As promised, I am giving you a super quick and awesomely tasty weeknight meal. I’m really excited – it’s not often that a new recipe meets my criteria for a working cook’s dinner (see criteria here).
So, who knew that sheet pan meals are a thing? I’m embarrassed to say that until I added this to my Pinterest, and then got a hundred suggested sheet pan pins, I didn’t.
I saw this recipe on the Betty Crocker website, and I was skeptical. Bake for 20 minutes and it’s done? But I tried it, and it was done, and I totally loved it (as did my family).
One of the tricks to making this quick and tasty is to use store-bought salad dressing to season the broccoli. I’m always in favor of making marinades from scratch, but it does save you time. My grocery store didn’t have the brand/type that was in the original recipe, so I chose another one – since it was a sesame dressing, I read the ingredients and chose the one with the most sesame oil. I’m sure that you could make your own if you wanted to. The key ingredients are: soy sauce, rice vinegar, sesame oil, vegetable oil, and garlic.
After tossing the broccoli with the dressing, you make a quick mixture of soy sauce, garlic, and brown sugar and toss and coat your steak.
Spread it all out onto a large sheet pan, and bake in a 450 degree oven.
Broccoli is one of the vegetables that all of my family will eat. I cook broccoli at least 1x a week. It gets a little boring. I love that this gives broccoli a new twist. Also, I don’t usually cook steak in the winter. I only like cooking steak on the grill – less time, less mess, and it usually tastes the best. So, I am thrilled to have a new way to include steak.
I served this with white rice (start your rice cooking before you put this together, and it will all be done at the same time). Done!
Sheet Pan Sesame Beef and Broccoli
Ingredients
- 1/2 c Asian sesame dressing I used Ken's Lite Asian Sesame
- 8 cups fresh broccoli florets 3 large crowns
- 6 tsp soy sauce divided
- 2 cloves garlic chopped
- 2 tablespoon packed brown sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 1/4 lb boneless beef sirloin steak cut into 2-inch pieces
- 2 teaspoons sesame seeds optional
Instructions
- Heat oven to 450°F. Spray 15x10x1-inch rimmed sheet pan with cooking spray.
- In large bowl, mix dressing and 2 teaspoon of the soy sauce; add broccoli, and toss to coat. Pour broccoli mixture onto pan, spread in single layer.
- In same bowl, mix brown sugar, garlic, salt and remaining 4 teaspoons soy sauce. Add beef to mixture; turn to coat.
- Add beef to pan with broccoli. Roast 10 to 14 minutes or until beef is cooked to desired doneness (145°F for medium-rare) and broccoli is fork-tender.
- Sprinkle with sesame seed. (optional)
