Asian Beef with Mushrooms and Snow Peas is a simple dinner perfect for those busy weeknights! Your family will love tender mushrooms, crisp snow peas, and thinly sliced sirloin steak sautéed with garlic.
This Asian Beef with Mushrooms and Snow Peas is a delicious and flavorful dinner to please everybody in the family! Snow peas and mushrooms are stir-fried together with beef and homemade Asian sauce. This recipe is gluten-free (if you use gluten-free Tamari sauce).
It is my new favorite homemade Asian dinner along with Asian salmon and noodles! All the ingredients go so well together in this recipe. Mushrooms and snow peas make a great combination with Asian beef.
Asian Beef
- Easy and quick. This simple dish is a perfect choice for a weeknight meal. Only 9 basic ingredients! Your family will love this recipe!
- Protein. You get plenty of protein in this dinner thanks to beef.
- Veggies. Snow peas taste amazing combined with Asian beef. You'll want seconds!
- Simple homemade Asian sauce. No need to use store-bought sauce. Make your own Asian sauce using just 5 basic ingredients: Tamari sauce, brown sugar, garlic, ginger, rice vinegar.
Recipe notes
- I'm using Tamari sauce to make a base for a stir fry sauce. Tamari is basically a gluten-free version of soy sauce, but regular soy sauce is much saltier than tamari.
- If you decide to use soy sauce in for Asian beef, keep in mind that it is much saltier than Tamari sauce. Use low-sodium soy sauce, or use less of soy sauce and more olive oil. Or, water down the sauce with a small amount of water.
Variations and Substitutions
- Beef. Use any type of boneless beef. Flank steak works great. Any other boneless parts of steak will work too.
- Vegetables. The lovely thing about this recipe is that you can use just about any vegetable. Use broccoli, asparagus, zucchini, green bell peppers, or snow peas. All these veggies will go great with Asian beef!
- Tamari sauce or soy sauce. You can use either. Keep in mind that Tamari sauce is usually gluten-free (look at the label). I prefer to use Tamari or low-sodium soy sauce.
What kind of beef to use
You can use pretty much any type of beef in this recipe as long as you slice it thinly:
- Flank steak
- Sirloin steak strips
- Any other kind of steak, or boneless beef.
How to thinly slice beef
I find it the easiest to thinly slice the beef while it's still partially frozen and thawed just briefly in the microwave. That keeps beef pretty solid and makes slicing the meat thinly a pretty easy task.
What to serve with Asian beef
- Rice. Serve white or brown rice. You can also serve jasmine rice or wild rice.
- Noodles. Serve long strand pasta such as spaghetti or fettuccine. You can also use angel hair pasta.
- Spicy Asian noodles with mushrooms and snow peas
- Asian noodle salad with peanut dressing
- Asian pasta with broccoli and mushrooms
Asian Beef with Mushrooms & Snow Peas
Ingredients
Homemade Asian Sauce:
- ½ cup tamari or low-sodium soy sauce
- 5 tablespoons brown sugar
- 6 garlic cloves minced
- ½ teaspoon ginger
- 2 teaspoons rice vinegar
Beef:
- 10 oz snow peas
- 4 tablespoons olive oil
- 10 oz mushrooms sliced thinly
- 1 pound beef thinly sliced (sirloin steak strips, flank steak, or any other steak)
Instructions
Prepare Asian sauce ingredients:
- Combine all the sauce ingredients in a bowl - whisk to combine. Set aside.
How to cook snow peas:
- Bring water in a medium pan to boil. Add snow peas, boil them for 5 minutes, drain. Set aside.
How to cook mushrooms:
- Heat a large skillet until hot, add 2 tablespoons olive oil - it should sizzle.
- Immediately add thinly sliced mushrooms - cook them on high heat, turning occasionally, until they brown nicely. Salt them midway, just a little bit. Do not add too much salt, as you will be adding tamari sauce later.
- Remove mushrooms to a bowl.
How to sear beef:
- To the same skillet, on high heat, add 2 tablespoons of olive oil, which will sizzle right away. Immediately add thinly sliced meat.
- Note: You might want to do this in 2 batches. You will want each slice of beef to touch the bottom of the skillet and for meat slices not to be crowded. This will ensure that beef will brown on high heat.
- Cook beef on one side until it browns nicely.
- Turn over all beef slices to the opposite side, and cook more, on high heat, until all slices brown nicely. Remove this batch to a bowl.
- Add the second batch of beef, and repeat.
Final assembly:
- Return all of the cooked beef slices back to the skillet.
- Add the snow peas and cooked mushrooms, then the Asian sauce.
- Stir everything to combine on high heat, for about 1 minute. Turn off heat. Cover the skillet with a lid.
Nutrition
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Added some cornstarch to thicken up the sauce and only used 3 TBSP of brown sugar. LOVED the recipe.
Robin, I am so glad you liked it! Great tip to add cornstarch to thicken the sauce!
I made this last night and it was very good. Only thing I changed was I coated the meat with cornstarch. Super!
Becca, so glad you liked this recipe! Thank you for the comment!
How do I cut the sodium?
Use low sodium tamari. Cuts the sodium big time.
Great tip to use low sodium tamari!
Definitely need to use a better cut of steak than top round. Too tough. Otherwise, really liked this recipe. I saved some of the sauce for marinating a couple chicken thighs. Think adding some small yellow squash would add color and another good veggie. Would be good with noodles which I didn’t have.
Glad you enjoyed the recipe! Thanks for the comment!
It was delicious but I had too much liquid.
I will add something to make sauce thicker.
What did I do wrong?
The recipe should have cornstarch added to the sauce so it thickens the sauce. Add a tablespoon of cornstarch to it, the recipe will be greatly improved
Great feedback. Thanks!
This was so flavorful, I will definitely make it again. I used low sodium soy sauce, extra minced garlic, 3 T of brown sugar, sugar snap peas and beef loin steaks from Costco. I think sliced onion would be a nice addition also, but liked that it was simple and still bursting with flavor. Thank you for the recipe; it was delicious!
I bbq'ed flank steak, marinating it in the sauce for 30 minutes while the coals were getting ready. I used fresh (fresh is always better, if u ask me) ginger by using a spice shredder & I used Splenda brown sugar (or try Sweet Leaf Better than sugar-no calories). I sliced the beef against the grain & added it all back into the pan to reheat everything back up at the end. Delicious!
Now that’s how I would do this! A little more complicated but sounds delicious!
Try bbq'ing the meat first. I marinaded it in the sauce for about 30 minutes while the coals were getting hot. Used fresh ginger, & used Splenda brown sugar instead with the tamari sauce (u can find in the health food section at your grocers). Then sliced the meat against the grain before adding it all back together in the pan! Delicious!
Is the 1/2 t ginger fresh or ground?
Looks like it may be fresh ginger.