Recipe type: Dinner, Lunch, Main Course, Quick Meals
Cuisine: Chinese
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Serves: 2 - 4
Craving Chinese food but don’t want to go out? Make this EASY beef and broccoli recipe right at home! Saucy, bold, and full of flavors. You’ll LOVE the sauce! Go-to stir fry recipe ready in 30 minutes. So easy to make.
Ingredients
1 pound flank steak, thinly sliced against the grain
1 head broccoli, chopped into large florets
1 tablespoon corn starch
1 tablespoon salt
2 tablespoons peanut oil or vegetable oil, divided
½ tablespoon [easyazon_link identifier="B0001DMTJG" locale="US" tag="nomrec-20" localize="y"]oyster sauce[/easyazon_link]
1 teaspoon Shaoxing wine (Chinese rice wine)
¼ teaspoon sugar
A dash of [easyazon_link identifier="B002HMLMHY" locale="US" tag="nomrec-20"]sesame oil[/easyazon_link]
Instructions
Marinate the beef in two thirds of the Stir Fry Sauce and corn starch for 20 minutes, set aside
Boil water in medium pot, add salt, blanch broccoli for 1 minute, drain, set aside
Heat [easyazon_link identifier="B00421AYKE" locale="US" tag="nomrec-20" localize="y"]stainless steel wok[/easyazon_link] over high heat, add 1 tablespoon of peanut oil, make sure the oil is smoking hot
Add beef, stir and cook until the beef is 80% cooked, remove and set aside
Add one tablespoon of peanut oil, turn heat to medium high
Add garlic and ginger, stir for 30 seconds to flavor the oil
Add broccoli, stir and cook for roughly 1 minute
Add beef back into the wok, add Shaoxing wine, stir and cook
Continue to stir, add the remaining Stir Fry Sauce to taste
Stir and mix well, add salt to taste, then serve with rice!
Notes
The cut of beef and the way it is being cut affect the beef's tenderness. It is fairly common for Chinese restaurants to use baking soda to tenderize the beef, however, we have skipped this step eating at home.
For more crunch and mouthfeel for the dish, do not chop the broccoli into the smallest florets.
Different brands of soy sauce will have different level of saltiness. Please taste the dish before adding remaining Stir Fry Sauce to avoid undesired level of saltiness (Step 9).
Recipe by NomRecipes.com at http://www.nomrecipes.com/easy-beef-and-broccoli-stir-fry/