Top image: A top-down view of easy beef and broccoli in a nonstick skillet next to a small bowl with white rice. Bottom image: Garlicky soy sauce with chili flakes being poured over beef and broccoli in a large skillet.

Skip the takeout and whip up a fast and fresh recipe for Easy Beef and Broccoli in 20 minutes or less.

Easy Beef and Broccoli in a nonstick sauté pan, white rice in a small brown bowl and sesame seeds in a small white ramekin with chopsticks resting on top.

Yes, you read that correctly … twenty minutes! Every bit in, you are less than one-half an episode of Fixer Upper abroad from digging your chopsticks into a large ol' bowl of the most flavorful, tender, saucy Easy Beef and Broccoli.

Beef in nonstick sauté pan.

The classic takeout dishes (retrieve Orange Chicken, Pad Thai and Chicken Egg Rolls) were one of my many cravings during my second pregnancy so I decided a fast and fresh version of beef and broccoli was a must!

Broccoli and onions in nonstick sauté pan.

There are just two tablespoons of oil in this entire dish, and yous better believe information technology's all the same packed with all that sweet, tangy, garlicky soy sauce flavour. Subsequently all, isn't the all-time part of beef and broccoli the gravy-similar sauce?

Nonstick sauté pan with broccoli and beef with sauce being poured into pan.

It has to be thick enough to glaze the tender slices of beef and the broccoli florets, without weighing downward the entire dish. And most importantly, there has to exist only plenty sauce so that the accompanying rice also gets a hazard to soak up all that glorious garlicky gravy. Want to see for yourself? Melody in below!

Oral fissure watering notwithstanding? Catch your knife and get ready to piece and dice your way to Easy Beef and Broccoli that'southward guaranteed to kick those takeout menus to the curb.

Easy Beef and Broccoli in a nonstick sauté pan, white rice in a small brown bowl and sesame seeds in a small white ramekin with chopsticks resting on top.

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Prep Time 10 mins

Cook Fourth dimension ten mins

Total Time xx mins

  • 3 Tablespoons cornstarch, divided
  • i pound flank steak, cut into thin 1-inch pieces
  • 1/2 cup low sodium soy sauce
  • iii Tablespoons packed light brown sugar
  • 1 Tablespoon minced garlic
  • ii teaspoons grated fresh ginger
  • 2 Tablespoons vegetable oil, divided
  • 4 cups small-scale broccoli florets
  • 1/2 cup sliced white onions

  • In a large bowl, whisk together 2 tablespoons cornstarch with 3 tablespoons water. Add together the beef to the bowl and toss to combine.

  • In a separate small bowl, whisk together the remaining 1 tablespoon cornstarch with the soy sauce, brown sugar, garlic and ginger. Set the sauce aside.

  • Rut a large nonstick sauté pan over medium heat. Add one tablespoon of the vegetable oil and once it is hot, add together the beef and cook, stirring constantly until the beef is almost cooked through. Using a slotted spoon, transfer the beefiness to a plate and set information technology bated.

  • Add the remaining 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil to the pan and once it is hot, add the broccoli florets and sliced onions and cook, stirring occasionally, until the broccoli is tender, well-nigh 4 minutes. (See Kelly's Notes.)

  • Return the beef to the pan then add the prepared sauce. Bring the mixture to a eddy and cook, stirring, for one minute or until the sauce thickens slightly. Serve with rice or noodles.

Kelly'due south Notes:

  • To guarantee brilliant green broccoli, blanch the florets in humid water then bleed and dry it very well earlier calculation information technology to the pan. If you opt for this additional blanching step, reduce the cooking fourth dimension of the broccoli to 2 minutes.

  • The sauce must come to a boil in order for the cornstarch to piece of work as a thickening agent.

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Recipe by Kelly Senyei of Just a Taste. Please do not reprint this recipe without my permission. If you'd like to feature this recipe on your site, please rewrite the method of preparation and link to this postal service every bit the original source.

Calories: 332 kcal , Carbohydrates: 25 thousand , Poly peptide: 28 g , Fat: 13 one thousand , Saturated Fat: 8 k , Cholesterol: 68 mg , Sodium: 1156 mg , Potassium: 772 mg , Fiber: ii thousand , Sugar: 11 g , Vitamin A: 565 IU , Vitamin C: 83.2 mg , Calcium: 88 mg , Iron: iii.one mg

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