Recipe Collection: Simple Marinated Beef

Right before Jacob was born, I was preparing some freezer meals.  I don’t like to freeze pre-cooked meals, or even uncooked casserole or soup type things.  I generally don’t eat them.  Instead I was focusing on freezing prepared meal components like stock, soaked and cooked beans, and pitas.  I wanted to do some marinated beef, too, but I didn’t have all the ingredients for the way I make it in Against the Grain (which is also yummy).

Frustrated and only a few short weeks from delivery, I had to just get it done.  So I cut up the beef and used what I had.  It was delicious.  Now I do it all the time on purpose.  It is so versatile — I have served it simply with rice or potatoes and steamed veggies; I have added it to stir-frys; I have chopped it and put it on salads (my current favorite use).  Soooo very yummy.  And if you freeze it in the marinade like I did, brain-dead easy when it comes time for dinner.

Ingredients:

• 1 lb. beef sirloin steak, or other type of roast
• 1/4 c. chopped onion
• 2 – 3 garlic cloves, roughly chopped
• 1 tsp. sea salt
• 1/2 tsp. pepper
• Juice of 1 lemon
• Water to cover

Directions:

Get your meat.  I like to use sirloin, but any sort of roast will do.  Marinating it will help to soften even a tough cut, so use what’s cheaper for you.

Slice your meat thinly into strips.  Exactly what size or shape you choose is up to you.  I do mine like this.

Place your meat into a big glass bowl.  Add your onion, garlic, sea salt, and pepper (which you can skip — pepper — if you prefer).

Then, juice one lemon.

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