Finally! Our freezer is filled again with beef! Our customers come first, therefore we get our beef on the last round of processing. It was worth the wait! I wanted to have beef that night for dinner, so we have decided for an easy and fast recipe.
Ingredients:
- flank steak thinly sliced against the grain
- 1/2 cup of soy sauce
- 2 tablespoons rice vinegar
- 2-3 tablespoons brown sugar (start with two, you can always add more)
- 1/3 cup cornstarch
- 1 tablespoons minced fresh ginger
- 3 garlic cloves
- 1/4 cup beef broth (best beef broth is from beef soup bones, easy to make)
- 1 pound of broccoli thinly sliced
- 1 teaspoon sesame oil
- oil
Directions:
Heat oil in a large skillet and stir broccoli until nicely tender. Don’t over do it!
In the meantime, cut your steak. In a bowl, mix together soy sauce, rice vinegar, brown sugar, cornstarch, ginger, garlic, sesame oil. Pour half of the mixture over the meat and coat it. Reserve the second part for the actual sauce.
Take broccoli out of the pan, pour in little bit more oil, let the pan come to temperature again and put in the meat in a single layer. I had to do three different batches, but it was worth it. Don’t stir the meat right away, you want to have a nice crust on the meat. It takes one minute on the first side and 30 seconds on the other. Take out the meat. Remember, don’t over cook it, the meat will go back into the sauce and it will cook some more.
Pour the remaining sauce into the pan along with the beef broth, let it thicken and put in the meat and the broccoli.
I have served the dish with coconut rice (you can already buy it in a box). It was a nice change to either white or fried rice, but either way you can’t go wrong!
Give a try! Dobrou chut!