Easy Korean Beef Rice Bowls
Sweet, savory, and kid-approved! These Korean beef rice bowls are quick to make and easy to customize, so everyone’s happy at the dinner table.
Servings: 4 servings
Equipment
- Large skillet or wok
Ingredients
- vegetable oil
- 3 cloves garlic, minced (I use a garlic press)
- 1/2 medium yellow onion, minced
- 1 lb ground beef
- 10 green beans, sliced on the diagonal, optional (substitute carrots, green onions, or anything you've got on hand.)
- 4 cups hot cooked jasmine rice
sauce
- 3 Tbsp Hoisin sauce
- 3 Tbsp Dark soy sauce
- 1 Tbsp Mirin, or rice wine, or sherry
- 1 tsp sugar
- 1 Tbsp toasted sesame oil
- 1 Tbsp chili oil or chili paste (use some dried red chili flakes if you don't have either)
- 1 Tbsp finely grated ginger
serving suggestions, optional
- sesame seeds
- chili oil
- fried eggs
Instructions
- Heat a little oil in the bottom of a large skillet over medium to medium high heat. Add the onion and garlic and cook until the onion starts to soften. Add the ground beef, breaking it apart with the edge of a spatula while it cooks. You want the meat to be as finely broken up as possible, so keep at it.
- Whisk together the sauce ingredients, and add to the pan, stirring to combine. Let simmer for a few minutes. Add the green beans and cook for a minute more.
- Divide the hot rice between four bowls, and then top with the beef. Garnish with the sesame seeds, chili oil, and fried eggs, if desired. Serve with sriracha sauce.
Notes
Substitution suggestions:
- Ground pork, chicken, or turkey will work as well as beef.
- This recipe will work wonderfully with a plant based ground meat product.
- Use noodles instead of rice.
- Put the meat mixture in lettuce cups for a super low carb option.
- If you don't have dark soy sauce, use a little bit of Kitchen Bouquet or other gravy browning sauce to deepen the color of your sauce.
Nutrition
Calories: 548 kcal · Carbohydrates: 56 g · Protein: 26 g · Fat: 24 g · Saturated Fat: 9 g · Cholesterol: 81 mg · Sodium: 1059 mg · Potassium: 453 mg · Fiber: 2 g · Sugar: 7 g · Vitamin A: 95 IU · Vitamin C: 3 mg · Calcium: 51 mg · Iron: 3 mg
Nutritional information is provided as a courtesy and is an estimate only. This information comes from online calculators. Although The View from Great Island attempts to provide accurate nutritional information, these figures are only estimates.
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