Category: Lunch

Crispy Chilli Beef

Spicy food lovers will love this crispy chili beef recipe! Enjoy your lunch or dinner with a spicier kick with fried, crispy beef slices coated with hot chili sauce. Complete your meal by serving it with rice and a tasty vegetable salad. This recipe takes about 40 minutes and serves four persons.

Ingredients:

For the Beef:

• 500 grams rump steak (sliced thinly)
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 1/2 tsp toasted sesame seeds
• 6 tbsp cornflour
• 3 tbsp vegetable oil

For the Sauce:

• 6 tbsp sweet chili sauce
• 1 tsp hot sauce (tabasco or sriracha, but this is optional)
• 1 tbsp water
• 1 tbsp light soy sauce
• 180 ML orange juice
• Juice from 1/2 lemon

Instructions:

For the Sauce:

In a saucepan, add ingredients for the sauce.
You can add hot sauce for a spicier taste, but this is just optional.
Set it over a medium flame and bring to a boil.
Let it simmer until sauce thickens.

For the Beef:

Meanwhile, prepare a clean baking tray or any clean surface.
Add cornflour and salt.
Mix well.
Put the beef slices on the tray and coat them very well.
Set a large pan over medium-high heat.
Add vegetable oil and let it warm up.
Fry the beef slices until browned and crisp.
Pour the sauce into the large pan.
Stir to mix well with the beef.
Remove from the heat and transfer to a plate.
Sprinkle with toasted sesame seeds.
Serve with rice and enjoy!

Crispy Chilli Beef
Images – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQwwk_UHSRQ

Raw Veggie Wrap Recipe

This raw veggie wrap contains fresh vegetables, which makes it a delicious and a healthier food choice for lunch or snacks. The spicy tahini almond dressing is also healthy and creates an amazing combination with the vegetables. It only takes 15 minutes to prepare this veggie wrap recipe. Serve with your favorite fruit smoothie and lunch is complete!

Ingredients:

For Veggie Wraps:

• 4 rice paper sheets
• 2 raw nori sheets
• 1 bunch fresh sprouts
• 1 cup carrots (shredded)
• 1 avocado (cut like match sticks)
• 4 pieces romaine lettuce
• 1/2 cucumber (cut like match sticks)
• 1/2 cup beets (shredded)
• 1/2 red or orange bell pepper (cut like match sticks)
• Fresh dill or other herbs

For Spicy Tahini Almond Dressing:

• 1 thumb ginger
• 1 garlic clove
• 4 tbsp raw almond butter
• 2 tbsp raw tahini
• 2 tbsp maple syrup
• 2 tbsp Nama shoyu soy sauce (any soy sauce will do)
• 2 tsp toasted sesame oil
• 1/3 cup of water
• 1/4 tsp cayenne pepper
• Juice of 1/2 lemon

Instructions:

This recipe takes 15 minutes. It makes two wraps.

For Spicy Tahini Almond Dressing:

Prepare a blender.
Add all the ingredients for the spicy tahini almond dressing into the blender.
Blend until the texture is smooth like that of a dressing.
Transfer to a container.
Set aside.

For Veggie Wraps:

Soak the rice paper sheets in lukewarm water.
Lay two soaked rice paper sheets, forming like an 8.
Put a nori sheet on top.
Place romaine lettuce leaves in the middle of the nori sheet.
Pour some spicy tahini almond dressing on the lettuce.
Top it off with layers of the vegetables – cucumber, red or orange bell pepper, fresh dill, carrots, avocado, beets, and fresh sprouts.
Roll it up.
Cut into half.
Serve and enjoy!

Tips and ideas:

You can add more vegetables and dressing if you want to.

The recipe makes two veggie wraps. You can make more wraps based on the amount of ingredients you have.

Serve with your favorite fruit smoothie.

Raw Veggie Wrap Recipe
Images – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwD-wSutDWk

Healthy Vegan Potato Burgers

A healthy vegan potato burger is a simple and healthy version of the burger patty. You and your friends will enjoy lunchtime this weekend with this recipe! This recipe takes about 50 minutes.

Ingredients:

• 2 medium potatoes (boiled)
• 2 carrots (grated)
• 2 large stems of kale (chopped and massaged with sea salt)
• 1 garlic clove (pressed)
• 1 small onion (diced)
• 1 tsp dried wakame (sea vegetable soaked in water, then chopped)
• 1 tsp sea salt
• Black pepper to taste
• 1 tsp ground coriander
• 1/4 tsp cayenne
• 2 tbsp olive oil

Instructions:

This recipe makes nine burger patties.

Place the boiled potatoes in a bowl and mash them.
Set aside.

Set a frying pan over medium flame.
Saute onion and garlic in olive oil until they are soft.
Remove from the flame and add into the bowl of mashed potatoes.
Add grated carrots and chopped kale.
Mix well.
Season with salt, black pepper, ground coriander, and cayenne.
Add some olive oil.
Mix until well combined.

Scoop from the mixture and form into patties.
Place the patties on a parchment-lined baking tray.
Put inside a preheated oven of 350 degrees F and bake for 25-30 minutes.
Serve right away or serve in a bun.
Enjoy!

Tips and ideas:

If you don’t have an oven, you can cook the vegan patties in a frying pan.
Set a frying pan over medium flame and heat some olive oil.
Fry the vegan patties for 4-5 minutes on each side or until golden brown.

You can add tomato slices or any vegetable or fruit as toppings.

Healthy Vegan Potato Burgers
Images – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JF46mOl6STc