Sweet Chilli Beef - yummy coated strips of beef in a delicious sweet chilli sauce for your perfect Chinese Fakeaway night.
Chinese Style Chilli Beef
The perfect recipe for when you have some stir fry beef strips to use up.
Super quick to make and only a few ingredients, it's a delicious fakeaway dish that the entire family will enjoy.
Do you know that yummy crispy shredded beef you get from the Chinese? One of my favourites I should add, it's very similar in taste to that, but much healthier and of course guilt free.
To give the beef a yummy coating and make that sauce lovely and glossy, I use a starch coating and pan fry with a little oil in batches. Don't try and save syns by using a cooking oil spray, trust me when I say you won't get the same result. The syns are worth the little oil used.
It's not going to be super crispy of course, because generally crispy sweet chilli beef is fried in lots of oil to get that crispy exterior, but it's a really yummy healthier substitute, that is perfect for your Fakeaway nights.
Sweet Chilli Stir Fry Sauce
For the sauce, we use just a few ingredients, heated till thickened before adding back in the beef to get coated in that all that yummy flavour.
- Soy Sauce
- Tomato Puree (Paste)
- Sweet Chilli Sauce
- Water
As we don't use a huge amount of oil I recommend using a good non-stick pan or wok to cook this Sweet Chilli Beef, the last thing you want is it all sticking to the pan.
I like the ceramic non stick pans which you get in a variety of different shapes and sizes.
More Chinese Style Recipes
Love Chinese style recipes like this Sweet Chilli Beef? Check out these other fakeaway dishes:
- Chicken Chop Suey
- Syn Free Chinese Chicken Curry
- Beef with Mushrooms in Oyster Sauce
- Chinese Lemon Chicken
- Hoisin Chicken
- Low Syn Chinese Pork
- Chicken Fried Rice
- Actifry Sweet and Sour Chicken Bites
- Mongolian Beef
- Beef Chow Mein
- Chicken and Vegetable Spring Rolls
- Egg Fried Rice
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Vegetable Sides for Sweet Chilli Beef
Every week I buy these handy bags of shredded vegetables as they are perfect for stir-fries to serve with dishes like this sweet chilli beef. The bag usually contains shredded carrots, kale, broccoli stalks, cabbage, Brussels etc, which are all really good just stir fried in a little cooking oil spray with some salt and black pepper.
Any stir-fried vegetables of your choice would go well with this. You could even swap out the regular steam rice or egg fried rice for this delicious Egg Fried Cauliflower Rice - yum!!
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Sweet Chilli Beef (Stove Top and Actifry)
Sweet Chilli Beef - yummy coated strips of beef in a delicious sweet chilli sauce for your perfect Chinese Fakeaway night.
Ingredients
- 450g (1lb) of stir fry beef strips
- 1 tablespoon of cornstarch (or arrowroot powder or tapioca)
- pinch of salt
- 2 teaspoons of oil of choice
- 2 tablespoons of sweet chilli sauce
- 2 tablespoon of soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon of tomato paste
- 150ml of water
- 2 spring onions, finely chopped
Instructions
Stove Top:
- In a bowl, whisk together the sweet chilli sauce, soy sauce, tomato paste and water.
- Set aside
- Pat the beef strips dry with some kitchen paper
- Add the beef strips to a bowl with the starch and a pinch of salt and toss to coat
- Heat a wok over a medium high heat and let it get hot before adding 1 teaspoon of the oil.
- Add half the beef strips, and fry till lightly golden, giving it a light toss occasionally.
- Remove from pan.
- Add the other teaspoon of oil and repeat with the remaining beef strips. Removing from the pan to start the sauce.
- Add the sauce ingredients to the pan and heat on medium high just until the sauce starts to thicken
- Lower heat. Add back the beef and lightly shake the pan to coat the beef in the sauce.
- Top with sliced spring onions.
- Serve with your choice of sides
- Enjoy!!
Actifry:
- In a bowl, whisk together the sweet chilli sauce, soy sauce, tomato paste and water.
- Set aside
- Pat the beef strips dry with some kitchen paper
- Add the beef strips to a bowl with the starch and a pinch of salt and toss to coat
- Add the oil to the Actifry and set it for 5 minutes (without beef) to heat the oil.
- Add in the beef and cook for 7 mins, (it should have a slightly golden coating.
- While the beef cooks for 7 minutes.
- Add the sauce to a small saucepan and heat on a high heat until it reduces down and thickens a little.
- When the beef has cooked, add in the sauce to the Actifry with the beef and cook for an additional 5 minutes, so the sauce coats the beef.
- Sprinkle with chopped spring onions and serve with your choice of sides.
- Enjoy!!
Notes
Please see below for recipe values:
This recipe is gluten free, dairy free, vegetarian friendly (see notes below):
- Slimming World - 2.5 syns per serving
- WW Personal Points - 6+ per serving (add ingredients to your WW diary for points value - as this may vary depending on your personal points zero foods)
- Gluten Free - use a gluten free soy sauce/starch
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Nutrition Information
Yield 4 Serving Size 1 SERVINGAmount Per Serving Calories 300Total Fat 10.1gSaturated Fat 3.1gTrans Fat 0gSodium 825mgCarbohydrates 9.7gFiber 0.4gSugar 5gProtein 40.1g
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This looks amazing. Could I substitute Xanthan Gum for the cornflour?
yes I am sure that will work 🙂
This looks lovely, could I use fry light instead of the oil?
you could try, but because of the coating, I am not sure you would get as good a result with spray oil 🙂
Another stunning slimming friendly meal by slimming eats! Made this with egg fried rice and my fiance and i loved it!
Could you freeze this?
Hi Dawn, this would be best eaten on the day it is made. Although all the ingredients will freeze fine, I am not sure it would heat well once defrosted.
We have just thouroughly enjoyed this sticky beef served over a bed of seasoned wholegrain rice. Super quick and easy and packed with flavour! This is a new fav in my house 🙂
so happy to hear you enjoyed this dish, thank you for coming back and commenting.
Really delicious recipe! All my family loved it, one of our favourites!
Ps wanted to give it a 5 star rating but it has only allowed me to give it 4.
Perfect fakeaway dish, enjoyed by the whole family. Served it with rice and stir fried veg. Thank you.
looks amazing - is cornstarch the same as cornflour?
Hi Rebecca, yes they are the same 🙂
Can I use cooked leftover roast beef
Hi Alison - I recommend using raw beef for this, you could do the sweet chilli sauce for it, but I would skip the coating part.
Delicious!!
So glad you enjoyed it Tracey - thanks for commenting.
Love this great taste & super quick to make, I served it with stir fried broccoli & boiled rice
JUst tried this tonight. Was a very big hit with Hubbie and kids. Really very tasty dish. Clean plates and full bellies all around!
Delighted with taste as some healthy options can be so tasteless. This was very yummy and will be a new favourite in our house.
I totally agree with you. When it comes to use a wok on electric hob, it is never gonna work the same as it does on gas ones. I too prefer (and own) ceramic frying pans. Besides being much more easy to clean compared to cast iron say, they are way cuter:)
I really like your recipe, though I make my beef strips differently, I will try yours once.
Judging from the photos it's extremely delicious, they look glorious!
Keep up the great work, your blog is amazing.
How would it impact the recipe if I used dark soy sauce. It's all I have in the cupboard lol
Going to try this it’s looks so good
OMG these are amazing!!!
it should be fine, it will just be slightly darker in colour 🙂
These are amazing. I made them instead of our usual high calorie Saturday night takeaway and wow they are delicious. Both the beef and the fried rice are so authentic tasting I could not believe they were low syn dishes. So impressed I have signed up to your newsletter and on facebook. Thank you for such great recipes.
Thanks so much for a lovely comment Katherine. I am so glad you enjoyed the recipes and hope you continue to enjoy many more.
Hi when using a actifryer do you take the paddle out ?
Nope I left the paddle in
Made this last night and we thoroughly enjoyed it. Can you clarify one thing for me please - when your recipes call for soy sauce is this dark or light please as I know the light one is much saltier than the dark?
I tend to use Kikkoman soy sauce. Hope that helps 🙂
Absolutely gorgeous!! From a girl who would never ever eat chilli!! I’m converted
Absolutely loved this for dinner tonight! Thank you! 🙂
your recipes are amazing! do you have a recipe.book.availanle to.buy online? thank you x
Hi Siobhan, loving all the fab recipes x I have made this and it was great but was wondering whether it could be made with chicken? Xx
yes chicken thigh should work well in this.
Can you reheat this the next day if there are any leftovers?
it's best enjoyed once cooked, but should reheat okay. 🙂
So delicious !
Thank you
Hi 🙂 would dived beef work for this too? It sounds amazing 🙂 x
If you mean stewing beef, I personally wouldnt use it, as it requires a slow longer cook, this is quick stir fry style dish, so stir fry beef or sirloin steak etc is the best choice for this.
I made this yesterday for my family and they loved it. I never knew dieting could tast so good
Could it work if I sustituted finely chopped chilli and a bit of sukrin gold instead if sweet chilli sauce?
No I wouldn't do that, you won't get the same glossy sauce and it won't reduce down the same way, it needs the sugar.
Can anyone tell me how many calories are in each portion?
estimated nutritional information is shown at the bottom of the recipe box. Enjoy!!
Made this last night Siobhan....deeeelicious! clean plates all round! very easy recipe to follow...thank you for sharing!