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Ginger Beef
Also known as: Calgary Ginger Beef
Canadian Chinese battered beef with ginger, garlic, vegetables and a sweet soy-vinegar sauce.
About Ginger Beef
Valerie Lugonja documents Calgary-style crispy ginger beef as a Canadian classic remembered from Alberta restaurant meals. This profile follows her flank-steak recipe, while retaining its status as her published reconstruction.
Fresh ginger and garlic provide the strong aromatic flavour. Soy sauces, white vinegar, sugar and crushed chillies form the sweet-savoury sauce, alongside carrot and red and green bell peppers.
The beef has an egg-and-starch batter beneath a dark sauce coating. The author describes a developed, deeply coloured finish; her separate minute-steak alternative is not selected.
Allergens in this recipe
Contains: Egg, Soy.
Product-dependent or unconfirmed: Wheat (gluten).
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Ginger Beef
Valerie Lugonja’s classic Calgary-style crispy ginger beef.
- Flank steakProtein
- Oil for fryingCooking medium
- EggBinder
- WaterLiquid
- CornstarchBinder
- FlourBinder
- White pepperSeasoning
- CarrotBase
- Sweet red bell pepperBase
- Green bell pepperBase
- GarlicAromatic
- Fresh gingerAromatic
- Light soy sauceSeasoning
- White vinegarSeasoning
- Mushroom soy sauceSeasoning
- Chinese cooking wineLiquidIngredient page not linked
- SugarSweetener
- Crushed chilliesSeasoning
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Flank steak: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Oil for frying: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Botanical source unspecified; repeated frying-oil list references consolidated
- Egg: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Egg source-confirmed
- Water: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Batter and sauce water consolidated
- Cornstarch: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Flour: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Wheat (gluten) unconfirmed. Generic flour cereal unspecified
- White pepper: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Carrot: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Sweet red bell pepper: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Green bell pepper: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Garlic: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Fresh ginger: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Light soy sauce: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Soy source-confirmed. Ordinary soy sauce establishes Soy; full product formula unknown
- White vinegar: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Mushroom soy sauce: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Soy source-confirmed. Broader soy-sauce record; mushroom form retained, full formula unspecified
- Chinese cooking wine: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Exact wine identity/base not specified; Chinese-wine option selected over dry sherry
- Sugar: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Crushed chillies: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Broader chilli-flakes record; variety unspecified
Origins & food traditions
Calgary-style Canadian Chinese classic; author’s attributed reconstruction, not independently authenticated restaurant formula.
Countries
- Canada
- CanadaCatalogue link pending review
Cuisines & regions
- Canadian Chinese Cuisine
- Canadian Prairies CuisineCatalogue link pending review
- Chinese Canadian CuisineCatalogue link pending review
AI-generated illustration of one possible presentation. Recipes and ingredients vary; the image does not establish allergen content.