Name: Beef with Broccoli (Xi Lan Hua Niu Rou)
Yield: Serves 2 as a main dish with rice or 4 as part of a multicourse meal
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: ¼ teaspoon sesame oil; 3 dashes white pepper; 1 teaspoon Chinese rice wine or sherry; 1 tablespoon cornstarch; 1 tablespoon oyster sauce; 1 tablespoon soy sauce; 8 oz (250 g) beef tenderloin, flank steak or flap meat, cut into pieces; ½ teaspoon sugar; 1 teaspoon cornstarch; Water, for boiling; 4 tablespoons water; 6 oz (175 g) broccoli florets; 2½ tablespoons oil; One 1 in (2.5 cm) piece fresh ginger, peeled and sliced into thin pieces; ½ tablespoon soy sauce

Preparation info

Serves
2
as a main dish with rice

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Easy Chinese Recipes

By Bee Yinn Low

Published 2011

About

I think the united States grew up on Beef with Broccoli—the popular beef stir-fry dish is slathered in an all-too-familiar rich brown sauce. You could say that Beef with Broccoli is the poster child of American-Chinese food even though the traditional Chinese broccoli had been replaced with the more accessible and widely available “western” broccoli. I used to roll my eyes whenever I heard about Beef with Broccoli. However, I have to say that when it’s cooked properly, that is, witho