Why it is Safe to Eat Beef and a Recipe for Beef Macaroni Chili
Posted: Sunday, March 29, 2009
by Roger Wakefield
R Wakefield
One of the country's best loved meat products is beef, and with good reason.
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To make it more confusing, even in academia, the issue is undecided, but during the course of this article we will feature a few useful facts on beef, dispense with some rumours and offer you all the information required to decide for yourself.
However, before that, here is a delicious beef recipe which you can easily prepare for your family or friends.
This is a delicious recipe for 'macaroni beef chili'. It is not complicated to cook and is a quick and efficient meal a family with lots of kids.
Ingredient list:
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Macaroni - uncooked : 1 x c
Lean Minced Beef : half a pound
Garlic powder : 1/2 tsp
Hot chili Powder : 1 teaspoon
Salt : one pinch (to taste)
Black pepper : one pinch (to taste)
Your favourite tomato soup : one Can
Hard cheese : one oz. (finely grated)
Instructions:
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Bring a good sized pan of water to a rolling boil put the macaroni into the water, and cook for 7 minutes approximately.
Brown meat in another good sized saucepan and with care remove all the fat that has appeared.
Add the garlic, chili powder, salt and pepper and then stir with a wooden spoon until well mixed.
Reduce the heat and fry gently for about five minutes.
Mix in the cooked macaroni and tomato soup, and increase the heat.
Cook for a short time until everything is cooked through.
Before you serve, add the grated cheese, and heat briskly till it melts.
Transfer into bowls and table the food.
This is a useful dish to cook in bulk as left overs can be kept in the fridge and served the next day.
If you want to cook a long time in advance, you can leave the cheese out and freeze portions for later. Simply add the cheese just before you finally serve the recipe.
Now you have a good beef recipe here are a few concrete nutritional facts:
1/. The zinc that is in beef is necessary for human growth and development, supports the immune defense system, has been shown to help heal wounds, controls food cravings and even affects your ability to experience flavors.
2/. If you look at it scientifically, lean beef is virtually as beneficial for you as taking multi-vitamins as it is an incredible provider of vitamin b12, zinc, iron, niacin and phosphorus.
3/. Some people think that weight watchers should not buy beef. If they did any research, they would soon see that this is not the case, the good news is that the 80 gram portion of beef that real medical experts endorse as a correct daily consumption, is actually merely ten percent of the usual two thousand calories daily diet.
4/. There are people who hold the view that you must stay away from beef because it possesses unhealthy levels of fat. Although this may have been the case a few years ago, lean beef in the shops nowadays is noticeably lower in fat than it was years ago, and it should be noted that well over fifty percent of the fatty acids found in modern beef are monounsaturated fats which are widely considered to be healthier than other fats.
5/. Even a 80g serving of quality beef may yield more than ten percent of your requisite daily requirement of zinc, iron, niacin, phosphorus, vitamin b6, protein and vitamin b12.
6/. Quality beef contains Vitamin b6 and vitamin b12, which are believed by nutritionalists to help prevent strokes and coronaries and also assist the body to build haematids.
7/. Taking the uncooked weight,, 100 grams of beef contains:
* approximately 200 kcal
* 53mg of Sodium.
* zero grams of sugar.
* 3.8mg of Zinc.
* zero grams of carbohydrate.
* 319mg of Potassium.
* 12.15g of fat.
* zero grams of Vitamin C.
I trust this has given you a better awareness of the good and bad aspects of eating beef, and given you an enticing new addition to your recipe collection.
Roger Wakefield is a writer who offers nutritional support for Recipes 4U,(http://www.recipes-4u.co.uk), which has over 40K recipes with specialist recipe categories for Beef Recipes and Low Carb Recipes and plenty of other categories too!.
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