Simple Korean Beef Bowls – Mel’s Kitchen Cafe

The mixture of flavorful beef, zesty slaw, and spicy garlic sauce, makes these simple Korean beef bowls an incredible weeknight dinner!

Please meet one in every of our favourite dinners EVER. Modeled after these favorite Korean beef tacos, this “bowl” model is faster, simpler, and simply as scrumptious! (Scroll down for a fast and easy salmon model!)

Slaw + Sauce + Beef

There are three major elements to this recipe:

• Zesty, contemporary slaw with crunchy cucumbers
• The sauce to finish all sauces (creamy, spicy, garlicky)
• Flavorful Korean-style floor beef

Whereas the components checklist within the recipe might look a bit lengthy, every part comes collectively extremely quick. The slaw and sauce might be made forward of time to hurry up dinner night time meeting!

And to simplify prep even additional, you need to use a bag of pre-shredded coleslaw combine for the cabbage and carrots known as for within the recipe.

Assembling Korean Beef Bowls

These Korean beef bowls are scrumptious served with the three major recipe elements above. However they’re much more scrumptious with a number of additions.

That is how we prefer to serve them:

• Sizzling, cooked rice
• Korean beef
• Slaw
• Sauce (and extra sauce)
• Lime wedges
• Chopped cilantro
• Avocados

Generally we’ll throw naan bread on the facet, too. YUM!

Construct-Your-Personal Meal

The beauty of this recipe and the rationale it makes such a superb, family-friendly dinner is that it’s simply a build-your-own meal the place everybody can create the meat and rice bowl of their desires.

I, for one, at all times add further beef, further slaw, further sauce, and loads of contemporary lime squeezes. Generally, a bit of drizzle of additional sriracha. Oh, and quantity of chopped cilantro.

My household? Their bowls have only a tiny bit much less persona (and fewer cabbage), however I don’t decide them for it. Particularly as a result of which means extra leftovers for meeeeee.

These Korean beef bowls are super.

They’re simply one in every of my favourite issues to eat for dinner, and there are by no means any complaints from the household (see the aforementioned build-your-own attraction).

The flavors are out of this world scrumptious! I like how shortly and simply this meal comes collectively. Actually, I may eat this time and again and by no means get bored with it.

And in the event you’re seeking to change it up just a bit, strive utilizing the sauce for the meat as a salmon marinade. After marinading the salmon for a few hours, cook dinner it on the grill, within the air fryer, or broil within the oven and serve with all the opposite recipe elements. SO, SO GOOD.

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Simple Korean Beef Bowls

Yield: 6 servings

Prep Time: 30 minutes minutes

Cook dinner Time: 15 minutes minutes

Complete Time: 45 minutes minutes

Fast Slaw:

• 4 cups shredded cabbage (napa, inexperienced, purple or a combo) – see observe
• 1 cup shredded or grated carrots
• 1 cup chopped cucumbers
• ¼ to ½ cup chopped contemporary cilantro
• 2 tablespoons lime juice
• 2 tablespoons soy sauce
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• Salt and pepper
• Sriracha, to style

Sauce to Finish All Sauces:

• ½ cup bitter cream
• ½ cup mayonnaise
• 3 tablespoons contemporary lime juice
• 1 teaspoon sriracha sauce
• 1 teaspoon garlic powder

Korean Beef:

• 1 ½ to 2 kilos lean floor beef
• ½ cup low-sodium soy sauce
• ¼ cup unseasoned rice vinegar
• 2 tablespoons gentle brown sugar
• 2 tablespoons toasted sesame oil
• 1 tablespoon contemporary ginger or ginger paste
• 1 tablespoon minced contemporary garlic (4 to five cloves) or 1 teaspoon garlic powder

For serving (elective however tasty):

• Sizzling, cooked rice
• Naan bread
• Avocado slices
• Contemporary lime wedges
• Chopped cilantro

Cook dinner ModeForestall your display from going darkish

• For the slaw, in a big bowl, mix the cabbage, carrots, cucumbers, and cilantro. In a small bowl whisk collectively the lime juice, soy sauce, olive oil, salt and pepper (begin with a pinch of every and add extra to style, if wanted), and sriracha. Pour the dressing over the slaw and toss to mix. Refrigerate till able to serve (it may be made 4-6 hours upfront).

• For the sauce, stir collectively all of the components and refrigerate till able to serve (it may be made a number of days upfront).

• For the meat, in a 12-inch nonstick skillet set over medium warmth, brown the bottom beef, breaking the meat into small items, till not pink. Drain extra grease.

• To the skillet, add the soy sauce, vinegar, brown sugar, sesame oil, ginger and garlic or garlic powder. Stir to mix and produce the combination to a simmer over medium warmth. Simmer for 3 to 4 minutes till heated by means of.

• For serving, to every bowl, add a scoop of rice (if utilizing), add a portion of beef and slaw. Drizzle with sauce. Serve with lime wedges, avocados, and naan bread, if desired.

Slaw: this makes fairly a little bit of slaw as we prefer to load up our bowls with loads of slaw. Should you suppose you may want much less, you’ll be able to halve the slaw components.
To hurry up prep time, you need to use a part of a 14-ounce bag of pre-shredded coleslaw combine (with out the dressing) for the cabbage and carrots known as for within the recipe. 

Writer: Mel

Course: Foremost Course

Delicacies: Asian

Methodology: Stovetop

Serving: 1 Serving, Energy: 370kcal, Carbohydrates: 15g, Protein: 29g, Fats: 21g, Saturated Fats: 6g, Ldl cholesterol: 80mg, Sodium: 1389mg, Fiber: 2g, Sugar: 8g

Recipe Supply: from Mel’s Kitchen Cafe (tailored from this Korean tacos recipe)