Beef stir fry is probably one of my favorite foods to make. It’s simple and has lots of good veggies and meats for all your nutritional needs!

Today’s was a simple one. Beef with broccoli and onions in a sweet soy garlic sauce.

Ingredients:
1.25 pounds of beef (anywhere between 1 to 1.5 pounds should be good)
2 crowns of broccoli cut up
1 large onion roughly choppeded
3 tablespoons of garlic
1/2 cup of soy sauce
3 tablespoons of mirin, cooking sake, or 1 tablespoon of rice vinegar/white vinegar
3 tablespoons of brown sugar
3-4 tablespoons of cornstarch
sesame seed oil

This will make about 3-4 adult servings. (:

Cut the beef thinly. You can tenderize if you like! I used two top sirloin steaks.

Add the sesame seed oil to the pan and throw in the garlic. When the garlic starts to brown…

HUZZAH! The meat magically teleports into the pan!

So while the meat cooks, I set up the sauce!
1/2 cup of soysauce
3 tablespoons of mirin
3 tablespoons of sugar
can also add a little honey to add a slightly different sweet flavor
MIX!

When most of the meat has cooked/browned, who do we call?

Gastronomical busters!…
Onions?

And also the broccoli!
Does anyone else say “brock-cole-eye”? I sure do!

Now put the lid over it and let the steam cook the veggies for around 5 minutes.
I like to leave the broccoli and the onions on top of the beef so that the beef can finish cooking and the steam will cook the veggies without burning them or over cooking them. I quite dislike limp over cooked broccoli. It has such a weird bitter aftertaste. Then again, I really enjoy raw veggies most of all.. but that’s another story!

So after 5 minutes or so, the broccoli should look much greener and meaner! The richer color is how I like it, and still crisp. (: If you like your broccoli more cooked, leave it for another 3 minutes or so to steam!

Now pour the soy sauce mixture into the pot!

Mixmixmix! Stir and let the pan fry!

Get 3 or 4 tablespoons of cornstarch and add a little water (didn’t measure, just enough to cover the cornstarch), and mix thoroughly! It should have a nice white milky sheen. Some recipes say to just throw the cornstarch into the pan, on top of what you already have in there. I don’t like this method cuz the cornstarch can lump up. And lumps are pretty gross. Especially lady lumps. and humps. my humps. -.-

If you want a super sticky sauce to stick to the meat and veggies, throw in another tablespoon.

Scoot some the stir fry aside so the sauce is exposed.
Pour the cornstarch in there.
Turn the heat to low.
Mixmixmix!

FINISHED!

eat eat eat

asian, beef, quick and easy, stirfry