Restaurant-style black pepper beef cooked in the Instant Pot…
One of the Chinese dishes I often order while dining at a Chinese restaurant is black pepper beef or steak. It’s peppery, flavorful, and damn delicious. I’ve made that a few times in my kitchen & devoured it with noodles. This time, I cooked the black pepper beef in the Instant Pot. In just 15 minutes it was ready & tasted just like restaurant-style.
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Instant Pot 15 Minute Black Pepper Beef Recipe | Restaurant Style
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Author: Thasneen
Recipe type: Main
Cuisine: Asian
Serves: 5 people
Ingredients
For Cooking Beef
- Beef strips- ½ kg or 1 Lb
- Ground black pepper- 1 tsp
- Salt- ½ tsp
For Stir Frying
- Oil- 1 tbsp
- Garlic, minced- 1 tbsp
- Ginger, minced- 1 tbsp
- Onions, minced- ½ of an onion
- Green onions, chopped- 1 stalk
- Onion, diced- 1
- Green pepper, diced- 1
- Tomato sauce- 2 tbsp
- Soy sauce- ¼ cup
- Dark soy sauce- 1 tbsp
- Ground black pepper- ½ to 1 tsp
- Water- ½ cup
- Cornstarch- 2 tbsp combined with 3 tbsp cold water
- Sesame seeds- 1 tbsp (optional)
- Sesame oil- 1 tbsp
- Green onions, chopped-1 stalk
- Cilantro, chopped- ¼ cup
Instructions
- For making this dish, beef strips have to be used.
- To the Instant Pot stainless steel pot, add the beef strips along with ground pepper & salt; combine well.
- Close the pot with the lid.
- Select pressure cook setting, set time to 5 minutes at high pressure.
- In the Instant Pot, beef strips will be cooked in just 5 minutes.
- If you are using beef stew cut pieces, have to be pressure cooked for 20 minutes.
- After 5 minutes of pressure cooking, do a quick pressure release.
- Open the lid.
- Beef strips will be cooked perfectly. There will be some liquid in the pot, save that liquid or beef broth along with beef.
- Transfer the beef and the liquid to a large bowl, keep it covered.
- To the same stainless steel pot, add oil.
- Add garlic & ginger, saute for a minute.
- Add minced onion & green onions, saute for 2 minutes.
- Add diced onion & green pepper, stir fry for a minute. Do not overcook the green pepper, has to be crisp.
- Add the cooked beef & liquid. Combine well.
- Add ground pepper, tomato sauce, soy sauce & dark soy sauce, combine well.
- Dark soy sauce will impart a nice dark color to this dish.
- Add ground black pepper based on your heat level.
- Add ½ cup water, combine well.
- In a small bowl, combine cornstarch with 3 tbsp cold water.
- Add the cornstarch slurry to the beef, combine well.
- The gravy will thicken right away. Cook for a minute.
- Add sesame seeds & sesame oil, combine well.
- Garnish with green onions & cilantro.
- Remove the stainless steel pot from the main pot.
- Serve into a bowl & enjoy with noodles or rice.
