Ground Beef Stir-Fry
When I would make stir-fry, I always felt I had to use chicken breasts or pork chops. We raise cattle and the freezer is full of ground beef, so I decided to try using ground beef. My family loves it. The fact it is cheap and fast is a plus. Use whatever vegetables you have on hand, or whatever is currently cheapest in the grocery store. In the summer we use squash, in the spring it is heavy on cabbage, the winter usually has pea pods and broccoli. Frozen veggies work too. Add in a can of sliced water chestnuts or baby corn on the cob for texture.The sauce ingredients can be expensive, but they will make this recipe four times and keep the refrigerator for months.
Servings 4
Equipment
- knife
Ingredients
Stir Fry Sauce
- 2/3 cup Lite Soy Sauce
- 3 tbsp Hoisin Sauce
- 1 tbsp Chili Paste
- 2 tbsp Rice Wine Vinegar
Stif Fry
- 1 lb ground beef, browned until almost crispy, drained
- 6-8 cups chopped or shredded fresh vegetables (or frozen vegetables) of choice I suggest yellow and zucchini squash, shredded cabbage and green beans
- 4 servings jasmine rice, brown rice, thin spaghetti, rice noodles, or make life easy and use the pre-cooked noodles in the Asian food section of your store
Instructions
- Mix all sauce ingredients in a shaker bottle (like you might use for weight loss shakes), set aside,
- Start your rice or noodles, depending on the type you choose.
- Brown and drain beef, return to skillet,
- Add all veggies to skillet with beef on a medium-high heat.
- Cover, only opening to occasionally stir. Cook until crisp-tender. Add waer chestnuts and baby corn if using.
- Turn heat to medium, give the sauce another few shakes and add to the meat and vegetables.
- At this point, add the pre-cooked noodles or drained and cooked noodles of your choice. This is when I use a pair of silicone tongs to toss everything to coat.
- If you used rice, serve the mixture over rice.
- Serve when heated through.
- At the very end of the jasmine rice cooking time, I stir in a cup of shredded zucchini to get another vegtable in there, and of course get rid of more zucchini.