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Beef and Broccoli, tender flank steak marinated and seared at a high temp, mixed with broccoli in a thick soy-based gravy, like your favorite takeout, but better! This beef and broccoli recipe uses simple pantry ingredients and is super easy to throw together.
Beef and Broccoli
Beef and Broccoli… this recipe is truly better than any takeout restaurant I have had!
I’ve put a lot of thought into this over the years and I think I have finally come to the conclusion that Asian food is my favorite. All of it.
I’ve had versions of this dish that isn’t the best, you have to go to a more expensive restaurant to get the good stuff. Not anymore!
With this recipe, you can experience the best Asian restaurant beef and broccoli homemade! (But, this is even better!)
And, believe me, this is an extremely easy recipe! Adapted from Rainy Day Gal.
Beef and Broccoli Recipe Directions:
- First, marinate the meat for at least one hour.
- Once you are ready to cook this after the meat has marinated, it is a very fast process. Make sure you read all the directions first, have everything and won’t be interrupted. It is cooked over extremely high heat so you can’t walk away from it.
- Sear broccoli over high heat set aside.
- Add beef to the skillet, and sear until you form a crust on all sides. About 8-10 minutes.
- Add broccoli back to the pan and the gravy, toss to coat and cook an additional minute. Serve and enjoy!
Yum, really try and get a good sear like the picture above. It makes all the difference, so good!
I have made this multiple times already after finding the original recipe on pinterest, it is sooo good!!
If you can’t find flank steak, I have used a London broil I found on sale and it was just as yummy!
I really hope you liked today’s recipe, please try it… you will NOT be disappointed!
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Ingredients
Steak Marinade
- 1 1/2 pound flank steak
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon granulated sugar
- 1 Tablespoon cornstarch
- 1 Tablespoon soy sauce
- 1 Tablespoon water
- 2 Tablespoons vegetable oil
Beef and Broccoli
- 2 broccoli crowns cut into bite sized pieces
- 1/3 Cup low sodium soy sauce definitely use low sodium here!
- 3 Tablespoon beef stock
- 2 Tablespoon brown sugar packed
- 4 garlic cloves minced fine
- 1 teaspoon fresh ginger root minced fine
- 1 1/2 teaspoon white vinegar
- 2 Tablespoon flour
- 3 Tablespoon oil
Instructions
Steak Marinade
- Trim excess fat off flank steak, cut into 1 1/2 to 2 inch slices. Mix the remaining ingredients in a bowl and whisk together. Add steak to a gallon sized zip lock bag and pour in marinade. Massage marinade into meat so all of it is covered. Place in fridge and let marinade 1 hour.
Beef and Broccoli
- First, mix the "gravy" by placing the soy, stock, brown sugar, garlic, ginger, vinegar and flour into a bowl, whisk to combine until there is no lumps of flour. Set aside.
- In a large, heavy bottom skillet, heat over high temp until very hot. Place 2 Tablespoons of the oil into skillet. Place broccoli into oil, very carefully (make sure broccoli is COMPLETELY dry or you will get hot oil splattered all over). Saute broccoli for 3 minutes, stirring occasionally. Place on a plate and set aside.
- Keeping the heat over high heat, add in the remaining vegetable oil. VERY CAREFULLY add in the marinated steak and half of the sauce. Make sure beef covers the bottom of the pan and let sit for 1 minute to form a good sear. Stir and flatten to cover the bottom of the pan again, sear for another minute. Keep doing this until beef is nicely seared and cooked through, there is no pink left. This can take 8-10 minutes.
- Add in the broccoli and the remaining sauce. Toss to coat and let cook one additional minute. Serve with your favorite sides, enjoy!
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Asian food is the bomb-diggity! even if it’s been Americanized. Thanks for sharing on Weekend bites, I can’t wait to give it a try
This is totally my kind of dinner! Thanks for linking up with What’s Cookin’ Wednesday!
I’ve made this twice now! It’s SO good! Made it with steak the 1st time and altered it tonight with chicken breast and chicken broth (in place of beef stock). Both ways are fantastic! Love Chinese food and I love being able to make it at home and know how many calories we are ingesting. I could seriously lick the pan with that sauce. So so good!
YAY! So glad you love this recipe, thanks for letting us know!
Wow! Made this tonight for dinner, it was amazing. I usually buy regular soy sauce, but so glad this recipe called for low sodium. It was perfect, the sauce thickened beautifully and this dish tasted so great over rice. Looked pretty too! This recipe is a keeper!
Oh my..this is the best…our family just loves it…I have made it at least 10 times and guess what?..we are having it again…thank you so much for sharing this awesome recipe!
That’s amazing! Thanks so much for letting me know!
Can you use stew meat for this recipe?
Normally stew meat is very tough and needs to be cooked for a long time, I don’t recommend it personally. Thanks for asking!
This looks yummy and I very much want to try it, however, I am allergic to Gluten. I have GF soy sauce already on hand, but is there something I can sub for the flour or is it ok to just leave it out?
I’m farrr from an expert on gluten sensitivity. SO, to be safe definitely leave the flour out. Can you use cornstarch instead? If so, go for that and it will have the same effect. Otherwise, the sauce will be very soupy and not like a gravy. If that doesn’t bother you, then go for it!
Definitely need to use low sodium soy sauce. Even with that, I found the recipe too salty. Next time, I think I would decrease the soy. Otherwise it was tasty.
Made this tonight and we LOVED it!!! Thank you for sharing!!!
Made this tonight, didn’t ave low sodium soy sauce so I just added some extra beef broth and a little bit of water and it came out amazing!!
This is the best homemade beef & broccoli recipe I have ever tried! I was wondering of you had the nutrition facts for it? Thanks!
Thanks so much! That means a lot that you would take out the time to rate my recipe and leave a nice note! I am updating posts and this one I hadn’t got to yet. I did just update the nutrition info and you should be able to see it on the recipe card now. However, please keep in mind that I am not a nutritionist and any info can be wrong information. If you are looking for exact nutrition info I suggest contacting a nutritionist directly, thanks again!