Beef and Peppers in Black Bean Sauce Recipe

Black bean sauce, beef and peppers can make a really wonderful and easy weeknight meal the flavour from the black beans is so intense it gives this dish that salty umami filled characteristic. Chinese call it Douchi, Filipinos call it tausi but most of us just call it salted black beans or fermented black beans. This ingredient is made by fermenting and salting black soy beans, this in turn makes it soft, give a sharp taste and making it pungent then develops into a wonderful sauce widely used in Asian cuisine.

This sauce is the oldest known food made from soybeans. As history says in 165 BC they were placed and marked in Han Tomb No. 1 at Mawangdui in South Central China, this said tomb was sealed since then and was first opened…