Barbecue Beef and Broccoli Bowl
Barbecue Beef and Broccoli Bowl
Weight-loss surgery patients…you will nearly laugh when you see how easy this recipes is. Are you ready?
Essentially 3 ingredients + some salt and pepper and you have a DELICIOUS and HIGH PROTEIN dinner on your table. Viola! The perfect bariatric patient meal in just minutes.
Steam a frozen bag of broccoli in the microwave while you brown your meat and add a little low-sugar barbecue sauce and salt and pepper. Layer it together and enjoy! This recipe is also great re-heated so if you’re cooking for one freeze smaller servings of this meal and enjoy it later!
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Barbecue Beef and Broccoli Bowl
Ingredients
- 1 lb 93% lean ground beef
- 1/2 cup low sugar barbecue sauce
- 1 bag frozen broccoli
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp black pepper
Instructions
- Heat skillet to medium high heat and brown the ground beef. Drain as needed and return to low heat.
- Add barbecue sauce and stir to coat. Turn heat to low.
- Meanwhile, steam broccoli either in the bag or per package instructions. Drain and season with salt and pepper.
- Divide steamed broccoli into serving bowls. Top with barbecue ground beef and serve.
I want to try this recipe. Can anyone please tell me how many ounces is in 1 serving?
@Heather Gist it will be about 2 ounces of meat and 1/4 cup of broccoli
2 ounces of ground beef is not 20 grams of protein!
@Linda Miller
Hi Linda! I agree it does sounds too high per serving. This recipe was calculated on MyFitnessPal which can have some fluctuations (the trouble with online calculators!) 6 servings of 16 ounces of beef would be 2.33 ounces of the beef per serving which provides 18 grams of protein. 1/2 cup a broccoli has 2.5 grams of protein. The beef does lose weight while cooking so a cooked serving would be less protein which is why I told Heather about 2 ounces. All that to say I don’t disagree the protein seems rounded up from MyFitnessPal.