California Farm 5 Color Flank Steak Stirfry

Hobby Horseman
Hobby Horseman @HobbyHorseman
California, United States

Traditional chinese cooking colors are these five: red for good fortune, yellow for nourishment, green for growth, black for tranquility, and white for purity. Red, green and yellow are also major colors in the rainbow.

The five major flavors are spicy, salty, sweet, sour and a hint of bitter like in garlic or turmeric. This dish combines all of the above colors and flavors.

For the red, we Stirfry the flank steak under two minutes, cut thin in strips across the grain, in red pepper sauce. Juicy and tender! Served with spicy red beets sauteed in pepper sauce and steak drippings.

For the green, our lil farm produces fresh green peas and green onion stalks. Doused in sweet rice wine.

The spicy red flank steak, salty yellow peanut fried rice, sweet green peas, slightly bitter garlic black beans, and white sour onion rings are then laid out as a rainbow. Enjoy the mixture of flavors and colors!


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Ingredients

2 hours
8 people
  1. 4 TbsRed pepper sauce, spicy
  2. 1 Tspground ginger
  3. 2 cupsflank steak in 1/4” strips across the grain
  4. 2small peeled red beets, sliced very thin, seasalt sprinkled over, salty
  5. 1 Cupsushi rice
  6. 1 Tspturmeric, mildly bitter
  7. 1 Tspgranulated garlic, mildly bitter
  8. 1 Tspsesame oil
  9. 4 Tbsraw Spanish peanuts
  10. 1 cupgreen peas
  11. 4 Tbschopped green mexican onion stalks
  12. 1/2 cupmirin cooking wine
  13. 1 cupdried black beans, makes 4 cups cooked
  14. 1 Tbsgranulated garlic, mildly bitter
  15. 2 Tbssoy sauce, salty
  16. 4 cupsboiling water
  17. 1 Tbsground ginger
  18. 1 cupmexican onions, white bulbs in 1/4” rings
  19. 4 Tbslemon juice, sour
  20. 1 Tbshoney, sweet
  21. Equipment: cast iron dutch oven with lid, Wok
  22. Cost: flank steak $12/pound, other $4, per dinner $2

Cooking Instructions

2 hours
  1. 1

    Heat 4 Tbs red pepper sauce and Tsp ginger in Tbs peanut oil in wok, slice red flank steak in small thin strips, stirfry till fragrant, 2 minutes. Set aside. In pan drippings and leftover pepper sauce, stirfry thinly sliced red beets till soft and make rainbow shape half ring across top of serving platter. Stir-fried Flank steak meat on top in mild red pepper sauce with sweet mild red paprika powder on top.

  2. 2

    Boil 1 cup of sushi rice in 2 cups of water with 1 Tsp yellow turmeric, Tsp garlic and Tsp of sesame oil, boil five minutes, stir once, lid on, rest and cool an hour. Fry Spanish peanuts till they release their oil and become fragrant, then sprinkle on the cooled rice. This is your second half ring, yellow colored, next to the red.

  3. 3

    Stirfry green peas and green mexican onion stalks and Tsp ground ginger together in wok, when hot, douse with half cup of sweet mirin cooking wine till brilliantly green, place this green ring in half circle inside the yellow rice.

  4. 4

    Soak black beans one hour, boil one hour in water, soy sauce, Tbs of lard and granulated garlic till soft and slightly bitter, drain and stirfry in few drops of sesame oil till refried, place in half circle ring next to the green vegetables.

  5. 5

    Make instant sweet and sour onion rings. Slice white part of mexican onion bulbs thin, stirfry and douse with warm honey dissolved in warm lemon juice, fill remaining half circle on platter next to the black beans to complete the rainbow effect. Decorate stirfried onion rings with a few fresh white onion slices. Serve as pizza slices. Enjoy.

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Hobby Horseman @HobbyHorseman
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California, United States
I teach people at the farmers market to grow small scale fruits and vegetables. I learned growing, cooking and preserving home grown fruits and vegetables, eggs, meats and fish from my farmer grandparents and parents. I got certified by the University of California Master Gardener Program in 2005. I try to bring out the original flavor of ingredients, then add layers of spices, herbs and flavorings that enhance, not distort the taste. These are the global, organic and vegan family recipes we use.
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