If you ever need to win a speed-cooking contest, this is the recipe to save for the occasion. Meat, vegetables, and fat, all in one pan with minimal prep and cooking time – and yet, somehow, it comes out delicious (that’s the magic of using fresh, whole foods to cook with: you don’t actually need a bunch of fancy prep work!).
There’s not even a marinade to worry about; you can pull everything out of the fridge at the last minute and have dinner ready in just a few minutes.
It’s also a recipe that would be very easy to adapt, depending on what you have handy. No bell peppers? Use mushrooms, broccoli, cooking greens, or anything else you can toss in a skillet. No flank steak? Substitute anything else you can slice into bite-size pieces.
If you’d like some starch to go with your meal, just toss a potato or sweet potato in the microwave when you start cooking the meat: it’ll be ready to go with the rest of your meal with almost no effort required.
For the travelers in the audience, this is also a recipe that refrigerates (or even freezes) and re-heats very well: you can make a double recipe for dinner and take the leftovers for lunch the next day.
In fact, you could even call it breakfast; there’s no rule that breakfast has to be “breakfast food,” and a big pile of steak and vegetables might be just the thing to help you start the day off on the right foot.
Steak With Bell Peppers Skillet Recipe
SERVES: 4 PREP: 15 min COOK: 18 min
Ingredients
- 1 lb. flank steak, sliced;
- 1 large sweet onion, thinly sliced;
- 3 shallots, sliced;
- 3 bell peppers, sliced;
- 1 garlic clove, minced;
- 2 tbsp. cooking fat
- Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper;
Preparation
- Heat up 1 tablespoon of cooking fat in a large skillet placed over medium heat.
- Toss in the onions and garlic and cook for about 4 to 5 minutes.
- Transfer the onion and garlic to a plate and set aside.
- In the same skillet, add the other tablespoon of cooking fat and keep it at medium-high heat.
- Add the beef to the skillet. Cook for about 6 minutes, or until browned to desired doneness, and set aside.
- Add the bell peppers and shallots, and cook until the peppers start to soften (about 5 minutes).
- Toss the onions and beef back into the pan. Cook until everything is warm (about 2 minutes), and serve.
📖 Recipe
Steak With Bell Peppers Skillet Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 lb. flank steak sliced
- 1 large sweet onion thinly sliced
- 3 shallots sliced
- 3 bell peppers sliced
- 1 garlic clove minced
- 2 tbsp. cooking fat
- Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
Instructions
- Heat up 1 tablespoon of cooking fat in a large skillet placed over medium heat.2 tbsp. cooking fat
- Toss in the onions and garlic and cook for about 4 to 5 minutes.1 large sweet onion, 1 garlic clove
- Transfer the onion and garlic to a plate and set aside.
- In the same skillet, add the other tablespoon of cooking fat and keep it at medium-high heat.2 tbsp. cooking fat
- Add the beef to the skillet. Cook for about 6 minutes, or until browned to desired doneness, and set aside.1 lb. flank steak
- Add the bell peppers and shallots, and cook until the peppers start to soften (about 5 minutes).3 shallots, 3 bell peppers, Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
- Toss the onions and beef back into the pan. Cook until everything is warm (about 2 minutes), and serve.
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