Chinese Pepper Steak – Easy Recipes with Ground Beef for Quick Dinners
This Chinese Pepper Steak is a quick, savory dinner loaded with tender beef strips, crisp bell peppers, and a rich soy-garlic sauce. Perfect for busy weeknights, this recipe fits right into your collection of easy recipes with ground beef. It also ticks the boxes for quick and easy recipes, easy recipes for dinner, air fryer easy recipes, quick evening snacks easy recipes, homemade pretzels soft easy recipes, and even easy recipes ninja creami.
Servings: 4 servings
Ingredients
- 1.5 lbs beef sirloin, thinly sliced
- 2 tablespoons soy sauce
- 2 tablespoons oyster sauce
- 1 tablespoon cornstarch
- 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
- 2 bell peppers (any color), sliced
- 1 onion, sliced
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 teaspoon ground black pepper
- 1/2 cup beef broth
- Salt to taste
- Cooked white rice, for serving
Instructions
- In a bowl, toss the beef with soy sauce, oyster sauce, cornstarch, and a pinch of salt. Let it marinate for 15 minutes.
- Heat oil in a large skillet or wok over medium-high heat.
- Sear the marinated beef until browned and mostly cooked through. Remove from skillet and set aside.
- In the same skillet, add a bit more oil if needed and sauté garlic, onion, and bell peppers for 3–4 minutes until crisp-tender.
- Return beef to skillet, add beef broth, and ground black pepper. Stir everything together and cook for 2–3 minutes until sauce thickens.
- Serve hot over cooked white rice.