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Black Bean Beef Noodles & Crunchy Pickles
Your week just got a lot better with this delicious noodle stir-fry. Sizzle British beef strips with a sticky homemade black bean sauce. Toss in brown rice noodles and vitamin-rich mangetout to soak up all the sauce. Top it off with crunchy pickled radishes and cucumber to give everything an extra zing.
Prep in 10
High protein
6 plants
Low sat fat
Serving size
Ingredients
- 2 tbsp black bean paste (Soya) (Water, Salted Black Beans(Black Beans (soya), Salt), Date Syrup, Salt, Acetic Acid)
- 4 tbsp rice wine vinegar
- 4 garlic clove
- 160g mangetout
- 1 tsp sesame seeds (Sesame)
- 200g brown rice noodles (Brown Rice Flour, Water)
- 6 radish
- 300g beef strips
- 1 handful of fresh coriander
- 50g honey
- 1 cucumber
- 4 tbsp tamari (Soya) (Water, Soybeans, Salt, Spirit Vinegar)
- 300g vegetable gravy (Celery) (Water, Vegetable Stock Base (Carrot juice concentrate, Mushroom Concentrate [Mushroom juice concentrate, Salt], Onion powder, Salt, Onion juice concentrate, water, black pepper) (5%), Cornflour, Date Syrup, Salt, Garlic, Acidity Regulator: Lactic Acid, Celery Powder, Thyme, Rosemary, Black Pepper, Bay Leaf.)
Nutritional Information
Calories: 480
Protein: 25g
Carbs: 58g
Fat: 16g
Black Bean Beef Noodles & Crunchy Pickles
Your week just got a lot better with this delicious noodle stir-fry. Sizzle British beef strips with a sticky homemade black bean sauce. Toss in brown rice noodles and vitamin-rich mangetout to soak up all the sauce. Top it off with crunchy pickled radishes and cucumber to give everything an extra zing.
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Cooking Instructions
Before you start
- Bring a large saucepan filled with salted hot water to a boil
- Pull out a sieve, a bowl, a large frying pan & a small bowl
Time to noodle
- Add the noodles to the saucepan, gently separate with a fork and boil for 3-4 mins, until cooked.
- Drain, then rinse under cold water.
Make the pickled veg & get sizzlin
- Slice the cucumber into half moons. Thinly slice the radish.
- Add both to a bowl and mix with half of the vinegar, sesame seeds and salt to taste. Set aside.
- Heat a large frying pan with 1 tbsp oil on medium-high heat. Once hot, add the beef strips and cook for 6 mins.
Make the black bean sauce
- Finely chop or crush the garlic.
- In a small bowl mix the black bean paste, garlic, tamari, honey and remaining vinegar.
Last bits
- Add the mangetout, gravy and black bean mixture to the pan.
- Simmer for 6-8 mins until the veg is cooked and the sauce thickened.
- Roughly chop the coriander and mix through the sauce, along with the cooked noodles.
Plate up
- Check your meat is cooked through; it should be golden brown, steaming hot, the juices should run clear when cut and there should be no pink / rare meat inside.
- Serve the beef noodles into bowls and top with the pickled veg.
- Garnish with the remaining sesame seeds.
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