Easy Beef and Broccoli Stir-Fry

This quick and easy healthy stir fry will put your local takeout spot to shame. With juicy steak bites and crisp-tender broccoli florets coated in an easy Chinese-inspired homemade stir-fry sauce. Some of the ingredients in this healthy stir fry recipe include Flank steak, broccoli florets, fresh ginger, garlic and sesame oil. For the full recipe step by step instructions for this easy dinner idea, you will want to look at the Tip Hero site.

When it comes to the beef that you buy for this healthy stir fry recipe, you will have more than one decision. From conventional to organic and grass fed. Grass fed seems to be one of the most popular options these days, and what that means is that grass-fed cows eat mostly grass, while grain-fed cows eat mostly corn and soy (which is unnatural to them) during the latter part of their lives. So while most cows start off on pasture, drinking milk and eating grass. It is the conventionally raised cows that later on are moved to feedlots and fed grain-based feeds, while the grass-fed cows continue to live on grassland. What a lot of people don't realize is that what a cow eats can have a big effect on the nutrient composition of the meat. This is evident when it comes to the fatty acid composition of beef. With grass-fed beef usually containing less total fat per gram than that of grain-fed beef, which means that gram for gram, the grass-fed beef contains fewer calories.

Another of the healthy ingredients that you will find in this easy dinner idea is ginger. Ginger, also known as Zingiber as it's scientifically known, has been used as both food and medicine for thousands of years and is still the go-to treatment for both motion and morning sickness. This underground stem has been used as both a spice and an herb and is packed with active ingredients that play a variety of roles in the body. Ginger can be found in a variety of forms, such as capsules and as an extract. But you can also eat ginger raw to benefit from its healing powers. Some of the healing compounds that are found in ginger are pungent anti-inflammatory phenols known as gingerols and shogaols. Ginger also contains a potent proteolytic, along with an anti-inflammatory enzyme called zingibain.

This healthy stir fry recipe contains four cups of broccoli so you can feel good about serving it to your family. Some facts that you might not know about broccoli include that broccoli is a member of the cabbage family, which make broccoli a cruciferous vegetable. The name broccoli is derived from the Italian word of broccolo, which means the flowering top of the cabbage. Another fact about broccoli is that it is high in Vitamin C with a one cup serving of chopped broccoli having the equivalent of Vitamin C to an orange. With one cup of raw broccoli giving you the entire daily intake of required Vitamin C. Broccoli is also a vegetable that is high in Vitamin A, which helps to fight cancer within your cells, along with keeping your eyes healthy and helping to stave off glaucoma and other eye degenerative diseases. Broccoli is also a vegetable that is high in fiber, both insoluble fiber and soluble fiber. So you can feel good about loading up on this healthy vegetable.

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