When we go to a restaurant to have our meals, there may be a number of dishes that we like very much. However, it is not practical to keep on going to the restaurant to eat those food that we like. What we can do is to try to discern what the chef had used to cook those dishes so that we can cook them as close as possible to them. Recently, we had a meal at a Chinese restaurant and one of the dishes that I find fascinating and delicious (even though it is just a simple dish) is Broccoli cooked with garlic.
Ingredients:
- 1 big head of broccoli
- 2 bulbs of garlic
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tablespoon soy sauce
- 5 tablespoons cooking oil
Method:
- Wash and soak the broccoli.
- Cut the broccoli stem off, peel off the skin of the stem and cut them into 5 mm thickness.
- Remove the florets from the head.
- Peel the garlic and mince them very finely.
- Put the cooking oil into the wok.
- Saute the garlic over low to medium fire. Stir all the time. (Remember we do not want to brown the garlic.)
- When the garlic is fragrant, remove them from the wok into a bowl. Set aside.
- If there is too much oil in the wok, remove some.
- Up the heat and pour the broccoli stems into the wok. Stir them all the time.
- Half-way into frying, add in the florets. Keep on stirring.
- Add in salt and soy sauce.
- Depending on how cooked you want your broccoli to be, you may ladle them out into a plate when they are still crunchy or when they are softer.
- Arrange the stems first on a serving plate, followed by the florets on top.
- Spoon the garlic onto the broccoli and the dish is done.