Ginger beef with pepper and spring onion

Today I’m experimenting again with my HaloChef. This versatile halogen oven seems to present endless cooking opportunities as you can use it to roast bake, grill and defrost. It’s powered by halogen light that generates heat for quick and easy cooking. And it’s environmentally friendly, too, as you’re using less energy.

Today’s dish is kind of a cross between a stir-fry and a stew with some tasty Asian flavours. I browned the meat in a frying pan before putting it in the casserole but all the rest of the ingredients are simply chopped and put in raw. So there’s little preparation and even less mess to clear up. Hooray!

Cooking in the HaloChef produced beautifully tender meat and a luscious sauce which had a real gingery bite – a new firm favourite in our house.

The final dish on a bed of egg fried rice

Serves 2

The ingredients

350g steak cut into small pieces (I used Waitrose’s frying steak which is good value and tender)

2 tbsp sunflower oil

1 red pepper cored and chopped

250ml beef stock

1 tablespoon dark soy sauce

3cm fresh grated ginger

1 dried red chilli, crumbled

1 tbsp cornflour

2 tbsp water

12 suger snap peas

A  bunch of spring onions

The process

Heat the oil in frying pan and fry the beef until browned. Transfer to a casserole dish with a lid.

Add the chopped pepper. Pour over the stock, soy sauce, ginger and chilli. Put the lid on the casserole.

Set the halogen oven to 200C  and cook for 50 mins.

The beef and peppers soak up the ginger flavours

Blend cornflour with water. Stir it into beef, add the sugar snap peas and spring onion.

Sugar snap peas and spring onion add crunch

Cover and cook for 10 more mins

Serve with egg fried rice

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Go on, you know you need a HaloChef in your life.