Beef Xian Bing – 牛肉餡餅 – Sybaritica

These Beef Xian Bing are a delicious northern Chinese specialty featuring griddle cooked wheat flour cakes stuffed with minced beef, leek and garlic.

• Basic Dumpling Dough made with 2 cups of flour See Notes;
• 1/2 lb. Lean Ground Beef;
• ½ cup chopped Leek;
• 2 Tbsp. Cornstarch;
• 1 tsp. Pepper;
• 1 pinch Salt;
• 1 Tbsp. Garlic Paste;
• 1 Tbsp. Oyster Sauce;
• 1 tsp. Soy Sauce;

• Heat a little oil in a pan and briefly saute the leek until it is just soft. Remove from the heat and allow it to coo
• Mix together the beef, leek and all the remaining filling ingredients. Stir until the mixture becomes sticky.
• Divide the dough into 8 to 10 portions.
• Roll each dough portion out into a 5” to 6” disk, top with three tablespoons or so of filling, then gather the edges of the dough over the top of the filling (pleating if desired), and pinch to close.
• Turn each filled dough portion over and flatten out to form a nice, round ‘cake’.
• When ready to cook, heat a little oil in a pan over medium heat and fry the cakes for about 4 minutes or so on each side and remove to a plate.
• Serve the cakes hot (or cool) with a dipping sauce of choice.

The Dough can be made by following the recipe for Basic Dumpling Wrapper Dough using two cups of flour instead of one.