Best 8 Orange Beef Ww Recipes

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Are you looking for a delicious and healthy way to enjoy Chinese takeout at home? Orange beef is a classic dish that combines tender beef, a tangy orange sauce, and a hint of spice. With a few simple swaps, you can make this dish Weight Watchers-friendly without sacrificing any of the flavor. In this article, we'll share the secrets to creating the best Weight Watchers orange beef recipe, including tips for choosing the leanest cuts of beef, creating a flavorful sauce with minimal added sugar, and cooking the dish to perfection. So, gather your ingredients, put on your apron, and let's get cooking!

Here are our top 8 tried and tested recipes!

ORANGE BEEF - WEIGHT WATCHERS



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Faster than delivery. Each serving is 1 cup. I found this recipe in a Weight Watchers magazine. I have not tried this recipe, but I'm posting it for safe keeping.

Provided by internetnut

Categories     Lunch/Snacks

Time 17m

Yield 4 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 14

3 scallions, sliced
2 garlic cloves, minced
1 tablespoon peeled fresh ginger, minced
1 tablespoon grated orange zest
3/4 lb boneless sirloin steak, trimmed and cut into matchstick-thin strips
10 ounces fresh sugar snap peas and baby carrots
2 tablespoons reduced sodium soy sauce
2 tablespoons orange juice
1 teaspoon cornstarch
1 tablespoon cold water
1 1/3 broth
2/3 cup quick-cooking barley
2 cups sliced mushrooms
1 tablespoon low sodium soy sauce

Steps:

  • Orange Beef:.
  • Spray a large nonstick wok or skillet with nonstick spray and set over high heat. When a drop of water sizzles on it, add the scallions, garlic, ginger, and orange zest; stir-fry until the scallions soften, about 1 minute.
  • Add the beef and stir-fry until browned, about 3 minutes. Add the sugar snap peas and baby carrots; stir-fry until crisp-tender, about 2 minutes. Stir in the soy sauce and orange juice; bring to a simmer and cook 20 seconds.
  • Meanwhile, mix the cornstarch and water in a small bowl until smooth. Add the cornstarch mixture to the wok and cook, stirring constantly, until the sauce is thickened, 30 seconds. Serve with Barley Pilaf. Point value 3.
  • Barley Pilaf:.
  • Bring broth to a boil in a saucepan; add quick-cooking barley. Simmer, covered, 12 minutes.
  • Spray a skillet with nonstick spray and set over medium-high heat. Add mushrooms and cook until tender. Add the barley and soy sauce.
  • Serves 4 Point Value 2.

ORANGE BEEF WW



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Entered for safe-keeping, from Weight Watchers Magazine September-October 2008. 3 "thingies" per serving. Original recipe called for 10-oz package of fresh sugar snap peas and baby carrots. Serve with "Quick Mushroom Barley Pilaf WW" for 2 "thingies" per serving.

Provided by KateL

Categories     Steak

Time 17m

Yield 4 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 11

3 scallions, sliced
2 garlic cloves, minced
1 tablespoon fresh ginger, peeled and minced
1 tablespoon orange zest, grated
3/4 lb boneless sirloin steak, trimmed and cut into matchstick-thin strips
8 baby carrots, cut into quarters
1/3 lb sugar snap peas or 1/3 lb snow peas
2 tablespoons reduced sodium soy sauce
2 tablespoons orange juice
1 teaspoon cornstarch
1 tablespoon water, cold

Steps:

  • Spray a large nonstick wok or skillet with nonstick spray and set over high heat. When a drop of water sizzles on it, add the scallions, garlic, ginger and orange zest. Stir-fry until the scallions soften, about 1 minute.
  • Add the beef and stir-fry until browned, about 3 minutes.
  • Add the sugar snap peas and baby carrots; stir-fry until crisp-tender, about 2 minutes.
  • Stir in the soy sauce and orange juice; bring to a simmer and cook 20 seconds.
  • Meanwhile, mix the cornstarch and cold water in a small bowl until smooth.
  • Add the cornstarch mixture to the wok and cook, stirring constantly, until the sauce is thickened, 30 seconds.

ORANGE BEEF



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A classic from Hunan, chun pei ngau yuk translates as "old beef," very old, or as we say in China, so old it gathers dust. The main reason for this is that this dish is most often cooked with old, dried, hard orange peel, and it is fine that way. I prefer fresh orange peel.

Provided by Food Network

Categories     main-dish

Yield 4 servings

Number Of Ingredients 21

1/2 pound thick flank steak, weighed after trimming, cut into strips 2 1/2 inches by 1/4 inch
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 tablespoon egg white, lightly beaten
1/2 teaspoon Shao-Hsing wine or dry sherry
Pinch freshly ground white pepper
1 tablespoon peanut oil
2 tablespoons cornstarch
2 teaspoons dark soy sauce
1 tablespoon sugar
1 teaspoon sesame oil
1 teaspoon Chinese white rice vinegar or distilled vinegar
2 tablespoons Chicken Stock
Pinch freshly ground white pepper
3 1/2 cups peanut oil, to deep-fry the beef
5 small dried chilies
2 teaspoons minced fresh ginger
1 teaspoon minced garlic
1 fresh Thai chili, minced
1 1/2 tablespoons 1/2- by 1/8-inch pieces fresh orange peel, most of pith removed
2 scallions, trimmed and cut into 2-inch sections
6 slices fresh orange

Steps:

  • Marinate the beef with baking soda in the refrigerator for 8 hours or, preferably, overnight. After marinating, wash thoroughly, twice, with cold water. Drain and dry with paper towels. Place the beef in a bowl, add the egg white, and mix well until the beef is coated. Add the wine, white pepper, 1 tablespoon peanut oil, and cornstarch, mixing with your hand each time and ingredient is added. Allow to rest for 1 hour, refrigerated. There should be no residue.
  • In a bowl, combine the sauce ingredients and set aside.
  • Heat a wok over high heat for 1 minute. Add the 3 1/2 cups peanut oil and heat to 400 degrees F. Place the beef strips, one at a time, in the oil and cook for 1 1/2 minutes, loosening the beef with a spatula. Remove with a strainer and drain. Heat the oil again to 425 degrees F. Place the beef strips again in the oil and cook for 2 minutes, until the beef becomes crisp. Remove and allow to drain.
  • Drain off all but 1 tablespoon oil from the wok and heat over high heat for 20 seconds. Add the dried chilies, stir, and cook until darkened. Add the ginger and garlic and stir briefly. Add the fresh chili and orange peel and stir briefly. Add the scallions, and mix well. Add the beef and cook, stirring, for 45 seconds. Make a well in the center of the mixture, stir the sauce mixture, and pour in. Mix well until the sauce is absorbed and the beef acquires a shiny coating. Remove to a serving dish and serve, garnished with the orange slices.

CRISPY ORANGE BEEF



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Provided by Sandra Lee

Categories     main-dish

Time 35m

Yield 4 servings

Number Of Ingredients 13

1 1/2 pounds flank steak, cut in 1-inch strips
Salt and pepper
1/2 cup cornstarch
Vegetable oil, for frying
1 package thin rice noodles
Frisee lettuce, to serve
1 tablespoon canola oil
1 teaspoon minced garlic
1/2 cup orange marmalade
1 cup low-sodium beef broth
1 teaspoon low-sodium soy sauce
10 small dried Thai chiles
2 teaspoons cornstarch

Steps:

  • Season flank steak strips with salt and pepper, then toss with cornstarch. Shake off excess.
  • Fill a large frying pan with enough oil to cover the bottom by 1/4 to 1/2-inch. Heat the oil to 365 degrees F. First add noodles to oil and let cook for 3 to 4 minutes. Take out noodles and then, working in batches, fry the steak. Do not crowd pan. Drain on paper towels. Set aside.
  • For the sauce: Heat the oil in a medium frying pan over medium heat and cook the garlic until fragrant; do not let the garlic brown. Add orange marmalade, 1/2 cup beef broth, soy sauce, and chiles. Bring to a boil and reduce to a simmer for 5 minutes. In a small bowl, stir cornstarch into remaining 1/2 cup beef broth. Stir cornstarch mixture into simmering sauce. Return to a simmer for 3 to 4 minutes until sauce thickens.
  • Make a bed of the frisee lettuce on a platter. Put the crispy noodles on top and then the beef. Pour sauce over beef and serve.

ORANGE BEEF



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This recipe for takeout-style orange beef is a variation on one the Brooklyn chef Dale Talde included in his new cookbook, "Asian-American: Proudly Inauthentic Recipes From the Philippines to Brooklyn," with a slightly more intensely flavored orange-flavored sauce. Mr. Talde's key insight is protected, however: Use very good steak, and cook it fast, so that below the lovely crust of its egg-white-and-cornstarch batter, the meat remains rare and luscious. Serve with steamed broccoli and white rice. And make it a few times. What appears difficult the first time through - the coating of the beef, the making of the sauce, the stir-frying of the aromatics, the stir-frying of the beef - is in fact fast and easy work, and much, much better than takeout.

Provided by Sam Sifton

Categories     main course

Time 30m

Yield 4 servings

Number Of Ingredients 16

1 tablespoon neutral oil
1 1 1/2-inch piece fresh ginger, peeled and minced
1 jalapeño pepper, seeded and minced
2 tablespoons orange zest, plus the juice of one orange
3 garlic cloves, peeled and minced
1/4 cup light brown sugar
1/4 cup rice vinegar (do not use seasoned rice vinegar)
1/4 cup soy sauce
1 tablespoon fish sauce
1 large egg white
1 tablespoon cornstarch
1 pinch kosher salt
1 boneless rib-eye steak, approximately 1 to 1 1/2 pounds, cut into 1-inch pieces
1/4 cup neutral oil
6 scallions, white and green parts cut into inchlong pieces and separated
2 to 4 dried red chiles, or to taste

Steps:

  • Make the sauce: Heat oil in a small sauce pan set over medium-high heat. When it begins to shimmer, add ginger, jalapeño and orange zest and stir to combine. Sauté mixture until ingredients soften, approximately 2 to 3 minutes, then add garlic and continue cooking until it softens, approximately 1 to 2 minutes longer.
  • Add orange juice, brown sugar, rice vinegar, soy sauce and fish sauce to pan and stir to combine. Allow mixture to come to a boil, then lower the heat and cook, stirring occasionally, until it thickens and reduces by half, approximately 10 to 15 minutes.
  • Meanwhile, prepare the meat: Combine egg white, cornstarch and salt in a bowl. Add steak, tossing to coat the meat with the batter.
  • In a large skillet or wok set over high heat, heat oil until it shimmers and is about to smoke. Add beef to the pan or wok in a single layer and cook without stirring until the bottoms of the pieces are crisp and golden, approximately 60 to 90 seconds. Add white pieces of scallion and chiles to the pan, then turn the beef pieces over and cook the other sides, stirring occasionally, about 3 minutes more for medium-rare. Transfer to a platter.
  • Pour orange sauce into the hot pan or wok, let it boil and stir it as it thickens. Add meat and white scallions and stir to coat with the sauce. Return meat and sauce to the platter and scatter green scallions over the top. Serve with steamed broccoli and white rice.

Nutrition Facts : @context http, Calories 450, UnsaturatedFat 25 grams, Carbohydrate 16 grams, Fat 35 grams, Fiber 1 gram, Protein 19 grams, SaturatedFat 9 grams, Sodium 1294 milligrams, Sugar 11 grams, TransFat 1 gram

BEEF ORANGE STIR-FRY



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This dinner for two is loaded with lots of flavor and color. Red pepper flakes add a little kick to the orange beef sauce, and the tender veggies add a pop of color. - Taste of Home Test Kitchen

Provided by Taste of Home

Categories     Dinner

Time 25m

Yield 2 servings.

Number Of Ingredients 11

1 tablespoon cornstarch
1/4 cup cold water
1/4 cup orange juice
1 tablespoon reduced-sodium soy sauce
1/2 teaspoon sesame oil
Dash crushed red pepper flakes
1/2 pound boneless beef sirloin steak, cut into thin strips
2 teaspoons canola oil, divided
3 cups frozen sugar snap stir-fry vegetable blend, thawed
1 garlic clove, minced
1 cup hot cooked rice

Steps:

  • In a small bowl, combine the first 6 ingredients until smooth; set aside., In a large skillet or wok, stir-fry beef in 1 teaspoon oil until no longer pink, 3-4 minutes. Remove with a slotted spoon and keep warm., Stir-fry vegetable blend and garlic in remaining oil for 3 minutes. Stir cornstarch mixture and add to the pan. Bring to a boil; cook and stir until thickened, about 2 minutes. Add beef; heat through. Serve with rice.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 390 calories, Fat 11g fat (3g saturated fat), Cholesterol 64mg cholesterol, Sodium 396mg sodium, Carbohydrate 41g carbohydrate (3g sugars, Fiber 3g fiber), Protein 26g protein. Diabetic Exchanges

CRISPY ORANGE BEEF



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A delicious crispy and sweet, yet mildly spiced beef stir-fry recipe. Great served with steamed rice and broccoli.

Provided by BEC

Categories     World Cuisine Recipes     Asian     Chinese

Time 1h5m

Yield 6

Number Of Ingredients 14

1 ½ pounds beef top sirloin, thinly sliced
⅓ cup white sugar
⅓ cup rice wine vinegar
2 tablespoons frozen orange juice concentrate
1 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon soy sauce
1 cup long grain rice
2 cups water
¼ cup cornstarch
2 teaspoons orange zest
3 tablespoons grated fresh ginger
1 ½ tablespoons minced garlic
8 broccoli florets, lightly steamed or blanched
2 cups oil for frying

Steps:

  • Lay beef strips out in a single layer on a baking sheet lined with paper towels. Allow to dry in the refrigerator for 30 minutes. In a small bowl, mix together the sugar, rice vinegar, orange juice concentrate, salt and soy sauce. Set aside.
  • Meanwhile, combine rice and water in a medium saucepan. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat to medium-low and simmer for 20 minutes, or until rice is tender. Add more water at the end if necessary.
  • Heat oil in a wok over medium-high heat. Toss dried beef in cornstarch to coat. Fry in the hot oil in small batches until crispy and golden brown; set aside. Drain all of the oil from the wok except about 1 tablespoon.
  • Add orange zest, ginger and garlic to the remaining oil, and cook briefly until fragrant. Add the soy sauce mixture to the wok, bring to a boil, and cook until thick and syrupy, about 5 minutes. Add beef, and heat through, stirring to coat. Serve immediately over steamed rice, and garnish with broccoli.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 507 calories, Carbohydrate 59.2 g, Cholesterol 60.5 mg, Fat 18.7 g, Fiber 5.9 g, Protein 27.4 g, SaturatedFat 5.2 g, Sodium 651.3 mg, Sugar 16.9 g

ORANGE PEEL BEEF



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I came up with this by attempting to duplicate a dish at a local Chinese restaurant. An Asian friend told me that Asian chefs often use baking soda as a meat tenderizer. My family thinks it tastes even better than the original.

Provided by Dianemwj

Categories     World Cuisine Recipes     Asian     Chinese

Time 1h31m

Yield 6

Number Of Ingredients 16

1 ½ pounds beef top sirloin, thinly sliced
1 tablespoon low-sodium soy sauce
1 tablespoon cornstarch
1 teaspoon dark sesame oil
½ teaspoon baking soda
1 tablespoon low-sodium soy sauce
2 tablespoons frozen orange juice concentrate, thawed
1 tablespoon rice vinegar
1 teaspoon dark sesame oil
1 tablespoon brown sugar
1 teaspoon cornstarch
1 tablespoon peanut oil
3 cloves garlic, minced
1 tablespoon minced fresh ginger root
1 tablespoon finely shredded orange zest
¼ teaspoon red pepper flakes

Steps:

  • Combine the beef, 1 tablespoon of soy sauce, 1 tablespoon cornstarch, 1 teaspoon sesame oil, and baking soda in a bowl and mix thoroughly. Cover and refrigerate 1 to 3 hours.
  • Heat peanut oil in a wok or large, nonstick skillet over high heat. Stir in garlic, ginger, orange zest, and red pepper flakes, and cook until the garlic begins to brown, 20 to 30 seconds. Add the beef; cook and stir until the beef begins to brown and crisp, about 5 minutes. Whisk together 1 tablespoon soy sauce, orange juice concentrate, rice vinegar, 1 teaspoon sesame oil, brown sugar, and 1 teaspoon cornstarch in a small bowl. Stir into the beef, and cook until the sauce has thickened and turned clear, about 30 seconds.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 188.9 calories, Carbohydrate 7.5 g, Cholesterol 39 mg, Fat 7.8 g, Fiber 0.3 g, Protein 21.1 g, SaturatedFat 2.1 g, Sodium 326.3 mg, Sugar 4.5 g

Tips:

  • Prep Ahead: Marinate the beef for at least 30 minutes, or up to overnight, for maximum flavor.
  • Tender Beef: Use flank steak or skirt steak for a tender and flavorful result.
  • Crispy Coating: To achieve a crispy coating on the beef, make sure to coat it evenly in the cornstarch mixture before frying.
  • Frying Temperature: Maintain a constant oil temperature of 350°F (175°C) for even cooking and to prevent burning.
  • Sauce Consistency: Adjust the amount of water or broth in the sauce to achieve your desired consistency.
  • Garnish: Sprinkle sesame seeds, chopped green onions, or orange zest over the finished dish for an extra touch of flavor and color.

Conclusion:

Orange beef is a delicious and versatile dish that can be enjoyed as an appetizer, main course, or even as a filling for tacos or lettuce wraps. With its vibrant orange sauce, tender beef, and crispy coating, this dish is sure to be a hit at your next gathering. The recipe provided in this article offers a healthier version of the classic dish, making it a great choice for those looking for a lighter meal without compromising on taste. Feel free to experiment with different ingredients and cooking methods to create your own unique orange beef recipe.

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