Description
A quick and versatile dinner using beef mince with Thai-inspired flavors. This dish features a savory stir-fry combined with a fresh sweet chilli lime drizzle, served over jasmine rice with a variety of raw or cooked vegetables.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1/3 cup roasted unsalted cashews (or peanuts)
- 1 tbsp canola oil
- 500 g beef mince
- 1 small onion, finely chopped
- 2 garlic cloves, finely minced
- 3 tbsp roughly chopped coriander/cilantro leaves
- 2 tbsp sweet chilli sauce
- 2 tbsp fish sauce
- 2 tbsp rice vinegar
- 1 tbsp oyster sauce
- 1 tbsp dark soy sauce
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- 3 tbsp sweet chilli sauce (for drizzle)
- 2 tbsp lime juice
- 2 tsp fish sauce (for drizzle)
- 2 batches jasmine rice
- Steamed or fresh vegetables (such as chopped cucumber, coriander, and sliced red onion)
Instructions
- Prepare Sauces: Mix the drizzle sauce ingredients in one small bowl and the stir fry sauce ingredients in a separate bowl.
- Toast Nuts: Heat a large non-stick pan over medium high heat, toast cashews for 2 minutes, then cool and roughly chop.
- Sauté Aromatics: Heat oil in the same pan over high heat; add garlic and onion and cook for 1 minute.
- Brown Beef: Add beef mince and cook, breaking it up with a spoon, until no longer raw.
- Caramelize: Add the stir fry sauce and cook for 3-4 minutes, stirring until the sauce reduces and caramelizes on the beef.
- Assemble: Spoon the beef over steaming jasmine rice and add vegetables to the side.
- Finish: Drizzle with the sweet chilli lime sauce and top with chopped cashews and coriander.
Notes
For a no-nut option, use crispy fried shallots. To make it vegetarian, replace beef with crumbled firm tofu. Lean beef is used for the nutrition calculations.
- Prep Time: 13 minutes
- Cook Time: 7 minutes
- Category: Main
- Method: Stir Fry
- Cuisine: Western
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 bowl
- Calories: 585 kcal
- Sugar: 13 g
- Sodium: 1617 mg
- Fat: 22 g
- Saturated Fat: 7 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 15 g
- Trans Fat: 1 g
- Carbohydrates: 62 g
- Fiber: 2 g
- Protein: 33 g
- Cholesterol: 81 mg
Keywords: beef bowl, beef mince recipe, Ground beef recipe, quick stir fry, thai beef recipe