Ground Beef Stir Fry

Course: beef, Entree

Cuisine: Asian American

Keyword: ground beef stir fry, recipes with ground beef

Servings: servings

Calories: 422kcal

Ground Beef Stir Fry recipe is a quick dinner recipe that you can keep simple or add extra toppings to. Any way you make it its just so tasty! Recipes with ground beef.

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Ingredients

Sauce Ingredients

½ cup low sodium soy sauce
1 ½ TBS rice wine vinegar
1 ½ TBS sesame oil
1 TBS brown sugar
1 TBS hoisin sauce
2 TBS Gochujang sauce or chili garlic sauce
1 TBS cornstarch

Beef Mixture

1 TBS sesame oil
¾ cup chopped onion
2 big cloves garlic, chopped
1 pound lean ground beef
1 cup shredded carrots (heaping cup) or more
⅓ cup sliced scallions or more
pinch red pepper flakes
Optional Asian Cucumber Salad see recipe link in notes below
serve over sticky rice (optional)
garnish with chopped peanuts, scallions, sesame seeds, sriracha, a fried egg, chili crisp or whatever you dream up!

Instructions

Grab a mason jar and combine marinade ingredients. Give it a good shake, taste and adjust. Set aside.
In a large skillet / saute pan. Add sesame oil, once hot, add in onions and sauté for a couple minutes. Just until they begin to soften, add in garlic and sauté another minute. If you enjoy spicy, add in some red pepper flakes here as well.
Add in your ground beef, breaking it up with a spatula or back of a spoon.
As beef begins to cook, add in ½ of the sauce you made and continue cooking.
Once you see beef is just about browned through add in your shredded carrots and scallions.
If you did not use LEAN ground beef and your beef dropped a bunch of fat, quickly tilt pan and using paper towels, get the liquid out.
Add remaining sauce, simmer for another minute or so, remove from heat and plate.
Serve over sticky rice, your favorite rice, chopped lettuce as a salad or enjoy as is.
I love to garnish this with chopped peanuts, more scallions, my Asian Cucumber Salad, sometimes sesame seeds and sometimes a fried egg with chili crisp or a Sriracha drizzle, you do whatever you will enjoy :)

Notes

Adding my 5 ingredients quick and easy cucumber salat gives this Ground Beef Stir Fry more veggies, a nice crunch and an additional burst of flavor. Get that recipe HERE.

You can add whatever you enjoy to this, like dried or fresh mushrooms, shelled edamame, zucchini or whatever you will enjoy or have on-hand. This is a super flexible and forgiving recipe.

You can also swap ground beef for ground veal, ground lamb, ground turkey or ground chicken. Just know that the chicken and turkey will cook faster so be careful to nut dry it out.

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