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Orange Beef with Cashews

Orange Beef with Cashews - here's another quick cooking, flavourful meal the whole family will love and ready on only about 20 minutes!
Course Dinner, Easy Dinner
Cuisine Asian Inspired
Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Total Time 20 minutes
Servings 4 Servings
Author Barry C. Parsons

Ingredients

  • 3 tbsp peanut oil
  • 1 lb thinly sliced beef tenderloin or striploin steak
  • salt and pepper to season
  • 2 cloves minced garlic
  • 1 cup diced red pepper
  • 1 cup orange juice
  • zest of half an orange finely minced
  • 4 tbsp Hoisin sauce
  • 4 tbsp rice wine or Chinese cooking wine
  • 3 tbsp rice wine vinegar or apple cider vinegar in a pinch
  • 3 tbsp brown sugar
  • 1 tsp chilli paste (or 1/2 tsp chilli flakes) optional or to taste
  • 2 tsp soy sauce
  • 2 tsp toasted sesame oil
  • 1 rounded tsp corn starch (dissolved in a little orange juice or water.
  • 2 oranges peeled & sectioned (supreme: see notes)
  • 3/4 cup toasted cashews

Instructions

  1. Heat peanut oil in a wok over high heat.
  2. Quickly add the garlic and beef, season with salt and pepper and stir fry for only about a minute.
  3. Add the peppers and stir fry for only about another 30seconds. Remove the beef and peppers from the pan and set aside.
  4. Add the orange juice and zest to the wok and simmer to reduce the orange juice volume by half.
  5. In a small bowl, mix together the Hoisin sauce, rice, wine, rice wine vinegar, brown sugar, chili paste, soy sauce and toasted sesame oil.
  6. Stir well and add to the reduced orange juice in the wok.
  7. Simmer for a couple of minutes before returning the beef and peppers to the wok with the sauce.
  8. Bring to a boil and thicken with a slurry of 1 rounded tsp corn starch dissolved in an ounce of orange juice or cold water.
  9. Toss in the orange segments orange at the end to let them arm through before serving.
  10. Serve over rice or noodles and sprinkle generously with the toasted cashews.

Recipe Notes

I like to supreme the oranges before adding them. This means removing the peel with a knife, then cutting out the orange segments, individually, leaving the surrounding tougher membranes behind. For larger oranges, I then cut each segment in half before adding at the end.

You can add whatever vegetables you like to the is recipe. We generally use what's on hand; green onions, green beens, snow peas, broccoli and especially water chestnuts all have made appearances in this dish from time to time.