Jamie Olivers Crispy Asian Beef with noodles and salad
I have had Jamie Oliver's Everyday Superfood cookbook sitting on my shelf for a few years now and haven't cooked anything from it until very recently. My weight loss journey is going well and I am not particularly sticking to slimming world recipes, just choosing dishes that I feel are lower in calories and have all the elements of the slimming world premise. I find the Hairy Dieters books useful too for lower calorie, but still tasty food. So with a mixture of these recipes I haven't got too much more to lose before I reach my target weight. However staying at that weight and not drifting back into bad habits will be the big test. This is a meal that probably needs to be planned as there are a fair few ingredients and when I was cooking it I was a little skeptical about how it would taste. I used wholemeal noodles, I'm not sure if they are the same as brown noodles but I would assume so. I loved it, to be fair I burnt a bit of the beef, it takes some frying to make it crispy, but overall the flavours were great and the meal very enjoyable.
Serves 4
1 tablespoon unsalted peanuts
2 cloves of garlic
5cm piece of ginger
sesame oil
2 star anise
200 g lean minced beef
1 teaspoon runny honey
1 teaspoon fish sauce
1 teaspoon low-salt soy sauce
2 limes
150 g brown rice noodles
2 spring onions
1 fresh red chilli
200 g fresh mixed salad veg , such as round lettuce, carrot, radishes, cress, spinach
Method
Lightly toast the peanuts in a dry frying pan, then crush in a pestle and mortar and put aside. Peel and finely chop the garlic and ginger.
Put 1 tablespoon of sesame oil and the star anise into the frying pan on a medium-high heat. Add the mince, breaking it apart with a wooden spoon, followed by half the garlic and ginger and the honey. Stir-fry for 5 minutes to crisp up and get golden brown.
Meanwhile, crush the remaining garlic and ginger into a paste in the pestle and mortar, then muddle in the fish and soy sauces and lime juice to make a dressing.
Cook the noodles according to the packet instructions.
Trim the spring onions, then finely slice with the chilli (deseed if you like). Prep the salad veg, breaking the lettuce leaves apart and matchsticking or finely slicing any crunchy veg so it’s all a pleasure to eat.
Load up your plates with that lovely salad veg, then drain and add the noodles. Spoon over the dressing, sprinkle over the crispy beef, chilli, spring onions and crushed peanuts, pick over the coriander leaves and tuck in.
Lightly toast the peanuts in a dry frying pan, then crush in a pestle and mortar and put aside. Peel and finely chop the garlic and ginger.
Put 1 tablespoon of sesame oil and the star anise into the frying pan on a medium-high heat. Add the mince, breaking it apart with a wooden spoon, followed by half the garlic and ginger and the honey. Stir-fry for 5 minutes to crisp up and get golden brown.
Meanwhile, crush the remaining garlic and ginger into a paste in the pestle and mortar, then muddle in the fish and soy sauces and lime juice to make a dressing.
Cook the noodles according to the packet instructions.
Trim the spring onions, then finely slice with the chilli (deseed if you like). Prep the salad veg, breaking the lettuce leaves apart and matchsticking or finely slicing any crunchy veg so it’s all a pleasure to eat.
Load up your plates with that lovely salad veg, then drain and add the noodles. Spoon over the dressing, sprinkle over the crispy beef, chilli, spring onions and crushed peanuts, pick over the coriander leaves and tuck in.
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