Hello! Hi everyone, Wesley here. Today we’re diving back into our series dedicated to deconstructing Americanized Chinese cuisine with a shot at the PF Chang’s dish known as “Ginger Chicken with Broccoli.” For those new to the channel, in this series, we have been deconstructing iconically Americanized dishes from Chinese cuisine, and seeing what it might look like if we were to cook the dish through the lens of more traditional Chinese wok cooking. Ginger chicken is not a complicated concept, it’s basically a stir fry with ginger, chicken, and…broccoli…pretty straightforward enough. What does jump off the page from their menu description however, is that the dish specifically calls for STEAMED broccoli.
Broccoli of course, being a very dense and durable veggie, is commonly par-cooked with a quick blanch or steam to tenderize it before it goes into the pan, resulting in a more tender piece of broccoli to pair with your chicken. My personal favorite way of stir frying broccoli however, is to slice it into longer, thinner spears (replicating the shape and size of CHINESE broccoli, or gailan), which is a little bit more friendly in flash cooks and stir fries. So! Today I thought we’d do something a little bit different, and instead of trying to come up with a “better” version of ginger chicken, what we’re gonna do instead is cook the exact same dish with the exact same ingredients, but using two wildly different approaches to wok cooking, one using steamed broccoli florets, and a second approach using flash fried broccoli spears. The result I hope should be an interesting dive into…how to cook broccoli…! Hope you try it.
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0:00 Hello Hi Everyone!
2:00 Steamed Version Mise En Place (veggies)
2:58 Mise En Place (chicken)
3:26 Mise En Place (marinade)
3:57 Mise En Place (sauce)
4:36 On The Stove (broccoli)
5:44 On The Stove (chicken)
6:22 On The Stove (sauce)
6:38 On The Stove (stir fry)
8:04 Let's Eat!
7:51 Flash Fried Fried Version
8:12 Flash Fried Mise En Place
9:03 Mise En Place (broccoli spears)
9:30 On The Stove (chicken)
10:25 On The Stove (broccoli spears)
10:49 Let's Eat!
11:55 Thanks For Watching!