6 Easy and Healthy Beef Recipes to Fill You Up and Support Your Fitness Goals
Beef is one of the best meat sources for fitness enthusiasts. It is packed with L-carnitine - an amino acid that helps with the transportation of fat into our mitochondria for burning as fuel. It’s rich in glutathione - the master antioxidant with anti-aging benefits that prevents sickness.
When it comes to building muscle mass and strengthening your body’s performance, beef is the fourth food with the highest amount of protein. Because cows are herbivores, their meat is rich in minerals such as iron, magnesium, potassium, phosphorus, selenium, and zinc.
All of these minerals are necessary for our cells to function well. But the problem with beef is that the meat can be too thick and cooking may take a lot of time. Which is why in this blog post, we suggest six easy and healthy recipes to cook beef for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
1. 15-Minute Go-To Beef and Broccoli
The technique to preparing a 15-minute tender beef meal is to choose the flank part of the steak and slicing across the grain as thin as possible. To make it even easier to slice in very thin pieces, freeze the beef for about 20 minutes. This dish is best suited for a breakfast on busy days.
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2. Greek Tortellini Skillet
For a flavorful and filling weekday dinner, choose the Greek Tortellini Skillet. Make sure to keep the tortellini ratio as low as possible and the zucchini high for a minimum carb intake. The zucchini will add more antioxidants to your meal and will keep your blood sugar at healthy levels.
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3. Beef Tenderloin in Mushroom Sauce
This recipe uses flour as an ingredient to make the dough. We suggest swapping the flour with mashed potato and preparing this meal as your lunch. If you want to forego all the carbs, the best way to do so is to saute all the spices with the brussel sprouts or just eat lettuces as the grain part of the dish.
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4. One-Pot Spinach Beef Soup
On colder days when you would want a warm meal, try this recipe. This dish would also serve you well if you’re feeling under the weather. Oregano is a natural antibiotic designed by nature to relieve headaches, diarrhea, and coughs.
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5. Sesame Beef Skewers
We all love some kebab meal from time to time. In such cases, beef skewers would suit the occasion. But this recipe is different. Instead of grilling spices along with the meat, the beef is marinated first and pineapple slices would be skewered.
Quick fact: Did you know that pineapples contain proteolytic enzymes? This compound helps break protein molecules from your meals and helps burn stored fats from all over your body.
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6. One-Pot Healthy Mexican Beef Mince
If the other one-pot recipe was a soup for cold days, this one is a dry savory dish that’s perfect for every night. Although this recipe includes the use of rice, the starch you consume can easily be burned during a pre-bedtime yoga session.
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Remember that all unprocessed foods are healthy if consumed in the right portions. During your meals, if you feel full and can no longer finish your servings, set the extras aside for your leftovers and store them in the fridge. This is a great way to save money and you’ll also have a ready-to-eat dish on your next meal. All you have to do is reheat it.
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