Sweet and spicy Korean beef

• Sweet and spicy Korean beef (Beef cooked in sweet and spicy sauce with veggies)

Korean Beef with vegetables

Sweet and Spicy Korean beef

 Ingredients:

1. 2-3 tablespoons brown sugar
2. 1/4 cup reduced sodium soy sauce
3. 1 tablespoon white or rice wine vinegar 
4. 1 teaspoon crushed red-pepper flakes, or sambal
5. 1 teaspoon each of  ground ginger, garlic, minced, corn starch
6. 1 pound ground beef or fine beef cubes
7. 2 green onions, thinly sliced
8. 1/4 teaspoon sesame seeds
9. 1/2 cup each of cubed carrots, zucchini, yellow squash, chopped onions and broccoli
10. 1/2 tablespoons oil (only if using beef cubes else skip)

Heat a pan and cook the ground beef without oil or beef cubes with oil for 7-8 minutes. Drain and set aside.

Mix the sugar, vinegar, red peppers or sambal, soya sauce and corn starch along with 1/2 cup water.

Add onions and carrots to the pan and cook for 3 minutes. Add the rest of the veggies and garlic and ginger and stir and cook for 5 minutes. Add the beef back to the pan along with the sauce reduce the heat to low and simmer for 10 minutes

Garnish with cilantro and green onions and serve over plain rice

Garden burger patty

I have been craving burgers and so far I haven't found a place here that I like to go to get a burger. My favorite place used to be Fat Burgers. I spent half of my pregnancy there LOL :)

Anyway...I wanted to eat the burger, so I made it at home but I made it healthy for everyone involved. This burger has a ton of vegetables in it. But the taste was exceptional. My son wouldn't stop praising how great it tastes. So enjoy

Garden burger patty (Beef patty with vegetables and baked)

Vegetable filled burger

Ingredients:

1. 1 lb ground beef sirlion
2. 1 medium carrot + 1 mediym yellow squash or zucchini +1/2 cup finely chopped onion 
3. 2 or 3 stalks of green onions chopped fine
4. handful of cilantro chopped fine
5. 1 teaspoon each of salt, garlic powder
6. 1/2 teaspoon each of ground cumin, ground coriander, lemon pepper

Fine grate the carrot and the squash and squeeze them to get as much water out as possible. Squeeze the onion also. Mix all the ingredients and set aside for atleast 15 minutes.

Pre heat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a baking sheet with cooking spray. Take handful of meat and roll it into a ball and press it into a patty or make it into sausages. Bake for 30 minutes.

NOTE: You might have to drain the cooking sheet with way, if there is too much liquid.

Enjoy it over a bun with lettuce, tomato, pickles and onions. Or serve it the way you like it. I served mine with baked cauliflower and brown rice

Ground beef curry

I have been making dry ground beef recipes recently quite a bit for my Meat pockets. They have become my kids favorite school lunch. They are taking it to school quite often

Ground beef curry 

Ingredients:

1. 1 lb ground beef or lamb
2. 1 teaspoon each of finely chopped garlic, cumin powder, coriander powder, garam masala
3. 1/2 teaspoon each of salt, chilli powder
4. 1 cup black beans (canned) -drained and rinced
5. 1 cup corn (optional)
6. 1/2 cup chopped onions
7. 1 cup chicken broth
8. 1 potato and 1 carrot (optional)
9. cilantro for garnishing

Heat a pan and fry the onions without any oil for 5-7 minutes. Add the beef along with all the spices and salt and cook for 5-7 more minutes or until its cooked through. Add the rest of the ingredients and simmer for 15 minute stirring occasionally. Garnish with cilantro and enjoy with hot steamed rice or roti of your choice