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Korean Ground Beef Recipe

This is one of our favorite Korean ground beef recipes! It's easy to make and ready to go quickly on the stovetop. 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 Time20 minutes
Cook Time15 minutes
Servings: 4 people

Ingredients

Salad

Beef

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.
    A bowl of sliced red bell peppers and green beans ready for cooking with Korean ground beef, accompanied by a spoon.
  • 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.
    Cooked Korean ground beef garnished with green onions and sesame seeds in a cast iron skillet.
  • Serve the beef alongside the red pepper salad and white rice.

Video

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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.

Nutrition

Calories: 373kcal | Carbohydrates: 8g | Protein: 22g | Fat: 28g | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 4g