Extra Lean Rump Steak Strips 400g is already cut for a wok. That is a kindness if you were going to slice a rump badly across the wrong grain at 6pm. It is a trap if you stew them. Lean meat is home; rump steaks is the whole-steak alternative when you have time to rest a piece.
The flash
Get the pan properly hot. Dry the strips. In, spread, 60 to 90 seconds, toss, another 60 seconds, out. They should still be pink in places if you like beef, or just cooked if you do not. They will carry on a little on the plate. Salt in the pan. Pepper after.
400g plus vegetables is two suppers. Cook vegetables first, set them aside, then the beef, then together off the heat. If everything sits in together from the start, you have steamed beef with soggy peppers, and you will blame the extra-lean label.
Sauces
A spoon of soy or a pepper sauce at the end, not a pint of liquid at the start. Extra-lean has no fat to emulsify a huge sauce. Shop beef steaks if you wanted a gravy and a rest. Strips are a dry-heat cut.
Do not
Do not slow-cook them. Do not air-fry them for 20 minutes. Do not treat them like diced stewing beef. They are strips of rump. They cook like thin steak because that is what they are.
If you wanted a whole rump, buy the 2x 6oz and slice it yourself after a rest, across the grain. If you wanted supper in four minutes, the strip pack is the honest shortcut. Both are rump. Only one belongs in a ripping wok. Use that one when the clock is the boss.
Keep a cheap probe in the drawer and use it once so you stop guessing. A rest on a warm plate does more for juice than another five minutes of heat. Buy the pack again only if this one left the freezer as dinners, not as a frozen brick with a good name. That is as true of How to Cook Extra Lean Rump Strips as of any other pack we send out of the cutting room. Cook it like the cut it is, and it will earn the next click.
Label leftovers with the cut and the day. Anonymous tubs are how good meat becomes a mystery you throw away. Reheat once, gently, with a splash of water if it looks dry, and eat it as a second meal rather than a punishment. That is as true of How to Cook Extra Lean Rump Strips as of any other pack we send out of the cutting room. Cook it like the cut it is, and it will earn the next click.