Today is another Secret Recipe Club Reveal Day! In the secret recipe club, each participating blogger is assigned a blog from another participating blogger and secretly searches their site for something to recreate. The accompanying blog post then goes live on reveal day! So while I was immersed in my assigned blog, someone else was picking through mine! I’m so excited to be part of this group, to see what on my blog peaks other’s interests and to stumble upon new blogs and new recipes.
This month I was assigned the blog Without Adornment written by Bean. Bean bravely talks about her battle with depression. Her blog title came to be from a sermon at church that really spoke to her. To live “without adornment” is something that I think everyone needs to learn how to do. To just be you. With the season of Lent upon us I found this to really hit home. It’s the time of year to reevaluate your relationship not just with God but with yourself. To better yourself, and what better way to do that than to live “without adornment.”
Bean leads a Gluten-Free lifestyle but that doesn’t hold her back from her favorite hobby of baking. I encourage you to check out her amazing recipe index. As I don’t keep gluten-free and am not proficient enough in my baking skills to alter recipes I looked to her savory dishes. With our new Stir Fry Day Fridays I was excited to see Pad Thai and Ginger Beef. I proceeded with the latter.
We enjoyed this beef not on a Friday, but for the Chinese New Year last week. I served it simply with white rice. I again had to eliminate the bean sprouts so I used a little more celery and carrots. I also used three large leaves from a bok choy instead of using baby bok choy. Oh, and I completely forgot to buy bell pepper, so that ingredient was also excluded from my version. This stir fry dish was a huge hit around the table. Thank you Bean for a great recipe.
Note: to keep it gluten-free, use a gluten-free flour (Bean used rice flour) and gluten-free soy sauce.
This stir fry feeds 4-6 people.
Ginger Beef Stir Fry
Ingredients:
- 1/4 C vegetable oil
- 1 1/2 – 2 lb sirloin, sliced in thin strips
- 1 tbsp flour
- 1 onion, sliced
- 2 carrots, sliced diagonally
- 4 tbsp freshly grated ginger
- 4 cloves garlic, minced
- 3 stalk celery, sliced diagonally
- 3 bok choy leaves, chopped
- 1/3 C sugar
- 3 tbsp soy sauce
- 2 tbsp cooking sherry
- 1 tbsp apple cider vinegar
- 1 tbsp corn starch
- 2 scallions, chopped
Steps:
- Heat oil in a large skillet or wok over medium-high heat.
- Toss sirloin strips in flour to coat. Stir fry in batches until cooked through and remove to a paper towel lined plate.
- Add the onion, carrots, ginger, and garlic to the same skillet. When onions are translucent add the celery and bok choy. Cook until bok choy is wilted.
- In a small bowl combine sugar, soy sauce, sherry, and vinegar. Pour over veggies and bring to a boil. Allow sauce to thicken slightly.
- Make a slurry with the corn starch and 3 tbsp water. Gradually add the slurry to the stir fry (I didn’t use all of it) to thicken the sauce to desired consistency. Return the beef to the skillet and toss to coat. Add in the scallion.
- Serve with rice, if desired.
*This recipe is adapted from Bean at https://withoutadornment.wordpress.com/2011/09/23/gahigf-gluten-free-ginger-beef-and-chinese-esque-pork-dumplings/*
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This is one of my favorite flavor combinations! Fantastic stir fry!
We loved it!
GREAT pick for SRC and very seasonal too! Karen
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I love a good stir fry! Great pick!
We do them weekly!
Oh yummy – I can practically smell it through the screen. Anything with the word ginger in the title always makes my mouth water… yumm!!
If my photo were better you’d be more tempted to lick the screen! 😉 It was tasty.
I adore anything with ginger, so your choice made me smile and get a little hungry even though it’s still way too early for lunch!
Have a great Reveal Day!
That’s the problem with checking out the reveal in the morning!!
This sounds wonderful! I’ve recently started cooking more with different cuts of beef, + I bet this would be awesome with flank steak. Perfect choice for the SRC!
Any meat would do really! I have some flank steak ready to go for another stir fry tomorrow. 🙂
I haven’t made a stir fry in awhile. Must do! This looks delicious!
A perfect choice for Chinese New Year.
I thought so!
I should make more stir fry dishes. They are such a great way to have a healthy dinner on the table quickly.
We do them at least once a week. Great way to add more veggies to the diet.
Yum, great looking stir fry! We will definitely be trying this.
Enjoy!
My husband would love this one!
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I wonder if using a hearty mushroom would work for you?
Yum! Stir frys are the best. I always forget about cooking beef this way, but it’s so easy!!
Perfect weeknight meal!
Stir fry is always a hit in my house. This one looks fabulous! Great pick this month 🙂
You can’t go wrong with a good stir fry!
Yay! I’m glad that you liked it! Thank you for your kind words!
You know what the funny thing about this recipe is? I thought “ginger beef” was legit Chinese food, but I found out later that it was created at a Chinese food restaurant in my city. Haha. No matter, it’s still tasty!
Take care!
Haha! Works for me!
Great pick, I love ginger
I’ve been using it a lot lately!
What a great way to think about Lent as going to living “without adornment.” Your stir fry looks tasty!
Thanks, Sarah.
That looks WAAAAY better than takeout! Great SRC pick this month! (Sorry it took me so long to get here to comment.)
Haha, thanks for still stopping by!