Slow Cooked Spicy Asian Beef – This is one dish you don’t want to skip trying.
Gotta love a good ole crockpot dish, right? Nothing better than throwing a few ingredients together in the morning and come dinner time, a delicious meal is all ready to serve effortlessly.
I must admit I don’t use my slow cooker much in the summer time, as it’s a lot of grilled meats and salad kind of meals etc, but come the colder months, my slow cooker spends more time out of the cupboard than in.
I use a slow cooker like this one here: Morphy Richards 48702 Accents Sear and Stew Slow Cooker
But now I also have my Instant Pot, I will probably switch between the two, or even use both at once when getting some batch cooking on the go.
If you haven’t heard of an Instant Pot you are seriously missing out. It is the best kitchen gadget I have purchased. I would even put it above my actifry and that’s saying something.
It is basically a 7in1 cooker, and it slow cooks, pressure cooks, saute’s, has settings for soup, chilli, rice, porridge and even makes yoghurt (I haven’t tried that yet). This dish would be perfect in the instant pot, either using the slow cook function or pressure cook function (using Stew/Meat option)
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This slow cooked spicy asian beef was one of my genius creations – I had some braising beef to use up, and had not used my slow cooker in quite a while, so decided to fetch it out of the cupboard and put together something yummy for dinner. I put the slow cooker on in the morning and set it to low 8 hours cooking time and the result was a yummy dish with meat that was so tender it literally melted in your mouth.
Normally I would use braising beef for a stew or casserole type dish, but really fancied something different – so instead of traditional root vegetables and stock, I went down a more asian root, with ginger, garlic, soy sauce, chilli etc. I may be blowing my own trumpet here, but the flavour was unbelieveable.
I served it was some plain steamed jasmine rice, but it would also go really well with noodles or for an SP day or if you are following a paleo diet, then serve with something like my Roasted Cauliflower Rice.
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Extra Easy - 1.5 syns per serving
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WW Smart Points - 4
- 700g (24.5oz) of braising beef (cut into chunks and all visible fat removed)
- 1 tablespoon of tapioca starch, cornstarch or arrowroot powder (1.5 syns)
- 1 teaspoon of sesame oil (2 syns)
- 3 cloves of garlic, crushed
- 1-2 red chilli’s, finely chopped
- 2 tsp of freshly grated ginger
- 1 tsp of ground ginger
- ⅓ cup of coconut aminos (or soy sauce)
- 3 tablespoons of rice vinegar
- ½ cup of water
- 1 tablespoon of maple syrup (2 syns)
- Black pepper to season
- 1 green pepper, roughly chopped
- 1 onion, roughly chopped
- some freshly chopped spring onion to decorate
- Place the meat in a zip lock bag, add the tapioca starch and give a good shake to evenly coat
- Add to the slow cooker.
- Mix together the sesame oil, garlic, ginger, chilli, coconut aminos (or soy sauce), rice vinegar, water and maple syrup and pour over the meat.
- Set to a low (8 hours) cooking time.
- I add the green pepper and onion in for the last hour of slow cooking time, as I like the veg in this slightly crunchy, but they can be added in on top at the start of cooking time if you prefer.
- Season well with black pepper and top with some freshly chopped spring onion.
- Serve with your choice of sides.
- It is great served with steamed rice (or cauli rice) and some additional stir fried veggies)
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This looks lovely hun, I love my slowcooker xx
hi made this this evening used pork instead absolutely stunning sooooo tasty and easy so glad i found your blog theres loads on here i want to try xx
This is delicious. I can’t find many slimming world recipes for the slow cooker/crock pot so this is a real treasure! I’ve been using your recipes a lot in the last weeks. Thank you so much for being such a lifesaver!
Can’t wait to try this!
what does syns stand for?
This is absolutley gorgeous. I left the chilli’s out as the other half doesn’t do chilli’s, but even without it is so tasty.
I haven’t found a recipe that we don’t love!!
Thank You so much xx
Wow, best recipe ever!! The beef is delicious! At half a chilli, it was very spicy, my 2 and 5 year old still scoffed it down though – they’re hardcore lol! Thanks for this lovely recipe.
I have this on the go for dinner tonight, I cannot wait!! Fabulour site – thank you.
*Do i cook it on high or low?
it will cook fine on either setting 🙂
I’ve just put this in the slow cooker and my mouth is watering already! Only 8 hours to go!
i dont eat beef, can i use this receipe for lamb meat instead?
you could use any meat in place of beef. Hope you enjoy it 🙂
could you freeze the left.overs of this recipe? or have it next day?
hi, yes this freezes perfectly or is great as leftovers for another day
The sauce nowhere near covers the ingrediants, not even a quarter of it. Is this okay? All my previous slow cooker recipes have been covered by the sauce they’re cooking in.
Providing you had the exact measurements of everything, it is enough, as once the meat starts to cook it releases it own juices. I find some slow cooker recipes have too much liquid and therefore the meat end ups bland. It depends how saucy you like it though, if you likes lots more sauce in relation to meat, you may need to add some extra. Hope that helps 🙂
Could u throw some veg in it to make it a stew? Or is it too rich?
Is there an alternative to the maple syrup please?
Hi there Trudy – you could use honey instead of maple syrup
Hello, can you recommend how long to cook for in the instant pot (I only got it last week!), also do I need to alter the fluid at all?
Hi Meriel – I would cook for 30 mins in the instant pot, allow a natural pressure release and don’t add the starch until it’s cooked. Add less water. Once the pressure has release, turn to saute mode and the starch and heat till the sauce thickens. Let me know how it turns out. Hope that helps 🙂