Now after all that bragging here's the recipe:
Ingredients:
Vegetable Oil
Cornstarch
Baking soda
Low-sodium soy sauce
Brown sugar
Head of Broccoli
Sugar
Flour
White Rice
Flank steak
First you must marinade the meat. I purchased about 1 3/4 lbs of flank steak from the grocery store.
I bought it home and sliced it thin AGAINST the grain into strips like this:
Here in this pic I am mixing the beef with the marinade.
The marinade recipe goes as follows:
- 1 1/2 - 2 lbs flank steak
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp sugar
- 1 Tbsp cornstarch
- 1 Tbsp low sodium soy sauce (if not using low sodium I would use more sugar to counter ALL the salt)
- 1 Tbsp water
- 2 Tbsp Vegetable oil
While waiting on the meat to marinade, start preparing the head of broccoli by cutting into florets.
I used "boil in the bag" rice because it's quick and easy. I started boiling the water in a pot for the rice.
Then I started making the sauce:
- 1/2 cup low-sodium soy sauce
- 2 Tbsp brown sugar (pictured above)
- 4 cloves of garlic minced (pictured below)
- 2 Tbsp flour
- 1 Tbsp apple cider vinegar (original recipe called for sherry. I did not have any on hand so I used an acid I had instead, and it was delicious)
- 3 Tbsp Vegetable oil
While the rice is boiling and now that the sauce is ready I started heating up 2 Tbsp of vegetable oil in a large skillet over HIGH heat. (Asian food is very quick cooking so all this prep needs to be done ahead of time so that it can be thrown together quickly to be prepared correctly.)
When the oil is hot and "shiny" or shimmering, put in broccoli florets. Saute about 3 minutes, stirring frequently. Broccoli will start to brown on edges quickly.
After 3 minutes it will not be "done", but remove it from the pan, and add another Tbsp of vegetable oil to pan and then add marinaded beef.
Cook the beef with 1/2 of the sauce mixture and saute for 3-4 minutes or until beef is cooked through and no longer pink.
I then poured the rice into the bottom of a serving dish and topped it with the broccoli beef.
It was THAT easy. Hope you all enjoy!
It looks delicious!
ReplyDeleteit was.. and so very easy :-)
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