Recipes Using Beef Mince Nz

An easy weeknight dinner, this Crispy Asian Chilli Beef Mince is absolutely bursting with flavour. These simple beef mince stir fry bowls are a healthy dinner, that takes around 15 minutes to cook so you can have a tasty dinner on the table fast.

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Want dinner on the table fast? I hear ya! I may love cooking, but even I am always on the lookout for a quick weeknight meal filled with flavour – just like this Crispy Asian Chilli Beef Mince.

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These Asian beef bowls are a favourite for their simplicity just like this honey pepper pork stir fry and this Chinese prawn fried rice.

If you’re a regular to this blog, you may have noticed I like a lot of Asian flavours. Just like this one, I love that so many Asian dishes are the work of minutes but are absolutely loaded with flavour.

These crispy beef bowls are a regular in our house now and it’s perfect served with some simply steamed rice and greens.

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Asian flavours are all about umami which is the 5th flavour profile after salty, sweet, sour and bitter. It essentially is anything with a very savoury fullness of flavour and things like garlic, ginger, sesame and soy are brimming with it.

Beef mince comes in many different fat contents – I like to use something around the 90% lean for this recipe. More fat adds more flavour and crisps up even more though so feel free to use a regular beef mince too.

Kecap manis is an Indonesian sweet soy sauce. It’s thicker and more syrupy than soy sauce and has a bit of a molasses flavour to it. It’s a staple ingredient in Indonesian cooking.

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Kecap manis is commonly sold in supermarkets and grocery stores, however, if you can’t find it there, an Asian grocer will always have this on the shelves.

If you’re unable to find kecap manis or maybe you want to make this recipe but don’t have it on hand, you can make a substitute at home.

Just mix equal parts of light soy and palm sugar (or brown sugar) in a saucepan and simmer until thick and syrupy. While this isn’t a perfect substitute, it’s close enough to make this recipe work perfectly.

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Like many stir fry recipes, this one is very easy to cook. It also has only a handful of ingredients making it a great weeknight dinner idea.

Heat a little oil in a wok or pan and stir fry the beef until it starts to get crispy. Add in a little sesame oil, stir it through and it’s done. Less than 15 minutes. That crispyness is the sugars in the kecap manis caremlising. So so good!!

While the beef is marinating, you can organise the sides you want to have with it. I like to serve it over some steamed rice and greens of some sort – most often broccolini. This is seriously easy stuff.

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Minimal ingredients in this meal make this Crispy Asian Chilli Beef Mince a great meal when you’re staring into your pantry with no idea what to make for dinner.

It uses pantry staples that you likely already have on hand, so technically you could make this right now – as long as you have some mince on hand. Or really any meat you like.

This beef is purposely a ‘dry’ stir fry, meaning there is no sauce with the meat. The aim of this recipe is that nice crispy texture to the beef, however, some readers have noted they’d like extra sauce.

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I’ve now added an extra sauce recipe within the recipe card that’s very quick and simple but you could also try drizzling over kewpie mayonnaise which is fantastic with this beef, just like I serve with my Karaage Chicken.

Kick those other boring stir fries to the curb and cook up a dinner that’s super easy, super fast and incredibly delicious for your family tonight. This will be a winner for sure.

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