Korean Beef

Ingrediente

¼ cup brown sugar, packed

¼ cup reduced sodium soy sauce

2 teaspoons sesame oil

½ teaspoon crushed red-pepper flakes, or more to taste

¼ teaspoon ground ginger

1 tablespoon vegetable oil

3 cloves garlic, minced

1 pound ground beef

2 green onions, thinly sliced

¼ teaspoon sesame seeds

Instrucțiuni

In a small bowl, whisk together brown sugar, soy sauce, sesame oil, red pepper flakes and ginger.

Heat vegetable oil in a large cast iron skillet over medium high heat. Add garlic and cook, stirring constantly, until fragrant, about 1 minute. Add ground beef and cook until browned, about 3-5 minutes, making sure to crumble the beef as it cooks; drain excess fat.

Stir in soy sauce mixture and green onions until well combined, allowing to simmer until heated through, about 2 minutes.

Serve immediately, garnished with green onion and sesame seeds, if desired.

Note

2025/06/30 --- Here's what I did the most recent time. 10/10 would repeat:

Start the broccoli first. Preheat oven to 425 and then start prepping. Put broccoli in oven as soon as it's ready; the oven will be at about 270 but that gives it time to soften up first.

In a 12 inch stainless steel skillet, saute a diced yellow onion in sesame oil for a couple minutes. Boil 16 oz of water. Add aromatics (garlic, ginger, chili paste).

Deglaze the pan with the boiling water and add about half an inch to the pot. Add a dollop of better than bouillon concentrate. Add the ground beef and smash with a wooden spoon until basically a paste.

Start the rice cooking in the Instant Pot. Simmer the beef for 5 minutes.

Add brown sugar, soy sauce, and rice vinegar. Simmer for another 5-10 minutes.

Once everything else is ready, thicken beef with a cornstarch slurry.