Teriyaki Ground Beef
This ultra-flavorful ground beef is glazed with a mouth-watering, sweet and savory sauce featuring tamari, garlic, ginger, and sesame. Topped with everything bagel seasoning (for flavor and crunch), it’s excellent over rice, Asian noodles, or piled into soft lettuce leaves!
This meal is gluten-free and made in one-pan! It’s also made with pantry staples, so you should be able to pull it together with ease. In the ingredient list, there are many options for substitutions (for example, fresh garlic or dried, fresh ginger or dried, tamari sauce or soy sauce, etc.). Use what you have on hand and you can enjoy a sensational meal in well under 30 minutes.
I used ground beef, but other protein works. Feel free to grab some ground chicken, ground turkey, or ground pork and swap it in for the beef. And you don’t have to use ground meat, this teriyaki sauce works with cubed steak, chicken, and pork too!
What should you serve with your Teriyaki Ground Beef? I suggest spooning the juicy beef mixture over fluffy rice, or Asian noodles, or into butter/Bibb lettuce leaves. I served the mixture over jasmine rice. On the side, I suggest steamed broccoli or asparagus, or sautéed spinach, or a fresh green salad.
Teriyaki Ground Beef
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup tamari sauce, or soy sauce, or liquid aminos, or coconut aminos
- 1/4 cup water
- 3 tablespoons brown sugar, light or dark
- 1 tablespoon mirin, Japanese rice wine, or Shauxing (Chinese rice wine)
- 1 tablespoon cornstarch
- 2 teaspoons sesame oil
- 1 pound lean ground beef
- 2 cloves garlic, minced, or 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 teaspoon minced fresh ginger, or 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper
For Serving
- Cooked rice or Asian noodles, or lettuce leaves
- Everything bagel seasoning
Instructions
- In a small bowl, whisk together the tamari sauce, water, brown sugar, mirin, cornstarch, and sesame oil. Set aside.
- Brown the beef in a large skillet over medium-high heat, breaking up the meat as it cooks. Stir in the garlic and ginger and cook for 1 minute, until fragrant.
- Add the tamari sauce mixture and bring to a simmer. Reduce the heat to medium-low and simmer for 2 to 3 minutes, until the sauce thickens and reduces. Season to taste with salt and black pepper.
- Spoon the beef over rice/noodles (or in lettuce leaves) and sprinkle with everything bagel seasoning.