Stir fried chayote and beef

School holidays has been started, and I know i will have less time to update my blog and sorry for not often visit your blog during this period. You know, i just can't concentrate and sitting down there doing my own things, my kids just have too many requests...
Ya, back to dish that I going to post here, i saw this dish in a TV food show, a Vietnamese way of stir fry chayote. We like this dish, the chayote tasted sweet and crunchy, simply delicious.

This is chayote. And the chayote's shoot also nice to just stir fry with anchovies, see my ealier post here. You can get both chayote and chayote shoot from Jusco store.

This is Szechuan pepercorn, replaced with black peppercorn if you can't find this.

Stir fried chayote and beef
(source: inspired by a TV Vietnamese food show, re-created by Sonia aka Nasi Lemak Lover)

1 medium chayote ( about 350g), remove skin and seed, sliced thinly
200g beef, sliced thinly
4 cloves garlic, chopped
1/2tsp Szechuan peppercorn
1 sprig spring onion, cut 1” length

1tbsp fish sauce
1tsp sugar
1/2tsp salt or to taste

Method
1. Marinate beef with fish sauce and sugar for 1hour.
2. Heat oil in a non-stick pan, quickly stir fry beef till color changed, not more than 1min. Set aside.
3. Heat little oil in a clean wok, sauté garlic till fragrant, add Szechuan peppercorn and chayote slices, cook for 2-3 mins, add little water if too dry.
4. Return beef to the wok, quickly mix well with chayote, add spring onion, seasoning with salt.
5. Dish out and serve hot.

Happy Cooking !!