Serve your family fast, easy and delicious meal with all the flavors you love when you make this beef with garlic sauce. This easy Beef with Garlic Sauce recipe ia a great choice for a weeknight meal.
Made with tender beef and vegetables, This is an easy meal idea for the meat lovers in your home. Pair this dish with garlic rice for a fantastic dinner idea.
Why You'll Love This Recipe
Rich flavor. The combination of light and dark soy sauces with brown sugar makes this dish stand apart from its competition.
Easy preparation. We didn't include a ton of vegetables and encourage you to use matchstick carrots to avoid chopping. This is a simple stir fry in a single pan for easy clean up too.
Fast to the table. Unlike many more complicated dishes, this one is fast and an easy way to get dinner ready quickly.
Equipment Needed
- A deep frying pan or large skillet. If you have a wok, even better.
- A mixing bowl.
- wooden spoon
Ingredients for Beef with Garlic Sauce
90/10 Ground Beef. This will add less overall fat to the recipe and will not require draining.
Olive Oil. A healthy oil that works with high heat for sauteing vegetables and spices.
Light Soy Sauce. This sauce is lighter and color and also has a less intense flavor.
Dark Soy Sauce. This sauce adds a more rich color and a slightly more intense/different flavor.
Grated Fresh Ginger. If you can't find fresh ginger, purchase refrigerated minced ginger.
Minced Garlic. I highly recommend getting a garlic press to mince fresh garlic, but you can also use minced garlic from a jar. In a pinch, you can use garlic powder.
Brown Sugar. Light or dark brown sugar will depth of flavor to your sauce.
Cornstarch. Provides a thickening agent for the sauce.
Mung Bean Sprouts. Crispy bean sprouts with a nutty flavor and a crunchy texture.
Matchstick Carrots. You can chop your own, but buying the matchstick shape makes it so much easier.
Green Onion. Fresh chopped green onions will add so much flavor to your dish!
Variations and Substitutions
- Snow Peas or Cabbage can be substituted for the bean sprouts
- flank steak or sirloin steak can be subbed for the hamburger.
- Serve over zucchini noodles or cauliflower rice in place of cooked rice.
How to Make Beef with Garlic Sauce
Step-By-Step Instructions
Pull together a fast and delicious meal of beef with garlic sauce using ingredients you may already have in your pantry. Cook the beef first and then add the remaining ingredients to slowly layer the flavors. Serve this meal over rice and your family will be grateful.
Step 1 - In a heavy or nonstick skillet, brown ground beef in a pan over medium high heat.
Prepare the garlic sauce recipe.
Add the vegetables to the ground beef mixture.
Finish off with green onions and seasonings. Serve over rice or noodles.
- In a deep frying pan or cast iron skillet add ground beef and olive oil. Fry over medium-high heat until ground beef is browned.
- In a small bowl, mix together both soy sauces, ginger, garlic, and brown sugar. Whisk well.
- Mix in 2 tablespoons cornstarch. Whisk well.
- Turn meat to low heat. Add in the liquid mixture and stir well. It will start to thicken on the meat.
- Add in mung bean sprouts and cook for 2-3 minutes.
- Add in the onion part of the spring onions. Cook another one minute.
- Add in carrots. Remove from stove and cover. Wait three minutes before serving. This will soften the carrots.
- Serve over rice topped with the chive part of the spring onions.
For more super easy asian-inspired dinner ideas, try this Peanut butter broccoli with noodles recipe or this Thai Garlic Chicken recipe.
Tips for Best Results
Use freshly minced garlic for the best flavor. Jarred minced garlic can be used but adds an edge of bitterness so make sure to drain it well and add slightly less than called for in the recipe.
Customize this dish! Add shitake mushrooms, bok choy, broccoli, or any vegetables you enjoy.
One of the best parts about this meal is how fast it is to cook because it uses ground beef! Keep it fast to cook by shredding the veggies or chopping everything very, very small.
Optional toppings are sesame seeds, red pepper flakes and ground black pepper.
If you love ground beef recipes, you’ll also want to check out this delicious Hamburger Rice Casserole from my friend Lisa.
Recipe FAQs
Is beef with garlic sauce gluten-free?
Soy sauce is rarely gluten-free, so if this is important to you be sure to check the labels and purchase one labeled GF. Anything labeled with monosodium glutamate probably has gluten unless it is specifically called out as gluten-free. If wheat (gluten) is an ingredient you will see that specifically called out on the label under allergens if you live in the U.S.
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Beef with Garlic Sauce
Ingredients
- 2 lbs ground beef 90/10
- 1 .tablespoon olive oil
- ¼ cup light soy sauce
- ¼ cup dark soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon grated fresh ginger
- 2 tablespoons minced garlic
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar
- 2 tablespoon cornstarch
- 1 small bag mung bean sprouts
- 1 cup matchstick carrots
- 1 bunch spring onions; green onions diced
Instructions
- n a deep frying pan or skillet add in ground beef and olive oil. Fry until ground beef is browned.
- In a small bowl, mix together both soy sauces, ginger, garlic, and brown sugar. Whisk well. Mix in 2 tablespoons cornstarch. Whisk well.
- Turn meat to low heat. Add in liquid mixture and stir well. It will start to thicken on the meat.
- Add in mung bean sprouts and cook for 3 minutes. Add in the onion part of the spring onions. Cook another one minute. Add in carrots. Remove from stove and cover. Wait three minutes before serving. This will softened the carrots.
- Serve over rice topped with the chive part of the spring onions.
Notes
Nutrition
I hope you loved this easy ground beef dinner recipe!
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Tamara
I was just thinking how uncomplicated it is to use ground beef. None of that tender steak thing. Looks GREAT!