Spicy Beef and Basil

Ingredients

• Spicy Beef with Basil serves 2
• This recipe may be easily doubled just watch how much chili you use.
• 1 pound top sirloin beef (very tender) or skirt steak, cut into thin strips cut across the grain or your meat will be tough.
• 6 cloves garlic, minced
• 1 red or yellow bell pepper, sliced thinly
• 1 small red Thai chili or 1/2 jalapeno or other hot chili of preference, minced
• 1 tablespoon brown sugar
• 1 tablespoon mirin*
• 1 tablespoon cornstarch
• 1/4 cup soy sauce
• splash of oil for saut�
• 1 packed cup basil leaves (Thai basil or regular basil)
• steamed rice

Directions

1. 1. In a small bowl, mix together brown sugar, mirin, cornstarch, and soy sauce. Set aside.
2. 2. Rinse and thinly slice basil into chiffonade cut (thin ribbon cuts across the basil leaves). Set aside
3. 3. Heat a splash of olive oil in a large skillet over medium/high heat. Be careful to not let it smoke. Toss meat into skillet and saut� for 3-5 minutes
4. 4. Add garlic and both peppers to the skillet. Saut� another 3-5 minutes until meat is cooked and the peppers are just tender
5. 5. When meat is done, quickly stir sauce one more time and pour into skillet. Stir ingredients all together to coat everything with the sauce. The sauce will thicken almost immediately. Pull from heat and toss with basil. Serve over rice. enjoy
6. *Mirin is rice wine vinegar sold in the international aisle of most grocery stores. Be sure to get Mirin rice WINE vinegar not just plain rice vinegar.