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Dinner · 20 min · 4 plates

Lomo saltado

Peruvian stir-fry: soy and vinegar on beef, onion still crisp. Fries if you want the full picture.

The sheet · 4 plates · 20 min

easy

Why tonight. Peruvian stir-fry: soy and vinegar on beef, onion still crisp. Fries if you want the full picture.

What it needs

Nothing confirmed on your shelf yet — this list is the whole ask.

  • beef
  • onion
  • tomato
  • soy sauce
  • red wine vinegar

Good if you have them, fine if you do not: potato.

Method

  1. Hottest pan you own and the beef in batches. Crowding it steams the meat and this whole dish is a stir-fry with a Peruvian accent.
  2. Beef out, then onion and tomato in for barely two minutes — they should stay in distinct pieces rather than collapse.
  3. Beef back with soy and vinegar, tossed once.
  4. Served over both rice and fried potatoes, which is not indecision. Two starches is the dish, and picking one gets you something else.

An educational plan from a curated corpus. Not a nutrition, allergen, or doneness guarantee.

Cook or pour it, then edit the shelf if you emptied a bottle or used the last of something.

Why each of these is on the list

What the ingredients are actually doing

beef
Fat and connective tissue decide the method.
onion
The base under most of this library.
tomato
Sweet, sour and savory at once, which is why it holds up so many dishes with no meat in them.
soy sauce
Salt with a savory backbone, so it seasons and deepens in one move.
red wine vinegar
The workhorse acid for anything savory and cooked.

Missing one of them? The substitutions are written against those jobs rather than against a chart, so they say what each replacement costs this dish in particular.

Cooks from the same box

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