Beef and Broccoli Stir Fry
by Leslie
1. Start with 1 package D & D stir fry beef (approx 1 pound). Place in non-reactive bowl and top with marinade ingredients, stir to combine and set aside. Let this marinate about 20 minutes.
Marinade: 1 tablespoon rice wine vinegar or red wine vinegar
1 teaspoon sugar
1 teaspoon soy sauce
1 tablespoon water 1 tablespoon cornstarch
2. Next, start a pot of brown rice. I used a new favorite--Texas Best Organic Brown Jasmine Rice (http://www.texasbestorganics.com/). I made 2 cups dry to yield 8 servings cooked.
3. Mix together the sauce ingredients and set aside.
Sauce:
1/4 cup oyster sauce
1/8 cup soy sauce
1/4 cup water
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1 T corn starch
4. Get out your knife and prepare the carrots, onion, and garlic.
Veggies:
1/2 lb carrots cut on the bias--I used organic baby carrots
1 large onion, cut into small strips
2 or 30 cloves of garlic, minced
1 lb broccoli--I used Central Market Organics frozen broccoli florets.
1/2 cup peas--I used Central Market Organics frozen peas
5. After the meat has marinated for the requisite time, heat 1 cup oil in a skillet or wok--I used canola. You are going to blanch the beef rather than stir fry it until crisp (and tough!). Place 1/2 the beef in the hot oil and do not stir for 1 minute! After 1 minute, stir the beef around in the oil for 1 minute, then transfer the beef to a paper-towel lined plate. Cook the second batch of beef using the same method. Drain all of the oil from the pan. The beef should be cooked medium, so don't be alarmed if you see a little blood in the drippings.
6. On to the veggies, add 1 tsp oil to the pan and stir fry the garlic, onion and carrots until crunch tender. Remove to a large bowl. Pour the frozen peas on top of the garlic/onion/carrot mixture. Set aside.
7. Add the broccoli and 1 tsp water to the skillet over high heat, and cover to steam. Stop cooking when the broccoli is still bright green, crunchy, but just heated through. Drain the broccoli and add to the garlic/carrot/onion/pea bowl. Your veggies are done!
8. On a cutting board, slice the D & D meat into bite size pieces, approixmately 1 inch, and on the bias. The beef comes in really long strips and I had to make it a little more user friendly for the kids.
9. Add the sauce mixture to the skillet and bring to a boil, add beef pieces. Cook about 30 seconds until beef is hot through and no longer pink. Add sauce/beef mixture to veggies and stir. Serve aside some yummy brown rice. My husband and I add chili flakes and a little soy sauce to ours at the table, the kids added just soy sauce.
You might also like to add:
~chili paste to the sauce or dried chilis
~water chestnuts
~mushrooms
~red pepper strips
~scallions
