Dinner

Shaking Beef with Watercress and Rice

Name: Shaking Beef with Watercress and Rice
Prep time: 15 min
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 1 serving
Ingredients: 170 g Rump steak, fat trimmed, in 2 cm cubes; 120 g Cooked white rice; 60 g Watercress; 100 g Tomato; 50 g Red onion; 1 tbsp, about 15 g Tamari; 1 tsp, about 5 g Fish sauce; 1 tsp, about 4 g Sugar; 6 g Rapeseed oil; 2 cloves, about 6 g Garlic; Juice of a lime Lime juice; A lot, coarsely ground Black pepper

Bo luc lac: cubes of rump seared in a smoking pan and tossed in a sweet-salty glaze, over watercress, tomato and red onion with lime and pepper. 46 g of protein for 509 kcal.

Calories: 509kcal
Protein: 46g
Fat: 14g
Carbs: 48g

Per serving, makes 1. 15 minutes of work, then fifteen minutes to marinate. Published 8 September 2026.

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Ingredients

Rump steak, fat trimmed, in 2 cm cubes170 g
Weighed raw. The same piece weighed after cooking has lost water, so the protein per gram is higher and the total would come out about a quarter over.
Cooked white rice120 g
Cooked weight. About 50 g of dry rice becomes 130 g cooked.
Watercress60 g
Tomato100 g
In wedges.
Red onion50 g
Sliced thin and soaked in the lime juice for ten minutes.
Tamari1 tbsp, about 15 g
Fish sauce1 tsp, about 5 g
Sugar1 tsp, about 4 g
Rapeseed oil6 g
Garlic2 cloves, about 6 g
Lime juiceJuice of a lime
Black pepperA lot, coarsely ground

Method

Toss the beef with the tamari, fish sauce, sugar, crushed garlic and a lot of pepper. Leave for fifteen minutes.
Lay the watercress, tomato and drained onion on a plate. Pour the lime the onion soaked in over it with a pinch of salt.
Heat the oil in a wok until smoking hard. Add the beef in one layer and leave it for a full minute, then shake the pan to turn the cubes and cook for another minute. They should be dark outside and pink inside.
Tip the beef and its juices over the salad and serve with the rice.

Worth knowing

The pan has to be smoking or the cubes stew in the marinade rather than searing. Two batches if the pan is small.
The lime and onion juices from the salad are the sauce for the rice. No oil in the dressing keeps the plate at 509 kcal.

Other dinner recipes that share ingredients with this one, or every dinner between 450 and 600 calories a serving.

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