Beef Slow Cooker Chow Mein

Ingredients:

1 nice cut of steak
1 onion diced
1 carrot diced
2 stalks celery diced
4 cloves garlic
1 tsp tumeric
1 tsp coriander
1 tsp cumin
1 tsp chilli flakes
4 cups shredded wombok or cabbage
soy sauce to taste
4-5 cups chicken stock
2 cups of your favourite kind of rice (I used white long grain this time)

Method:

1. Put a good 2-3 tblsp of good quality olive oil in a frypan and bring to a nice sizzling heat. Reduce heat a little and lightly brown your steak on both sides, remove & set aside.
2. In same pan add chopped garlic gloves, tumeric, coriander, cumin & chilli flakes & stir around in olive oil (do not allow to burn at all).
3. Quickly add the onion and stir constantly for a minute or two.
4. Then add carrots & celery and stir again for 3-4 minutes.
5. Remove from stove and tip into your slow cooker.
6. Slice all of your steak into strips.
7. Pour about 1 tblsp oil into pan and bring to heat.
8. Brown steak strips, picking up all the lovely flavour from the spices previously in the pan.
9. Add steak to slow cooker & stir into vegies.
10. Place shredded wombok over the top of the meat & vegies.
11. Pour about 1-2 tblsp soy sauce and 3 cups of chicken stock over everything in the slow cooker.
12. Set slow cooker to High for about 4 hours. (check after 2 hours and give it a stir).
13. After 4 hours, add the Rice and about 2 more cups of stock (if needed).
14. Let cook for another 1-2 hours, checking on regularly and stirring when necessary.
15. Serve when liquid has been absorbed into rice and rice is cooked.
16. Serve in a bowl with a little drizzle of soy sauce to taste


Megs Notes:

Use 1 nice piece of steak - ask your local butcher for something that would be nice in a slow cooker. Can't remember the exact cut my butcher gave me, but it was a lovely marbled piece and was so tender after being cooked for so long.