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A Few Fantastic Recipes for Beef
Often we only think of poultry and pork when we want to cook cheap and tasty meals, but if we are honest, most of us still crave the flavour that beef alone can offer.
Most of us have limited ideas on how prepare the beef, we mostly stick with the normal things, meat loaf, burgers, roast beef, tacos and chilli.
But wait, have you ever thought about creating a salad with beef? There are many tasty recipes available that you can make with beef.
Here are a couple that have been created recently that your dinner guests are likely to savour.
Beef Spring Salad
Ingredients:
1 pound of ground beef
1 head of leaf green lettuce
1 head of red leaf lettuce
1/4 pound of fresh spinach
1-3 green onions
1-2 carrots
1-2 stalks of celery
1 tablespoon of fish oil
1/2 teaspoon of ginger
1/2 teaspoon soy sauce
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
1/4 cup rice wine vinegar
1/4 cup water
1 teaspoon parsely
1 teaspoon tarragon
1 teaspoon of reserved green onion
To do: In a pan, brown your ground beef, while you are browning the beef add in, fish oil, ginger, soy sauce, garlic powder, salt and pepper.
In a large bowl, rip up your lettuce leaves and spinach. Chop up carrots and celery to your size liking. Then chop up the green onions into small pieces reserving 1 teaspoon for your dressing.
In a small bowl, mix together rice wine vinegar, water, tarragon, parsely and reserved green onion, set in the fridge to chill for approximately 15 minutes.
When the ground beef is done, drain off any fat that may have come out of the beef, now put into the bowl with your salad greens. Mix together. Take the dressing you created and pour all over the top of your salad, toss some more.
Your salad is ready to serve. This is a great spring or summer salad.
Beef vegetable soup with barley
This is a nice hearty soup that is great to eat any time. You could even set this up to cook in your crockpot for the day.
Ingredients:
1 pound of ground beef
1 cup chopped carrots
1 cup chopped celery
1 cup chopped yellow onion
1 cup peas
1 cup corn
1 cup lima beans
1 cup chopped potatoes
1 1/2 cup barley
2 cups beef stock
4-6 cups water
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1 teaspoon basil
1 teaspoon oregano
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon black pepper
To do:
In a large pan, begin by browning your ground beef, sprinkle a small amount of salt and pepper while meat is cooking. When the meat is browning, add in the onion, let cook for a minute or two, this will allow some of the oils to sweat from the onion and provide additional flavor to the beef and the soup. Now toss in remaining vegetables, allow to good mixing constantly for about 10 minutes, this will help the softening process on the vegetables and also release additional flavors for your soup. Add in the stock, water and spices, cover with a lid let cook on medium heat for about an hour, checking occasionally to make sure it doesn’t boil over. Then lower to simmer for about 30-40 minutes. Your soup is ready to serve.
If you prefer not to use ground beef for these recipes you can used chopped up beef of your liking. Just be sure to brown the meat before any of the other steps.
Remember, there are a wide variety of different cuts of beef – not to mention select types of beef, such as Aberdeen Angus – so if you are unsure of which cuts of beef to use, ask your butcher, they are usually all to happy to offer you advice. You can find many tasty beef recipes by using the the internet – there are many recipe cookbook sites out there, almost all of them will have a collection of recipes for beef. If they don’t have a specialist beef recipe section, you will most likely find beef recipes in the meat recipes category.
Enjoy!
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