Sesame beef lettuce wraps

Life just gets busy the past week and a half has just been just that. We had a rash of colds blow through our house, Christmas shopping, working, and just getting ready for all of this busy time all the celebrations! Our best friend truly can be a slow cooker at this point in the year. I utilize a crock pot pretty much every night that I'm at work year round. This way my family still has a good hot meal. It's something easy they just have to put the finishing touches on and still get baths and homework done while under daddy supervision. This recipe is great it's fast, delicious, and healthy.

Ingredients 

2 pounds top sirloin, large cubes

1/4 cup fat free low sodium beef stock

2 Tablespoons low sodium soy sauce

1 Tablespoon sesame oil

1 Tablespoon brown sugar

1 Tablespoon rice vinegar

1 Tablespoon ketchup or tomato paste

2 Tablespoons grated ginger 

1/2 a small onion grated

3 cloves garlic grated

2 Tablespoons sesame seeds

romaine hearts or steamed brown rice to serve with it.

Place beef in your crock pot

Assemble all the rest of the ingredients for your sauce. I love the frozen ginger in 1teaspoon cubes. It's a huge shortcut and since we don't use ginger that often I always have some on hand in the freezer.

I grate my garlic so it melts into the sauce

I also do this with my onion too!

Stir together your stock, soy sauce, vinegar, brown sugar, garlic, onion, sesame oil, ginger and ketchup. The sprinkle in sesame seeds.

Pour the sauce over the new and stir to coat.

Set your crock pot to low and a timer for 6 hours. (mine is so over worked the display is not even working anymore..hint hint Santa!) By the time it is done you should be able to shred it apart with a fork. You can put it over rice and stir in some steamed vegetables or I like to low carb it and make them into lettuce wraps. Either way in 6 hours your house will smell amazing and easy Asian inspired dinner will be ready to eat! I'd have a finished product to show you but I'm sure it will be gone by the time I get home from work. 

A Happy full family = mission accomplished

Happy Cooking!