Vegetable Beef Stir Fry
This vegetable beef stir fry is something delicious and easy you can whip up for the family with very little effort.
With the delicious flavours of ginger, garlic and sriracha you'll understand why I make this so often!
We really enjoy Chinese take-out but it can get pretty expensive so I like to make our own at home. If you have all the right ingredients on hand, a good sharp knife, and a little practice you can make delicious restaurant worthy stir fries and Chinese food at home for SUPER CHEAP!
I love making stir fries since they're so easy to customize depending on what kinds of flavors you're craving. Generally any kind of veggies work well with this recipe – sometimes I like to add baby bok choy and some water chestnut slices.
The ginger and garlic used in this recipe creates a nice warm zing and I've added just a little touch of sriracha hot sauce to give it a little something more.
As you might have guessed from some of my other posts, I love to get a good bargain at the grocery store. The beef used in this recipe was something I picked up on sale last month and had waiting and ready in the freezer for an awesome meal like this one!
I really don't have that much freezer space so I like to cut up and prepare any meat ahead of time so I can fit everything in there like a jigsaw puzzle. lol
If you'd like to turn this into a super easy freezer meal, you can cut up your beef strips and put them in a zip-top bag with the marinade ingredients in the recipe below. Just take the bag out of the freezer and place it in the fridge overnight the day before you plan on making the recipe. The meat should be ready to use the next day. 🙂
I would recommend that if you're going to make this into a freezer meal, slice up the veggies fresh the day you plan to make it. I find that while broccoli freezes quite well, peppers lose their texture when frozen.
You can also marinate the beef a couple hours before you plan on making the recipe – or even while you're preparing the other ingredients if you like.
I hope you enjoy this recipe!
Vegetable Beef Stir Fry
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup sodium reduced soy sauce
- 1 cup water
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1 tbsp + 1 tsp hoisin sauce
- 2 1/2 tbsp cornstarch
- pepper, pinch
- 1 tsp sriracha hot sauce (optional)
- 1” piece fresh ginger, peeled and grated
- 4 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 1/2 lbs flank steak, sliced in thin strips
- 2 tbsp oil
- 3 green onions, sliced diagonally in 1/2′ pieces
- 4 cups broccoli florets
- 1 red pepper, thinly sliced
- 1 tbsp sesame seeds
Instructions
- Combine soy sauce, water, brown sugar, hoisin sauce, cornstarch and pepper (and sriracha if you're using it).
- I like to marinate my steak strips overnight in a zip top bag in the fridge but you can also put it together a couple hours before you plan to make it and it will still taste great.
- In a wok (you could also use a regular frying pan but a wok works so much better), heat up 1 tbsp oil.
- Add the garlic and ginger and stir around in the oil for about 1 minutes until fragrant.
- Add the veggies to the wok and coat with the oil, ginger and garlic. Stir around everything in the wok and cook until veggies are just tender.
- Turn down the heat and remove the veggies from the wok and set aside in a heat proof dish such as a pie plate. Leave some of the garlic and ginger in the wok.
- Pour in the marinated beef and sauce. Turn the heat up to Medium High and let it start to bubble up.
- The sauce should thicken up and and the beef should cook through in about 10 minutes or less. Stir the contents of the wok while they cook so nothing sticks to the bottom.
- Once the beef os cooked and the sauce thickens, sprinkle the sesame seeds.
- Turn down the heat of the wok and return the veggies to the wok and combine.
- Once combined, serve right away over rice or noodles.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 6 servings
This is my kind of meal! Beef, sriracha and rice! Oh yum! It’s 2:30am here and I’m getting hungry.
Well that looks amazing. We love stir fry. It’s so easy to make and everyone loves it. Not to mention it’s healthy. Win-win!
How delicious! I love love stir fries so much so this is definitely going to end up on my table!
We love stir fry in my house. The kids would go crazy over this one anytime I use beef instead of chicken they seem to love it better along with my husband.
I love stir fries. I grow up seeing stir fries on our table almost everyday. I think that has something to do with being an Asian. 😉
I love making stir fries and we had one tonight for dinner. I never thought about adding sesame seeds. I love that idea and will starting using it.
This beef stir fry looks absolutely delicious, I love eating them but I am yet to make one myself but that is about to change I am so keeping this recipe.
My husband loves chinese style food so he would be WAY into this. We just had beef lo main, so this would be a good one to try!
We used to eat Chinese food on a weekly basis but like you said it really got expensive. I’ll have to try this out, it’ll be a nice surprise for my husband.
My husband likes to have stir fry. If it’s got beef in it that’s his favorite kind.
I like the big chunks of peppers that you sliced in the pics. This looks really tasty with that jiucy, well-done beef. Yum!
Holy molly, you make me so hungry. I love beef stir fry, I always make this kind of dish for my husband because he likes beef and the kids love veggies so it’s a win win situation.
I love making stir fry though I’m not sure why I haven’t used ginger yet. Nom Nom Nom!
Your photos are gorgeous! Gah, I’m hungry just looking at them. We recently made fajitas but I thought, the whole time I was eating them, about how much more I would have enjoyed a simple stir fry 😛
Yum! This looks amazingly delicious. I haven’t had stir fry in years. My mom used to make it killer. I will need to try this!
Looks super duper yummy. My husband would love this. He loves any food with an Asian flair.
That looks delicious!! I love a good stir fry but I early use red meat. You make this look good!!
We love Chinese take out as well and your right is pretty expensive especially with our family of 7. This looks really good. Thanks for the recipe!
Wow, this sounds awesome. We just got this sauce to use with stir frys the other day. I’m going to have to get my hubby to make this for us since he does all our cooking. Thank you for sharing.
This looks delicious! We eat rice with almost every dinner, and it is always fun to have a new meat recipe to try.
That sounds delicious. We are big fans of stir fries in our house. They usually go over really well.
We used to always make stir fries. Not sure why we stopped because we do really like them.