Slow Cooker Beef and Broccoli

A slow cooker with beef and broccoli florets cooked in sauce and garnished with sesame seeds.

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Slow Cooker Beef and Broccoli, a Chinese-Style dinner recipe that is hearty and comforting, and it goes down well with everyone in the family. It's a great dish for batch-cooking, but also for days when you just want to set the crockpot and forget about it until meal time. Serve it on a bed of rice or with the noodles of your choice, and you have a complete dinner that is budget-friendly and much tastier that any take-away.

Prep Time15

Cook Time4

Total Time19

Course: Main Course

Cuisine: Chinese

Servings: people

Calories: 358kcal

Author: Daniela Apostol

Ingredients

450 g stewing / braising / chuck beef 1 lb
250 ml beef stock / broth (1 cup)
2 spring onions
2 cloves garlic
1 tablespoon ginger puree
1 broccoli head
3 tablespoon light sauce sauce
2 tablespoon dark soy sauce
1 tablespoon rice vinegar
1 tablespoon sesame oil
½ tablespoon sugar
3 tablespoon vegetable oil
1 tablespoon cornflour / corn starch
1 teaspoon salt
¼ teaspoon ground black pepper
1 / 2 tablespoon sesame seeds for garnishing (optional)

Instructions

Heat up the oil in a large pan or a wok, add half of the beef chunks and season with salt and pepper.
Sear on both sides, then transfer the beef to the slow cooker, and repeat with the remaning beef - this is avoid overcrowding the pan and steawing the beef rather than searing it.
Once all the beef has been transferred to the slow cooker, add the peeled and chopped garlic, chopped spring onions and ginger.
In a small bowl, combine the soy sauces, sesame oil, rice vinegar and sugar.
Mix well, then add the sauce to the slow cooker together with the beef stock.
Place a lid on the slow cooker and leave it cook on high for 3 ½ hours or on low for 7 ½ hours.
Mix the cornflour with 2 tablespoons of water and whisk it well to dissolve the cornflour.
Add the slurry to the slow cooker and give it a good stir.
Add the broccoli cut into florets, and place the lid back on.
Leave it to cook for a further 30 minutes.
Garnish with seasame seeds.

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Notes

If you'd rather cook the broccoli separately on the stove top, then just add the cornflour slurry 20-30 minutes before the dish is ready, it needs time to thicken the sauce.
If the broccoli is cooked separately, all you have to do is add it to the beef once it's ready cooked.
For a bit of a heat, you can also garnish the dish with chilli flakes, or add a chopped chilli pepper in the slow cooker at the same time as the green onions, garlic and ginger go.

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