2014 Cooking Club Week 2: Chilli Beef with Noodles

Amazing stuff last week from GrahamThomas, let's just hope I can keep the standard as high. Best of luck to everyone else in the coming weeks looking forward to them

Chilli Beef with Noodles

Ingredients:
1-1.5 lbs sirloin steak cut into thin strips
18-20 Basil Leaves
2-3 tbsp Veg. Oil
2 tbsp Mirin or Dry Sherry
12-16 oz Noodles

Marinade:
2-3 large fresh red chillies, de-seeded and chopped
4 Garlic Cloves
1 tsp chopped fresh root ginger
2 tbsp thai fish sauce
1 tsp sugar
2 tbsp freshly squeezed lemon or lime juice
2 tbsp groundnut or peanut oil
salt and black pepper

Method:
Put all the ingredients for the marinade into a blender and blitz until smooth.

(if you're feeling lazy, you can always fire everything into the blender just make sure it's all blended)
Transfer to a bowl , chop the basil leaves and mix in. Add the beef to this and marinade for 2 hours, (overnight would be better).

Heat the oil in a wok and stir fry the beef for 3-4 mins over a high heat. At the same time add the noodles to a pot of boiling water.

Splash the mirin over it then continue for another 1 more minute.

Adjust seasoning with salt and pepper. Serve on a bed of noodles

Enjoy, this can also be made with chicken but it tastes so much nicer with the beef. If you have a nut allergy vegetable oil is perfect to substitute instead of the nut based oil. Finally the processed "fresh" garlic, chilli and ginger you can get in the squeezy tubes work to an extent but the flavour is so much more intense when you use the fresh ingredients.

Hope everyone enjoys,
Bon Appetite