Coca-Cola Pepper Steak

• Ready In: 55 mins
• Serves: 6

Ingredients

• 1 -1 1⁄2 lb  sirloin steak, boneless
• 2  tablespoons  oil
• 2  cloves garlic, minced
• 1  teaspoon salt
• 8  fluid ounces beef broth or 8  fluid ounces bouillon
• 1  green pepper, cored and seeded and cut into strips
• 1  cup celery, thinly sliced
• 1⁄4 cup onion, thinly sliced
• 6  fluid ounces  Coca-Cola
• 2  medium  ripe tomatoes
• 2 1⁄2 tablespoons cornstarch
• 1  tablespoon low sodium soy sauce
•  rice, hot cooked

Directions

1. Trim all fat from the meat and cut into pencil-thin strips.
2. In a deep skillet or Dutch oven, heat oil, garlic, and salt.
3. Add the meat and brown over high heat, about 10 minutes, stirring occasionally with a fork.
4. Add the beef broth; cover and simmer for 15 to 20 minutes, or until the meat is fork-tender.
5. Stir in the green pepper strips, celery, onions, and 4 fluid ounces of Coca-Cola; cover and simmer for 5 minutes- do not overcook, the vegetables should be crisp-tender!
6. Peel the tomatoes, cut into wedges, gently stir into meat.
7. Blend cornstarch with 2 fluid ounces of Coca-Cola and the soy sauce; stir mixture into the meat and cook until sauce is thickens, about 1 minute, stirring lightly with a fork.
8. Serve over hot rice.