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Ground Beef and Broccoli

Cuisine
Courses
Difficulty Beginner
Time
Prep Time: 8 8 mins Cook Time: 15 15 mins Total Time: 23 mins
Cooking Temp 70  °C
Estimated Cost 8.9
Calories 185
Best Season Suitable throughout the year
Description

A simple beef and broccoli recipe, using ground beef instead, which makes it more budget-friendly 

Ingredients
  • ground beef (90/10 prferably)
  • 2 brocoli florets (wash and drain)
  • 3 cloves garlic (minced)
  • butter (unsalted)
  • 1/2 cup onion (sliced) (1 small onion)
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt (more or less)
  • black pepper, onion powder, garlic powder,
  • 2 Worcestershire sauce, soy sauce (low sodium)
  • fresh ginger (grated)
  • 1 teaspoon cornstarch (for slurry)
  • 2 teaspoons red pepper flakes (more or less)
  • 2 brown sugar (white is fine, but preferably brown)
  • Chaoxing cooking wine (or red wine vinegar)
Instructions
  1. DIRECTIONS

    Add ground beef to hot sauté pan, (no oil), add all the ground seasoning, bell peppers, onion and garlic and butter mix to combine well, cook until meat is golden brown. In the meantime, in a bowl, add sugar, red pepper flakes, all the liquid ingredients, ginger and cornstarch and mix well. Remove any excess oil if any. Submerge broccoli in hot water for 3 minutes, remove and sit in ice cold water. When ground beef is done cooking, add liquid mixture, stir, and combine well, cover and cook for 10 minutes, add the broccoli, and stir to combine well.  Turn heat off not to overcook broccoli.

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