You Say Tomato...! Third Place Winner: Tomato & Flank Steak in Awesome Sauce

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tomato & Flank Steak in Awesome Sauce

Third Place Winner in the Entree Category - You Say Tomato...! Recipe Contest

Contributed by Barbara Lee of Aiea, HI

Note from Barbara: My mom's recipe.  My favorite dish in the world...Enjoy!

 

1/2 pound flank steak, thinly sliced

For the marinade:

1/2 teaspoon oyster sauce

Dash Worceestershire Sauce

1/4 teaspoon sugar

1/4 teaspoon sesame oil

1/2 teaspoon cornstarch

Mix marinade ingredients and let the beef strips sit in it for at least 1 hour.

 

1 teaspoon peanut oil

1 slice fresh ginger

1 clove garlic, minced

1/2 a large onion, sliced

2 tomatoes sliced into 12 pieces

1/2 teaspoon salt, or to taste

1/2 teaspoon pepper, or to taste

1/4 cup chicken broth

1 teaspoon black bean sauce (lee kum kee)

1/2 teaspoon cornstarch & 2 teasppons water (slurry)

1 egg, scrambled

Garnish: cilantro, (in one inch pieces) and scallion (diced)

Already cooked and hot white rice.

 

Add 1/2 teaspoon peanut oil and heat in a pan, add ginger and garlic and stir fry for 30 seconds.  Add beef and onion slices.  Stir fry until beef is half done.  Remove

Add the other 1/2 teaspoon peanut oil to the pan and stirfry the tomatoes.  Add dash salt and pepper and chicken broth; bring to a boil, add the black bean sauce and the partially cooked beef strips.  Add the cornstarch slurry and cook until sauce thickens.  Add scrambled egg (not cooked) on top and garnish.

Serve over white fluffy rice.

Sonia's note: You will notice that the students in charge of preparing this dish did not add the scrambled egg to the meat, but made a thin omelet, cut it in stips which they then rolled and garnished with a few pieces of the sliced scallion and used it as garnish on the plate.

Instead of serving the meat over rice, they chose to mold the rice and placed a cilantro leave on top as garnish.  For color, they added a twist of red pimento to the plate.

 

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Sonia R. Martinez is a Gather Food Correspondent.

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Sonia is a cookbook author and freelance food writer for several publications in Hawaii and is also a Hawaii Island Journal restaurant reviewer in partnership with her son Anthony Mathis.

She lives in a beautiful rural rainforest area on the Big Island of Hawaii
You can keep up with her adventures and ongoing love affair with Hawaii in her food & garden blog at Sonia Tastes Hawaii and her Gather contributions by clicking on http://foodiesleuth.gather.com/