Ground Beef Stir Fry with shredded cabbage is not just easy but incredibly tasty. This will most definitely become your new go-to, quick and easy dinner favourite.
Juicy beef with a ton of flavour and full of healthy veggies and protein; what more could you want? Ground Beef Stir Fry is a light and filling dish with a simple stir fry sauce using basic ingredients. Extremely addictive and cheap!
BEEF STIR FRY RECIPE
You’ve tried our Honey Soy Chicken Stir Fry and our Singapore Zoodle Stir Fry, now introducing our easiest stir fry to date – Ground Beef Stir Fry!
This recipe is perfect for when you don’t have the energy to make anything too elaborate for dinner but you’re craving something fresh and homemade.
Super tasty, super easy and SUPER fast, borrowing flavours from your favourite Fried Rice recipe. Using just a handful of Asian sauces, this stir fry is so versatile you could even switch out ground beef for chicken, pork or turkey!
Although this is not a traditional Chinese stir fry recipe, you will love the familiar flavours in the sauce. All you need is soy, oyster and hoisin sauces, plus a splash of dark soy for depth and colour.
Make sure you have all of your ingredients ready before you start. This recipe comes together really quick!
HOW TO MAKE BEEF STIR FRY
First, fry your ground beef until nicely browned and crispy. Once it’s browned with your onion, garlic and ginger, add half of your prepared stir fry sauce.
Once your cabbage and carrots have been added and are softened, add the remaining sauce, stir frying to coat everything in all of those flavours.
The water released from the cabbage will mix through, creating an abundance of crazy good sauce!
WHAT CUT OF BEEF FOR STIR FRY
This recipe is made using ground beef (mince). This means absolutely no meat slicing! If you are wanting to keep the calories as low as possible, try using lean or extra lean ground beef.
Your new favourite home cooked meal! You’ll fall in love with this easy beef stir fry after one bite. Happy frying!
MORE GROUND BEEF RECIPES
Chili Mac
Smokey Mexican Beef Wedges
Best Lasagna
One Pot Ravioli in a Creamy Tomato Beef Sauce
Beef Cabbage Stir Fry
Ingredients
STIR FRY SAUCE
- 3 tablespoons low sodium soy sauce
- 2 tablespoons oyster sauce
- 1 tablespoon dark soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon hoisin sauce
- 2 teaspoons Chinese cooking wine or Mirin, dry sherry, apple cider vinegar, white vinegar, sake, rice wine vinegar
- 1 teaspoon sesame oil
- 1 teaspoon white granulated sugar or sweetener for low carb, optional
STIR FRY
- 1 tablespoon oil
- 1 small onion sliced
- 4 cloves garlic minced
- 1 teaspoon minced ginger
- 1 pound lean ground beef
- 1 head cabbage core removed and leaves shredded, 8 cups shredded cabbage
- 1 large carrot peeled and shredded
- 1 pinch salt to taste
- 1 pinch cracked pepper to taste
Instructions
- Combine sauce ingredients in a bowl. Set sauce aside.
- Heat cooking oil a large skillet over medium-high heat. Sauté the onion until beginning to soften, about 3 minutes. Cook the garlic and ginger until fragrant, about 30 seconds.
- Add the beef, breaking it up with the end of a wooden spoon as it cooks, until browned, about 5 minutes.
- Once beef is browned, add half of the sauce to the beef, stir frying to evenly coat.
- Add the cabbage and carrots; continue cooking while stirring until the cabbage is wilted. Taste test and season with salt and pepper, if needed. Stir through the remaining sauce. Serve warm.
Beth Sowell says
Made this for dinner last night. The only thing I changed was that I didn’t add any sweetener. This dish was very tasty and I’ll definitely make it again. The only thing I would change is that I would double the sauce. Thanks for sharing.
Bernadette MacNeil says
Great recipe, flavourful and filling when I want a low carb meal!
Gee says
Very nice. Substituted out beef mince for schnitzel and hoisin sce for sweet chilli sauce
Marjorie Holste says
This is a great recipe, quick to make and delicious.😋
Nina says
Excellent recipe but I like more sauce so I always double the amount of sauce in the recipe so that it also covers the rice or udon noodles I add as well.
Karen T says
OMG I cooked this last night and it was hands down the best stir fry I have ever had! So much flavour and so simple to make. I love stir fry’s and I have bookmarked your website. Thank you so much for sharing your delicious recipes
Joh Rhoe says
So innovative! I would never have thought of such. I moist try this soon and I can think of batch of vatiants. Thanks for the inspiration.
Raj says
Have made this a couple of times now.
Doubled everything.
Bit of salt at the beginning.
Excellent recipe – family fave now.
LaurieB says
This was easy and so delicious. And it provided a great opportunity to use up bits of various veggies that needed to be cooked asap or composted. That stir fry sauce was excellent. Thanks!