This Healthy Beef Recipe Lets You Forget You’re on a Diet

Have your steak and eat it, too, with a rich yet healthy entrée— then check out more recipes in the Cooking Light Diet to take off pounds, deliciously.

Mojo Flat Iron Steak With Red Pepper Salsa

Recipes developed by David Bonom

Prep: 25 minutes
Stand: 35 minutes
Cook: 10 minutes

Serves: 4

2 tsp. grated orange zest
1/4 cup fresh orange juice
2 tsp. grated lime zest
3 Tbsp. fresh lime juice
2 Tbsp. extra-virgin olive oil
2 cloves garlic, minced
2 tsp. brown sugar
1 tsp. chili powder
1/4 tsp. ground chipotle chili powder
1 1-lb. flat iron steak, trimmed
1 tsp. kosher salt
1 cup finely chopped red bell pepper
1 cup peeled, seeded and finely chopped red onion
3 Tbsp. finely chopped red onion
2 Tbsp. chopped cilantro
1 jalapeño, seeded and finely chopped

1. In a large bowl, whisk together orange zest and juice, lime zest, 2 Tbsp. lime juice, 1 Tbsp. oil, garlic, sugar, chili powder and chipotle powder. Add steak; turn to coat. Let stand for 30 minutes at room temperature, turning occasionally.

2. Heat a grill pan over high heat. Coat pan with cooking spray. Remove steak from marinade (discard marinade). Sprinkle steak with 1/2 tsp. salt and add to pan; grill to desired doneness, about 5 minutes per side for medium-rare. Place steak on a cutting board. Let stand for 5 minutes before cutting across the grain into thin slices.

3. Place remaining 1 Tbsp. lime juice, remaining 1 Tbsp. oil, remaining 1/2 tsp. salt, bell pepper, cucumber, onion, cilantro and jalapeño in a bowl, stirring to combine. Serve with steak.

PER SERVING: 216 Calories, 11g Fat (3g Sat.), 81mg Chol., 1g Fiber, 24g Pro., 6g Carb., 587mg Sod., 3mg Iron, 26mg Calcium

Your Child’s Car Seat May Be a Poor Match for Your Car

Children’s car seats often do not fit properly inside family vehicles, which could reduce their safety and effectiveness, a new study indicates.

The researchers found that 42 percent of the time, children’s car seats are not compatible with the size and shape of vehicles’ seats.

Parents or caregivers who use towels and pool noodles to try to help a child’s car seat fit inside their car may be further compromising proper installation, the study authors added.

“I want to emphasize that all car seats are safe and have passed federal regulations. But, to really optimize the safety of a child’s car seat and provide the best protection for the child, one must make sure it fits properly in the vehicle,” study author Julie Bing, a research engineer at Ohio State College of Medicine’s Injury Biomechanics Research Center, said in a university news release.

“We want to encourage parents to take measurements of their car in order to make the most informed decision when choosing the safest car seat option for their child,” Bing added.

In the study, the researchers compiled the dimensions of 61 vehicles, as well as 59 child car seats, and compared them to identify those that were the least compatible.

After analyzing 3,600 possible child safety seat-vehicle combinations and examining 34 actual installations, the investigators found that less than 60 percent of rear-facing infant seat-vehicle combinations resulted in a proper fit, in which the vehicle seat angle and the car seat base angle met manufacturers’ requirements.

In more than 63 percent of rear-facing child seat-vehicle combinations and more than 62 percent of combinations involving forward-facing child car seats, the width of the base of the car seats fit securely between the vehicle’s seat pan bolsters, the findings showed.

Meanwhile, in more than 66 percent of combinations, forward-facing child car seats didn’t back up against the vehicle’s headrests.

The researchers cautioned parents to confirm that the angles of the seats in their vehicle and their child’s safety seat align properly, taking into account for the vehicle’s headrest.

“We recommend parents go to the store and ask if they can take the model off the shelf and go out to their car and try it,” Bing said. “It might look great on the shelf and have all the greatest safety ratings but, if it doesn’t fit in your vehicle, it may not be the best option for you.”

The study was published in the Oct. 5 online edition of the journal Traffic Injury Prevention.