recipe reacharound: beef and broccoli (300 calories)
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Yield 4 servings
This little fakeaway dish might not exactly scream excitement and flavour, but listen here slick - it's one that we keep coming back to when we can't be arsed with anything flash. So check your attitude at the door and crack on.
Calories (300 of them), as ever, are approximate. Don't be tempted to skip on the cornflour, it's needed for the sauce to thicken, and if you have a dodgy ticker or high blood pressure, and yes Susan, I do mean you, perhaps switch to low-sodium soy sauce. Because the thing is, well, close up, he was almost purple.
Ingredients
- 500g of diced beef - now we just buy the ready diced stuff from the supermarket, but feel free to get steak and chop it up, you heartless monster
- 75ml of light soy sauce
- 1 tsp of cornflour
- one large onion, diced finely
- two tsps of garlic paste
- same again of ginger paste
- look, we know you can use fresh, and that's fine if you prefer, but this is a lazy dinner
- 250g of broccoli, chopped into tiny little trees
- pinch of chilli flakes if you like your arse all-a-tingle
- 250ml of good beef stock
Instructions
- over a high heat and with a little bit of oil, fry off the beef for a minute or so with two tablespoons of soy sauce until browned on all sides, then set aside
- in the same pan, add a little more oil if needed and saute, on a medium heat, the onion until golden, adding the ginger and garlic towards the end
- add the broccoli and chilli flakes and keep frying off for a minute or two more
- mix together the cornflour, beef stock and remainder of the soy sauce, making sure there's no lumps or so help me god
- add the beef and the liquid above into the pan and bubble away on a high heat until cooked and thickened and what have you
- serve with rice
Notes
Recipe
- we prefer our broccoli with a bit of crunch but if you're of the generation that believes a vegetable ready for tea should be set away boiling seven months before because you'd take rickets over vitamins, then parboil the broccoli before hand
- but seriously, get out of that habit, enjoy some flavour
- add peppers into this to bulk it out - chopped into fat strips and thrown in with the onion
- buy your broccoli pre-chopped by all means, but it's easier to just cut your own. Well no easier no, but certainly less bougie
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Recipe by twochubbycubs at https://twochubbycubs.com/2022/03/23/beef-and-broccoli/