Chinese broccoli - How to cook in 3 simple steps
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- Chinese broccoli - How to cook in 3 simple steps
Blanch or stir-fry Chinese broccoli (芥兰，Gai Lan) drizzled with oyster sauce is served in high-end restaurants as well as an easy home cooked dish.
Chinese broccoli is a leafy vegetable with broad flat leaves and fat stems. It looks different from the regular broccoli and has a bitter note. It belongs to the same family of the regular broccoli but with no florets, and the stalk has a crunchy texture resembles asparagus. The leaves are thick and chewy, which will soak up all the flavors of the sauce.
There are varieties of species, which are all suitable to be used in this recipe. I like the Hong Kong Chinese broccoli, which looks great when served. In fact, most of the restaurants in Malaysia use this species for their Hong Kong Gai Lan dish. Baby Chinese broccoli is more tender and tastes great, but it may not look so gorgeous on the dining table. The choice is entirely up to you.
If you can’t find Chinese broccoli, substitute it with broccolini, which is the crossbreed of Chinese and regular broccoli.
This video explains how to cook Chinese broccoli by following a few simple steps. If you do it correctly, you should be able to produce the vegetable that is crispy, drizzle with the sauce that flavored with whole garlic and sliced ginger in less than fifteen minutes.
Full recipe and notes at :
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Errata:
There is an error at 3.51 minutes.
The narration 'turn up the heat and dissolve the sugar' is irrelevant. Please ignore. Sugar has been added and dissolved in the earlier part of cooking.
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I tried some of this at a dim sum restaurant and was instantly addicted!!!!!
OMG its SOOOOO GOOOOOD!!!!!
To me, the best Chinese restaurant is the SUN WAH.It is located in the North side of Chicago at Broadway and Argyle (on Broadway). I have been visiting this restaurant for around 30 years.
I was watching when they take out the Gailan flowers, they don't use them in the food. I did ask to the owner what is the reason for that, the owner told me: because in the flowers is a big concentration of insecticides.
Incredible, this is to take care of customers and...attention to details...bravo Sun Wah, I love that !!!
Mouthwatering and delicious!
Very tasty, the best so far
I love Chinese broccoli. It's my favorite green vegetable.
looks delicious, will make today!
I love Chinese broccoli ♥️thank you so much for the recipe
I purchased I didn't know what is called but I eat it before. So I cooked it omg is good thank you
Thank you! I followed the blanching option for this and my broccoli turned out amazing. The sauce is soo good too.
Yummy 😋 looks delicious! 💗
Thanks for the great Kai Lan recipe!!! This is so so good.
Thanks for watching and hope you will enjoy the Kai Lan.
Love the way he explains why certain ingredients are used.
Thanks for watching and please get the recipe by following the link in the description below the video. 😋
Great recipe...as always!
This was really helpful, I'm going to use these tips forever, thank you!
You are welcome
Beautiful for health thank you
Beautiful! Thank you Kwan.
You are welcome Elizabeth. Hope you will enjoy the Chinese broccoli.
love it thank you
Love this, thank you! Making it for dinner tonight
Thank you and hope you will enjoy the Chinese broccoli.
Great.👍. Thanks
Thank you for your recipes. They are great, unlike many recipes which are not thorough and skip many steps.
Thank Faux. Hope you like this home cook style Chinese broccoli.
Blanching probably reduce the bitterness in gai lan I pick up some great idea from your video. Thanks 👍
Sooo helpful. Thank you🙏
i can't put my finger on it, but there's something really amusing about his voice
Thank you for the detailed video! This helped a lot
Thank you! This was very helpful.
You are welcome. I hope you will enjoy the broccoli.
Thank you chef i really appreciate your work... Since I'm living in China I've no idea how to cook some typical Chinese dish at home especially this Chinese Broccoli
You are welcome. I hope this Chinese broccoli recipe comes handy to you to make some at home.
I love this recipe it is simple delicious and easy to make.
Thanks for watching and hope you will enjoy the Chinese broccoli.
good work, thank you
Thanks for watching and hope you will enjoy the Chinese broccoli.
Yummy!!! Thank you for sharing!
Thanks for posting this video. I tried it tonight and I am just so happy with the result! Thank you!!!
I live in the North side of Chicago, there, in Argyle and on Broadway is the best Chinese restaurant. I have been visiting it for 30 years and I did learn something very important. I did ask them what is the reason they take out the flowers from the Chinese Broccoli and they told me: because the flowers have the highest concentration of insecticides.
WOW! Those guys take a very careful care of your health!!! I call it it: attention to details!!!
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I live in the North side of Chicago, there, in Argyle and on Broadway is the best Chinese restaurant...the Sun Wah. I have been visiting it for 30 years and I did learn something very important. I did ask them what is the reason they take out the flowers from the Chinese Broccoli and they told me: because the flowers have the highest concentration of insecticides.
WOW! Those guys take a very careful care of your health!!! I call it it: attention to details!!!
@@sergioburgos30 Thanks and I agree with you. Been to Sun Wah before the pandemic. My family loved it too!!!
Thank you.
I love your videos. Please make one for salt and pepper chicken wings.
Thanks for your suggestion. I will keep that in mind for my recipe development.
Thank you 🙏😍😋♥️
Thank you, Chef! I made your gailan and green bean pork tonight! Itadakimasu!
Itadakimasu! I hope you will enjoy it.
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Thank you. Your video saved my life from my wife killing me. Super Thanks! :)
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Thankyou
I love broccoli I like to cook it but I can't find broccoli here in the Philippines can I use not a chinese broccoli. Thank
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Hmm. Nice. But I am allergic to garlic!! I will use my homegrown kailaan another way.
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The Kai Lan is young, no need to peel off the skin. Your way is the old fashion frying the Kai Lan. The latest way is, cut the stem a line, Heat oil and fry the ginger then garlic, some salt, and water, Once boils, drop the stem side in then the whole plant, cover it and let it cook for a few mins, once cooked, add in the mixed well sauce --oyster sauce, soy sauce, sesame oil, cooking wine , sugar , stir and dish up. I don't add in these sauces but only sesame oil, cooking wine, and dish up
Thanks for pointing out the new way, which I will try 😊
just a couple tablespoons of water?
Hello Mr Kwan, please, what oil do you use and is it the same oil most of the time or different oils are used dependind on the food?
Corn oil, palm oil and peanut oil are suitable.
@@TasteofAsianFood How about coconut oil?
@@DanFuzz2009 Da lime in da coconut.
@@Batman-nz2ue hahaha
What about olive 🫒 oil?
I'm confused - @ 3:51 you said turn up the heat to dissolve the sugar and then add some wine. But didn't you already add the sugar and wine when you prepared the sauce @ 1:11?
Thank you for pointing out the error. The 3.51 minutes 'dissolve sugar' is not correct. I will check if it is possible to remove it, or if it is not possible to edit the uploaded videos. I will mention it is a mistake in the description below the video. Thanks again.
simon mo that’s because he was showing a second way to do it which was crying instead of blanching
@@amandachinapen9791 crying because onions?
Yeah looks like at 1:11 is the type of sauce if you're blanching the Gai Lan in the 1st method. The sauce made in the wok is for the 2nd method.
Do you need to add the wine?
It is a nice addition. Omit it if you do not take alcohol. The difference is small.
Hell yea
Hi Chef, I'm Muslim,can I avoid the using of wine,is the taste still there?? Tq.or can use other ingredients beside wine..
Sure. You can just ignore any items with alcohol. It will not make a huge different. Hope this helps.
Can one find gai Lan at the Asian grocery store?
Yes
@@carlosluisliquiros8218 thank you!
Another simple approach:
- Boil until tender with some water and oil in the water.
- Drain, put on plate and add salt to taste.
- Note, you don't have to scrape with a peeler. That's a huge hassle if you cook a lot of Gai Lan like we do. You can also snap the end of the Gai Lan by hand as it will naturally break off at the point of where the stem is fresh. Cutting with knife will not do this.
This is a more Cantonese purist approach and will help your taste buds develop for vegetables. Sauce is maybe for old and/or bitter Gai Lan.
You'll never truly taste the subtle sweetness of deliciously fresh Gai Lan with oyster sauce, soy sauce, etc.
Thanks so much for sharing your method.
Thank you for this recipe. However, when blanching the broccoli, you stated to add 2 tsp of salt with 1 liter of water ...... it made it sooooooooooo salty, I had to wash the broccoli and re-add the sauce. The 2 tsp salt is too much !!!
Please reduce the salt and I will revisit the recipe. Thank you.
No simple, no 3 step..
@Jez abell live the broccoli
too much salt
Bad audio
This is Kailan,not broccoli
Yes. 芥兰 in Chinese is translated as kailan, gailan, not the regular brocoli. It is termed as Chinese broccoli instead.
@@TasteofAsianFood It is also called "Chinese Kale".
@@enufots4621 Thanks so much for your info. 🙏
Iblikvu but you talk a lot
I love Chinese broccoli ♥️thank you so much for the recipe