Korean Beef
Korean Beef is a mainstay of Chinese restaurants, but here is reinterpreted with ground beef and simple related ingredients.
This excellent recipe is borrowed with thanks from a page by Elizabeth Bryant of Seattle, writing as Lizzy Write. Lizzy recommends using lean meat, or it will come out oily.
Yields:
several servings
Ingredients:
- 1 lb. lean ground beef
- ¼ - ½ cup1 brown rice
- ¼ cup soy sauce
- 1 Tbsp. sesame oil
- 3 cloves garlic, minced
- ½ tsp. fresh ginger2
- ½ - 1 tsp. crushed red peppers
- salt & pepper to taste
- 1 bunch green onions, diced (don't skip)
Directions:
Heat a large skillet over medium heat and brown hamburger with garlic in sesame oil. Drain most of fat and add brown sugar, soy sauce, ginger, salt and pepper, and red peppers. Simmer for a few mins. to blend flavors. Serve over steamed rice, and top with green onions.
1 Cups, tablespoons, and teaspoons are as defined in US Customary Units, not to be confused with differing British imperial, "legal", "coffee", Commonwealth of Nations, Canadian, Latin American, Japanese, Russian, or Dutch defintions — further proof that everyone needs the metric system.
2 To ensure that you have fresh ginger when you need it, peel a large piece, cut into ½" pieces, and store in a plastic bag in refrigerator or freezer. Grate for amount needed using a microplane or zester. Ginger freezes well.
Collected and re-published at http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/recipes/korean-beef.html by Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com> on Nov. 7, 2023. Individual recipes are free from copyright. Share and enjoy!
Grateful thanks to Elizabeth Bryant of Seattle, who published this recipe at http://www.lizzywrite.com/2010/05/korean-beef.html.
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Image (used, here, unmodified) is © 2009 by Jamie, who licensed it for use under CC-BY-2.0 Generic. My thanks for Jamie's generosity. (Jamie's picture is, actually, specifically of Korean Bulgogi, but a close-enough dish.)
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