Lime Ponzu Beef Pancakes

Lime Ponzu Beef Pancakes

Ready in 30 minutes Serves 2
This dish most recently appeared in Fresh Start (5 Nights For 2) on Sunday, October 8, 2017.

with salad, sprouts and mint


Ingredients

PANCAKES

  • 1 egg + 1 egg white
  • 20g chickpea turmeric flour
  • 3 tablespoons water
  • 1 teaspoon oil, for cooking

LIME PONZU SAUCE

  • ½ sachet lime ponzu vinaigrette
  • 1 tablespoon soy sauce
  • ½ teaspoon runny honey
  • 1½ teaspoons rice vinegar

BEEF

  • ½ teaspoon oil, for cooking (or use spray oil)
  • ½ red onion, finely diced
  • ½ carrot, grated
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • 250g lean ground beef
  • 1 clove garlic, minced or finely chopped
  • 1½ teaspoons finely grated ginger
  • ½ cup frozen, shelled edamame beans

SALAD

  • ½ iceberg lettuce
  • 1 Lebanese cucumber
  • ½ capsicum, core and seeds removed and thinly sliced
  • A few pieces of very thinly sliced red onion
  • ½ sachet lime ponzu vinaigrette

TO SERVE

  • 50g mung bean sprouts
  • 2-3 tablespoons chopped mint leaves
  • ½ lemon, cut into wedges

Steps

  1. Whisk eggs in a medium bowl. Add chickpea turmeric flour, a pinch of salt and water and whisk together well. Set aside to rest while you prepare the rest of the meal.
  2. In a small bowl, combine first measure of lime ponzu vinaigrette, soy sauce, honey and rice vinegar and set aside.
  3. For the beef, heat oil in a medium fry-pan on medium-high heat. Cook onion, carrot and salt for 2-3 minutes, stirring occasionally, until softened. Add beef, garlic and ginger and cook, breaking up beef as it cooks, for 4-5 minutes. Add lime ponzu sauce mix, along with edamame and cook a further 1-2 minutes, then turn off heat. Cover to keep warm.
  4. While beef is cooking, thinly slice lettuce and cut cucumber in half lengthways and thinly slice. Place in a medium bowl along with capsicum and red onion.
  5. For pancakes, heat ½ a teaspoon of oil at a time in a small, non-stick fry-pan on medium-high heat. Whisk pancake mixture again. Pour half the mixture into pan and swirl pan around so the mixture spreads out evenly. Cook for 1 minute, until pancake starts to set. Flip and cook for a further 15 seconds, until cooked through. Reduce heat if pancakes start to colour too quickly. Set aside on a plate. Repeat with remaining mixture.
  6. Toss salad with remaining lime ponzu vinaigrette.
  7. place a pancake onto each plate. Top with lime ponzu beef, salad, mung bean sprouts and mint. Squeeze over a lemon wedge just before eating.

Nutritional Information

Energy 1699 kj
406 kcal
Protein 44.3g
Carbohydrate 18.8g
Fat 15.9g