Chili Garlic Broccoli

Name: Chili Garlic Broccoli
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 8 min
Total time: 18 min
Yield: 4 serving(s)
Ingredients: 500 g broccoli (about one large head, chopped into bite sized florets, chop off the biggest ends); 1 long red chili pepper, chopped; 1 garlic clove (finely minced or pressed); 1 tablespoon vegetable oil; 2 tablespoons dark soy sauce (important because it is sweeter, which you need with the less sweet Western broccoli, if you don't h)

Submitted by Tea Girl

"This is a recipe of one of my friends. It was modified from a recipe with Kai-lan (Chinese broccoli) that her mom made back at home in China. She used Western broccoli because Kai-lan was usually pretty expensive where we were living. The measurements are estimates as she would do it by the look of it."

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Ready In:: 18mins
Ingredients:: 5
Serves:: 4

ingredients

500 g broccoli (about one large head, chopped into bite sized florets, chop off the biggest ends)
1 long red chili pepper, chopped
1 garlic clove (finely minced or pressed)
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
2 tablespoons dark soy sauce (important because it is sweeter, which you need with the less sweet Western broccoli, if you don't h)

directions

Boil water for steamer.
Put broccoli in steamer for 4 minutes until slightly soften.
Heat oil in pan on medium heat and fry chili and garlic for a minute.
Turn up heat to high, add broccoli and stir occasionally for a minute.
Add soy sauce, stir, cover and cook for a minute.

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Reviews

Great ZING! in this dish, with the garlic and chili. Nice change from plain steamed broccoli. Thanks for this keeper.

Outta Here
This was just the right kind of take-along side dish I needed when we were invited to some friends for dinner, especially since they do enjoy those hot red chilies! Me, I'm not so found of 'em, but this broccoli dish was devoured by the others who were at the table, so that says a lot! [Made & reviewed for one of my adoptees in the current Pick A Chef event]

Sydney Mike
An amazingly tasty way to cook broccoli. I cheated and used frozen flowerets as the fresh didn't look to good at the market. I will be making this again with fresh broccoli from my garden. Made for Spring PAC 2012.

AcadiaTwo
Spring PAC 2009: Delicious!! I love the spicy kick this has!! Served with Recipe#253124

Mom2Rose
So yummy...we loved the spicy, garlic flavors...just the right amount of heat...a quick and easy recipe...thanks for posting it...made for Spring PAC 2013 =)

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Tea Girl

Thanks in advance if you are making any of my recipes, and I hope that you like them as I do. I grew up in the US, but I have spent most of the last few years in Europe now live in Germany, with my German husband. Much of the time that I have lived in Europe, I have lived in international student housing so I have lived with and cooked with people from all over world. I have also have had to learn to improvise a bit because it isn't always easy to get the foods I miss from the US here. My husband is a good cook and likes to cook when he has time, but he quite often makes what he knows, mainly German food. So I am the one feeding him strange things. :D My husband has recently taken up hunting so I am having to learn how to cook game: wild boar, deer, hares and geese are the most common things hunted here. It isn't easy to find things for wild boar so I am trying to publish ones that I find that we really liked. I like Recipezaar because I can easily find recipes for whatever I am in the mood, or whatever I happen to have laying around when I am too lazy to walk to the supermarket. :) I like trading tips with the people at the Asian and the German/Benelux forums, I lurk there mostly, but post when I have questions or think that I can help. My reviews are mainly 4 or 5 stars because I won't try anything that I don't think that I will like. 5 stars is it was great, will make again, only very minor changes were made, if any. 4 stars is it was very good, will probably make again, made some changes to adjust to my taste. 3 stars is it was okay, probably won't make again but I didn't really mind eating it. I haven't had anything here that I thought was lower than that, which is good with how picky I am. I'll try most new things if it sounds good, but I am not afraid to say if I don't like it. I quite often make my own recipes out of some of the ones I find here, and don't post recipe reviews if I radically changed it.

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