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Korean beef recipe
This Korean beef recipe is as simple as dinner can get!
I’m a huge fan of Asian flavors and you won’t be missing that at all in this Korean beef recipe.
The flavors of this dish will be dancing a happy dance all over your taste buds.
I want to say this tastes exactly like Korean bulgogi but with ground beef.
This is a mouth-watering, extremely simple recipe that you must try and get on your dinner table, ASAP!
Korean beef is also a great meal-prep recipe! It makes a decent amount and you can divide it up on a bed of rice for lunch or dinner.
It reheats marvelously!
How to make Korean beef
It is actually really simple to make.
The ingredient list is short and all you have to do is cook the ground beef and break it apart into pieces then mix in the sauce and you’re done!
Seriously, easiest dinner ever.
Can I make this with ground pork?
You sure can!
Can I mix this with noodles instead of rice?
That would be delicious!
I suggest mixing the Korean beef with rice noodles and tossing it all together with the sauce!
How can I make this vegan?
You can make this vegan by substituting the meat for tofu or another plant-based protein.
How long will this keep?
This should keep for at least five days in the refrigerator in an airtight glass container.
Other recipes with Asian flavors:
Everything but the Eggroll Bowl
Air Fryer Asian-Glazed Chicken Thighs
Korean Beef
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 pound (454 g) lean ground beef
- ¼ cup (59 ml) low-sodium soy sauce
- 2 tablespoons (24 g) packed dark brown sugar
- ½ yellow onion, diced
- ½ teaspoon fresh ginger, minced
- 3 cloves garlic, minced
- ½ teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
- 1 tablespoon sesame oil
Instructions
- In a small bowl, mix the soy sauce, brown sugar, onion, ginger, garlic and red pepper flakes together.
- In a skillet, on medium high, cook your ground beef with the sesame oil until well done.
- Pour in the soy sauce mixture over the meat and combine together. Let it simmer for a few minutes.
- Serve over white rice.
Omg way too sweet covered the flavor of the spice
Is it very spicy with the red pepper flakes ?
hard to say; everyone has different sensitivity to spice..you could start off with a smaller amount and adjust to taste.
This recipe is fantastic. I was looking for a quick recipe to use with a pound of ground beef I’d just thawed and it worked out great. One of my kids is gluten free, so I split the sauce recipe in half. One with regular soy and the other with tamari. I removed half the beef before adding the sauce, then mixed the gf sauce in with the first half, pulled it out of the pan and added the rest of the beef and the sauce into the pan and carried on. Everyone liked it. I substituted cauliflower rice for the regular rice and it worked well. The cauliflower rice took on the sauce flavors perfectly! Thanks so much for this recipe! I’d actually like to try it with cubed beef in the future. Yum!
I made this with ground turkey and added veggies and a handful of cashews at the end.. sooooo good! Thank you for this simple and delicious recipe!
This recipe was very simple, but my family found it to be way too sweet. I’m going to cut down on the sugar next time. I have a large family, so I doubled the whole recipe but ended up with way too much sauce, so I had to thicken it up with a little bit of cornstarch slurry so that I wasn’t serving soup. I’m not sure if the result would have been the same with a single batch and some people may enjoy the level of sweetness, so I recommend trying the recipe as is to start and making adjustments to suit your own tastes the next time around.
Love this!!!
My family loved this dish. So easy and soooo flavorful!
This is AMAZING! We found this recipe almost 2 wks ago and have probably made it 7/8 times since. We have even tried different meats. It’s hard to please everyone in my family with one meal but this has done it!
Super easy and super delicious recipe. I made it as a brunch dish over white rice. I’ll be making this again!
Your receipt is in correct. The receipt calls for 3/4 cup of soy sauce. It should be 1/4 cup. I followed the receipt and it was way to much soy sauce
whatever works for you. the recipe is correct, as written. as you can see, many people made it the way the recipe was written and it turned out fine.