Spicy Asian glazed broccoli drumsticks … taste sensation !
After plenty of creamy and super filling dishes over the festive season, I decided to whip up something spicy with Asian flavours for lunch today. I’ve been wanting to try a glaze recipe for a while, so gave this a shot. It turned out well, of course it is not super sticky like a normal honey based glaze, but gives the broccoli a mega depth of flavour as it goes right through as it cooks and also a tasty hue all over it.
Awesome with the cauliflower fried rice or just on its own, as I had it for lunch today. Yum. Yum.
Just a word of warning, this dish is salty tasting, there isn’t a huge amount of salt in it, but if you don’t like the taste, possibly reduce the amount of soy sauce in the marinade.
Spicy glazed broccoli drumsticks
2016-01-08 19:24:04
Serves 4
Spicy glazed broccoli, very flavoursome, using classic Chinese flavours.
Ingredients
- 2 heads of broccoli , approx 3 cups, cut into drumstick type florets (see pic)
- 1 brown onion minced or finely diced
- 1/3 cup rice wine vinegar
- 1/4 cup low salt gluten free soy sauce
- 2 tbs stevia
- 1 tbs sesame oil
- 1 tbs Chinese 5 spice powder
- 1 1/2 tbs chilli paste/ minced chilli
- 5 cloves garlic, minced
- 2 tsp minced ginger
- 3 spring onions and a red chilli finely diced, to serve (optional)
Instructions
- Combine onion, 5 spice powder, vinegar,soy sauce, stevia, sesame oil, chilli, garlic and ginger.
- Cook in a medium frypan over medium heat until onion has softened, approximately 10 mins. Blitz to a smooth paste.
- Add broccoli and half a cup of water. Cook until liquid is reduced to a glaze, turning the broccoli regularly. When reduced, scrape down the side of the pan and spoon anything left over the broccoli.
- Serve sprinkled with spring onion and chilli. Also excellent served with Chinese fried cauliflower rice.
Notes
- Could also be oven roasted with similar result
- Great with other Chinese dishes and cauli fried rice
- Add more chilli, Chinese 5 spice powder or other flavours as you like, the onion acts as a thickening agent, so can be used with any flavour combination you like.
Nutritional notes
- Please ignore the nutritional panel in this recipes. It is completely inaccurate. This recipe adheres to the under 100 cals and under 10g carb per serve.
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Alissa
August 3, 2016
Wow, just made this for dinner on my first week of Optifast and it was absolutely delicious. I feel very guilty eating it actually! My kids hated the smell of the vinegar cooking but it wasn’t for them so all good. Will definitely be making this again.