00743 11 40 C 11 55. 007431 69 40 69 Ground beef and broccoli recipe 47. BEST ground beef recipesa flavorful, quick and easy skillet recipe that comes together in 15 minutes in just one pan!
15 minutes in just one pan! Ground Beef and Broccoli, ground beef recipe with text overlay. At least once a week, dinner around here starts with a pound of ground beef. These dinners are quick, they’re easy, and everyone in my family love them. As a result, I have a variety of ground beef recipes in my repertoire, but I’m always on a quest to come up with new ones.
Enter today’s quick and easy Ground Beef and Broccoli! My One-Pan Asian Ground Beef and Rice Skillet is on regular rotation at our house, but last week, I was craving something similaryet different. Beef and Broccoli has been one of my favorites since childhood and still I love it today. The hubby and kids enjoy it as well. However, since I don’t always have flank steak or some other stir fry-friendly cut of beef on hand — but I always have ground beef — I decided to modify the traditional recipe into this simple, lightning-quick, one-pan Ground Beef and Broccoli. Served over a bed or rice on a gray plate. How to Make It I’m not exaggerating when I say this recipe took me about 15 minutes to make from start to finish, y’all.
Throw your ground beef into a skillet. Mix together the sauce while the beef is browning. Add said sauce — plus a package of frozen broccoli — to the beef. Let it bubble for a few more minutes and then thicken with a cornstarch slurry. All the flavor of Chinese take-outexcept healthier!
Close-up of Ground Beef and Broccoli recipe in skillet. In fact, the sauce in this recipe is so good that I’ve witnessed family members literally licking their plates cleanand I may have been guilty of doing so a time or two myself. I also find that the amount of sauce in this recipe is perfect to allow for seepage down into a bed of rice. Low-sodium beef broth and low-sodium soy sauce. If you don’t use LOW-SODIUM beef broth and soy sauce, you dish may turn out too salty. I like to use a natural oyster sauce with no MSG added. I’m typically able to find it at my regular grocery store.
A funny side note about this sauce is that I actually based it on a recipe I originally developed for my cookbook. That Slow Cooker Beef and Broccoli I was attempting way back when tasted great, but I couldn’t get the texture of the beef to my liking using the crock pot. So I ended up scrapping the recipe. But — hoarder that I am — I fortunately still had the sauce ingredients and proportions hanging out in the deep, dark recesses of my computer files. Ingredient Substitutions My family loves this ground beef recipe so much — and I make it so often — that I always keep the ingredients on hand. All of your questions about substituting the oyster sauce are there!
Close-up of a serving on a plate. Variations This dinner is also nicely balanced with protein and vegetables. That being said, even though Ground Beef and Broccoli is usually made with, well, beef and broccoli, it would be easy to change up the veggies in this dish. Let your imagination run wild and free! Close-up of ingredients of this healthy ground beef recipe. So are you a fellow beef and broccoli aficionado? Or a fan of healthy ground beef recipes?