Korean Beef Bowl (Ground Beef Teriyaki)

Have you ever tried a Korean beef bowl? My family recently went to a Japanese festival where they served “Beef Teriyaki bowls”. We thought they were delicious and very kid-friendly. As I scoured the internet for Beef Teriyaki bowl recipes, I was able to find more recipes for “Korean beef bowls”, which looked very similar to the beef teriyaki bowls we had tried.

This is such a tasty dish, and very easy to make. Pretty much you combine a few ingredients for a sauce, brown some ground beef, add the sauce, and serve over hot rice. I was tempted to throw in vegetables like mushrooms or broccoli, but decided to keep this recipe simple. Of course, you could add mushrooms, broccoli or other veggies if you want 🙂 We ended up roasting some baby bok choy in the oven, which turned out okay, but not good enough to post that recipe, haha! But you could roast vegetables in the oven to eat as a side dish or just throw in some chopped veggies while browning the meat and let them cook with the meat.

Korean Beef Bowl (Ground Beef Teriyaki)

Ingredients (makes about 4 servings):

• 1 lb. lean ground beef (or venison)
• about 1 Tbsp. light olive oil if needed
• 3 cloves garlic, minced
• 1/4 C. brown sugar, packed
• 1/4 C. Reduced Sodium Soy Sauce
• 2 tsp. sesame oil
• 1/4 tsp. ground ginger
• 1/4 tsp. ground black pepper
• 1/4 tsp. crushed red pepper flakes
• 2 C. hot cooked rice (we used white Jasmine rice but it would probably also be great with brown rice or a medium grain rice)
• optional: chopped green onions to sprinkle on top
• optional: sesame seeds to sprinkle on top (totally forgot to add these and the beef bowl still tasted amazing)

Instructions:

1. Heat a skillet to medium heat. Add a little olive oil and swirl it around the pan gently. Add ground beef and break it up into small bits as it cooks. When about half of the ground beef is brown and the other half is still pink, add the minced garlic.   Continue cooking and browning the beef until done. Turn the heat to low.
2. In a small (cereal-sized) bowl, stir together the brown sugar, soy sauce, sesame oil, ground ginger, black pepper and crushed red pepper flakes. Pour over the ground beef and simmer for about 3 minutes. 
3. Grab some kitchen scissors and head outside to your green onion garden with your kids to snip a few onions, chop them up, and sprinkle them on the food 🙂 

Serve the beef over hot rice, topped with chopped green onions and sesame seeds if desired.

*Inspired by THIS recipe.

**Two other Asian inspired recipes you might enjoy are ONIGIRI and PANCIT CANTON NOODLES.

Summary

Recipe Name

Korean Beef Bowl

Jill

Published On

2018-06-11

Average Rating

2.5 Based on 4 Review(s)