Slow Cooker Beef and Broccoli

Green broccoli with beef for a Chinese-style dish in the slow cooker.

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Slow Cooker Beef and Broccoli

With a sticky, tangy, rich Chinese-style sauce, this Slow Cooker Beef and Broccoli recipe is the ultimate fakeaway.

Prep Time5

Cook Time4

Total Time4 5

Course: Main Course

Cuisine: Chinese

Servings:

Author: Sarah Rossi

Ingredients

For the slow cook:

500 g Diced beef
1 Onion Chopped
1 tbsp Ginger
4 Cloves Garlic
6 tbsp Soy sauce Low sodium
4 tbsp Oyster sauce
4 tbsp Honey
4 tbsp Tomato ketchup
2 tsp Chinese five spice
1/2 tsp Dried chilli flakes (Optional)

To finish:

3 tbsp Cornflour
1 Broccoli head Chopped into bite sized florets

Instructions

Add the slow cook ingredients to the slow cooker. Set the slow cooker to HIGH for 4-5 hours, or LOW for 6-7 hours.
Half an hour before the end of the cooking time, make a cornflour paste slurry and add back to the sauce. Add broccoli at this stage too (or see notes for separate cooking preference).

Notes

Frozen veg: If you prefer to use frozen to fresh, you can do this for the onion, garlic, ginger and broccoli

Vegetables: Beef and broccoli are a classic combination and go together so well, but feel free to add any other vegetables you like that need using up

Marinate the beef: If you want to save time in the morning, you can mix the sauce with the beef the night before and refrigerate until it’s time to cook for extra flavour

Thicken the sauce: If your sauce is very runny, don’t worry, you can thicken it at the end of the recipe. Just add some cornflour and water and stir into a paste

Serving suggestions: This goes really well with rice or noodles. You could even try my Quick Egg Fried Rice

Broccoli timings: Be aware that the broccoli will lose its colour and end up looking a bit washed out and dull after it has been in the slow cooker. Also, it may take longer than 30 mins depending on your slow cooker and the size of the broccoli pieces.

I prefer to steam or boil it for 4 minutes, drain it, and then add to the beef just before serving.

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