Stir-Fried Beef with Snow Peas
Total time: 25 minutes
Fresh snow peas and cherry tomatoes are great for stir-fries: they cook quickly, add lots of color and get us out of traditional winter fare.
Ingredients:
- 8oz ground beef (mince 240gr)
- 1 onion
- 2 green garlic substitute 2 cloves garlic
- 4oz (120gr) mushrooms
- 4oz (120gr) mangetout (snow peas, pea pods)
- 4oz (120gr) cherry tomatoes
- 1 rib celery
- 1 medium carrot
- 1/2 cup (4oz, 120ml) beef stock
- 1 tbs sherry
- 1 tbs soy sauce
- 1/2 tsp cumin
- 1 tbs olive oil
- 1 tbs cornstarch (or thickener of choice) dissolved in 2 tbs water
- Brown Rice:
- 1/2 cup (3.3oz, 95gr) quick-cooking brown rice
- 1 cup (8oz, 240ml) beef stock or whatever your rice calls for
Instructions:
- Trim and slice green garlic or mince garlic.
- Slice onion, celery.
- Cut carrot into matchsticks.
- Trim and slice mushrooms.
- Trim snow peas and cut in half.
- Cut cherry tomatoes in half.
- In large nonstick skillet heat oil over medium-high heat.
- Add onion, carrot, celery and stir-fry 5 minutes.
- Add mushrooms, green garlic or garlic, mangetout and stir-fry 3 minutes longer.
- Remove to a plate.
- Add beef to skillet and sauté, breaking it up as it browns.
- When beef is browned, return vegetables to skillet and add stock, sherry, cumin, soy sauce.
- Cover, reduce heat to medium-low and let simmer 5 minutes.
- Dissolve cornstarch in water.
- Turn the heat up under the skillet and add the cornstarch mixture, stirring constantly until thickened.
- Add cherry tomatoes, heat through.
- Serve over:
- Brown Rice:
- Cook rice according to package instructions.
- Fluff and serve.