Thai Beef Stir-Fry Recipe

Every home cook knows that one of the easiest things to cook with is ground beef, ground turkey or ground chicken. Recipes using ground meats cook up quick so you don’t have to slave in the kitchen just to prepare a delicious dinner. In fact, I’d say most ground meat recipes can be made in about 30 minutes, easily.

Ingredients

1/2 cup water
1/2 lb. green beans washed
1/2 Japanese eggplant cut into strips, okay to use regular eggplant
2 tsp. avocado oil
1 large red bell pepper thinly sliced
1.5 lbs. organic ground beef
1 medium jalepeno seeded, stemmed and sliced thin
1 tsp. Kosher salt
3 cloves garlic finely chopped
1 lime
1 Tbsp. fish sauce or substitute worcestershire sauce
2 Tbsp. coconut aminos or substitute gluten-free soy sauce or tamari
4 scallions white and green parts, sliced

Instructions

In a large saucepan, bring water to a boil, then add green beans and eggplant to pan. Cover and lower heat to medium-high. Steam vegetables for about four minutes or until tender. Transfer vegetables to a large bowl and set aside.

Add avocado oil to the same saucepan and warm over medium high heat. Add bell pepper and cook for 2 minutes or until just soft. Transfer peppers to bowl with vegetables.

Return saucepan to heat and add ground beef, jalapeno and salt. Cook until meat is brown.

Add garlic, juice of lime, fish sauce and coconut aminos to meat mixture and stir to coat meat. Add the vegetables back to the pan and heat for another minute until everything is warm.

Turn off heat. Add scallions to the mixture and toss to combine all ingredients. Serve immediately.