P.F. Chang's Mongolian Beef Secrets Revealed

A comprehensive guide to P.F. Chang's Mongolian Beef at home! Mongolian Beef is PF Chang's most popular menu item! Today, I’ll break down all the tips, tricks, and techniques so you’ll be able to make P.F Chang Mongolian Beef at home even better than the restaurant! And for a fraction of the cost!
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Ingredients:
Lee Kum Kee Less Sodium soy sauce: geni.us/s7oUST
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Michiu Rice Cooking Wine: geni.us/3L6yZTn
Shaoxing Rice Cooking Wine: amzn.to/3rE2nPO
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Dehydrated Minced Garlic: geni.us/DTtJNsj
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White Sugar: geni.us/UWud7AM
Kitchen gear in video:
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This recipe was BOMB. I just followed every step including the 24 hour alkaline marinade and the overnight velveting. Managed to get my hands on almost all the branded ingredients, except used a different mushroom dark soy sauce and a vegan oyster sauce. Sooooo good, thanks so much! Felt like I learned so much doing this (including the minced garlic hack) and the beef was so tender and tasty at the end. Thank you!!!

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This recipe pretty much sums up the recipe for PF Changs Mongo Beef. I was a Sous Chef at PF and this recipe is as close as it gets! Good job on the video.

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This looks amazing! Again, truly appreciate the next level explanations and going to lengths of making the sauce with two different soy sauce brands.

[@stephenreshetar4198]

Some additional info. The alkaline marinade is new from when I worked there but the "slurry" we used to velvet the proteins was egg, corn starch, white pepper, and some oil. Sesame is also a sesame/canola blend. But otherwise everything is about right on.

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Yea I have an older employee handbook with the recipes and it doesn't mention egg whites. So I wonder if they changed it over time. My book is over 20yrs old.

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Thank you Jason! Your video's are always so interesting as well as educational. I love Mongolian beef, but hate going out to restaurants. I will try this myself. We have an Asian market just a few miles down the road.

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I love how using baking soda as a marinade and potato starch to help with the cooking. I cooked it using my wok. l added leeks, mushrooms and carrots. I would suggest cutting the beef into very small pieces. I think almost any soy sauces will work. Great job doing this video!

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I didn't have the ingredients to make this recipe but I prepped the beef the same way and made beef and broccoli over white rice. That was some tender beef and did taste like a restaurant made it. I was impressed.

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I’ll look into the spicy chicken. I’ve never had it before, but it sounds good!

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@@farmageddon ahhh oh my gosh thank you for the reply! It is one of their more popular dishes on the menu next to the Mongolian Beef. Ive seen people mention it is strictly coated with potato starch....but the one time I tried that method it was not accurate.... I've made a few of your recipes so far and they are always on point ❤️. Thank you again for your time and consideration!!!

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Man, you killed it with another one. And this looks more approachable for regular humans than the pho!

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Made this tonight. Good stuff my man.

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Nice! I'm glad you enjoyed it!

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I do this recipe a lot. I hydrate some chineses dried red peppers ( about 2-3) then mince them into the dark sauce. Also, I like the look and texture of some roasted sesame seeds- which I add at the same time as the sesame oil. Yum

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Whoohooo!! I’ve been waiting for this recipe. Thank you so much!!! 🤗💛 Question….Can you use this recipe for chicken as well?