Broccoli in garlic sauce | incidentally vegan | Chinese-American inspired


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  1. mech999man
    mech999man says:

    RE: the rice
    That's pretty much how I do rice:
    1pt rice to 2pt water (a bit more if using brown rice), bring to boil, simmer until the water is gone. Uncovered the entire time.

    It may not be the BEST way to do rice, but it's really easy and there's no extra steps.

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  2. Abhay Bhatt
    Abhay Bhatt says:

    This is a cool recipe but why would I want to make takeout Chinese when I could just…buy it for $5? If I'm going to go through the trouble of collecting the $25+ of ingredients might as well make something that is a bit rarer or more expensive in resturants.

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  3. Ondřej Ježil
    Ondřej Ježil says:

    Two things I want to note:

    1) If you make your thickening slurry a bit less thick, it is easier to mix it into the sauce without it forming into big blobs. (You just have to mix it up a bit before pouring it.)
    2) While MSG is traditional, your use of it is a bit different than what Chinese Cooking Demystified had taught me. It is not used instead of salt, it is used in small amounts to push the whole thing over the edge after use use normal salt and sugar. I can only imagine, that after marmite, soysauce, garlic and that much msg, you would have a lingering "umami burn" in your mouth, it is not that unpleasant, but you could definitely notice it.

    Other than that, really solid recipe which I hope I will get to make the next week. 🙂

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  4. Louis Tang
    Louis Tang says:

    no Chinese person chops ginger like that my guy. you want to crush or stomp the ginger as if its like garlic if u have something heavy like a food mallet or a thick kitchen knife. This will break the fibres in the ginger to finer pieces and also release the juices better 🙂 also you will have a much easier way of then chopping the ginger to finer pieces. Let me know how you get on.

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  5. VictoryNibbles
    VictoryNibbles says:

    Fun fact (unless you found a brand that doesn't do it): the white sugar you put in made you accidentally vegan recipe accidentally just vegetarian. The process of making white sugar normally uses "bone char," which is (as one might guess) made from animal bones.

    Being that I'm neither vegetarian nor vegan, it would definitely not keep me from making this, but I thought I'd point it out (for any vegans out there who somehow don't know about this, and were thinking of making this recipe with precisely the same ingredients).

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  6. trublgrl
    trublgrl says:

    Just made a stir fry with broccoli and was un-delighted with the texture of my broccoli. Next time I will try the water bath. You may have just saved all my mushy brocc recipes.

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  7. Rue Rua
    Rue Rua says:

    You see, Adam, you would put like "inspired by…" or "derived from…" to provide there's your take on the thing, not necessarily the thing.
    I mean yeah you can go nuts trying to master "traditional" cooking things, but for folks who wanna get some of the experience, why so dead serious. Hell, elderly folks might call you witty for finding alternative that's available at your place to recreate the experience. The rest are either maniac traditionalist or just idler wondering on the Internet for some argue-battle.

    Also don't eat too much of the sauce too often especially in like "Chinese Restaurants", it's usually too dense and might cause health problems.

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  8. Ryan Awol
    Ryan Awol says:

    This is why I like your channel, it's very honest with the food.

    Most celebrity chef would tell us that they would be cooking 'authentic' Chinese food when in reality it's a fusion dish. Some chefs would even pander and tell you a story about their "learning" from a mysterious "asian" person.

    I love what you do, getting straight into the cooking, explaining clearly if you're making an original or authentic recipe, and describing clearly the changes to the food between each steps in cooking..

    Great vid!!

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  9. Alfurim
    Alfurim says:

    That's the way the Turks have been cooking rice for generations, I'd say, surprising to see it being used in a country where basically everyone only talks about rice cookers. Of course rice cooker is amazing and perfect in its own way, but this way is just easy too. Just be careful of the water at the bottom, it'll stick and burn if you leave it too long.

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