Korean Ground Beef Recipe

5 from 2 votes

This Korean ground beef is easy to make and packed with flavor! Made with Korean staples like spicy gochujang, savory soy sauce, and sweet brown sugar, it's a great way to switch up your ground beef dinner routine!

Prep 20

Cook 15

Fat 28

Carbs 8

Protein 22

Yield people

Ingredients

Salad

2 tablespoons rice vinegar
1 teaspoon brown sugar
1 teaspoon sesame oil
1 teaspoon gochujang
⅛ teaspoon salt
1 large red pepper sliced
5 green onions sliced

Beef

¼ cup soy sauce
2 tablespoons rice vinegar
1 tablespoon sesame oil
3 cloves garlic minced
2 teaspoons light brown sugar
⅛ teaspoon fish sauce
1 teaspoon gochujang
1 tablespoon fresh grated ginger
1 lb. ground beef
1 teaspoon corn starch
2 teaspoons sesame seeds
1 green onion chopped

Instructions

First, make the salad. Add the rice vinegar, brown sugar, sesame oil, gochujang, and salt to a medium bowl and whisk until the sugar is dissolved. Add the red pepper and green onions and toss to coat. Transfer to the refrigerator.
Next, whisk together the soy sauce, rice vinegar, sesame oil, garlic, brown sugar, fish sauce, gochujang, and ginger in a separate bowl. Set aside.
Heat a large skillet over medium/high heat. Add the ground beef and cook until almost fully cooked, 4-6 minutes.
Pour the soy sauce mixture over the beef and reduce the heat. Simmer for 3-4 minutes.
When the beef is cooked, move the beef to one side of the skillet and the sauce to the other. Sprinkle the cornstarch into the sauce and whisk vigorously until the cornstarch dissolves.
Stir the sauce and beef back together and gently simmer over medium heat until the sauce thickens.
Remove from the heat and top with sesame seeds and green onions.
Serve the beef alongside the red pepper salad and white rice.

Tips & Notes

If you are sensitive to spice, add half the amount of gochujang sauce.
If you don’t have gochujang sauce, you can substitute sriracha, but it will change the overall flavor of the dish.
Option to replace the brown sugar with honey.
The fish sauce adds a delicious umami flavor to the sauce, and a little goes a long way. Feel free to omit it if you are not excited about fish sauce.
Nutrition information does not include rice.

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