Spicy Beef Strips and Rice

Ingredients

Spicy Beef Strips

• 1 lb rib-eye steak or some other boneless cut. We may have used sirloin. Who knows?
• 1/2 cup soy sauce
• 1 tbsp fish sauce
• 2 tbsp sugar
• 2 tsp garlic
• 2 tbsp green chilies

Cut the steak into 1/2 inch-wide crosswise strips and place them in a shallow bowl.
Mix the other ingredients together to form a marinade.
Pour the marinade over the beef and put in the refrigerator for 1 hour.
Meanwhile, make the rice:

(I am only including this recipe here because it's the first time we've made perfect rice. No sticking to the pan, no chewy grains, nothing)

Rice

• 1 cup rice
• 1 and 1/4 cup water.

Wash the rice very well under cold water, until water runs clear. This will take about 3 minutes, maybe.
Drain well.
Put rice and water in a 2 quart pot over high heat. Bring to a boil. When it boils, immediately turn heat to "low" and put the lid on. Leave for 20 minutes. Don't open the lid. I know you'll be tempted to, but just don't.
After 20 minutes is over, remove the pot from the heat and let sit, covered, for 10 more minutes.
If you want to make sushi rice, add 2 tbsp rice wine vinegar. We did. Then set it aside.

Back to the steak. When it's done marinating, take it out of the refrigerator. Heat a griddle (you're SUPPOSED to use a grill, but seriously. This is Wisconsin. In February. Shut up.) to about 350. Once heated, lay the strips on one at a time and pour the remaining marinade over them. Cook for about 2 minutes on each side. Remove from eat. Mix with rice. Eat them. EAT THEM.

Thoughts: I thought this recipe was pretty straight up except for one thing. The marinade was WAY too salty. It was overwhelmingly soy saucy. I had to get some of that sweet chili sauce and put it on the steak because it gave me a headache. For real. So in the future, try to cut the soy sauce with something. Maybe rice wine vinegar? Maybe sweet chili sauce? Also, it wasn't that spicy. I would recommend using actual chili peppers (serranos?) rather than the canned stuff, which we bought because there were no fresh peppers. Also we overcooked the beef. We cooked it for longer than 2 minutes on each side. It wasn't INEDIBLE, but you definitely have to work for it. But for real, that rice was just fantastic. It just fell out of the pot, and none of the grains were over or underdone. This recipe was pretty good. It definitely has potential.

Disaster Index: 4/10