Friday, May 31, 2013
Sesame Beef Wraps
We have become quite a fan of "Asian inspired" foods. Toasted Sesame Oil is one of my new favorite ingredients forever. I LOVE the way it smells and tastes...worth every cent.
So when I saw this recipe (I think on Pinterest but I am not totally positive), I knew I had to try it.
I happened to have some flank steak in the freezer, not enough to make a steak dinner but enough for a meal like this. So I pulled it out for this recipe.
And it was good stuff.
We will have this again (though not too often; I can't afford flank steak very often).
Ingredients:
2 cloves of garlic, minced
1 tsp sugar
2 Tbsp soy sauce
1 Tbsp sesame oil (YUM!)
1/4 tsp ground ginger
1 tsp rice vinegar
1 Tbsp toasted sesame seeds
Freshly ground black peppercorns
1 lb flank steak cut thinly against the grain
oil
Butter lettuce leaves (I had a hard tine finding them...I had to buy a LIVE lettuce plant from the grocery store, roots intact. That being said, these are great leaves for wraps!)
Optional toppings: Shredded carrots, brown rice (cooked), green onions, etc.
Sauce ingredients:
2 cloves of garlic, minced
1/2 tsp sugar
3 Tbsp soy sauce
1 Tbsp rice vinegar
1/2 tsp sriracha chile sauce (I omitted due to food issues here)
1 tsp sesame oil
1 Tbsp green onion, chopped
1/2 Tbsp toasted sesame seeds
1 Tbsp water
Note: Since many of the marinade ingredients AND the sauce ingredients are the same or similar, I would make them both at the same time. I didn't pay attention to that part when I made it. :)
Directions:
Mix together the garlic, sugar, soy sauce, sesame oil, ginger, rice vinegar, sesame seeds, and peppercorn. Pour into a large ziplock bag and add the flank steak. Refrigerate 1-3 hours (or longer if needed). Like I said above, it would make sense to go ahead and mix the sauce ingredients and refrigerate until needed.
When ready to cook, heat about 1/2 Tbsp oil in a large skillet. Put about half the meat in the skillet and brown.
Once it cooked through, place that meat in a serving dish.
Add about 1/2 Tbsp more oil to the skillet and cook the remaining meat.
I just put all of the foods on the table and let the family build their own. Some don't like lettuce, so they just put the meat on top of rice. I put some rice on lettuce then added the meat and carrots and dipped in the sauce.
Very quick, very good!
Reba
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