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Easy Asian Inspired Skillet Dinner

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Asian seasonings lend flavor to this quick and easy skillet dinner made with chuck steak and instant rice. A great recipe submitted by Shea.

Serves 2 to 4

Ingredients:

  • 1 tablespoons canola oil
  • 3 cloves garlic, peeled and chopped
  • 1 medium-sized knob of fresh ginger, peeled and minced
  • 1 medium onion, peeled, 1/2 chopped and 1/2 minced
  • 1 bag pre-shredded coleslaw mix
  • 1/2 cup orange juice, divided
  • 1/4 cup soy sauce
  • 1/4 cup Chinese rice vinegar
  • 1 tablespoon olive oil
  • 1 large chuck steak, about 1 pound, trimmed and cut into thin cubes
  • 1/2 cup instant rice, uncooked

Preparation:

Heat the canola oil in a non-stick skillet over medium-high heat until hot but not smoking. Add 1/2 of the garlic and 1/2 of the ginger and sautee in the hot oil, being careful not to burn the garlic. Add the chopped onion to the pan and sautee until tender.

Add the package of coleslaw to the pan. Add 1/4 cup of orange juice, turn the heat down to medium and put a lid on the pan.

In a medium-sized bowl, combine the minced onion, the remainder of the garlic and ginger, soy sauce, rice vinegar, remaining 1/4 cup of orange juice, olive oil and the meat. Combine to cover all the meat and let marinate for 15 minutes (turn the heat on the orange juice and coleslaw mixture down to low if necessary while the meat is marinating).

Add the meat and marinade liquid to the cabbage and then add the rice. (For safety's sake, you may want to boil the marinade in a small saucepan first to kill any bacteria). Cook until the meat is tender and cooked through and the liquid has thickened.

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Instant Rice is an avoidable no-no, Member Lloyd_Fred

I really do enjoy 99% of what you on this site, but this recipe reaches a new and unacceptable low in its use of instant rice. It is a recipe which should have been left to the crock-pot lady. The coleslaw instead of proper veggies is bad enough, but insant rice goes way over the line. It is quite unnecessary as well as being inappropropriate. I tried this recipe because I wanted to recommend improvements to an obvious flop of a recipe. It was worse that expected! Cutting up a bagged fresh vegetable medley takes very little time and is worth it fo the better quality. As for rice, if you want white rice, take ordinary untreated rice and bring it to a boil, then cook for a couple of minutes (with a rice cooker, just wait until it generates some steam or the lid begins to rattle) .or on the stove, stop when the rice is undercooked by half calculating by time or a grain still has a white dot (similar to pasta). For the best choice, which is brown rice, you should nearly double the water and the precooking time before adding it to the skillet. White rice is one of the few serious culinary blunders in Chinese cuisine. This meal could, in my opinion, have been better made as a fried rice with sliced rather than cubed beef. Fried rice is actually intended as a one pan (wok) meal!

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