Orange Sesame Beef

So, this week I made a super simple orange beef recipe. If you want, you can do much of the prep the night before and then just cook it in a hurry if you're short on time! First, the drink of the night:

Sake! Its not entirely appropriate as our entree is vaguely Chinese rather than Japanese, but I had this in my fridge and needed to get rid of it so: bottoms up!

Ingredients:

• ~1 lb beef, your choice of cut. doesn't have to be good stuff
• salt and pepper
• juice and zest from two oranges
• 2 tbsp sesame oil
• 2 tbsp rice vinegar
• 1 tbsp brown sugar
• 2 cloves garlic finely chopped
• 3 tbsp peanut oil
• 1 white onion, diced
• 1 cup beef stock
• rice

So, you're going to want to start by seasoning your beef with salt and pepper, then cut it into strips.

Next, in a large bowl, zest your oranges. I just used a cheese grater for this. Add the juice from the oranges, sesame oil, rice vinegar, brown sugar and garlic and stir. This will form your marinade.

Add your meat to the marinade and let it sit at room temperature for at least 30 minutes. At this point, you could put this all in a baggie in the fridge and save it for tomorrow if you wanted.

Heat the peanut oil in a pan. You'll want to get it nice and hot: I used my cast iron skillet for this and it worked nicely. Add the diced onion and cook until soft.

Once the onions are to your liking, add the beef and marinade. You're going to cook until the marinade thickens up, almost into a glaze. At this point, add the beef stock. (I had chicken stock on hand so I used that and it worked just fine.)

Again, simmer until the sauce is reduced down to almost a glaze. Serve over rice.

If you were ambitious, you could stir fry some veggies to go with this, but I was lazy and just wanted something quick and easy. That's all for this week!