#The Kusinera At Its Finest

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Pengeng kanin.

I've been seeing this broccoli for a long time now inside the fridge so I decided to cook it. Some of its flowers are already turning yellow so I went out and get additional ingredients for a recipe called Beef Broccoli.

As I was doing research on how to deliciously cook it having limited ingredients, I found out that Beef Broccoli is a Chinese cuisine. All these time I thought it was a Pinoy dish, lol. It uses oyster sauce and yet I thought it was Pinoy. You wouldn't really care unless you're doing a presentation, yeah? Right there and then, I realised that China's foods aren't really bad so let's forget their exotic foods for now and just appreciate their use of unique spices to please our taste buds, Covid-19 aside. Ehem.

Fun fact: I grew up in Asia (which happens to be the continent where China is). This is the continent where most of the spices around the world is produced. Imagine how tasty the foods in Asian countries are. Lucky me, the Philippines is IN Asia and we are influenced with the utilisation of spices (and herbs) in our cooking. To be honest, I would always come home to Asian foods and wouldn't mind travelling miles just to experience umami. What English breakfast, huh? Pahinging kanin at ulam! Charrr! Tsaka ng sawsawan. :P

Enough of the talking and gather your ingredients.

First, get that broccoli before it rots.

Second, the beef - 500kg.

Third, your spices such as: 5 cloves of garlic - crushed, 3 tsps of white sugar, 2 tbsp corn starch, ground black pepper (the amount will depend on your taste), a thumb size of ginger - crushed (optional), 2 tbsp of Oyster Sauce, and 6 tbsp of Soy Sauce.

Fourth, a cup of hot water.

Fifth, a can of mushroom (optional). Just be careful with the amount of mushroom you’ll use because my finished product almost looked like mushroom with beef broccoli. LOL.

Now, let’s proceed with the cooking.

I followed mostly of The Kusinera At Its Finest's Beef Brocolli Recipe because *restaurant style* and I can easily look for the ingredients she used at a nearby store. I made some revisions, though:

I added mushroom because we used to have it with it back home.

I put crushed ginger just for the taste of it,

I didn’t use Knorr seasoning ‘cos I don’t have it,

I marinated the beef for 30 minutes in the “secret sauce” because I saw some videos marinating the beef in it

Let’s begin.

She started creating her special sauce, I did that.

1. Mix the spices and hot water in a bowl and marinate your beef in there.

2. While your beef is being marinated, prepare your broccoli: wash it and cut it decently.

3. Remove the mushroom in your can and set it aside.

4. Take a picture of your ingredients like what I did, LOL.

5. Stir fry your broccoli (The Kusinera At Its Finest said if you’re going to stir fry veggies, you have to put a little amount of oil, set your heat high, mix it well so your broccoli would be crispy).

6. Make sure you achieve that bright green colour for your broccoli because that would tell you it’s cooked (a cooking tip on the video is to add a little amount of water then cover it).

7. Once your broccoli already bright green in colour, set it aside and fry the beef on the same pan, set aside the marinate aka special sauce. Some parts of beef would require additional cooking time to make it tender, some would require you to boil it first. Use beef sirloin so you wouldn’t have to go through all of this boiling and stuff.

8. Once the beef isn’t pink anymore, add the “special sauce.” You would notice that the sauce has become thick, we want that. That is because of the cornstarch we put on the marinate. :)

9. Let it cook, cover the pan if you want.

10. Get a meat sample, when it’s already edible, you’re done cooking!

Wag kalilimutang magsaing habang nagluluto dahil pagkatapos ng lahat ng ‘yan ay gutom ka na panigurado. Aaaaat, ayan! Naisalba natin ang muntik ng mabulok na broccoli sa ref.

Learning #1: Mahalaga na planado ang menu bago mamili ng isa-stock sa ref.

Learning #2: Ang hirap lutuin ng beef, okay. Kailangan mong piliin ang tamang part ng baka depende sa ‘yong lulutuin. Ganun din siguro sa pork at chicken.

Alright! Until the next cooking!

xx

[thekusineraatitsfinest]

Torn But Driven

And…. I am back! Been MIA on this blogsite don’t know for how long. With too many mainstream platforms to take care of, it was difficult to have the time and achieve that balance. Seriously, I am juggling in between my creative side versus my reality. I know this is supposed to be my food/cooking blogsite, but also I consider this place for me to write my thoughts being food and cooking is how I…

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