Shell Steak with Oyster Sauce and Mix Vegetable

Are you tired of plain steak?  In Chinese culture, most main dish are savor in flavor and usually pair with some kind of vegetable. It looks prettier and make you feel that you are eating more!  Chinese share a plate of meat instead of big piece for one person. The average family dinner usually come with meat, fish, saute vegetable dish and a simple light soup. of course with white rice. No tea, no juice, on soda too. That's why you don't really see many Chinese overweight. It's a very health way on the daily basic diet.

Preparation time: 10 minutes.

Cooking time: 15minutes.

Serve: 3- 4 people.

　

Ingredient:

1. 2 shell steaks season well with salt and red black pepper.

2. Half cup baby carrot sliced like pinkie size.

3. Half zucchini cut into pinkie size.

4. 2 cups mushrooms.

Flavor:

1. 4-5 cloves garlic minced.

2. Half medium onion thin sliced.

3. 2 tablespoon soy sauce.

4. 2 tablespoon oyster sauce.

5. 1 tablespoon sugar.

6. 2 tablespoon tapioca starch, or corn starch.

7. 2 tablespoon cold water.

Mix flavor soy sauce, oyster sauce, sugar, corn starch well, set aside for quick sauce later.

Cast iron pan, high heat, bring pan to smoking hot. Lightly coated with vegetable oil then place steaks in the pan. Seal steak 2 sides, only turn it once, do not flip around or press, so the flavor from juice will remain inside of steak. Cook steaks to medium rare, take it out, set aside.

If pan is over heated turn it to low or off. Check the oil level. (if is not enough, you can add a little more for saute vegetable. If is too much take some out.) Add in the garlic,mushroom and salt, saute till fragrance and soft, keep add in onion and carrot, cook onion to transparent, then zucchini.

While your are waiting the mushroom and onion to be cooked. You can sliced the steak against grand into 0.5 cm pieces, set aside. If any juice come out from the pan, add it back to the sauce.

Make sure the quick sauce mix well then add in the pan stir well. Sauce should be like texture of light cream. If is too thick, you can add in a little more water to diluted. Now, add in the steaks. Serve hot!

* Do avoid greasy cooking, but lack of oil food will show the uneven burning spots. It also will make food try out. Some food absorb more oil during the cooking process like mushroom, potato. Some come out more oil like salmon or rib eye steak or dark meat with skin from chicken. The easy way is make sure the bottom of pan always "lightly coated" with oil when you saute. Then you will be just do fine!

* Picture of Oyster Sauce as below: