Recipe Minced Ground Beef and Vegetables: How To Cook Mince Steak

Ready in only thirty minutes this quick and easy dish can be used in a variety of meals to suit your own taste and preferences.

Create your own unique family meal.

Step by step guide

• Preparation time: less than 5 mins
• Cooking time: 30 mins
• Serves: 6 to 8 depending on size of portions required

Ingredients

• 1 ½ 1bs mince steak
• 2 large onions
• 1 medium size carrot
• 2 large tomatoes
• 1 bowl frozen peas
• 1 Tablespoon tomato puree
• Small amount gravy

Optional extra ingredients to suit the individual taste.

These vegetables should also be chopped up into small pieces.

• 2 small mushrooms
• ½ a small pepper
• 4 green beans

Step 1

Cut up the onions into fairly small pieces.

Cut up the tomatoes into fairly small pieces.

Grate the carrot.

Step 2

Add the cooking oil and onions to the pot. Cook for approx one minute until the onions are brown.

Add the grated carrot and the tomatoes.

Keep back a quarter of the tomatoes.

These will be added at the very end of cooking in order to keep their shape.

Add any extra vegetables that you have decided to include.

• Put the pot back on the cooker and mix in these vegetables for two minutes.

• Add the tomato puree and mix for another minute.

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• Add the mince to the pot and mix well as it cooks.

• A wooden spoon is best to use for its strength. Cook for twenty minutes.

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• Add the frozen peas and the remainder of the chopped tomatoes.

• Cook for a further 5 minutes.

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Make up the gravy and stir this into the pot slowly and continuously until mixed in evenly.

The amount of gravy used will depend on your preference for how you like the finished dish.

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Total preparation and cooking time for meat and vegetables recipe is 30 mins approximately.

This main meat dish can now be used to make other variants of main meals.

Variants on using the minced/ground meat recipe in different dishes.

As cooked and accompanied by pasta.

As cooked and accompanied by spaghetti.

As the main ingredient of one large or a few smaller cottage pies.

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As cooked and accompanied by mashed potatoes and vegetables.

As the main ingredient of one large or a few smaller puff or shortcrust pastry pies.

Freezing

This mince and vegetable recipe is very easy to freeze and losses none of its taste when reheated.

It can be frozen in individual small portions for one or in larger family portions.

This recipe is a good way to get your required amount of vegetables a day that is recommended for a healthier diet.

Children and vegetables

Children can be sometimes stubborn when it comes to getting them to eat vegetables.

The vegetables in this recipe are turned invisible when cooked with the exception of the peas.

By grating the carrots it gives a much better flavour but also has the advantage of hiding the vegetable within the meat. .

Vegetables are low in fat and calories.

They contain high amounts of various vitamins and minerals.

They are also full of antioxidants, fibre and other nutrients.

By eating at least five different vegetables and fruit a day many health problems can be alleviated or prevented.

As can be seen by the recipe above there is nothing tastier than cooked mince beef and vegetables.

The recipe above could be used with other minced/ground meats such as chicken, pork and lamb.

The cooking time is the same and the taste is just as nice.

Also the vegetables can be changed and herbs added to create your own unique mince, ground beef family favourite meal.

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