Black Pepper Angus Steak Stir Fry Recipe

This Black Pepper Angus Steak Stir Fry Recipe is a homemade Chinese beef stir fry recipe perfect for a quick dinner ready in less than 30 minutes.

If you like Panda Express takeaway recipes, this homemade stir-fried steak won’t disappoint.

What’s Black Pepper Angus Steak?

Black Pepper Angus Steak is a signature recipe from the US-based Chinese fast-food chain Panda Express.

Panda Express’ black pepper Angus steak combines Angus sirloin steak strips stir-fried with red, green, and yellow vegetables such as bell pepper, mushrooms, onions, and a black pepper sauce.

It’s typically prepared in a wok and served with rice.

How To Make Black Pepper Angus Steak

Making this recipe is very easy, but the most important thing to source is good Beef.

Ingredients

• Angus Beef – I prefer to use a Sirloin cut. It’s what will bring the best taste to the recipe, but you can also use any cut of beef you like such as tenderloin or flank steak. Cut the meat into 1-inch strips.
• Soy Sauce – prefer unsweetened, low-sodium versions.
• Fresh Minced Ginger – to bring a tangy taste. You can use dry ginger powder if you can’t find fresh ginger.
• Garlic Clove – crushed or chopped into small pieces.
• Cornstarch or Xanthan Gum – cornstarch brings more carbs than xanthan gum, but it’s such a small amount that it has a very limited impact on general carbs.
• Chinese Rice Wine or Mirin – Chinese Cooking Wine or Huangjiu is a wine made traditionally from rice and other boiled grains. Because this recipe is cooked on high heat, there’s no alcohol left in the recipe.
• Granulated Sweetener of Choice – if you are following a low-carb or keto diet, use erythritol, xylitol, allulose, or tagatose. If you don’t mind carbs, you can use regular sugar or coconut sugar.
• Ground Black Pepper – this is the ingredient that gives this meal its name.
• Sesame Oil – sesame oil doesn’t only bring a delicious taste and fragrance to this recipe, it’s also a high smoke point cooking oil. Sesame oil smokes at 450°F (232°C). Given that this meal is cooked at a high temperature, it’s essential.
• Onion – prefer a small yellow onion sliced into small cuts. You can also use shallots.
• Red Bell Pepper – or a combination of red, green, yellow, and orange bell pepper. Vegetables give this meal all its colors.
• Broccoli – or baby broccoli. Keep only the head and separate them into small florets. Discard the feet.
• Button Mushrooms – sliced into thin slices.
• Scallions
• Cauliflower Rice – or regular rice if you don’t mind the carbs. Read my recipe to learn how to make cauliflower rice or coconut cauliflower rice.
• Fresh Cilantro – if you can’t stand cilantro, you can use Thai basil.

Marinating The Beef

The first step in making this Black Pepper Angus Steak is to pick the meat.

I prefer to use sirloins for this recipe, but you can also use tenderloin steaks, flank steaks, or even short ribs.

In fact, you can use this recipe to use the uncooked beef cuts that you have left after a barbecue.

Prepare the marinade by combining soy sauce with minced ginger and crushed garlic. Stir the marinade with a spoon or small whisk and add the beef.

Set the bowl with the marinating beef aside for 10 minutes at room temperature to give the flavors time to combine or in the fridge for 30 minutes.

Preparing The Savory Black Pepper Sauce

To make the signature black pepper sauce, combine water with cornstarch (or xanthan gum) in a small mixing bowl until it’s well dissolved.

Then, add all the other sauce ingredients: soy sauce, rice wine, sweetener, and black pepper.

Set the sauce aside while you prepare the vegetables.

Stir-Frying

Heat some sesame oil over low heat in a deep stir fry pan or in a large wok.

Add the crushed garlic and cook the mixture for 10 seconds before adding the sliced onion.

Cook the onions for about a minute until they turn golden brown. Add the sliced button mushrooms to the wok and keep stir-frying for another minute.

Keep the pan uncovered so that the water released by the mushrooms comes out.

Add the marinated peppered steak to the pan without the sauce, just the meat.

Stir fry over medium-high heat until the beef has browned on the side but is still raw in the center.

To learn more about cooking beef to perfection for all thicknesses of steak, read my steak cooking level guide.

Add the red bell pepper and broccoli florets to the pan and let them stir fry for another minute.

Finally, add the remaining marinade and let it cook while stirring for another minute to let the sauce thicken.

Serving

Serve the black pepper Angus steak immediately by placing broccoli, bell peppers, and onions on a plate and arranging pieces of meat on the top.

Serve with a side of white rice or cauliflower rice and sprinkle some black sesame seeds, crushed peanuts, and cilantro on top of the meat.

Storage Instructions

You can store this cooked black pepper Angus steak recipe for a couple of days in an airtight container in the fridge.

Prefer reheating it in a frying pan over high heat rather than using a microwave.

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