Healthy Indonesian Slow Cooked Beef Recipe
Ingredients
- spray olive or canola oil spray
- 500 g chuck, oyster blade or lean casserole beef, trimmed of fat, cut into 1.5cm cubes
- 1 1/2 tbs plain flour
- 1 onion, diced
- 4 cloves garlic, thinly sliced
- 2 tsp fresh ginger, grated
- 2 tsp Chinese five-spice
- to taste pepper
- 500 g sweet potato, skin on, cut into 2cm cubes
- 2 carrots, chopped
- 1 1/2 cups reduced-salt beef stock
- 1 tbs salt-reduced soy sauce
- 2 cinnamon sticks, whole
- 1 star anise, whole
- 2 strips orange rind
- 1 cup brown or basmati rice (uncooked)
- 200 g mushroom, quartered
- 200 g green beans, trimmed and cut into 5cm lengths
Method
- Place a large non-stick saucepan (that has a lid) on high heat and spray with oil.
- Shake beef and flour together in a plastic bag or container to coat all sides.
- Add half the beef to the hot pan and sear all over for 3-5 minutes until browned. Transfer to a plate, respray pan and repeat with remaining beef.
- Re-spray the pan with oil and cook onion on medium heat for 3 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add garlic, ginger, five spice powder and pepper and stir for 1 minute until fragrant.
- Return beef to pan with sweet potato and carrots, cook a further minute to coat in spice mixture, adding a splash of stock if it begins to stick.
- Pour in remaining stock with soy sauce, cinnamon, star anise and orange peel. Mix well, cover and bring to the boil. Reduce heat to low and simmer, stirring occasionally, for 45 minutes to 1 hour, until beef is tender. Sweet potato will collapse and sauce will thicken.
- Cook rice according to packet instruction. (Note: brown rice will take a lot longer than basmati rice).
- Ten minutes before serving, mix in mushrooms and beans and simmer gently until beans are tender but still bright green.
- Serve with rice.
Variation: To add heat, cook a chopped red chilli or teaspoon of chilli powder with spices.
In the last minutes of cooking add other softer vegetables such as snow peas, baby corn spears, red capsicum or bean shoots.
Serving Suggestion: To make in a slow cooker, transfer to a slow-cooker at step 6 and cook on high for 4 hours or low for 8 hours. You can skip the frying and browning in steps 1-5 but the flavour of the dish will not be as rich and fragrant.
Comment: *To make the dish gluten-free replace flour with a gluten-free alternative and check sauces to make sure none contain gluten.
Healthy tip!
Swap a large portion of meat for a smaller portion with extra vegetables.
Nutrition Information
| per serving | per 100g | |
|---|---|---|
| Energy | 2204 kJ | 426 kJ |
| 527 Cal | 102 Cal | |
| Protein | 32.7 g | 6.3 g |
| Fat, total | 10.7 g | 2.1 g |
| — saturated | 3.2 g | 0.6 g |
| Carbohydrate | 67.6 g | 13.1 g |
| — sugars | 12.8 g | 2.5 g |
| Sodium | 523 mg | 101 mg |
| Fibre | 12.1 g | 2.3 g |
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Comments (1)
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We enjoyed this meal. Found it a little large so divided it into 6 serves instead of 4. Omitted the star aniseed and the cinnamon because we don’t like them. Still very yummy.
Pamela Ranson
Posted on: 11 Jan 20
