Spicy Asiany Beef
Another one of those I have lemongrass, ginger, garlic (duh), and a bunch of other random shit so hmmm…ohhh….marinated steak sounds awesome. I wanted to use flank steak but since I can’t read I grabbed flat iron out of the freezer on accident. No harm no foul since both cuts love smoking hot heat and on the up side I still have a couple flank steaks in the freezer for another day.
Confession time the reason why I had lemongrass is because I thought it would be cool to halve the lemongrass and use them as skewers for shrimp using a marinade very similar to this one. Ummm….yeah that idea absolutely blew up in my face and the lesson learned is lemongrass skewers + shrimp = might as well just take lemongrass and gnaw on it.
For this marinade you will need:
- 1 lb of your favorite steak cut sliced into 1 inch strips
- 1 stalk of lemongrass
- 1 shallot
- 2 cloves of garlic
- Thumb size piece of ginger
- 1 TB of rice wine vinegar
- 2 TB of soy sauce
- 2 TB mirin
- Good squeeze of honey
- 1 of your favorite hot pepper
- Pinch of crushed red pepper
- Pinch of ground coriander
- 2 TB of peanut or canola oil
Take everything but the steak and throw into a blender and crank it on till it is all combined. Taste the mixture before removing it out of the blender and adjust. Maybe add some black pepper or some more salt or maybe another hot pepper. Remember recipes are always just guidelines. Once you are happy with the mixture pour over the steak, cover, and throw in the fridge for a couple of hours.
Get your cast iron skillet to smoking hot and put the strips in the skillet. This will only take a minute a side to cook so when they are done remove from the skillet and let it rest for a couple of minutes.
Once again cilantro is alive and kicking in the garden (this is definitely a record for me because by now it has always gone to seed) so I garnished it with that. It also made me sad that I ate one of the last available onions out of the garden while weeding since that would have been awesome chopped over top of the beef as a garnish.
Yum-o this looks fantas-tico! I love when things are thrown together like this!
you’ve created a new word–asiany. i like it. i also like cilantro. a lot. nice touch. i’m not sure why i’m writing in neanderthal sentences, but there ya go.
That beef looks good and sounds really tasty.
I often replace flank steak with flat iron, just because I can get it cheaper. Good to have another recipe for it, because I don’t usually see flat iron used that much.