No-Fry Vegetable Beef Stir-Fry Recipe

I love making tasty and nutritious dishes at home; it's much healthier (and more cost-effective!) than going out to eat.

A Crowd Pleaser

Stir-fries are a nutritious and inexpensive way to feed your family. Add a couple of spring rolls to this dish, and it will become a Friday-night favorite.

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Ingredients

• 1 small head of cauliflower, cleaned and florets removed
• 6 cloves garlic, as is with top, cut off bulb
• 1 package baby bok choy, cleaned and cut in half
• 2 red bell peppers, julliened
• 1 pound lean ground beef, rolled into balls with garlic inside
• 1 package snow peas, cleaned
• 1 tablespoon each of yellow grainy mustard and soya sauce, on beef
• 4 pinches salt, pepper, hot pepper flakes, added to beef
• Drizzle olive oil, over whole dish

Instructions

1. When the garlic and cauliflower are ready, put them on a flat cooking sheet, drizzle olive oil over them, and place in the oven at 400˚F for 10 minutes.
2. While that is roasting, add the mustard, soy sauce, salt, pepper, and hot pepper flakes (or not) to the lean ground beef. Mix in with your hands.
3. Take the garlic and cauliflower out of the oven and squeeze out the individual cloves of garlic on a plate. You are going to wrap one of these garlic cloves inside each meatball.
4. Cut the bok choy in half. Julienne the red peppers (cut into thin strips). You can add green onions here also. This would really add to this dish, but unfortunately, I cannot eat onions. Cut green onions into strips also. You can choose whether to cut the ends off the snow peas; I don't usually bother with this step.
5. Place all ingredients flat on the cooking sheet. Drizzle olive oil and salt/pepper over the whole thing, and place into the oven for 30 minutes at 400˚F.

Preparing Cauliflower and Garlic

Preparing the Meat and Veggies

© 2013 Susan Britton