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Beef and broccoli, also sometimes called broccoli beef, is a Westernised Chinese dish.
Origins
Beef and broccoli was likely developed in the diaspora of Chinese immigrants in 19th century America. It became an established feature of American Chinese restaurants during the 1920s. By the 1950s, it had become ubiquitous and it is one of the most popular American Chinese dishes in the 21st century. It is based on a Chinese dish that used gai lan but this was replaced withbroccoli
Broccoli (''Brassica oleracea'' var. ''italica'') is an edible green plant in the Brassicaceae, cabbage family (family Brassicaceae, genus ''Brassica'') whose large Pseudanthium, flowering head, plant stem, stalk and small associated leafy gre ...
, a vegetable which was originally popularized in the United States by Italian immigrants.Preparation
The dish is prepared by stir-frying sliced steak and broccoli florets withoyster
Oyster is the common name for a number of different families of salt-water bivalve molluscs that live in marine or brackish habitats. In some species, the valves are highly calcified, and many are somewhat irregular in shape. Many, but no ...
or soy sauce
Soy sauce (sometimes called soya sauce in British English) is a liquid condiment of China, Chinese origin, traditionally made from a fermentation (food), fermented paste of soybeans, roasted cereal, grain, brine, and ''Aspergillus oryzae'' or ''A ...
and aromatics such as garlic and ginger. Sugar or honey may be used to sweeten the sauce. Corn starch is commonly used to tenderize the beef and thicken the sauce.{{Cite web , title=Beef & Broccoli {{! Traditional Stir-fry From United States of America {{! TasteAtlas , url=https://www.tasteatlas.com/beef--broccoli , access-date=2023-05-22 , website=www.tasteatlas.com
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