Teach Me To Eat: Beef and Broccoli

Try this simple and delicious Chinese style beef and broccoli recipe. Marinated beef sliced thinly and stir fried with crisp broccoli. Frozen broccoli can cut a few minutes off the cooking time as it cooks so much faster than fresh raw broccoli.

Ingredients:

1 lb boneless beef, cut into small pieces.

4 tbsp oyster sauce

2 teaspoons soy sauce

1/2 cup sherry (or water)

1/2 onion, sliced

2 cloves garlic minced

1 tbsp minced or grated ginger

2 cups broccoli cut into small florets

For the sauce:

2 tbsp oyster sauce

1/2 cup chicken broth

1 teaspoon honey

Cut beef into small bite sized pieces. Mix oyster sauce, soy sauce, and sherry (or water) into the meat. Make sure meat is well coated and allow to marinate for at least an hour.

After meat is well marinated have onion, garlic ready and chopped.

It is best to put chopped broccoli in the freezer while the meat is marinated. The broccoli will cook much faster when stir frying.

Heat a tablespoon of vegetable oil in a frying pan or wok and carefully put in broccoli, stir constanstly until broccoli is a little tender, about 2 minutes if using raw broccoli, seconds if usinf frozen broccoli.

Quickly drop in onion and continue to stir to prevent the onions or broccoli from sticking to the pan and burning.

When broccoli is as soft as desired removed everything from pan and set aside.

Add another teaspoon of oil is needed and drop in marinated meat, shaking off excess liquid from each pieces to prevent the oil from splattering. Make sure beef remains in a single layer to keep the meat frying, not steaming or boiling.

Since the pan used here is too small to keep the beef in a single layer (the recipe was doubled) the meat is moved to the side as it browns, and new meat is added to the center. Once all the meat is browned add the garlic and ginger to the center and quickly stir for a few seconds until aromatic, 30 to 60 seconds. Burning the garlic will result in a very bitter taste. Mix everything in the pan together and stir for a few seconds.