Name: Korean Beef Bowls
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 30 min
Ingredients: 1 pound ground beef (or pork); 1 tablespoon sesame oil; 1/2 medium onion (diced); 2 cloves garlic (minced); 1 tablespoon fresh ginger (minced, see note); 1/2 cup beef broth; 1/4 cup soy sauce; 3 tablespoons brown sugar; 1 teaspoon apple cider vinegar; 1 teaspoon rice vinegar; 1 teaspoon cornstarch; 1 pinch red pepper flakes (see note); salt and pepper (to taste)

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This Korean Beef Bowl recipe is a quick meal you can have on the table in 30 minutes. Sweet, spicy, and totally delicious. Your family will love it, try it!

Most often when I make this I use ground beef, however, it is also great with ground pork. If you want to make it using leftover meat – DO IT! I’ve made this with leftover pot roast and leftover pork tenderloin and it turned out delicious.

It’s a pretty versatile recipe because you essentially make a sauce, add the beef, and cook everything together for a few minutes to meld the flavors.

I wanted to mention a couple of important steps. It really is necessary to remove the ground beef from the pan before moving forward with the recipe.

There are a few reasons for this, the main reason being grease! If you use very lean ground beef, this won’t be an issue but most of the time there will be grease to get rid of.

Then, when you add your onions, you’ll have enough pan space to clear up all those tasty bits left of the bottom of the pan from the beef. That is part of what makes the sauce so flavorful!

The consistency of the sauce should be slightly thickened when you are finished with the simmer step of the recipe, this image shows that really well, so aim for this when you’re all finished!

It will be just right for drizzling over rice. And seriously this recipe makes your taste buds sing, it’s packed with so many flavors!

If you’re like me and are in a serious relationship with your freezer, Korean beef bowls are perfect. Make up a few batches, bag them up and toss ’em into that frozen wonderland. When you want to eat them, thaw and reheat or just heat from frozen with a little water.

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Additionally, if keep browned ground beef in your freezer, toss it in this recipe! That will make this a 15-minute meal. Which is basically like you waving a magic wand and having dinner appear. Who doesn’t want that???

On a slightly unrelated note, the first time I photographed this recipe, I had the chopsticks crossed and sticking into the bowl. My husband and some kind Instagram followers informed me that people only placed chopsticks in meals like that at funerals. Or if they are dissatisfied with the meal. It’s basically death chopsticks. HA!

Although, this mishap pretty much illustrates a major theme in my life: A series of awkward events interrupted occasionally by food {scrolling through my Instagram feed gives me major insight into my life – ha!}.

Like that one time in church I got up to play the piano and stepped on my maxi skirt, causing it to be pulled half way down my bum. In front of everyone. It was real cute. As a fun bonus, my white shirt offset my bright red face beautifully.

So maybe the Korean beef bowl funeral pictures were fitting for my blog, just another story to add to my repertoire? Who knows. I’ve retaken them though! And these new images are much prettier, so I think it’s a win-win all the way around.

TELL ME IN THE COMMENTS BELOW: Have you ever inadvertently mixed up a cultural food custom? Probably not. Just tell me the most embarrassing food story you have. 🙂

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Close-up of plate of rice with Korean beef bowl mixture on top.

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