Description
Ground Beef Ramen is a quick and easy dinner recipe full of Asian flavor! Made with packaged ramen noodles, ground beef, mushrooms and cabbage. Great for busy weeknights whenever that take out craving hits, but you want a home cooked meal!
Ingredients
Scale
- 2 tablespoon soy sauce
- ¼ cup hoisin sauce
- 2 tablespoons aji-mirin or rice vinegar
- 2 teaspoon mild flavored oil such as canola or vegetable
- 1 tablespoon sesame oil
- 1 pound ground beef (85-90% lean)
- 3 large cloves garlic, chopped finely
- 1–8 ounce package white button or baby portabella mushrooms, sliced
- 2 1/4 – 2 1/2 cups water
- 2 cups napa cabbage, thinly sliced
- 4 packages ramen noodles (discard seasoning packets)
- 3 green onions, white parts sliced to ½ inch pieces and green parts sliced 2 inches long
- Sesame seeds for garnish
Instructions
- Step: Make Quick Stir Fry Sauce by combining soy sauce, hoisin sauce, and aji-mirin or rice vinegar in a small bowl with a whisk; set aside.
- Step: Heat canola and sesame oil in a large pan or wok over medium heat.
- Step: Toast garlic in oil for 30 seconds, being sure it doesn’t burn.
- Step: Add beef, breaking up large chunks, and cook until browned.
- Step: Add mushrooms and white parts of green onions and cook about 2-3 minutes more, or until mushrooms have released their moisture.
- Step: Add Quick Stir Fry sauce and cook for 2 or 3 minutes, stirring to combine.
- Step: Push beef to sides of pan, add water to center of pan.
- Step: Place ramen noodles in center of pan in water, breaking them up to make them fit.
- Step: Cook noodles for about 1 minute, then flip them over, breaking them up and incorporating them into the beef and mushroom mixture.
- Step: Add cabbage and green parts of green onions, tossing to combine with noodle mixture.
- Step: Continue to toss until noodles are cooked and cabbage has wilted.
- Step: Serve immediately with sesame seeds.
Notes
Use any brand of dried ramen noodles (approximately 3-3.5 ounces per package). For a vegetarian version, omit beef and add two cups of bean sprouts and double the mushrooms, using vegetable broth instead of water.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 15 minutes
- Category: Main Dish
- Method: Stir Fry
- Cuisine: Asian
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 serving
- Calories: 360 kcal
- Sugar: 8 g
- Sodium: 959 mg
- Fat: 23 g
- Saturated Fat: 7 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 16 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 45 g
- Fiber: 1 g
- Protein: 23 g
- Cholesterol: 78 mg
Keywords: Asian, Chinese, lo mein, stir fry