Lunch of the week - Mongolian Beef! 435 calories per serving (though high sodium)

hmichaud09
hmichaud09 Posts: 66 Member
edited November 26 in Food and Nutrition
24 ounce, Flank Steak - Raw - Cut thin and bite size
1 tbsp (8g), 100% Pure Corn Starch
1 tablespoon, Oil, peanut, salad or cooking
--- Put cut steak into plastic bag with corn starch and shake to coat. Cook in hot oil in small batches as the meat sticks together and you do not want to over cook this meat. est 3 min. Remove and set aside. (I put it in a strainer over a large bowl to drain any excess oil)

1 Whole Green Bell Pepper cut bite size
1 cup, Onion, Vidalia - Raw sliced thinner
----Add to pan, sautee until tender, remove and set aside ( I just added to the meat in the strainer)

1 tsp (0.8 g), Crushed Red Pepper Flakes
4 clove, Garlic, raw
1.25 cup, Chicken Broth
0.75 cup(s), Lite Soy Sauce (50% Less Sodium)
Mix and add to pan. Bring to boil and reduce to simmer until liquid reduced by 1/4 (10 min or so) Start boiling your water for your Ramen now.

3 block, Ramen Noodles - No Flavor Packet - Plain

Add meat, veggies into pan and toss. Add ramen, toss to coat.

Serves 5 with extra sauce. I put in MyFitPal as 6 servings as I dumped extra sauce.

Next time I'll divide cooked ramen into lunch containers (5)
Then measure out the meat and divide by 5, pour the sauce in a bowl and divide by 5.

ALSO, I may cut back on the brown sugar (very sweet) and the cut the soy down by 1/4 a cup and add more stock. It was very yummy but just a bit too strong for me.zi32b30mvimk.jpg
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  • Sabine_Stroehm
    Sabine_Stroehm Posts: 19,263 Member
    Something other than ramen would reduce the sodium by a lot.
    It looks super yummy!
  • hmichaud09
    hmichaud09 Posts: 66 Member
    The ramen is only the noodle, not the flavor packets. But yeah next time it will be rice or just some angel hair pasta
  • enterdanger
    enterdanger Posts: 2,447 Member
    I get rice noodles a lot. That might work in place of the ramen. I get them to make summer rolls.
  • arditarose
    arditarose Posts: 15,573 Member
    I might try this with shirataki noodles
  • Sabine_Stroehm
    Sabine_Stroehm Posts: 19,263 Member
    hmichaud09 wrote: »
    The ramen is only the noodle, not the flavor packets. But yeah next time it will be rice or just some angel hair pasta
    The ramen itself has tons of sodium.
  • hmichaud09
    hmichaud09 Posts: 66 Member
    Gotcha! Will definitely look at alternative noodles next time because the dish is worth making again.
  • Queenmunchy
    Queenmunchy Posts: 3,380 Member
    I think the ramen noodles sans packet are around 220mg sodium per block.
  • bluefish86
    bluefish86 Posts: 842 Member
    Looks yummy! Will bookmark for later...
  • Sabine_Stroehm
    Sabine_Stroehm Posts: 19,263 Member
    Queenmunchy wrote: »
    I think the ramen noodles sans packet are around 220mg sodium per block.
    That's not been my experience.

  • Sabine_Stroehm
    Sabine_Stroehm Posts: 19,263 Member
    hmichaud09 wrote: »
    Gotcha! Will definitely look at alternative noodles next time because the dish is worth making again.

    It looks fabulous.
    If I were making it, I'd start with a soba and work toward whatever tasted best.

    YUM.
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