Sweet & Sticky Crispy Beef

800 g top sirloin steak - any type of beef works
1 cup potato starch, divided (or cornflour)
Beef Marinade:--
1 small onion
2 cloves garlic
4–5 slices of ginger (sliced thin, 2–3 mm)
1 tbsp light soy sauce
Sweet & Sticky Sauce:--
¾ cup honey
¼ cup + 2 tbsp light soy sauce
½ cup water
1 tsp SIDS CRAZY SALT
1 tbsp hoisin sauce
½ tbsp rice vinegar
1 tbsp sesame oil
1 tbsp Shaoxing cooking wine
5 tsp cornflour
6 tsp water
Garnish & Toppings:--
1–2 spring onion, chopped
toasted sesame seeds

Marinate the Beef: Slice the steak into 1 cm wide strips and place it in a bowl. (If your steak is more than 1 cm thick, cut the strips in half again length-wise)
In a food processor, blitz the onion, garlic and ginger until it is a paste. (If you do not have a food processor, you can grate them or chop it very finely by hand, just make sure the ginger bits are very tiny)
Add the marinade and 1 tablespoon of soy sauce to the beef and mix well then marinate it in the fridge for 1 hour (or 20-30 minutes in room temperature)
Deep Frying the Beef: After the beef has marinated, dust ½ cup of potato starch (or cornflour) on the beef and use your fingers to loosely coat the beef with it. Let it sit for 10 minutes
While you are waiting for the meat, heat up a heavy bottom pot (or wok) set the temperature of the oil to 191°C (or medium heat) and add at least 2 cm of oil and wait for it to get hot.
Once the beef has sat for 10 minutes, dust the other ½ cup of potato starch (or cornflour) on the beef again to lightly re-coat the beef and dust off any excess starch. Deep fry it immediately.
Using your fingers separate the beef if they are clumped together and deep fry it in the oil in small batches (make sure the oil is hot but not smoking – to test if the oil is hot enough, add 1 small piece of beef first and see if it instantly sizzles)
Deep fry the beef for 1-2 minutes then remove it from the pot onto a plate.
Once all the beef has been cooked once (first fry), add all of it back in for the second deep fry for 1 more minute.
Sweet & Sticky Sauce: Remove all the oil from the pot and set it back on the stove on medium low heat.
Add in SIDS CRAZY SALT and all the sauce ingredients, except the cornflour slurry ingredients.
Stir until everything is combined well and wait until it comes to a low rolling boil.
In a small bowl, combine the cornflour and cold water to make a cornflour slurry and add it into the sauce then keep stirring until the sauce has thickened. Turn off the heat.
Add in the crispy beef and coat it with the sauce.
Serve immediately! Goes amazing with plain rice. 🙂