Healthy Steak Stir Fry
I have been wanting to post a healthy steak stir fry on The Bewitchin’ Kitchen for a while now. It’s a delicious way to enjoy our weekly red meat fix and with both vegetables and grains, it’s in a healthy way. However, this one has a little bit of a twist: instead of the typical ramen or rice, I’m using Catelli’s Healthy Harvest Ancient Grains Spaghetti.
A while back, I asked my husband to give me an idea on what he thinks of when he hears the term “man meal”. His response was “anything with steak”. In our house, Friday night is steak night and that usually consists of the typical sirloin with salad and grilled vegetables. So naturally, I wanted to switch it up a bit and came up with this man approved Healthy Steak Stir Fry for Father’s Day.
Whenever I make a steak stir fry, I skip the ramen and rice and head straight for the hearty spaghetti. My favorite spaghetti is Catelli’s Healthy Harvest Ancient Grains variety. This pasta is made from all-natural, 100% whole grain blend of Canadian wheat and five ancient grains, which consists of: quinoa, amaranth, teff, sorghum and millet. Each Ancient Grains serving has 12g of protein, 8g of fibre and provides you with 25% of your daily intake of iron.
I like the thickness of the spaghetti for the Healthy Steak Stir Fry, and a little goes a long way because it’s so deliciously filling.
Our anniversary is at the end of the month and to celebrate we’re driving down to Whistler for three days of relaxation and exploring, so I’m a little more health conscious right now (I mean, I do have to look good in a bikini 😉 ). So when it came to making up a sauce I didn’t use any thickeners and I used a recipe from the P90X nutrition guide with a few modifications. I omitted soy sauce for liquid aminos (it’s just what I buy, but soy sauce or coconut aminos would be great too) and I thought it would be a great time to use the coconut vinegar that I had sitting in my cabinet as well. If you don’t have coconut vinegar, white wine vinegar or rice vinegar will work.
Just because it’s healthy, does not mean you have to sacrifice texture, flavor and taste.
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Healthy Steak Stir Fry
This Healthy Steak Stir Fry is a hit with families of all sizes. This recipe provides four heaping portions, but it’s easy to scale back if you’re cooking for two. To make it more of a “man stir fry” I added two strips of cut up bacon with the beef, but you can leave that out if you would like. It was a little extra something that made my husband smile, and isn’t that what cooking is about? Showing our families (and ourselves) a little love?
Healthy Steak Stir Fry
Healthy Steak Stir Fry - this man approved 21 dayfix recipe has steak strips, broccoli, red pepper, red onions all tossed together stir fry style and served over ancient grain noodles. It's a fast and easy recipe that's good for you.
Servings 4 servings
Calories 599kcal
Ingredients
- 1/2 box Catelli Healthy Harvest Ancient Grains Spaghetti
- 1 lb steak strips
- 2 strips bacon cubed
- 2 tsps olive oil
- 1 red onion diced
- 3 cups broccoli cut into small florets
- 1 red bell pepper sliced
- 2 tsps sesame seeds
For the sauce
- 1/4 cup liquid aminos soy sauce or coconut aminos is fine
- 1 tbsp toasted sesame oil
- 1 tsp ground ginger
- 2 tbsps coconut vinegar
Instructions
- In a hot pan over medium-high heat add the steak strips and cut up bacon. Cook until no longer pink, drain and set aside.
- While the meat is cooking, put all the sauce ingredients in a small bowl and stir, set aside.
- Prepare pasta according to the directions on the box.
- While the pasta is cooking add the broccoli, onion, and bell pepper. Cook until the onion is translucent.
- Add the meat back in and pour the sauce over the meat and vegetables. Sprinkle with sesame seeds.
- Serve over Catelli Healthy Harvest Ancient Grain Spaghetti.
Nutrition
Serving: 1g | Calories: 599kcal | Carbohydrates: 52g | Protein: 36g | Fat: 27g | Saturated Fat: 9g | Cholesterol: 76mg | Sodium: 1106mg | Potassium: 769mg | Fiber: 4g | Sugar: 5g | Vitamin A: 1375IU | Vitamin C: 100.9mg | Calcium: 68mg | Iron: 3.6mg
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Love this recipe and the sauce looks so easy to make! That is what always throws me off, if I don’t have sauce so I don’t make stir fry.
Looks absolutely delicious – great flavour combinations. Love a good stir fry!
Looks so delicious. I’ve pinned it to my Healthy Food Ideas board.
Thanks Susan, happy weekend!
I have never thought of switching out the rice in a stir fry for noodles that are healthy. This is really clever. It looks delicious too as always Randa!
Looks good! We had a BBQ at my sister’s house for Father’s Day on my side and on my hubby’s side, we had a late dinner last night: burgers at a diner. 🙂
This sounds so delicious. I always have trouble finding really good healthy recipes that include red meat but sometimes I feel like me and my family need to branch out from chicken and pork. Thanks for sharing, this is definitely tonights dinner! 😀
We do red meat about once a week. I agree, it’s nice to switch it up. This is a super yummy recipe. Enjoy!
whats the 21 day fix container count?
thanks.
Hi Krista,
I believe it is mentioned in the comments 🙂
Hi Randa,
Still wondering about the container count, I don’t see it!
Use the yellow container for the pasta, 1 spoon, 1 green and 1 red.
Use the green container for the stir fry and scoop roughly 1 1/2.
Is there a substitute for coconut vinegar? I would love to try this but don’t know what flavour profile that would have.Â
Cheers,
Margaret
Try a rice vinegar, or just vinegar 😉 It will be okay. Coconut vinegar is a little bit milder.
The dish turned out perfectly; your recipe is spot-on.
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