Healthy Korean Crispy Beef With Noodles

So it might come as no surprise to you that I am loving Korean food right now after my lovely invite to Simply Beef & Lamb's Korean food cooking class last week with Da-Hae West.  (And it's also the Chinese New Year Jan 28th!)

And because there's so many unfamiliar and exciting ingredients in West's cookbook, K Food, I've been gradually stocking up without overwhelming myself.

So, bring on rice wine (5 calories per tbsp) and sesame seed oil (a little more naughty, but delicious).  Buying new things has really helped me identify flavours I've had before from a takeaway too and I've been learning how they take a meal to another level.  Yeah, baby!

And while I attended the cooking class, Da-Hae taught us how to cook three quick, easy yet tasty meals and a Korean Crispy Lamb recipe stuck in my mind.

So as soon as I got home, I planned to adapt it.  However, it's proven tricky to pick up extra lean lamb mince.  If you find some, please tell me where from, won't you?  I love lamb, but knowing beef is more accessible, it made sense to make it easy for you (and me).

I also swapped the gochujang for tomato puree too.  I'm sure many of you won't know what I'm babbling on about.  I'd never heard of it either until then and it meant me ordering online and it sounded faffy.  It's a delicious chilli paste, I promise, but just not that accessible (or at least not to me).

It's also a blooming quick meal too, so I can successfully juggle a work and home balance.  So let me know what you think and look out for the Red Tractor label for quality meat.  I just picked up some 5% extra lean beef from Aldi as it's more affordable.

But my question to you is:  What's your favourite Korean meal?  (Perhaps I should give it a go!)

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Recipe - Serves 2 Mains (or 4 sides)

• 500g 5% extra lean minced beef
• ½ teaspoon mild chilli powder (or more to taste)
• 2 garlic cloves, minced
• 30ml rice wine *(¼ syn each or balsamic vinegar for syn free)
• 30ml soy sauce
• 3 tablespoon tomato puree
• Seasoning
• 2 courgettes, spiralized or grated
• 1 carrot, spiralized or grated
• Your choice of syn free dried noodles, cooked (I used Amoy Udon Noodles Straight to Wok which are 1 Syn per pouch)
• Spring onions & lemon juice to garnish

Method

1. In a mixing bowl, mix together two tablespoons of the puree, garlic, chilli, wine, soy sauce, seasoning and beef.
2. Place a frying pan over high heat and squash in the beef and fry for 15 minutes, occasionally turning and breaking down into large clumps.
3. Add the veg and cook until they've reduced in size.
4. Stir in the remaining puree and the cooked noodles, then serve.
5. Garnish with the spring onions and a twist of lemon.
6. And finally a good ol' hearty pic of your meal on Instagram would make my day (@TastefullyVikkie) would really make my day, so I know you made it!

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• Chicken noodles in a slow cooker
• Rice noodles in a Chinese Slimming fish soup
• Chinese cabbage noodle soup
• Fish noodle soup maker recipe
• Mediterranean Fish soup

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