This garlic beef tastes just like garlic beef from a Chinese restaurant.  Who need the takeout when you can make authentic tasting garlic beef at home :)  This garlic beef recipe is very quick and easy to make.   For a perfect side dish, use the rice cooker to make the rice.

Ingredients For Garlic Beef With Green Peppers:

1 lb of beef, chopped
1 onions, chopped
2 green peppers, chopped
1/2 cup bottled teryaki sauce
4 cloves garlic, minced
1/2 tsp ground black pepper
1/8 tsp ground red pepper
2 tbsp oil

Directions How To Make Garlic Beef With Green Peppers:

Put beef in a bowl and pour teryaki sauce over it.  Toss to coat.  Leave to marinate at room temperature for 20 minutes.

Meanwhile, heat 1 tbsp of oil in a large non-stick frying pan.  Add green peppers and onions, and cook, stirring periodically, for 5 minutes, or until peppers cooked through.  Add salt to taste and remove the peppers and onions from the frying pans into a clean bowl and set aside.

When the beef is done marinating, heat another 1 tbsp of oil in a large non-stick frying pan.  Add minced garlic and stir for 30 seconds.  Add the beef and stir.  Cook, stirring periodically, for 5 minutes or until the beef is no longer pink.  Add cooked green peppers and onions and stir.  Sprinkle with black pepper and red pepper and stir.  Add salt to taste if necessary.

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Many recipes start with frying onions and then adding other ingredients, but if you really like sauteed onions, you can make it as a stand-alone side dish!   If you are always sneaking the onions from the frying pan, this recipe is for you :)

Ingredients For Fried Red Onions:

Red onions
Oil
Salt to taste

Directions For Fried Red Onions:

Slice red onions. Heat the oil in a non-stick frying pan over medium-high heat.  Add red onion slices and stir.  Reduce heat to medium, and fry the red onions, stirring periodically, for 10 minutes, or until desired doneness.  Add salt to taste.

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This is a Russian recipe of an appetizer made with sauteed bell peppers and onions.  It tastes best when served cold.

Ingredients For Russian Sweet Bell Peppers And Onions Recipe:

5 bell peppers
3 onions
3 tbsp oil
1/2 cup ketchup
1 tsp salt
4 tsp sugar
2 tsp garlic powder
1 tbsp vinegar
1 can (14 oz) of chopped tomatoes

Directions For Russian Sweet Bell Peppers And Onions Recipe:

Slice the onions.

Heat the oil in a large non-stick frying pan over medium-high heat.  Add the onions, stir, and cook, stirring periodically, for 5 minutes.

While the onions are cooking, slice the bell peppers (cut them in half, scoop out the seeds with a spoon and discard the seeds, then slice the peppers).  Add bell peppers to the frying pan and cook, stirring periodically, for 5 minutes.

Mix ketchup, salt, garlic powder, sugar and vinegar and add to the peppers and onions.  Add chopped tomatoes and stir.  Reduce heat to low, cover and simmer for 15 minutes.

Serve cold.

Pictures Of Russian Sweet Bell Peppers And Onions Recipe:

Onion slices go in a frying pan

colorful red yellow and orange bell peppers, ready to be sliced

bell pepper slices

bell peppers added to the onions in the frying pan

Russian Bell Peppers And Onions Appetizer - All Done!

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