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20 minutes

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Szechuan wok beef with salted lime cucumber

Serves 4

Difficulty Easy

Prep Time 20 minutes, plus 1 hour’s marinating time

Cooking Time 10–15 minutes

Ingredients

Salted-lime cucumber

1 cucumber, cut into pieces
1 t salt
1 cup rice vinegar
4 T lime juice

Szechuan wok beef

400 g beef fillet, cut into 3 cm cubes
1 T whole peppercorns or Szechuan peppercorns, crushed
2 T sunflower oil
½ cup oyster sauce
2 T sesame seeds
jasmine rice, for serving

Method

1. To make the cucumber, mix it with the salt, vinegar and lime juice. Leave to marinate for 1 hour or even overnight.

2. Mix the beef, peppercorns, oil and oyster sauce. Heat a large pan and stir-fry the meat in batches until cooked to your liking.

3. Serve the beef with the cucumber, toasted sesame seeds and jasmine rice.

Find more beef recipes here.

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Grilled teriyaki mushrooms

Cheese-and-onion pies

Blanched baby spinach

Pork belly bossam

Lemon-and-sesame blueberry cake

Easy hummus – two ways

White sandwich bread

Miso barley risotto with charred tofu and greens

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Asian butternut-and-chicken soup with prawn toast

Szechuan wok beef with salted lime cucumber

Szechuan wok beef with salted lime cucumber

Ingredients

Method