Chinese Beef Recipes

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 while not overcooking the dish, which can lead to lost of vitamins. With high heat over a wok, stir-frying gives the recipe a great "wok hei" smell along with retaining the natural taste of the food.

Chinese food is really popular in my family especially stir fried cuisines. Beef-broccoli is the most adored, a favorite 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.

Chinese beef-broccoli stir fry can be easily prepared at home. Cooking the beef-broccoli is not that difficult. Just dont forget that stir frying is a fast paced cooking and so requires a high heat stove in order to copy the kind of taste you get in restaurants that youve grown to love. Its cost-effective to cook a home made beef-broccoli stir fried and you dont need to bother about preservatives or msg added like what you would get in Chinese restaurants. Its a healthy and great dish to serve your family and guest.

What we will need:

1 pound fine slices of beef sirloin
One pound broccoli florets,
3 tablespoons cooking oil to stir fry beef
3 tbsps cooking oil to stir fry beef as well as broccoli
1 piece onion, diced
One tablespoon garlic, chopped
1 tablespoon ginger, chopped

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

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

To make the consistency thicker:
One fourth cup of chicken stock
One teaspoon cornstarch

Preparation procedure:

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

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

Boil water in a cooking pot. Sprinkle 1 tsp of salt, then add the broccoli florets. Let it to be cooked for 2 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 its hot. Toss in the marinated meat and stir fry for a speedy three minutes till its brownish. Remove and set aside.

Pour in 3 tablespoons of cooking oil in hot wok. Toss in the chopped ginger, garlic and onion. Mix for a minute and put in the beef, broccoli and also the sauce mixture. Keep stirring for some more time till you really smell the aroma. Add the corn starch mixture to give the sauce a thick consistency. After the sauce is well-mixed, turn off the heat and serve with warm rice.