Hot And Spicy Pepper Steak

How To Cook Hot And Spicy Pepper Steak

Hot And Spicy Pepper Steak - Since this is a stir-fry dish, the cooking time is fast. The meat needs to be marinated in seasoning though to ensure that it absorbs all the necessary flavor before cooking. Tender steaks are required for this recipe because there is not enough time to tenderize the beef. However, you may use less tender beef parts as long as you tenderize it after slicing. I pound the sliced beef with a meat tenderizer tool to make it more tender.

Hot And Spicy Pepper Steak

Pepper Steak is a quick and easy beef stir fry recipe that involves thinly sliced sirloin steak along with bell pepper and onion. This is the perfect dish to serve during lunchtime. It will be better if you serve it with yang chow fried rice.

Hot And Spicy Pepper Steak Ingredients

• 2 lbs. beef sirloin, thinly sliced
• 1 medium red bell pepper, seeds removed and sliced lengthwise
• 1 medium green bell pepper, seeds removed and sliced lengthwise
• 1 medium yellow onion, sliced
• 5 teaspoons soy sauce
• 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
• 3 tablespoons cooking wine (Sherry or Shaoxing)
• 3 tablespoons cooking oil
• 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
• 1 tablespoon cornstarch
• Salt to taste

Hot And Spicy Pepper Steak Steps And Methods For Cooking.

1. In a medium bowl, combine beef, soy sauce, cooking wine, ground black pepper, garlic powder, and cornstarch. Mix well and marinate for 30 minutes.
2. Heat a wok and then pour-in the cooking oil. Stir fry the marinated beef in batches of 2 or 3 for 3 minutes. Cooking in batches preserves the heat which is essential in stir fry; it also cooks the meat equally. Place the cooked beef in a plate. Set aside.
3. Meanwhile, using the remaining oil, stir fry the onion and bell peppers for 2 minutes.
4. Add-in the cooked beef. Toss and stir fry for 1 to 2 minutes more adding salt and soy sauce as needed.
5. Transfer to a serving plate. Serve!

Food Facts

Nutrition Facts
Serving Size 1 cup
Amount Per Serving
Calories from Fat 184 Calories 317
% Daily Values*
Total Fat 20.48g		32%
	Saturated Fat 3.871g	19%
	Polyunsaturated Fat 7.426g
	Monounsaturated Fat 7.393g
Cholesterol 69mg		23%
Sodium 556mg		23%
Potassium 547mg
Total Carbohydrate 4.95g		2%
	Dietary Fiber 1.3g	5%
	Sugars 1.56g
Protein 27.71g
Vitamin A 6% Vitamin C 40%
Calcium 3% Iron 16%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs. Nutrition Values are based on USDA Nutrient Database SR18

Hot And Spicy Pepper Steak Additional Trivia

The health benefits of black pepper include relief from respiratory disorders, coughs, the common cold, constipation, indigestion, anemia, impotency, muscular strains, dental disease, pyorrhea, diarrhea, and heart disease.

Black pepper is the fruit of the black pepper plant from the Piperaceae family and is used as both a spice and a medicine. The chemical piperine, which is present in black pepper, causes the spiciness. It is native to Kerala, the southern state of India. Since ancient times, black pepper is one of the most widely traded spices in the world. It is not considered a seasonal plant and is therefore available throughout the year. When dried, this plant-derived spice is referred to as a peppercorn, and is then ground into a powder to be put on food to add flavor and spice.

Because of its antibacterial properties, pepper is also used to preserve food. It is a rich source of manganese, iron, potassium, vitamin-C, vitamin K, and dietary fiber. Black pepper is also a very good anti-inflammatory agent.

Health Benefits of Black Pepper
Good for the Stomach

Pepper increases the hydrochloric acid secretion in the stomach, thereby facilitating digestion. Proper digestion is essential to avoid diarrhea, constipation and colic. Pepper also helps to prevent the formation of intestinal gas, and when added to a person’s diet, it can promote sweating and urination, which remove toxins from the body. Sweating removes toxins and cleans out the pores of any foreign bodies that may have lodged there, and it can also remove excess water or accumulation, also known as edema. In terms of urination, you can remove uric acid, urea, excess water, and fat, since 4% of urine is made of fat. For digestion, inducing digestion can help you lose weight and increase the overall functioning of your body and prevent various gastrointestinal conditions and colorectal cancer. Its ability to expel gas is because black pepper is a carminative, which forces gas out of the body in a healthy, downward motion, rather than pressing upwards in a dangerous way and straining the upper chest cavity and vital organs. It also inhibits more gas from forming in the body.

Weight Loss

The outer layer of peppercorn assists in the breakdown of fat cells. Therefore, peppery foods are a good way to help you shed weight naturally. When fat cells are broken down into their component parts, they are easily processed by the body and applied to other, more healthy processes and enzymatic reactions, rather than simply sitting on your body and making you look overweight.

Skin Health

Pepper helps to cure Vitiligo, which is a skin disease that causes some areas of skin to lose its normal pigmentation and turn white. According to researchers in London, the piperine content of pepper can stimulate the skin to produce pigment. Topical treatment of piperine combined with ultra violet light therapy is much better than the other harsher, more chemically-based treatments for vitiligo. It also reduces the chances of skin cancer due to excessive ultraviolet radiation.

Respiratory Relief

In Ayurvedic practices, pepper is added to tonics for colds and coughs. Pepper also provides relief from sinusitis and nasal congestion. It has an expectorant property that helps to break up the mucus and phlegm depositions in the respiratory tract, and its natural irritant quality helps you to expel these loosened material through the act of sneezing or coughing, which eliminates the material from the body and helps you to heal from whatever infection or illness caused the deposition in the first place.

Antibacterial Quality

The antibacterial property of black pepper helps to fight against infections and insect bites. Pepper added to the diet helps to keep your arteries clean by acting in a similar way to fiber and scraping excess cholesterol from the walls, thereby helping to reduce atherosclerosis, the condition highly responsible for heart attacks and strokes.

Antioxidant Potential
An antioxidant like pepper can prevent or repair the damage caused by the free radicals and thus help to prevent cancer, cardiovascular diseases and liver problems. Free radicals are the byproducts of cellular metabolism that attack healthy cells and cause their DNA to mutate into cancerous cells. Antioxidants like black pepper neutralize these harmful compounds and protect your system from many conditions, even premature aging symptoms like wrinkles, age spots, macular degeneration, and memory loss.

Enhances Bioavailability

Black pepper helps in transporting the benefits of other herbs to different parts of body, maximizing the efficiency of the other health foods that we consume. That is why adding it to foods not only makes them taste delicious, but also helps make those nutrients more available and accessible to our system.

Cognitive Impairment and Neurological Health

Piperine, one of the key components of black pepper, has been shown in numerous studies to reduce memory impairment and cognitive malfunction. Chemical pathways in the brain appear to be stimulated by this organic compound, so early research demonstrates the possibility for pepper to benefit Alzheimer’s patients and those that are suffering from dementia and other age-related or free radical-related malfunctions in cognition.

Peptic Ulcers

A number of studies have shown that black pepper may have beneficial effects on gastric mucosal damage and peptic ulcers, due to its antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. More research is still being done on this aspect of black pepper health effects. Source: Pepper 

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