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  • Hey Food Tubers my name's Amy and I'm Julie and we are the Dumpling Sisters

  • We are home cooks who love to eat and we've just released our first Chinese cookbook.

  • Today we are going to show you all how to make Oyster Sauce Beef and Broccoli

  • it is a takeaway classic that is found all over the world, our version of the recipe has succulent pieces of beef

  • lots of fresh broccoli and it's all stir-fried together with a moreish oyster sauce.

  • It will absolutely satisfy your cravings for Chinese food

  • and if you make it for your friends and family they will love you for it.

  • So let's get started.

  • We begin by marinating the beef, so to feed four people with rice you need 300g of beef

  • what we've got here is a rump steak but you can use any cut you like because we will be tenderising it later

  • the marinade for this beef is a really classic Cantonese one and we'll start off with the more straightforward

  • ingredients, which are a pinch of salt,

  • half a teaspoon of granulated sugar

  • half a tablespoon of vegetable oil

  • and three tablespoons of water

  • Now for the special ingredients in our Cantonese marinade,

  • first of all we have bicarbonate of soda,

  • just half a teaspoon.

  • What this does is breaks down all the tough proteins in the meat, so you get really succulent bite.

  • Next we have cornflour, one and half tablespoons of this

  • What this does is create a really silky coating around the meat so it locks in all the juiciness.

  • Lastly we have Shaoxing rice wine, one tablespoon.

  • You can find this at the Chinese supermarket

  • if you don't have any, dry sherry will do the trick just as well

  • and all we need is one final fresh ingredient, one tablespoon of finely diced ginger.. this is gonna be so aromatic

  • so all we need to do now is just give it a good mix

  • then cover with clingfilm and leave to marinade in the fridge for at least an hour.

  • Before we start stir frying we're just going to give the broccoli a quick blanch in lightly salted water

  • to help it along

  • now we don't need to do this for very long at all because we want to keep that broccolli nice and crunchy

  • after that simply drain and set aside next to your wok

  • we're gonna start cooking by putting in one and a half tablespoons of vegetable oil over a high heat

  • then in goes one clove of garlic and two teaspoons of diced up ginger

  • now in goes the beef

  • lay it out in a single layer and allow it to sear until it develops a caramelly crust

  • then keep stir frying until golden all over

  • add in the broccoli along with two tablespoons of oyster sauce and stir through to coat

  • and to finish off our stir fry and make it really saucy we're going to add in a cornflour slurry

  • this is simply one teaspoon of cornflour mixed in with five tablespoons of water

  • so over low heat pour in your slurry then gradually turn the heat back up to medium

  • then stir fry until the sauce thickens and becomes translucent

  • mmmmm look at how lush that looks.

  • Oh my god I can already imagine how tender those bits of meat are.

  • It smells so fresh as well

  • So there is it is Food Tubers, The Dumpling Sisters version of a very popular takeaway dish

  • oyster sauce, beef and broccoli stir fry.

  • Oh that meat is so tender, that bicarbonate of soda has totally done its job.

  • Mmmm super crunchy broccoli as well.

  • I can just imagine that with a lovely bowl of rice.

  • Now if you guys want to see another takeaway favourite that we did for Food Tube check it out over here

  • it's called Kung Pao chicken and you'll love it.

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  • and we're also on Instagram and Twitter.

  • So we will see you next time, bye!

  • Bye!

Hey Food Tubers my name's Amy and I'm Julie and we are the Dumpling Sisters

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