I’ve been trying really hard to make an effort with my cooking lately. I’m a convenience queen so I don’t like to make anything that takes an age to prepare, but I’m currently following Slimming World which means I’m taking more notice of what I’m eating too.
Savoury mince has always been a favourite meal in our house, but I’ve had to tweak the way I make it to fit in with my new healthy lifestyle. Gone are the days of high fat meat with cooking oil added in the frying pan. I’m now all about the 5% fat beef mince you can get. It costs more or less the same, it tastes the same, and what’s more, it’s free on my diet! Perfect!
This recipe serves 4 (or more if your kids are little) and loved by all the family. It’s full of flavour, but also jam-packed with veggies making it super good for you too. I’m a bit anaemic at the minute so I’m making a conscious effort to get plenty of red meat into my diet so I can gain the iron (plus all the other vitamins and minerals. I’ve found lean red meat to be pretty filling too, which helps with the weight loss side of things because I feel fuller for longer.
*This post is an entry for the #MeatMatters Challenge, sponsored by Simply Beef and Lamb. Learn more about the benefits of cooking and eating beef and lamb along with recipe ideas and inspiration here!
Ingredients for Healthy Savoury Mince
For this recipe you will need:
Savoury Mince
- 500g extra lean beef steak mince
- 1 large onion
- 1/2 punnet of mushrooms
- 500g passata
- 2tsp smoked paprika
- 1 garlic clove
- 1 beef stock cube
- 4 tbsp frozen sweetcorn
- 1 courgette
- 1 400g tin of chickpeas – drained
- 1 red pepper
- 1 tbsp Worcester sauce (or to taste if you fancy a bit more)
- Low calorie cooking spray
Spiced Sweet Potato Wedges
- Two large sweet potatoes
- Smoked paprika
- Low calorie cooking spray
Serves: 4 Prep time: 5 mins Cooking time: 25 mins
Method for Savoury Mince & Spiced Sweet Potato Wedges
This meal is super easy to prepare and pretty quick to cook too, making it a tempting meal option for most days.
Spiced Sweet Potato Wedges
- Wash the sweet potatoes, cut off the tops and bottoms then slice them into wedges. Cover a baking tray with foil and spread the wedges out.
- Spray the wedges with a couple of squirts of low calorie cooking spray and gently sprinkle the smoked paprika over wedges ready to cook.
- Heat the oven to 200ºC (gas mark 6) and cook for 25 minutes (check after 20 if your wedges are thinly cut)
While the wedges are cooking, start preparing the savoury mince.
Savoury Mince
- Coat a large frying pan in low calorie cooking spray and cook the lean mince on a high heat.
- While you’re waiting for the mince to brown, coarsely chop the onion, pepper, mushrooms and courgette, ready to add once the mince has turned turned brown.
- Once the mince has browned, crumble in the beef stock cube then add the onion, pepper, mushroom, courgette and sweetcorn. Finely chop the garlic clove and add that to the frying pan.
- Stir the mix intermittently for about 5 minutes to stop it sticking to the pan.
- Stir in the passata and add the drained chickpeas and smoked paprika.
- Add the Worcester sauce, then let the mince simmer until the wedges are done then serve it all up on a plate.
Et voila! A delicious and healthy meal the whole family can enjoy. It’s packed with B vitamins, zinc, potassium and protein, not to mention the many other vitamins and minerals.
A meaty treat like this can even help combat fatigue, proving that #MeatMatters and you could benefit from recipes like this being on the menu more often!
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This looks yummy!
This looks delicious!! Xx
We always use the 5% fat mince now as well.
it looks yummy and healthy
Where do you buy your mince from? I might try this
looks easy to do
Vary tasty
I love hiding veg in children’s meals ?
You would never guess it was allowed on a slimming diet
This sounds really delicious and quite nutritious.
I love potato wedges.
I need to try this xx
Good recipe. Worcester sauce really helps in mince recipes.
Looks yummy
Yum yum
looks tasty
I would do this with veggie mince, looks nice
It looks delicious and healthy and I will make it this week.
I’ve gotta try this one…thanks x
This recipe sounds delicious x
Sorry – I cant see the link to the past recipe but would love to!
what a great family meal x
this looks delish
I’m always looking for different meal ideas and this is definitely one to try! Looks amazing!!
Looks fab – I love bulking food out with loads of vegetables xx
This looks great, always end up doing chilli or spag bol with mince so thia will be a lovely change
This would be great to save for later too
Yummy Din Din
This sounds delicious, I love the sound of doing sweet potato with it!
this sounds delicious not too sure on sweet potatoes though but wil have a try of this!
I would use quorn mince instead as veggie.
Brilliant
Lovely
The smoked paprika and chickpeas make this a winner for me – two ingredients that are guaranteed to make me love any dish!
Always looking for new recipes & this looks so good
This looks tasty. I think I might try making it.
Healthy and taste our whole FAMILY will Love
It’s great that this dish cotains so much veg!
So surprised this is a sun free meal. It looks filling and tasty and delicious!
This looks delicious I will have to try this
Looks great with all the extra veggies in this!
Looks tasty! Can’t wait to try it out!
Looks tasty
Love to try this
yum I’d love to try the mince with sweet potato mash on top, like a healthy shepherds pie! xxx
This looks delicious
this looks incredibly tasty!
This looks delicious and i’d do a Quorn version for me!
As a vegetarian i would adjust this by using quorn and such a nice and easy recipe
Looks and sounds delicious!X
Delicious and healthy. Thank you.x
That looks gorgeous. Always looking for low Syn meal ideas x
Delicious 🙂
Finally got to cook this, New household favourite !
This savoury mince is definitely a dish that I will be making. I’m a big fan of Slimming World and this recipe will be added to my repertoire
yums, i’ll be trying this
This looks really nice and I love the variety of vegetables and pulses in it
Omg. Gonna have to try this?
This looks really nice. I prefer Quorn mince so I could do it with that. Lovely family meal
these sound super tasty 🙂
Sounds yummy I love chickpeas in a recipe
Looks delicious! I’m thinking about joining slimming world, if i can eat food like this then it sounds perfect for me
Looks good can make it with quorn too
this looks and sounds super easy to make and super tasty
This sounds delicious. Thank you for sharing
This looks yummy- going to try this ?
I have just started my weight loss journey and looking for food ideas, thank you for sharing i need to try this it looks so good
I lobe that healthy eating isnt boring , i have been lazy for so long. Will definitely make this for my family. Thank you for sharinf another fab recipe
Looks yummy I’ve recently been using quorn mince so I would try with that
Looks nice something different I would love to give a go
Looks and sounds lovely!
this looks delicious – I have saved this to remind me to make it 🙂
Sounds delicious
Looks delicious
You could also try making this with Quorn mince, which is fat-free and low in calories.
been doing slimming world for a year now and always wanting new recipes 🙂
Looks delicious and great way to put some veg in
This looks so tasty, thanks for the recipe x
Looks lovely.
Looks lovely x
Absolutely loved this in fact my whole family did. Thank you xx