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just like mom's a homemade chinese meal
by Yee-Fan Sun 
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beef with broccoli
My mom’s beef with broccoli is one of those Chinese dishes that even the pickiest of eaters dives into with relish. The beef is tender, the broccoli cooked just to the point where there’s still a hint of crispness, the sauce lick-your-chopsticks-clean scrumptious.

12 oz. flank steak
1 lb. broccoli
2 tsp. cornstarch
3 stalks scallions
2 thin slices of ginger
cooking oil

marinade
¼ heaping teaspoon baking soda
½ tsp. sugar
½ tsp. salt
1 Tbsp. soy sauce
2 Tbsp. water

sauce
2 Tbsp. oyster sauce
2 Tbsp. water
1 tsp. cornstarch

serves 4

1 If your flank steak isn’t already folded up into a thick block (say, an inch-and-a-half or so), fold it up. If it’s already good and thick, leave it alone. Freeze the steak.
2 The morning before you want to cook it, move the steak to the fridge to let it partly thaw until close to dinnertime. You want it to be a pretty solid block still, but just soft enough that you can get a knife through it; the edges will be squashy but the middle still fairly frozen. Having the meat only partially thawed will make it much, much easier to work with. Slice the beef nice and thin, and slide into a mixing bowl.
3 Add the marinade ingredients to the mixing bowl, and stir well to coat the meat. Let sit for 30 minutes.
4 While you’re letting the meat soak up the marinade, mix up the sauce ingredients in a small bowl. Set aside.
5 Cut up the broccoli into bite-size florets; chunk up the stem. If you’re anal-retentive like me, you can peel the broccoli (use a paring knife to remove the outer tough skin); this makes for a nicer presentation, and saves you the effort of chewing through the fibrous skin. Chop the scallions into 1” sections. Slice the ginger.


 

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