Beef in soy and orange sauce – Slow-cooker

Beef in soy and orange sauce – Slow-cooker. Tender chunks of beef swim in a sweet-tangy sauce with soy, orange zing, and warm spices. Veggies like carrots and peppers join the fun in your slow cooker. It’s an easy Asian-inspired meal that cooks low and slow for juicy bites. Perfect over fluffy rice for happy family dinners!

Serving: 4
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 6 hours
Total Time 6 hours 20 minutes

Ingredients

• About 500g chuck steak, cut into small pieces

• 2 tbsp vegetable oil

• 1 medium brown onion, chopped into chunky pieces

• 1 big carrot, sliced at an angle

• 2 garlic cloves, smashed

• 3cm fresh ginger, peeled and sliced thin

• 3 strips of orange peel

• 1/3 cup soy sauce

• 2 tbsp oyster sauce

• 1/2 cup cold water

• 1/4 cup Shao Hsing (Chinese cooking wine)

• 1 star anise

• 1 heaped tsp Bonox stirred into 1 cup hot water (makes stock)

• 2 tbsp brown sugar

• 1 capsicum (red or green), chopped small

• Steamed rice, for eating with it

Beef in soy and orange sauce: Directions

1. Put half the oil in a pan on medium-high heat. Cook the meat in batches until it’s brown all over, about 4-5 minutes. Move it to a plate.

2. Add the rest of the oil to the pan on medium heat. Toss in onion, carrot, garlic, and ginger. Stir for 3 minutes.

3. Mix in orange peel, soy sauce, oyster sauce, cooking wine, star anise, stock, sugar, cold water, and a pinch of pepper.

4. Put the meat in your slow cooker. Pour the veggie mix over it. Put on the lid and cook on low for 5.5 hours.

5. Add chopped capsicum and cook 30 more minutes.

6. If it’s too runny, stir in corn flour to make it thicker at the end.

7. Take out the star anise. Serve hot with steamed rice.

Please note that I have an All-in-one cooker