This is actually an altered version of an already existing recipe. The recipe is taken from Jamie Oliver, but we changed it up a bit. For example, we use more than double the amout of minced beef. Out of convenience, we didn't use any star anise, we switched the fish sauce for soy sauce and the limes for half a lemon.
You can find the original here: https://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/beef-recipes/asian-crispy-beef/
Asian Crispy Beef Recipe
This definetely has become a staple for us. It's cheap (you also probably have most of the ingredients at home already), easy to make, very high in protein, low in calories (depending on whether you serve it with rice or not) - and more importantly - it's really really delicious!
Ingredients For 2 Servings:
500g lean minced beef
1/2 a lemon
1 spring onion
200g carrots
100g iceberg lettuce
2 cloves of garlic
1 piece of ginger
8 roasted peanuts (if you don't have roasted peanuts, put them in a pan and roast them)
1 - 5 chilli peppers (depending on how spicy you like it. TIP: freeze the rest for later use so you don't waste them)
1 tsp coriander and/or parsley (we use pre-chopped frozen herbs)
2 tbsp soy sauce
1 tbsp sesame oil (if you don't have sesame oil, you can switch this for olive oil)
1 tbsp honey
Macros For 1 Serving:
506 Calories
53,9g Protein
19,4g Carbohydrates
25,3g Fats
Step 1
One by one, take your garlic, ginger, chilli peppers and peanuts and chop them up. Put the peanuts into a bowl and set aside. Place half the ginger, half the garlic and all of the chillies into a bowl and set aside.
Pour the sesame oil into a large pan and wait for it to heat up. After a few minutes, put your minced beef into the pan. Start breaking up the minced beef and stir for a bit. Then take the other half of the ginger and garlic and put it into the pan with the beef. Lastly pour in the honey.
Step 2
Whilst your beef is cooking, mix in the soy sauce, herbs and juice of the lemon to the chilli, ginger and garlic and set aside.
Step 3
Chop up your carrots, lettuce and spring onions. Put the carrots and lettuce on the plate you will be serving the meal on, or into a container.
Step 4
Once the beef is very crisp and almost burnt, take it out of the pan and put it on a plate or into a container. (we like to prep our meals so we put it into a resealable glass container) Pour the lemon-soy mixture over the beef and vegetables.
Step 5
Lastly, sprinkle everything with spring onions and peanuts.
Enjoy!
We hope you will like this recipe as much as we do!
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A&M