Asian Beef, Broccoli, and Cabbage Stir-Fry - so easy-to-make and healthy! Cabbage is cooked in a simple homemade Asian sauce until soft and very flavorful! Great dinner or side dish! Gluten free recipe as it is made with Tamari sauce.
I love easy Asian recipes - they are always a great choice for weeknight dinner and bring a nice variety to weekly recipe rotation, such as this Asian Beef with Mushrooms and Snow Peas or these Asian Noodles with Mushrooms and Snow Peas.
This Asian stir fry with ground beef, broccoli, and cabbage is no exception. Easy, delicious, it takes only 35 minutes to make. The recipe is gluten free as I am using gluten-free tamari sauce. Regular (non gluten-free) soy sauce can be used as well if you're not gluten free. The recipe is so basic - there are only very few very simple steps to making this recipe.
Ingredients you need for ground beef and cabbage stir fry
- olive oil
- ground beef
- cabbage, finely chopped
- garlic cloves, minced
- cooked broccoli, finely chopped
- tamari sauce
- dried ginger
- sesame oil
- water
- cornstarch
How to prepare ground beef and cabbage stir fry
First, cook the ground beef, drain any fat from the skillet. Next, add chopped cabbage and garlic:
Then, cook until the cabbage is tender and reduces in volume.
Stir in cooked (or blanched) broccoli. Add the homemade Asian sauce ingredients. Cook, constantly stirring. Season with salt if necessary.
Your delicious Asian beef, broccoli, and cabbage stir-fry is ready! It's a great way to use cabbage! You can easily double this recipe to use the whole cabbage head. This recipe uses only half of the cabbage head as it's quite a lot of volume when chopped, and I was able to fit only half of it in my largest cooking pan.
Asian Beef, Broccoli, and Cabbage Stir-Fry
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- ½ pound ground beef
- ½ head cabbage , finely chopped
- 4 garlic cloves , minced
- 1 cup broccoli , cooked, finely chopped
- ¼ cup tamari sauce (use less if using regular soy sauce)
- ½ teaspoon ginger
- 1 tablespoon sesame oil
- ¾ cup water
- 1 tablespoon cornstarch
Instructions
- Heat olive oil in a large skillet on medium heat. Add ground beef and cook until cooked through. Drain any fat or liquid.
- To the same skillet, add chopped cabbage and garlic. Cook until cabbage is tender and reduces in volume. Stir in cooked (or blanched) broccoli.
- Add tamari sauce, ginger, and sesame oil and stir to combine - on medium heat.
- In a small bowl, combine ¾ cup water with 1 tablespoon cornstarch - and mix it in the bowl until smooth. Add the corn starch water to the skillet, mix with cabbage and cook on medium heat until heated through and sauce somewhat thickens, constantly stirring.
- Season with salt if necessary.
Nutrition
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We are leaving on a 3-week road trip and needed to use up the remaining fresh veggies, and found this recipe. I had 12 oz. of stir-fry beef, so I marinated it in your sauce for 20 minutes before cooking. I used red cabbage instead of green, and added orange and yellow carrots sliced into coins and a sliced Cremini mushrooms. With the red cabbage, green broccoli, orange & yellow carrots, brown meat and mushrooms, it was a beautiful, colorful dish. It received three thumbs up, and I will definitely make this again. Thank you for posting the recipe.
Wow, your additions sound fantastic, Barb! I love how creative you got with it! Thanks for sharing your version, and enjoy your road trip!
Don't cook the broccoli. Blanch it instead to stay crisp with the cabbage.
Blanching the broccoli is a great idea, I do that a lot.
Have left over roast . Could I use that in place of gr. beef ?
I think this would be delicious with shredded beef from left over roast!
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This was super delicious! We made this tonight because I had a head of cabbage and a big bag of of broccoli. I made the base recipe exactly as listed, except I doubled it. It’s a good thing I doubled it because our family of four ate it ALL! We are hungry during this quarantine. I added approximately 1/3 of a box of (Cooked) spaghetti because we are all craving extra carbs at this time. Sprinkled with sesame seeds after plating.
I posted on Facebook and there were several requests for the recipe. I posted this recipe so there will probably be a few visitors to your site soon.
Made this this evening. absolutly wonderful. thank you for sharing.
Making this tonight.
Using my coleslaw mix with onions etc, can't wait.
It sound so good and easy.
The flavors are amazing, reminds me of beef lettuce wraps
Thanks for sharing the receipe
You're very welcome. Enjoy!
I made this with purple cabbage and shaved carrots. Not only was it delishish, it was beautiful!!
Thank you! I bet it did look quite colorful!
Do you have a calorie per total on this recipe? Looks good!
Nothing beats stir-fry cabbage when they’re paired with ground beef. I can imagine this was very delicious! Love this and cannot wait to try it….simple and healthy.Pinned 🙂
Such a creative stir fry dish! I love that there is no rice. Going to make this one very soon. Thanks for sharing, my sweet friend!
That green's pretty radioactive. Turn the juice down. 🙁
You're an idiot.
I love this veggie heavy stirfry! Gorgeous colour and delicious flavour!
Julia, I am finishing up a batch of cabbage stir-fry I made the other day tonight! I love to stir-fry cabbage but I just cook it with garlic and some dried shrimp and use it as a side. I've never added beef to it - great idea!