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Hack Your Ground Beef

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Join Pearl & Serene "In the Kitchen" where they share a quick and easy "hack" for your ground beef! This "hack will make your ground beef healthier, make it less expensive and yummier! Serene calls that a "Triple YAY"! Pearl's secret ingredient in this recipe is mushrooms! Mushrooms have incredible health benefits that help your heart, help to prevent cancer, are full of antioxidants and a certain lectin that is good for you!!

Ingredients
  • 2 lbs ground beef (grass fed beef or ground turkey; drain all of the fat off if not using grass-fed meat)
  • 1 lb fresh mushrooms
  • 2 Tbs chili powder (generous chili powder to taste or 1 Tbs per pound of ground beef)
  • 1 Tbs cumin (generous cumin to taste or 1/2 Tbs per pound of ground beef, roughly half as much as chili powder)
  • TH Mineral Salt (to taste)
Instructions
  1. 1
    A few hours prior to preparing this be sure to pull your mushrooms out of the fridge and put them on a window ledge that receives sunlight for a couple hours before cooking.
  2. 2
    Brown the ground beef in a skillet over medium heat until almost cooked, a little pink but mostly brown.
  3. 3
    Drain the fat from the meat if not using grass-fed meat. You can leave a little bit of fat in the pan if you would like.
  4. 4
    Place the fresh mushrooms into a food processor and pulse them until they are in tiny bits, approximately 6-8 pulses or to your liking.
  5. 5
    Add the processed mushrooms to the ground beef and stir to combine. Allow that mixture to cook down for approximately 5-6 minutes.
  6. 6
    Add the chili powder, cumin and mineral salt and stir to combine well.
  7. 7
    Continue to cook until all of the fluid in the pan evaporates, or if you like your meat mixture to have a little bit of fluid stop the cooking process now.
Note

Recipe Notes

SOME THINGS TO TAKE NOTE OF:

  • Be sure to pull your mushrooms out of the fridge and put them on a window ledge that receives sunlight for a couple hours before cooking. This boosts their vitamin D level from zero (cold fridge temperatures reduce vitamin D to zero) to upwards of 800 - 1,000 according to studies.
  • Once you sun the mushrooms and then cook them after sunning whatever amount of Vitamin D increase that occurred in the mushrooms while sunning them "is there" in the mushroom and will not be reduced by placing them in the fridge "AFTER" cooking them.
  • Cooking stops the life of veggies so whatever you’ve got after that makes sense that it stays. The only reason mushrooms and things like lettuce change through temp etc is that they are still alive and are reacting to light, cold and heat. So essentially you sunbathe them and then cook them to preserve the Vitamin D. Just like you would any other type of food.
  • You do not want to sun the mushrooms and then put them back into the cold fridge to be cooked on another day. Placing the fresh sunned mushrooms back into the cold fridge will destroy the Vitamin D and that is NOT what you want in order to get the full immune boosting properties of sunning the mushrooms. Sun them, cook them, and then refrigerate them to be used in other recipes throughout the week.
  • This ingredient list calls for 2 pounds ground beef and 1 pound (16- ounces) mushrooms but you could decrease to 1 pound beef and 8-ounces mushrooms. (Or increase amounts further, according to the needs of your family for the week.)
  • For the “Extreme Hack” version, you will use 1 full pound of mushrooms for each pound of beef. So for the extreme version, if using 2 pounds beef... you would also use 2 pounds mushrooms.
  • For a Fuel Pull version of this meat use lean ground turkey or grass-fed, ground beef (If the ground meat is not 96-99% lean: brown, drain, and rinse with hot water – use up to 4 oz.)
  • Mushrooms are a resistant starch and they help form that nice good bacteria bed that help you digest your food.
  • Mushrooms have incredible health benefits that help your heart, they are powerful to help prevent cancer, are full of antioxidants and a certain lectin that is good for you!!
  • Three mushrooms per day will help you!
  • Use this cooked ground meat for your taco salads, in your casseroles and stir-fry's, in any of the Hangry Meals that call for pre-cooked meat or to even top your salads.

Read it online: https://trimhealthymama.com/recipe/hack-your-ground-beef/