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    Lemongrass beef with noodles slowcooker and pressure cooker method

    Published: Aug 8, 2018. Modified: Oct 23, 2020By:Kylie·This post may contain affiliate links·

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    lemongrass beef with noodles

    This recipe has been updated! I decided to make this again and try it out in the pressure cooker as well as the slow cooker. Lemongrass beef with noodles is an awesome kid-friendly dinner. I cook the noodles and zoodles and carrot noodles separately and then allow the kids to add their lemongrass beef to the noodles and top with coriander and spring onions if they want to.

    lemongrass beef with noodles

    A lot of food in the slow cooker tastes the same. It kind of ends up stewy and wet and not too flavourful. I totally agree though, it's very convenient to come home to a cooked dinner with tender meat and a nice sauce. You don't need to just cook stews in your slow cooker, and for this lemongrass beef, you can choose to use your pressure cooker instead- meaning dinner in 35 minutes instead of 8 hours!

    lemongrass beef with noodles

    But, it's time to bash down some slow cooker myths. You can cook more than a stew. You don't need packet mixes. You can cook something that won't have that slow cooker "sogginess" about it. This lemongrass beef is designed as a "make it your way dish, so after cooking, you can add as much or as little of the cooking liquid to it!

    This lemongrass beef is a sure fire winner for weeknight meals! Super delicious with noodles and a kid favourite.

    This is a recipe that you wouldn't believe could be done in the slow cooker, except for that fact that you can't get flavour this yummy without extended low and slow temperatures. Likewise, in the pressure cooker it develops surprising flavour for such short cooking time! So I present to you: my latest slow cooker and pressure cooker victory...

    This lemongrass beef is a sure fire winner for weeknight meals! Super delicious with noodles and a kid favourite.

    And BTW: those aren't all noodles in the picture- there are zoodles and carrot noodles as well, because that is how we roll! I recently converted another slow cooker meal to have a pressure cooker method too- Moroccan lamb!

    lemongrass beef with noodles
    lemongrass beef

    Lemongrass beef with noodles slowcooker method

    This lemongrass beef is a sure fire winner for weeknight meals! Super delicious with noodles and a kid favourite.
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    Course: dinner
    Cuisine: Modern Australian
    Prep Time: 15 minutes minutes
    Cook Time: 8 hours hours
    Total Time: 8 hours hours 15 minutes minutes
    Servings: 8 serves
    Calories: 663kcal
    Author: Kylie
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    Ingredients

    • Beef
    • 1.5 kgs beef chuck/ stewing steak
    • 1 stalk lemongrass ends removed and hard layers pulled off, chopped
    • 2.5 cm piece of ginger peeled and chopped roughly
    • 1 onion chopped roughly
    • zest of one lime
    • juice of one lime
    • 1 small red chilli
    • ½ cup sweet soy sauce kecap manis
    • 1 tablespoon fish sauce
    • 2 cups water
    • 1 cinnamon stick
    • 3 star anise
    • ½ bunch coriander chopped
    • 3 spring onions sliced
    • Noodles
    • 1 carrot julienned or spiralised
    • 1 zucchini julienned or spiralised
    • 1 packet vermicelli noodles boiled and cooled

    Instructions

    • Combine the lime zest and juice, onion, chilli, lemongrass and ginger in a food processor or blender with 1 tablespoon of water. Blend until it forms a paste.
    • In a frypan over high heat sear the beef cubes until browned.Set aside.
    • Add the paste to the frypan and fry for about 1minute or until the lemongrass is soft.
    • Add the beef back into the pan with any juices and coat in the paste.
    • Pour the sweet soy and fish sauce over the beef add the star anise and cinnamon, heat for one minute then remove all to the slow cooker.
    • Add 2 cups of water and put a teatowel under the slowcooker lid.
    • Cook on low for 9 hours.
    • Boil the noodles according to the packet instructions (mine said 5 minutes). Add the zoodles and carrot noodles.
    • Put as much beef as you want over your noodles and zoodles then add some sauce.
    • Add the coriander and spring onions. I let the kids make the choices about how much of each they want!

    Nutritional Information

    Serving: 1bowl | Calories: 663kcal | Carbohydrates: 31g | Protein: 79g | Fat: 25g | Saturated Fat: 10g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 13g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 234mg | Sodium: 1238mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 13g
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    lemongrass beef

    Lemongrass beef with noodles pressure cooker method

    This lemongrass beef is a sure fire winner for weeknight meals! Super delicious with noodles and a kid favourite.
    5 from 1 vote
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    Course: dinner
    Cuisine: Modern Australian
    Prep Time: 15 minutes minutes
    Cook Time: 35 minutes minutes
    Total Time: 50 minutes minutes
    Servings: 8 serves
    Calories: 410kcal
    Author: Kylie
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    Ingredients

    • Beef
    • 1.5 kgs beef chuck/ stewing steak
    • 1 stalk lemongrass ends removed and hard layers pulled off, chopped
    • 2.5 cm piece of ginger peeled and chopped roughly
    • 1 onion chopped roughly
    • zest of one lime
    • juice of one lime
    • 1 small red chilli
    • ½ cup sweet soy sauce kecap manis
    • 1 tablespoon fish sauce
    • 2 cups water
    • 1 cinnamon stick
    • 3 star anise
    • ½ bunch coriander chopped
    • 3 spring onions sliced
    • noodles
    • 1 carrot julienned or spiralised
    • 1 zucchini julienned or spiralised
    • 1 packet vermicelli noodles boiled and cooled

    Instructions

    • Combine the lime zest and juice, onion, chilli, lemongrass and ginger in a food processor or blender with one tablespoon of water. Blend until it forms a paste.
    • In the pressure cooker, at browning temp (high heat) sear the beef cubes until browned.Set aside.
    • Add the paste to the frypan and fry for about 1 minute or until the lemongrass is soft.
    • Add the beef back into the pan with any juices and coat in the paste.
    • Pour the sweet soy and fish sauce over the beef add the star anise and cinnamon, heat for one minute.
    • Add enough water to cover the beef cups of water.
    • Close the pressure cooker and cook for 30 minutes at pressure.
    • Cook the noodles as per the packet instructions add the zoodles and carrot noodles to the hot water for a few minutes then drain.
    • Put as much beef as you want over your noodles and zoodles then add some sauce.
    • Add the coriander and spring onions. I let the kids make the choices about how much of each they want!

    Notes

    I used my Tefal cook4me to make this.

    Nutritional Information

    Serving: 2scoops | Calories: 410kcal | Carbohydrates: 12.2g | Protein: 57.2g | Fat: 13.5g | Saturated Fat: 4.3g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 7.1g | Cholesterol: 176.3mg | Sodium: 724.5mg | Fiber: 1.8g | Sugar: 3.5g
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