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Home » Main Dishes » Beef And Walnut Stir fry with Veggie ‘Rice’

Beef And Walnut Stir fry with Veggie ‘Rice’

Author: Karon Grieve Published : December 2014

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beef and walnut stirfry
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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 on the side

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.

plate of stir fry with fork at side of plate

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.

close up of beef and walnut stirfry on plate

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.

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close up of beef and walnut stirfry on plate

Beef And Walnut Stir fry with Veggie ‘Rice’

Karon Grieve
Super quick and easy healthy recipe for a beef stir-fry with cauliflower and broccoli 'rice'
5 from 1 vote
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Prep Time 10 mins
Cook Time 10 mins
Total Time 20 mins
Course savoury
Cuisine Asian
Servings 2 people
Calories 708 kcal

Ingredients
 

  • 1 tbsp coconut oil for frying
  • 1 red pepper cut into strips
  • 2 thin steak thin 'minute/sandwich' steaks cut into strips
  • 2 tsp Soy sauce or Tamari sauce
  • 2 tsp honey
  • 3 spring onions chopped
  • 3 tbsp walnuts toasted walnuts broken
  • 1/2 cup fresh basil torn
  • 2 tsp coconut for frying
  • 4 cauliflower florets
  • 6 broccoli florets
  • 1/2 lemon zest and juice
  • salt and pepper to taste

Instructions
 

  • Heat half the oil in a wok till hot.
  • Add the pepper and cook for 2-3 minutes, remove from wok.
  • Add remaining oil and fry the beef for 3 minutes then add the peppers again, spring onions and walnuts plus the soy/tamari sauce and honey.
  • Stir well and cook for 1 minute.
  • Toss in the basil leaves just before serving and season to taste.
  • Whizz the cauliflower and broccoli in food processor till it becomes crumb like.
  • Heat the coconut oil and fry the veggies for 5 minutes stirring well.
  • Season and add lemon zest and juice just before plating up with the meat.

Notes

Grain-Free, Gluten Free if using Tamari sauce.
You can also use pork instead of beef for this recipe.

Nutrition

Calories: 708kcalCarbohydrates: 19gProtein: 51gFat: 50gSaturated Fat: 22gPolyunsaturated Fat: 9gMonounsaturated Fat: 17gCholesterol: 138mgSodium: 478mgPotassium: 1104mgFiber: 5gSugar: 11gVitamin A: 2607IUVitamin C: 137mgCalcium: 88mgIron: 6mg
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Comments

  1. Thalia @ butter and brioche says

    December 4, 2014 at 7:01 am

    Love how delicious and surprisingly healthy this dish is! Definitely perfect for a quick and easy weeknight meal this week.. thanks for the recipe and idea.

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