Vietnamese beef and broccoli bowl
5
Points®
Total time: 40 min • Prep: 25 min • Cook: 15 min • Serves: 4 • Difficulty: Easy
Enjoy this delicious beef and broccoli bowl, which also features fish sauce, rice, watercress, cilantro, and mint, with a squirt of lime juice or a dash of hot sauce as the finishing touch right before serving. Adding water to the skillet while sautéing the broccoli, ginger, and garlic not only helps them cook faster (think high-intensity steaming), but also helps pick up some extra flavor from the browned bits stuck to the bottom of the pan. There is so much flavor from those browned bits that are left by the steak, which should get scraped up to form a delicious sauce that coats the veggies.
Ingredients
Uncooked lean flank steak
1 pound(s)
Table salt
1 tsp
Black pepper
¼ tsp
Sesame oil
1 Tbsp
Broccoli
4 cup(s), chopped
Minced ginger
1 Tbsp
Garlic
3 clove(s)
Water
2 Tbsp
Fresh lime juice
1½ Tbsp
Fish sauce
1½ Tbsp
Cooked Jasmine rice
2 cup(s)
Fresh watercress
2 cup(s)
Red onion
½ cup(s), sliced
Cilantro
¼ cup(s)
Peppermint leaves
¼ cup(s)
Dry roasted salted peanuts
¼ cup(s)
Lime
1 item(s)
Instructions
1
Season steak with salt and pepper. Heat 1 tsp oil in a large nonstick skillet over high heat; add steak and cook, stirring 2 or 3 times, until browned on all sides, about 5 minutes. Transfer steak to a plate.
2
Add remaining 2 tsp oil and broccoli to same skillet; cook, stirring frequently, until broccoli begins to brown, 3-4 minutes.
3
Reduce heat to medium and stir in ginger and garlic; cook, stirring a few times, 30 seconds. Add water to skillet; continue to cook, stirring a few times, until broccoli is crisp tender, 2-3 minutes.
4
Stir in lime juice, fish sauce, rice, cooked steak and any accumulated drippings; remove from heat. Just before serving, stir in watercress, onion, cilantro and mint; garnish with peanuts and lime wedges.
5
Serving size: 1 3/4 cup
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