I love Asian foods and flavors! I tend to keep Asian ingredients in the house so that I can whip up any Asian dish I want when I have leftover chicken or rice in the fridge that needs used up.
I serve this dish over rice, but you can substitute that with whatever you would like. If you have never made rice before, you will need 2 parts water to 1 part rice (i.e. 2 cups of water and 1 cup of rice). You will start the water to boil in a pot over high heat. Shake some salt into your water and once the water is boiling pour the dry rice into the boiling water. Cover the pot and reduce the temp to low for 20 minutes. This will make a nice, sticky rice for any Asian dish.
Slow Cooker Beef & Broccoli
Ingredients
- 2 pounds beef roast choose whichever beef roast you wish to use
- 2 cups beef broth can be store bought or can be homemade
- 1 cup soy sauce, low sodium you can choose which soy sauce you want to use
- 2/3 cup brown sugar you will want the molasses taste of brown sugar, but you can use granular if you wish or a sugar sweetener if necessary
- 2 Tbsp sesame oil
- 3-5 cloves garlic, minced
- 4 Tbsp corn starch
- 1/4 cup drippings from crockpot
- 16 oz broccoli you can use fresh or frozen for this
- cooked rice
- 1 pkg sesame seeds optional
Instructions
- Turn slow cooker on to low to preheat
- Cut roast into thin strips and place in bottom of the crock pot
- In a small bowl mix the broth, soy sauce, brown sugar, sesame oil, and garlic together. Pour this mixture over the beef in the crockpot. Place the lid over the crock and cook for 5.5 hours
- Once the beef is tender and cooked, strain off the liquid reserving 1/4 cup. At this time, toss the broccoli into the crock pot and toss with cooked beef.
- Allow reserved liquid to cool, then whisk in cornstarch. Place mixture into pan and whisk over medium heat till thick. Pour this thickened mixture back into the crock pot over the beef and broccoli. If you like sesame seeds in this dish, toss those in at this point.
- Prepare your rice per package instructions, or use leftover rice
- Dish is ready to eat when your broccoli is as done as you prefer
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This is my go-to slow cooker! It’s the one that sits on the counter at all times.
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