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making dinners that cook themselves

Instead of expecting yourself to always have enough energy to cook after workouts, make things easier on yourself with these dinners that cook themselves while you shower!

This is a hot pot style dinner, where thinly sliced beef gets simmered alongside onions, because onions make everything better, and cabbage and thinly sliced carrot for both the fiber and light natural sweetness. Umami gets dialed up through the combination of dried kelp, soy sauce, mirin, and sake, and bouillon powder. Leave it to cook on low while you shower. Dinner’s ready when you’re out.

Ingredients:

Serves 2 (shoppable link here)

• 1lb frozen thinly sliced beef

• 1/4 head of napa cabbage

• 1/2 onion

• 1 carrot

• 1 palm sized piece of dried kelp

• 3 tsp beef bouillon powder

• 1 tbsp soy sauce

• 1 tbsp sake

• 1 tbsp mirin

• 2.5 cups water

Instructions:

• You can choose to meal prep this to make things even easier, but this can also come together on the night of

• Slice up napa cabbage into bite size pieces, and thinly slice the onion

• If meal prepping, add the cabbage and onion to a ziploc bag with the frozen beef

• Carrots get a weird texture if they’re frozen the cooked, so I prefer to prep carrot day of cooking

• Take a vegetable peeler and peel the carrot into thin strips, which will act as the “noodles” in this dish

• To a pot, add 2.5 cups of water, the dried kelp, and 3 tsp bouillon powder

• Bring to a simmer, then drop in the beef, onion, cabbage, and thinly sliced carrot

• Lastly pour in the soy sauce, sake, and mirin, then let it simmer for 20 mins

• Serve with a bit of rice and enjoy with lots of soup