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Sweet Chilli Beef - yummy coated strips of beef in a delicious sweet chilli sauce for your perfect Chinese Fakeaway night.

Chinese Style Chilli Beef

The perfect recipe for when you have some stir fry beef strips to use up.

Super quick to make and only a few ingredients, it's a delicious fakeaway dish that the entire family will enjoy.

Do you know that yummy crispy shredded beef you get from the Chinese? One of my favourites I should add, it's very similar in taste to that, but much healthier and of course guilt free.

To give the beef a yummy coating and make that sauce lovely and glossy, I use a starch coating and pan fry with a little oil in batches. Don't try and save syns by using a cooking oil spray, trust me when I say you won't get the same result. The syns are worth the little oil used.

It's not going to be super crispy of course, because generally crispy sweet chilli beef is fried in lots of oil to get that crispy exterior, but it's a really yummy healthier substitute, that is perfect for your Fakeaway nights.

Sweet Chilli Stir Fry Sauce

For the sauce, we use just a few ingredients, heated till thickened before adding back in the beef to get coated in that all that yummy flavour.

• Soy Sauce
• Tomato Puree (Paste)
• Sweet Chilli Sauce
• Water

As we don't use a huge amount of oil I recommend using a good non-stick pan or wok to cook this Sweet Chilli Beef, the last thing you want is it all sticking to the pan.

I like the ceramic non stick pans which you get in a variety of different shapes and sizes.

More Chinese Style Recipes

Love Chinese style recipes like this Sweet Chilli Beef? Check out these other fakeaway dishes:

• Chicken Chop Suey
• Syn Free Chinese Chicken Curry
• Beef with Mushrooms in Oyster Sauce
• Chinese Lemon Chicken
• Hoisin Chicken
• Low Syn Chinese Pork
• Chicken Fried Rice
• Actifry Sweet and Sour Chicken Bites
• Mongolian Beef
• Beef Chow Mein
• Chicken and Vegetable Spring Rolls
• Egg Fried Rice

or if you would like more recipe ideas - head on over to theFULL RECIPE INDEX where you will find over 900 delicious recipes all with estimated calories and you can search by ingredients, course, diet and more..

Vegetable Sides for Sweet Chilli Beef

Every week I buy these handy bags of shredded vegetables as they are perfect for stir-fries to serve with dishes like this sweet chilli beef. The bag usually contains shredded carrots, kale, broccoli stalks, cabbage, Brussels etc, which are all really good just stir fried in a little cooking oil spray with some salt and black pepper.

Any stir-fried vegetables of your choice would go well with this. You could even swap out the regular steam rice or egg fried rice for this delicious Egg Fried Cauliflower Rice - yum!!

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Ingredients

• 450g (1lb) of stir fry beef strips
• 1 tablespoon of cornstarch (or arrowroot powder or tapioca)
• pinch of salt
• 2 teaspoons of oil of choice
• 2 tablespoons of sweet chilli sauce
• 2 tablespoon of soy sauce
• 1 tablespoon of tomato paste
• 150ml of water
• 2 spring onions, finely chopped

Instructions

Stove Top:

1. In a bowl, whisk together the sweet chilli sauce, soy sauce, tomato paste and water.
2. Set aside
3. Pat the beef strips dry with some kitchen paper
4. Add the beef strips to a bowl with the starch and a pinch of salt and toss to coat
5. Heat a wok over a medium high heat and let it get hot before adding 1 teaspoon of the oil.
6. Add half the beef strips, and fry till lightly golden, giving it a light toss occasionally.
7. Remove from pan.
8. Add the other teaspoon of oil and repeat with the remaining beef strips. Removing from the pan to start the sauce.
9. Add the sauce ingredients to the pan and heat on medium high just until the sauce starts to thicken
10. Lower heat. Add back the beef and lightly shake the pan to coat the beef in the sauce.
11. Top with sliced spring onions.
12. Serve with your choice of sides
13. Enjoy!!

Actifry:

1. In a bowl, whisk together the sweet chilli sauce, soy sauce, tomato paste and water.
2. Set aside
3. Pat the beef strips dry with some kitchen paper
4. Add the beef strips to a bowl with the starch and a pinch of salt and toss to coat
5. Add the oil to the Actifry and set it for 5 minutes (without beef) to heat the oil.
6. Add in the beef and cook for 7 mins, (it should have a slightly golden coating.
7. While the beef cooks for 7 minutes.
8. Add the sauce to a small saucepan and heat on a high heat until it reduces down and thickens a little.
9. When the beef has cooked, add in the sauce to the Actifry with the beef and cook for an additional 5 minutes, so the sauce coats the beef.
10. Sprinkle with chopped spring onions and serve with your choice of sides.
11. Enjoy!!

Notes

Please see below for recipe values:

This recipe is gluten free, dairy free, vegetarian friendly (see notes below):

• Slimming World - 2.5 syns per serving
• WW Personal Points - 6+ per serving (add ingredients to your WW diary for points value - as this may vary depending on your personal points zero foods)
• Gluten Free - use a gluten free soy sauce/starch

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Nutrition Information

Yield 4 Serving Size 1 SERVING
Amount Per Serving Calories 300 Total Fat 10.1g Saturated Fat 3.1g Trans Fat 0g Sodium 825mg Carbohydrates 9.7g Fiber 0.4g Sugar 5g Protein 40.1g

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