It is hard to define Malaysian food. Malaysia is an extremely diversified multi-cultural country. Food is heavily influenced by immigrants and foreign occupancies. A lot of food that may seem more Chinese or Indian than Malaysian to you but that's actually our everyday meal depending on our heritage.
Stir-fry dishes are so common in Malaysia especially in households with Chinese heritage. To make a stir-fry dish is easy and this ginger scallion style of stir-fry is notably my favourite of all. You can replace the beef with other proteins such chicken, pork, fish, lobster or crab. It's best to serve with steamed rice but you can also add noodle to turn it into a complete meal.
Marinade is important to all stir-fry dishes. My family always marinate our meat with three basic ingredients: Soy sauce, cornflour and oil. Soy sauce is to give flavour to the meat; Cornflour helps seal the juice inside the meal during stir-fry and keep the meat moist & juicy. A small amount of bicarbonate of soda is added sometimes to tenderise the meat; Oil is added so the meat is easy to be separated while stir-frying.
A smoking hot wok is essential especially with beef. You want to seal and cook the meat quickly without overcooking it. A few minutes of quick stirring is all you need.
Ginger, scallion and beef are the stars of this dish. You do not want to add more seasonings or sauce to it other than the basic soy sauce, salt, white pepper and sesame oil.
Ginger Scallion Beef (姜葱牛肉)
Serves 4
600 g rump steak, thinly sliced
4 stalks scallion, cut into 5cm length
100 g ginger, thinly sliced
2 tbsp soy sauce
1 tbsp cornflour
1 tbsp oil
Salt & white pepper
Splash of sesame oil
Method
- Marinate beef slices with soy sauce, cornflour and oil for 15-30 minutes.
- Heat 1 tbsp of oil in a wok under high heat until smoking hot.
- Add sliced ginger and give it a quick stir for a minute.
- Add beef and scallions and quickly stir fry for a further 1-2 minutes until the beef turned brown and just cooked and scallions are slightly wilted.
- Season with salt and white pepper and add a splash of sesame oil. Mix well and serve immediately with steamed rice.
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Yum, I love this dish. Simple yet so tasty. Im hungry, gonna go check the cupboard, see what ingredients I have to whip this little baby up. ;)
Simple yet one if my favorite dish ! Love it evenmore if fry on a wok
Ellie, I love this dish. a great companion to hot plain rice and hungry tummy ;)
Ooooh, this looks so good. Do you think I could use biggish prawns here, instead of the meat?
@ Michelle Peters-Jones: Yes, you can replace the beef with prawns. Marinate the prawn with salt and egg white instead of soy, cornflour & oil.
I think you've changed my mind about stir-fries. It's all in the sauce and ensuring the meat stays moist, isn't it? Your version looks perfect!
This simple dish would suit my weekday cooking. :D
This will be the my 'go to' recipe for ginger scallions beef because I don't believe anyone else can make it better than you. It looks amazing!
I love your food so much!
Malaysian food is very multicultural but you do have many signature dishes. Ginger and scallion would have to be the best stir fry combo.
Hi Ellie! This is one of my favorite stirfry dishes! Especially when it has good "wok hei" 锅气 which I'd been having problems perfecting at home. Any tips to share for that?
Thanks Ellie, I am really looking forward to trying it out.
This is one of my favorite Chinese stir fry dish, including the version with flat rice noodle. Sadly I will not cook this in our kitchen because my other half doesn't eat beef.
Beautiful stir-fry!
Wonderful and so flavorful!
Cheers,
Rosa
I am cooking this tonight!
Great dish Ellie! With a bowl of Jasmine rice... perfect.
Magda
looking at your lovely dish, i am missing my mom's.
Somehow you've managed to make a simple dish look like something very special! Now I have to try it.
That looks delicious, I could eat a whole bowl of it. Beautiful pics too.
its such a simple and practical dish perfect for busy weeknight!
I am a bit panicked. My husband would like to have some vegetarian friends over for the weekend. I'm searching for vegetarian dishes. Of course, I am drooling over this beef dish here.
At the bottom, however, I just spotted Thai sticky rice with mangos. This is my daughter's favorite treat at our Thai restaurant. We would have no trouble adapting to Southeast Asian food!
That looks so yummy !!!!
stir fry has never looked better!! beautiful photos!
Stir fried dishes are so easy to put together yet so delicious! I like:D
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I won't eat meat, but your pictures and recipes are so tempting to me too.
this is one of my husband's all time favorites...we call it Mongolian beef here. Love.
Thanks for all of these fabulous stir fry tips! I feel like I can really go into the kitchen and create something good now. Especially with this fabulous marinade/sauce recipe!
I haven't tried putting cornflour or bicarb in a marinade but I'll try and give it a try soon. It's great to pick up new tips.
I love simple stir fry dishes like that.
ooohhhh yumm!!! i've always loved this dish and i used to make it often. i should cook it again this week. it'll surely bring nostalgia. :)
That looks delicious!
Quick question, does it absolutely have to be cooked in a wok or can a normal pan be used as well?
mmh... that with rice on a nice cold day. epic!
I love a stir fry- this one looks really good!
i love stir-fry dishes because it's easy, simple and flavorful... can you please pass the rice??? haha!
malou
Ellie, you make everything look stunning, even for such a simple dish :) Lovely post that reminds me of home
@ Aleida: Thanks. You can use a large fry pan instead of wok.
@ travellingfoodies: To have good 'wok hei', you need to make sure that you wok is very very hot or 'smoking hot'. It's easier to achieve with gas stove than electric stove. It's easier to obtain good wok hei when frying a smaller batch. So the heat can seal and brown the meat properly instead of steaming them. If you don't have a large wok, make it in batches.
Great dish & photos, as usually! I just love beef in any combination - as I am a dedicated carnivore...
Oh how much I love Asian food. This looks beautiful, as always, and sounds like the exact thing I want to eat right now, despite it being 8.15am!
this is probably a really, really dumb question, but what is corn flour? like cornstarch?
I like malaysian cuisine,so various, interessting and curious : there are many unexpected match between the ingredients.( for me )
Thanks for sharing!
Simple dishes like this are ones that I love to eat at home but never seem to make by myself. I'm not sure why I have had this tendency to want my life to be complicated but it needs to end right now with this recipe. It looks too good not to try it out!
beautiful pictures!
@ Rebekah: Yes, cornflour is corn starch.
Yes, I found some Malay dishes are closely related to Chinese. Yet, many different variations of cooking the same dish, take this ginger scallion beef as an example, most of the basics of marinating and stir frying are similar, but we like the way of adding a bit of sugar in marinating the meat, that adopted from my heritage of Hong Kong. The sugar acts as an a role of balancing the saltiness of the meat. If stir frying with other vegetables/scallion, the subtlness of sugar will awake the flavours of the veggies.
Loove stir fries like this. I also love marinating them with the soy-cornflour-oil mix. Sometimes my mum adds a tiny bit of sugar (like half a teaspoon) and I like adding extra garlic :) Simple yummy meals like this are perfect for weeknight dinners!
Easy easy!! and delicious!! this is a great way to have a quick lunch done if running out of time.!
Beef and stir fry?! YUM!! This is perfect for a bowl, or two, of rice. :)
This reminds me of my mother's cooking of course! And, as a people have mentioned above, Cantonese marinades are almost exactly the same but with the addition of a small amount of sugar.
nice... thanks for the tip, ellie!
I should make this for my bf, he'd love it (as I don't eat much meat myself)!
Looks wonderful, and sounds delicious. I love the way beef tastes with ginger, there's something magical about that combination.
What a wonderful looking dish, Ellie. Lovely flavors and perfect simple ingredients.Love it!
This ounds delicious! I adore Asian dishes containing Ginger, and scallions are a great choice too. And healthy!
If you find it hard to define Malaysian food, it is even harder to define SG food.
This is used to be the dish I had to order when I dined in Cantonese restaurants. Miss them....thanks for sharing the recipe.
Oh yes, the 火侯 is so critical when cooking a dish like this.
And you have perfectly it !
What lovely straight forward flavours. Perfect!
Looks good! Will try it soon. Thanks!
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reminds me so much of home!
Very nice, thanks for the information.
This is so simple, but I find that the simpler the dish, the more the ingredients really shine. This is going on my menu for the week.
sooo good recipe, i want try thank you for sharing. ciao from italy
i must say i have never thought to reenact this dish at home when it can be found easily in the restaurants. this is one of the problem for living in Malaysia where all these good food are easily available.
I really love this particular dish but I'm always skeptical if I can get the beef to be tender so I've never cooked it at home and prefer to have it at the restaurants. I'm not sure if the restaurants actually use any kind of tenderizer for the meat though.
this is precisely the dish i was looking for tonight!
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