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Japanese Sweet & Sour Stir Fry Beef Salad

When it is cold outside, you need some hot food to warm you from the inside, right? If you just feel a little peckish, try this Japanese recipe for sweet & sour beef salad. The sour vinegar and hot chili flavors will awaken your appetite. The citric acid works on your tiredness, and the capsaicin in the chili also helps you to sweat and burn calories! This sweet & sour beef salad goes with rice, bread, and any noodles. A dish that is easy to make, totally yummy and that will comfort you!

 

Japanese Cooking Sweet and Sour Beef Stir Fry

 

List of ingredients

 

  • 400g thin sliced beef
  • 3cm fresh ginger
  • 1 chili
  • 2 spring onions (or 1 onion)
  • 1 tomato
  • 200g lettuce
  • 100g rucola
  • 3tbsp white vinegar
  • 3tbsp soy sauce
  • 4tsp sugar
  • Sake (or white wine)
  • Olive oil or cooking oil
  • Chive for finishing decoration

 

Cooking instructions

 

  • Chop the ginger and the chilli finely.
  • Slice the white part of the spring onion and chop the green part.
  • Chop the chive finely.
  • Cut the beef slices into 2cm stripes.
  • Cut the tomato and lettuce into small pieces by hand and mix with the rocket. Place them on a plate.
  • Put the cooking oil, ginger and chili into a frying pan, and cook with a low heat until you start to smell the ginger.
  • Add the spring onion, and stir with a medium heat until it becomes soft, then add the beef.
  • Keep stir-frying until the color of the beef changes.
  • Turn the heat up to medium high, and then add the sugar, vinegar and soy sauce.
  • Stir for 30 seconds after the sauce starts to bubble.
  • Spread the beef over the lettuce, rocket and tomato.
  • Drizzle olive oil or nut oil (i.e.: sesame or hazelnut oil) from the top, and sprinkle with the chopped chives.

Voila, c’est fini. Bon appétit, les amis!

 

Andreas Lugmayr Kimino Sparkling Water Yuzu

 

The perfect drinks pairing with this dish

 

Yuzu-based drinks perfectly complement this meal. In Japan, Yuzu has been used for centuries for its unique flavor and benefits. Yuzu is distinctly sour, aromatic, and packed with vitamin C. Its fresh taste blends lime and grapefruit notes seamlessly. With light acidity, gentle sweetness, and subtle bitterness, Yuzu harmonizes flavors in your Sweet & Sour Beef Stir Fry. Kimino produces sparkling Yuzu drinks, offering an ideal pairing for this dish.

 

 

Kimino Yuzu Sparkling Juice features handpicked Yuzu from Shikoku Island, Hyogo mountain water, and organic sugar cane. They use whole fruit during squeezing to capture the zest’s intense fragrance, ensuring a vibrant, natural flavor. Look for zest at the top of the bottle\u2014a sign of authenticity in this refreshing, natural drink. Kimino Yuzu Sparkling Water, made without sugar, offers a crisp, non-sweet alternative in a sleek, modern can.

 

Andreas Lugmayr Kimino Sparkling Soda Yuzu

 

If you like an alcoholic Yuzu drink as an aperitif or with your meal, we recommend a Yuzu Margarita. One fantastic recipe we can recommend is the one we posted you here in the video. Below the list of ingredients you need to make the drink. Watch the video for instructions.

25ml Código 1530 Tequila blanco
25ml Fernet Hunter
1/2 Lemon
1/2 Lime
10ml Código Agave syrup
Kimino Yuzu Sparkling Juice

 

 

About Kimino Sparkling Drinks

Kimino is a small collective of Japanese family farmers and craft drink producers, who follow the “Kanso” philosophy. That means, they only use what is truly necessary. It is a healthier and more wholesome approach to crafting beverages. The result is a range of sparkling juices and waters that can be enjoyed at any time and shared with the whole family. Kimino drinks are made “for you”. That’s what “kimino” means in Japanese.