Beef And Walnut Stir fry with Veggie ‘Rice’

This quick and easy beef and walnut stir fry is super healthy when served with mixed broccoli and cauliflower rice. It’s high on flavour and low on carbs and just the perfect midweek meal.

Beef and walnut stir fry with veggie rice

My daughter Idgy is a meat freak, she loves steak, pork, lamb and all those hearty dishes that incorporate them. I’m now tending towards lighter meat meals in that a slab of meat doesn’t really do it for me as it used to.

I prefer little strips of meat mixed with veggies in the form of this beef and walnut stir fry. I get the taste of the meat but not that ploughing through feeling I get when faced with a full steak on my plate.

Healthy Eating

This beef and walnut stir fry is even lighter than a normal stir fry as I’ve used cauliflower and broccoli ‘rice’ instead of grains.

Now, this was a first for Idgy. She loves broccoli as a side dish and cauliflower but usually when armed with a cheese sauce, here I was going to pass it off as the carb part of a meal. What would happen, would it be left on the plate, grudgingly nibbled, or wolfed down with gusto?

I needn’t have worried, the meal was an unqualified success, she loved it, and so did I.

Ingredients for this beef and walnut stir fry

Here I used two thin ‘minute’ steaks, a red bell pepper, 4 spring onions, 2 tbsp toasted walnuts and half a cup of basil leaves for the basic dish.

The flavourings are simply 2 tsp of tamari (or soy) sauce and 2 tsp of good honey.

Healthy Rice

Now the grainless rice is just so easy, you need four florets of cauliflower and about six of broccoli, two tsp of coconut oil from frying plus the zest and juice of half a lemon to fire it all up.

How to make this

This is simply a case of heating a wok and stir-frying the peppers first then removing from the wok while you fry the steak strips.

Now toss the peppers back into the wok, add soy sauce (or tamari if using), spring onions, walnuts and honey. Stir-fry for just a minute more.

For the veggie rice

Simply blitz the veg in food processor and then fry it off in some coconut oil and that’s it.

Real fast food!

This beef and walnut stir fry dish is so quick and easy to make and it falls into the comfort food category too, throw in the healthy ingredients and I just have to say that this is a win, win situation.

Go on folks, try this for a midweek dinner when time is short and hunger high, I just know it will become a firm favourite.

Looking for more super quick and easy midweek meals? Then check these out before you go;

Quick and easy mixed fish tacos

Minced beef and courgette/zucchini with hummus

Quick and easy gammon and peach traybake with orzo pasta

Quick chicken traybake with chickpeas and lemon

Chicken and asparagus risotto

Oat crusted salmon

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