Chilli Beef

Overview
This is a Indo Chinese dish and has become very common in Kerala. The different color peppers make this dish very colorful and festive. It is a spicy dish but you can adjust the spiciness with the amount of green chillies and red pepper flakes you use. This is one of the special dish I made for Christmas this year.

Chilli Beef

Ingredients - not shown is tomatoes, onions, corn starch and soy sauce

Ingredients
Beef thin sliced as shown in picture - 1 pound
Garlic - 8 cloves
Ginger - 2 inch piece
Red Chilly powder - 1 teaspoon.
Green chillies - 6 - 8 split at center
Whole dried red chilly - 3 - 4
Corn starch - 2 tablespoon
Soy sauce - 3 tablespoon
Red Pepper flakes - 1 tablespoon
Lemon one
One red onion cut into cubes
Cherry Tomatoes sliced - 1/2 cup
Green pepper - half cut into cubes
Yellow pepper - half cut into cubes
Red Pepper - half cut into cubes
Salt to taste
Oil for deep frying beef slices and for the gravy

Steps
1. Finely mince the garlic and ginger separately and keep aside
2. Marinate the cleaned thin cut beef slices with salt, half of the minced garlic, half of the minced ginger, red chilly powder, corn starch powder, 1 tablespoon soy sauce and half lemon  juice. Mix well and keep refrigerated for about 2 - 4 hours.
3. Heat oil for deep frying the beef slices. When the oil is hot add the beef slices not over crowding the pan and fry them till the beef slices are crisp. Drain it and keep aside. In the same oil fry the green chillies and keep aside for garnish.
4. In another pan heat 3 tablespoon oil. When oil is hot add the whole dried red chillies and fry them.
5. Add the remaining minced garlic and ginger and saute few minutes till light brown. Add red pepper flakes to this and saute few minutes  and add the sliced tomatoes to this. Add a little salt mix well and cook till the tomatoes are cooked well.
6. Add the cubed peppers and onions to this along with remaining soy sauce and lemon juice. Mix well and saute few minutes till the peppers are just cooked ( do not over cook the peppers should be crisp) add the fried beef slices to this and mix well add salt if needed.
7. Transfer to serving dish and garnish with fried green chillies.

Serve hot with and rice or Indian bread.