Beef and Rice Recipe

cooking time: 10 minutes

 

Ingredients

  • 340 grams hot rice, freshly cooked

  • 3 tablespoons cooking oil

  • 1 small clove garlic

  • 1/2 teaspoon salt

  • 1/4 teaspoon pepper

  • 450 grams beef, minced

  • 3 tablespoons soy sauce

  • 280 ml boiling water

  • 3-4 spring onions, cut in 1 1/2 inch pieces

  • 113 grams fresh mushrooms, sliced

  • 2 tablespoons corn flour

  • 4 tablespoons cold water

  • 4 eggs
     

Method

 

1. As soon as the rice is ready, heat the oil, crush the garlic into it, add salt and pepper and quick

   fry the beef for 3 minutes.
2. Add soy sauce, water, spring onions and mushrooms.
3. Bring to the boil, then simmer, stirring continually for 3 minutes.
4. Mix corn flour with water and blend into the pan to thicken the sauce.
5. Transfer the rice into a big casserole or into 4 individual dishes, pour sauce over the rice.
6. With a spoon make a `nest' in the centre of the rice (4`nests' if . serving in one large casserole), break an

    egg into each `nest', cover at once, allow the eggs to cook in the hot rice and sauce until set and serve.


Variation:
Curried beef and rice Cantonese style
Add 2 tablespoons curry powder to the hot pan in which the meat is cooked, then proceed as described in the recipe above.

 

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