | Teriyaki Pepper Steak Stir Fry #recipe #food #cooking

Hello! Hi everyone, Wesley here. Today we’re diving back into our series dedicated to Chinese comfort food classics with a shot at a sweet and savory teriyaki variation of a Chinese black pepper steak stir fry, inspired by Hong Kong Cafe here in San Leandro, California. For those not familiar, black pepper steak, (or sometimes simply pepper steak) is a fairly common dish found in American Chinese cuisine, more typically featuring a velveted piece of flank steak that has been seared and stir fried with bell peppers, veggies, and of course, black pepper. Most typically the steak in this dish would be sliced into long, thin strips to help account for the fact that flank steak is a pretty tough and chewy cut, so the thinner slice allows for more cuts against the grain, yielding a more tender piece of beef.

As you may notice though, the version that we are attempting today is instead cut into cubes, which presents the inherent challenge of, how do we stir fry a cube of flank steak without turning it into a chewy, inedible mess? And the answer of course is, velveting, which we’ll dive into in a moment. Finally to round this off, we’ll also be replicating the teriyaki sauce that the Hong Kong Cafe version makes use of in their version, which means we’ll once again be revisiting my favorite sweet and savory sauce of all time, the sweet chili teriyaki sauce. Hope you try it.

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https://www.woocancook.com/teriyaki-beef

0:00 Hello Hi Everyone!
1:50 Mise En Place (aromatics)
2:15 Mise En Place (steak)
3:05 Mise En Place (veggies)
3:55 Mise En Place (marinade)
4:40 Mise En Place (teriyaki sauce)
5:26 On The Stove (teriyaki sauce)
6:02 On The Stove (sear)
6:32 On The Stove (stir fry)
7:21 Let’s Eat!
8:48 Thanks For Watching!