I fly by the seat of my pants when I cook and have never tried to write a recipe, so please be gentle. I got the steak for $3 on quick sale, green onions for 70 cents, and the Mongolian sauce as a free side when I got a meal from a local Chinese restaurant. Everything else I had on hand.
Also, this isn’t a healthy recipe. It’s kind of sodium bomb, but extra salt was my doctor’s order so it’s what I did!
Ingredients – [ ] 1 lb ish of flat iron steak—be cheap about it because it doesn’t matter for this one – [ ] 3 tbsp olive oil – [ ] 3 tbsp of balsamic vinegar (black garlic kind is a game changer if it’s available to you) – [ ] 3 tbsp soy sauce – [ ] 1 tsp garlic powder – [ ] 1 tsp onion powder – [ ] 1-2 tsp pepper – [ ] 2 tbsp or so of oil for frying a steak (any high temp oil, avocado’s great) – [ ] Salt/flake salt for a salt rub – [ ] 4 cloves of garlic (a few teaspoons of jarred garlic) – [ ] 1 bunch of green onions roughly chopped to your preference (I do 1 inch sections) – [ ] 1/8-1/4 cup of Mongolian sauce Last time I ordered takeout withfriends, I asked for a side of Mongolian sauce (was free!) when I order takeout and used that. There are store bottles and recipes online, but… this is my preferred method lately – [ ] Cooked rice Salt crust type thing – [ ] Onion powder (1-2tsp) – [ ] Garlic powder (1-2 tsp) – [ ] Black pepper (1-2 tsp) – [ ] Salt (ideally flake) 2 tbsp This idea with this is that I coats the steak entirely, so these are super rough estimates. I sprinkle each on top and rub it in to coat at the end, so I’m probably too generous.
Recipe – [ ] Put the chopped green onion, Mongolian sauce, and oil (for frying) to the side. Cook the rice or set it aside as well. – [ ] Mix all the other ingredients together and put in a plastic bag with the steak. Massage the marinade. Flip occasionally in the fridge to even out the marinade. I also tenderize it with a meat mallet on both sides. – [ ] After marinating (4 hours was a sweet spot for me tonight but any amount is great), take the steak out and leave it on the counter for 10 min or so. – [ ] Once it’s rested and closer to room temp, take the steak out of the marinade and pat dry completely. – [ ] Mix the salt rub thing or sprinkle each ingredient on top to coat the steak entirely. Rub it in to ensure it sticks. – [ ] Heat the oil of medium high heat until it’s roughly 400 degrees or so – [ ] Cook the steak 3 min each side (medium) or to your preference – [ ] Take it off the heat and rest it for 10 minutes. – [ ] While that’s resting, fry the green onions in the remaining oil until a bit wilted or to your preference. Turn off the heat. Drain a bit if there’s extreme excess oil or unwanted burnt bits, and then add the Mongolian sauce back to the pan – [ ] When the meat’s done resting, slice it up and cut it into the size you like and a mix it in the sauce! Serve with rice.
spidersinthesoup
nice work. looks tasty.
ruralmonalisa
This looks fire tbh
No-Idea-737
This looks amazing.
IndividualMastodon85
Great! POTS?
Plastic-Rise-1851
Yuuummmm
ShittyStockPicker
I would love to eat your cheap food. Looks fantastic, better than anything I see at Panda Inn
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I fly by the seat of my pants when I cook and have never tried to write a recipe, so please be gentle. I got the steak for $3 on quick sale, green onions for 70 cents, and the Mongolian sauce as a free side when I got a meal from a local Chinese restaurant. Everything else I had on hand.
Also, this isn’t a healthy recipe. It’s kind of sodium bomb, but extra salt was my doctor’s order so it’s what I did!
Ingredients
– [ ] 1 lb ish of flat iron steak—be cheap about it because it doesn’t matter for this one
– [ ] 3 tbsp olive oil
– [ ] 3 tbsp of balsamic vinegar (black garlic kind is a game changer if it’s available to you)
– [ ] 3 tbsp soy sauce
– [ ] 1 tsp garlic powder
– [ ] 1 tsp onion powder
– [ ] 1-2 tsp pepper
– [ ] 2 tbsp or so of oil for frying a steak (any high temp oil, avocado’s great)
– [ ] Salt/flake salt for a salt rub
– [ ] 4 cloves of garlic (a few teaspoons of jarred garlic)
– [ ] 1 bunch of green onions roughly chopped to your preference (I do 1 inch sections)
– [ ] 1/8-1/4 cup of Mongolian sauce Last time I ordered takeout withfriends, I asked for a side of Mongolian sauce (was free!) when I order takeout and used that. There are store bottles and recipes online, but… this is my preferred method lately
– [ ] Cooked rice
Salt crust type thing
– [ ] Onion powder (1-2tsp)
– [ ] Garlic powder (1-2 tsp)
– [ ] Black pepper (1-2 tsp)
– [ ] Salt (ideally flake) 2 tbsp
This idea with this is that I coats the steak entirely, so these are super rough estimates. I sprinkle each on top and rub it in to coat at the end, so I’m probably too generous.
Recipe
– [ ] Put the chopped green onion, Mongolian sauce, and oil (for frying) to the side. Cook the rice or set it aside as well.
– [ ] Mix all the other ingredients together and put in a plastic bag with the steak. Massage the marinade. Flip occasionally in the fridge to even out the marinade. I also tenderize it with a meat mallet on both sides.
– [ ] After marinating (4 hours was a sweet spot for me tonight but any amount is great), take the steak out and leave it on the counter for 10 min or so.
– [ ] Once it’s rested and closer to room temp, take the steak out of the marinade and pat dry completely.
– [ ] Mix the salt rub thing or sprinkle each ingredient on top to coat the steak entirely. Rub it in to ensure it sticks.
– [ ] Heat the oil of medium high heat until it’s roughly 400 degrees or so
– [ ] Cook the steak 3 min each side (medium) or to your preference
– [ ] Take it off the heat and rest it for 10 minutes.
– [ ] While that’s resting, fry the green onions in the remaining oil until a bit wilted or to your preference. Turn off the heat. Drain a bit if there’s extreme excess oil or unwanted burnt bits, and then add the Mongolian sauce back to the pan
– [ ] When the meat’s done resting, slice it up and cut it into the size you like and a mix it in the sauce! Serve with rice.
nice work. looks tasty.
This looks fire tbh
This looks amazing.
Great! POTS?
Yuuummmm
I would love to eat your cheap food. Looks fantastic, better than anything I see at Panda Inn
Looks good.
Yum!!
That looks amazing 😻