How often do you hear (sometimes from way across the house), ?Mom! What?s for dinner?!? Or, here?s another favorite: You ask your kids (and even maybe your husband) what they want for dinner, and they say, ?I don?t care.? Yeah. I?d like to invent ?I don?t care.? I?d make a bazillion!
Anyway. Today I?m coming to your dinner time rescue with a Powell Pack favorite that?s quick, yummy, healthy, and soooo simple?.AND it happens to be one of the delicious recipes featured in my man?s book, Choose More, Lose More For Life!!? Which, by the way, just released in paperback, and I?m happy to share that I will be giving away one signed copy to a lucky reader! Details at the bottom of this post.
So, back to the recipe?like I said, it is super versatile?besides steak, you can also use chicken or lean pork tenderloin, and if you have leftovers of any of these, you can throw them in for an even faster meal. Here?s another plus: If you?re carb cycling, this one does double duty?it can work for both low and high-carb meals. Check below for all the info, and let?s get cooking! Or stir frying, actually. 😉
Roasted Garlic Beef-and-Veggie Stir Fry
Serves 4
What you?ll need:
12 oz. sirloin steak, boneless and lean, cut into ? inch strips
2 spritzes of olive oil
4 tsp. low sodium soy sauce
1 1/3 tsp. cornstarch
? tsp. ground ginger
2 tsp. roasted garlic and bell pepper seasoning
4 cups assorted veggies: broccoli florets, bell pepper strips, snow peas, etc.
2/3 cup water
What you?ll do:
1. In a small bowl, mix together soy sauce, cornstarch, ginger, roasted garlic and bell pepper seasoning, and water. Set aside.
2. Heat oil in a large nonstick pan over medium-high heat. Add sliced beef in small batches and cook until no longer pink (about 5 minutes). Remove from pan and repeat until all meat is cooked.
3. If needed, spritz the pan with a bit more oil. Add the veggies and cook for 3-4 minutes, stirring frequently.
4. Add the meat to the veggies and stir in soy sauce mixture. Continue stirring while the liquid comes to a boil. Simmer for about a minute more.
5. Serve immediately, or portion out and store in the fridge or freezer until you?re ready to reheat and enjoy.
What?s in it:
When made with steak, each serving has 150.8 calories, 20.6 g protein, 5.5 g carbs, 2.1 g fiber, 3.8 g fat, and 390 mg sodium.
When made with chicken, each serving has 130.5 calories, 18.7 g protein, 5.5 g carbs, 2.1 g fiber, 2.2 g fat, and 563.8 mg sodium.
When made with pork, each serving has 138.8 calories, 21.1 g protein, 5.5 g carbs, 2.1 g fiber, 2.3 g fat, and 507.5 mg sodium.
And here?s one thing you?ve been waiting for (be patient?the giveaway info you?ve REALLY been waiting for is up next): 🙂
- To make this delicious dish a complete low-carb meal, add a portion of fat (like slivered almonds or avocado).
- To make it a complete high-carb meal, add a portion of carbs (like brown rice).
Finally?how to win an autographed copy of my main man?s genius book ALL about carb cycling, and full of incredible recipes just like this one:
- Like and share my post on all social media platforms (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Pinterest). Please use the hashtag #ChooseMoreLoseMore and tag me.
- Leave a comment below letting me know what kinds of recipes you?d like to see more of on my blog!
- Go give someone in your life a big hug! Why? Just because?makes us all happy. I can?t check up on this one, but I?ll trust you did it. 😉
- Enter by 11:59 pm PST on Tuesday, January 27, 2015, and a winner will be randomly chosen and announced on Wednesday, January 28, 2015.
Good luck?and Enjoy!
Xoxo,
Heidi
To snag a new, just-released paperback version of Choose More, Lose More For Life click here!
91 Responses
I would love snack recipes that are school accepted (no nuts). I also would love a copy of your book. I have been struggling with my weight for so long and am starting to feel like a failure. I have tried so many other diets that have cost me a fortune then the food cost. You are my last hope. I have 75 lbs to lose to get my life back.
I tried…not sure if I social media’d correctly though. Recipes for one – I live alone (happily). Thanks.
I love quick and easy recipes that reheat well. I work as a home health nurse and need meals that can be eaten on the go. 🙂
My wife and I have been extremely motivated by the Powells! I have lost 60lbs over time and my wife and I both strive for better health and more fitness everyday in our lives.
Love to see recipes with chicken, hi protein, and how to make veggies taste better!
Trying to win the book as a gift for my wife who is a huge fan of the Powells!
Thanks for all of the lives you reach each day!
I updated all social medias! I would love to see some more snacks for low-carb options when you cannot have dairy, nuts, eggs, spice, or broccoli. I have a fussy baby who was getting really bad gas / throw up everywhere, until I changed my diet. I am having a hard time with snacks on low carb days
I already have a copy of both books. I would love a signed copy of #ChooseMore
toLoseMore book. I’ve lost 93 lbs over the last two years on my own not sure how. But still have 82 to 112 lbs would still like to lose yet. Need some motivation to make it. Don’t really take time often to excerise any advice from low calorie meals or snacks for someone who works retail. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Love you both and have watched all Extreme Weight Loss shows so far shown on tv.
Thanks for all you do!!
Lunch recipes please for teachers like me who only have a short time to eat. 🙂
#choosemorelosemore
Would love to try this but I don’t know if my ten year old would eat it or not, guess it depends on the veggies I put in. With him being autistic there is just some food textures he dislikes on feel alone. I have been making huge leaps and bounds with him however. I got him ok with onions, and even green bell peppers hidden in things, so long as they are chopped up thin like. Still there is not much room to hide the veggies here. Maybe if I laid the mixture over some steamed rice and mixed the veggies in the rice that would do the trick? I just wish I could use tomatoes and mushrooms. Seems because my son’s father does not like the two, my son does not like them. Never the less I think I will give this meal a try with the added bit of rice. That can’t add on to many more calories right?
As for your contest I would love to try out for it but, I don’t do all those social media platforms. It’s hard enough to keep up with Facebook, but I will share and post it there because I truly do like this blog of yours. 🙂
The types of recipes I would like to see you add here is some ones for Slow Cookers. Right now I live in a place with no stove/oven, (I use a hotplate to cook on, microwave, and slow cooker) it makes cooking a extra challenge but am dead set on losing weight so I can be more active in my son’s life. Being over 500lbs, its always been his father to take him places, his father in the pictures with him, because mommy is just to big for whatever reason. I’m doing a lot to changes t my life, and trying to cook healthier should differently be making the list, so thanks for the help on this!
would love to see fast and easy, healthy, chicken or fish, veggie recipes. i work out when i get home and i want something quick to fix after that isn’t bad for me before i go to bed. You guys are an inspiration. I have lost 150 lbs. and am struggling to keep it off. Would love one of Chris’ books to help me stay motivated and heatlhy…it is so easy to fall off the wagon and so hard to get back on.