Broccoli Beef

The other night I made some broccoli beef for dinner. While it was tasty, the recipe is a little bit too involved for my liking and I doubt it will make it into my regular meal rotation.

Ingredients

• 3/4 lb Steak, thinly sliced
• 3/4 lb Broccoli florets
• 2 Tbsp oil
• 2 Garlic cloves, minced
• 1 tsp Cornstarch
• 1 Tbsp Water

Marinade

• 2 tsp Soy sauce
• 1 tsp Chinese rice wine
• 1/2 tsp Cornstarch
• 1/8 tsp Pepper

Sauce

• 3 Tbsp Soy sauce
• 1/4 Cup chicken broth

Directions

1. Marinate the beef for 10 minutes
2. Make Sauce: stir together the sauce ingredients in a bowl.
3. Cook the steak and garlic in a wok or frying pan until no longer pink. 
4. Add the sauce and broccoli.
5. Bring to boil.
6. Dissolve cornstarch in 1 Tbsp of water and add to pan and stir in.
7. Remove from heat and serve. 

Taylor-Made Changes

The sauce and marinade are a bit simpler than the original recipe I followed. The recipe called for Chinese rice wine and oyster sauce. Two things I don't have and wasn't about to buy to use in one recipe. So I just upped the soy sauce amounts instead.

The directions also called for blanching the broccoli before adding it to pan. But I ignored that and just cooked it with the steak and it worked out. But I think I ended up over cooking the meat... so in the future it might be better to cook the broccoli separate like the recipe requested.

You could also add in a bed of rice to soak up some of the sauce and add some carbs, but as you know I'm avoiding unnecessary carbs so I just enjoyed it on it's own.