Lomo Saltado

Name: Lomo Saltado
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Chifa
Ingredients: 600 g Beef sirloin, cut into thick strips; 2 Red onions, cut into thick wedges; 3 Tomatoes, cut into wedges; 2 Ají amarillo, sliced; 4 cloves Garlic, crushed; 4 tbsp Soy sauce; 3 tbsp Red wine vinegar; 25 g Fresh coriander, chopped; 4 tbsp Oil; 1.5 tsp Salt; 1 tsp Black pepper; 1 tsp Ground cumin; 800 g Potatoes for chips; 400 g White rice to serve

Beef seared hard in a wok with red onion, tomato, soy sauce and vinegar, tipped over chips and served with rice as well — the dish where Chinese technique and Peruvian ingredients meet on one plate.

المصدر

الوصفة من Chifa kitchens · 🏺 تقليدي · Chinese-Peruvian cooking, from Cantonese labourers who arrived in the 1850s — a wok, soy sauce and ginger meeting Peruvian beef, chillies and potatoes.

Chifa · Chinese-Peruvian — An ownerless traditional dish, so no cook is credited. The cited article confirms the marinated beef stir-fry with onion, tomato and ají amarillo, the chips and rice served together and the Chinese-Peruvian chifa origin. Quantities and method are this book's own.

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Alissa Nguyen Alex Rios Matt Santos

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الخطوات

Cook the rice and fry the chips first, and keep both hot. The stir-fry takes six minutes and will not wait.
Toss the beef with the salt, pepper and cumin. Get the wok or a heavy pan as hot as it will go.
💡 As hot as it goes, and cook the beef in two batches. Crowding drops the temperature and the meat stews grey instead of searing.
Sear the beef in half the oil, one layer at a time, 90 seconds a batch. Lift it out.
Add the rest of the oil, then the onion and ají amarillo. Toss over the highest heat for 90 seconds — they should char at the edges and still be crunchy.
Add the garlic, then the tomato, and toss 60 seconds. The tomato must keep its shape.
💡 Everything stays crunchy. Lomo saltado is a stir-fry, not a stew — the moment the vegetables soften you have made something else.
Return the beef, pour in the soy and vinegar, toss twice and take it straight off. Fold in the coriander and tip it over the chips, with rice on the side.

💡 نصائح

Chips AND rice, both, on the same plate. It looks like too much starch and it is exactly how the dish is served in Peru.
The vinegar goes in at the very end and off the heat. Boiled, it loses the sharpness the whole dish is built around.
Saltado means jumped or tossed — the name is about the wok technique, not the ingredients.