Stir Fry
A healthy, cheap & very quick stir fry
MED
Energy Density
1.5kcal/g
1.5kcal/g
MED
Fat
36g / serving
36g / serving
MED
Saturates
14g / serving
14g / serving
LOW
Sugars
6.2g / serving
6.2g / serving
MED
Salt
3.9g / serving
3.9g / serving
LOW
Fibre
5.9g / serving
5.9g / serving
Suitable for:HalalPregnancyQuick
Stir frying originated in China as a way of cooking a meal very quickly as fuel was rare and expensive. This modern stir-fry beef recipe cooks in about 5 分钟, and doesn't take much longer than that to prepare! I find myself cooking it almost once a week as it's so quick to do and my other half never seems to get fed up of it.
Preparation
- Cut the beef into thin strips, 5cm or so long
- crush the garlic and chop the chilli and basil leaves
- Mix all the marinade ingredients in a bowl and add the beef
- Marinade for at least 15 分钟
- Whilst the beef is marinading, chop the veg into thin 5cm long pieces
- Heat some water in the medium pan
- Heat the wok on a high heat and add the marinaded beef mixture
- Cook for 2 分钟, until there are only a few hints of pink remaining on the beef
- Remove the beef, leaving behind as much juice as possible
- Add the noodles to the water in the medium pan, which should be nearly boiling
- Add the veg to the wok with the juice left from the beef and stir for 2-3 mins
- Once the noodles are cooked put the beef back into the wok with the veg
- Strain the noodles and then cut across them in a + shape in the bottom of the strainer to shorten them a bit
- Add the noodles to the wok with the beef and veg and stir in well
- Turn off heat and serve. Add an extra splash of soy sauce if you want more flavour
Notes
- This recipe also works well with chicken or pork.
- If you want to save even more time, you can buy pre-cut "stir-fry vegetable" packs from your local supermarket.
Ingredients
- 400g lean beef
- 80g mangetout
- 4 sliced spring onions
- 80g bean sprouts
- 1 whole carrot, sliced
- 1 bell pepper, sliced
- 375g egg noodles
- For the marinade
- 1tbsp soy sauce
- 1tbsp fish sauce
- 1tbsp dry sherry
- 1tsp sesame oil
- 1tsp lemongrass
- 1tsp coriander, ground
- 3 cloves garlic, crushed
- 1tsp ground black pepper
- 1tbsp lime juice
- 1tsp
hendersons relish - 1 beef stock cube
- 6 basil leaves
- 1 hot fresh chilli
Equipment
- Bowl
- Chopping board
- Knife
- Wok or large frying pan
- Strainer or Sieve
- Medium pan
Nutritional Facts
- Serving size: 450.3g
- (28% / 35%) Calories: 690kcal
- (65%)Total fat: 36g
- (70%) Saturated fat: 14g
- (56%) Unsaturated fat: 19.7g
- Mono: 16g
- Poly: 3.7g
- (47%) Cholesterol: 142mg
- Trans Fat: 0g
- (16%)Total carbohydrates: 49g
- Starch: 0g
- (21%) Sugars: 6.2g
- Sucrose: 0.1g
- Glucose: 0.1g
- Maltose: 0.4g
- Lactose: 0g
- Fructose: 0g
- Galactose: 0g
- (24%) Fibre: 5.9g
- (86%)Protein: 43g
- Salts
- (78%) Sodium: 1.6g
- (25%) Potassium: 885mg
- Minerals
- Calcium: 10%
- Iron: 60%
- Zinc: 93%
- Magnesium: 31%
- Phosphorus: 56%
- Copper: 44%
- Manganese: 6%
- Selenium: 720%
- Fluoride: 0%
- Cryptoxanthin: 5mg
- Lycopene: 0%
- Lutein: 0.7g
- Vitamins
- Vitamin A: 388µg
- Thiamin (B1): 25%
- Riboflavin (B2): 50%
- Niacin (B3): 56%
- Vitamin B5: 12%
- Vitamin B6: 77%
- Folate (B9): 19%
- Vitamin B12: 121%
- Choline: 23%
- Vitamin C: 145%
- Vitamin D: 8%
- Vitamin E: 7%
- Vitamin K: 68%
- Arginine: 0.3g
- Aspartic Acid: 0.4g
- Glutamate: 2.1g
- Glycine: 0.2g
- Proline: 0.7g
- Serine: 0.4g
- Tyrosine: 0.2g
- Alanine: 0.3g
- Cystine: 0.1g
- Amino Acids
- Histidine: 0.2g
- Isoleucine: 0.3g
- Leucine: 0.6g
- Methionine: 0.1g
- Phenylalanine: 0.3g
- Threonine: 0.2g
- Tryptophan: 68mg
- Valine: 0.4g
- Lysine: 0.3g
- Betaine: 24mg
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