Chinese Recipes For Beef

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Chinese stir fry is a kind of cooking method which uses very high heat temperature in order to cook the ingredients. Stir frying is a quick paced cooking without overcooking the food, which can lead to lost of nutrients. With high heat over a wok, stir-frying gives the recipe an exquisite "wok hei" smell as well as retain the pure taste of the ingredients.

My family loves to eat Chinese cuisine, particularly the stir fried dishes. Beef-broccoli is the most adored, a very popular American Chinese dish. The tasty beef tenderloins along with the crispy broccoli coated in the flavorful ginger-garlic sauce will make those who have tried it asking for more.

It is easy to prepare Chinese beef-broccoli stir fry at home. Preparation for the beef-broccoli isn't that tough. However, you need to keep in mind that stir fried dishes are cooked quickly and so requires a high heat stove in order to copy the kind of taste you get in restaurants that you've grown to love. It's economical to fix a homemade beef-broccoli stir fried and you don't have to worry about preservatives or msg added like what you would get in Chinese restaurants. ...
... You can surely please your family and your guests by serving them this wonderful and healthy dish.

What we need:

1 pound fine slices of beef sirloin
One pound broccoli florets,
3 tablespoons of cooking oil for stir frying the beef
3 tablespoons cooking oil to stir fry beef alongwith broccoli
1 piece onion, diced
One tablespoon garlic, chopped
1 tablespoon of finely chopped ginger

For the Marinade:
1 tbs vegetable oil
1 tsp salt
one tbs rice wine
One tbs cornstarch
ground white pepper (about a dash of it)
1 tablespoon soya sauce (dark)
1/2 teaspoon garlic powdered

For the Sauce:
2 tbs oyster sauce
2 tablespoon dark soy sauce

To thicken the consistency:
1/4 cup of chicken stock
One teaspoon cornstarch

Cooking Instruction:

Get a mixing bowl and marinade the beef with vegetable oil, salt, garlic powder, ground white pepper, corn starch, soya sauce as well as rice wine. Let sit for half an hour

In a small bowl, mix the ingredients for the sauce and then put aside. Get a separate bowl to mix the chicken stock and cornstarch.

Boil water in a pot. Sprinkle 1 teaspoon of salt, then add the broccoli florets. Let it to be cooked for just two minutes. Turn off the heat and drain to avoid overcooking. Set aside.

Pour the 3 tablespoon of cooking oil in a wok and heat until it's hot. Add in the marinated meat and stir fry for a speedy three minutes till its brownish. Dish out and set aside.

Add in 3 tablespoons of oil in hot wok. Put in the chopped garlic, ginger and the onion. Mix for a minute and add the beef, broccoli and also the sauce mixture. Stir it for another minute until the aroma of your ingredients comes out. Put the cornstarch mixture to give the sauce a thick consistency. After the sauce is well-mixed, turn off the heat and serve with warm rice.

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