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Asian Beef with Mushrooms and Snow Peas

Published: Sep 29, 2014 | 98 Comments

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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.

Asian Beef with Mushrooms and Snow Peas

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.

Asian Beef with Mushrooms and Snow Peas

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.Asian Beef with Mushrooms and Snow Peas in a skillet

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.

mushrooms in a red bowl

Asian garlic sauce with tamari sauce, brown sugar, ginger, garlic in a red bowl

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.

how to cook Asian beef and snow peas - step by step photos

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
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Asian Beef with Mushrooms and Snow Peas
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Asian Beef with Mushrooms & Snow Peas
Prep Time
20 mins
Cook Time
30 mins
Total Time
50 mins
 

Asian Beef with Mushrooms and Snow Peas - simple dinner that uses basic ingredients! Tender mushrooms, crisp snow peas, and thinly sliced sirloin steak are sautéed with garlic.  Your family will love this easy weeknight dinner!

Course: Main Course
Cuisine: Asian
Servings: 4 servings
Calories: 538 kcal
Author: Julia
Ingredients
Homemade Asian Sauce:
  • 1/2 cup tamari or low-sodium soy sauce
  • 5 tablespoons brown sugar
  • 6 garlic cloves minced
  • 1/2 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:
  1. Combine all the sauce ingredients in a bowl - whisk to combine. Set aside.
How to cook snow peas:
  1. Bring water in a medium pan to boil. Add snow peas, boil them for 5 minutes, drain. Set aside.
How to cook mushrooms:
  1. Heat a large skillet until hot, add 2 tablespoons olive oil - it should sizzle. 

  2. 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. 

  3. Remove mushrooms to a bowl.

How to sear beef:
  1. To the same skillet, on high heat, add 2 tablespoons of olive oil, which will sizzle right away. Immediately add thinly sliced meat. 

  2. 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. 

  3. Cook beef on one side until it browns nicely. 

  4. 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. 

  5. Add the second batch of beef, and repeat.

Final assembly:
  1. Return all of the cooked beef slices back to the skillet. 

  2. Add the snow peas and cooked mushrooms, then the Asian sauce. 

  3. Stir everything to combine on high heat, for about 1 minute. Turn off heat. Cover the skillet with a lid.

Nutrition Facts
Asian Beef with Mushrooms & Snow Peas
Amount Per Serving
Calories 538 Calories from Fat 333
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 37g 57%
Saturated Fat 10g 50%
Cholesterol 80mg 27%
Sodium 1707mg 71%
Potassium 772mg 22%
Total Carbohydrates 25g 8%
Dietary Fiber 2g 8%
Sugars 19g
Protein 27g 54%
Vitamin A 15.4%
Vitamin C 55.1%
Calcium 7.7%
Iron 27.7%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
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Filed Under: Asian, Beef, Dinner, Flank steak, Gluten Free, Mushrooms, Recipe, Rice, Snow peas, Vegetables Published: Sep 29, 2014 98 Comments

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Comments

  1. D

    Feb 16, 2019 at 12:58 am

    Made this yesterday. Served it over rice.

    Reply
  2. Barb

    Apr 28, 2018 at 9:46 pm

    This was very good. I used leftover beef tenderloin, put it in when I added the sauce and heated it through.

    Reply
    • Julia

      May 03, 2018 at 4:40 pm

      So glad you’ve enjoyed this recipe!

      Reply
  3. Kelli U.

    Apr 17, 2018 at 7:22 pm

    This is not a comment but a question or two. First could canola oil but substituted for the olive oil. Second, do the snow peas HAVE to be boiled??? Couldn’t they be stir fryed?

    Reply
    • Julia

      May 03, 2018 at 5:47 pm

      Yes, you can use canola oil. You can just add the snow peas and stir fry them, without boiling.

      Reply
  4. Jacob R

    Nov 15, 2017 at 9:12 pm

    I tried this and it came out stunning. I added 100% pure sesame oil, and instead of tamari or soy sauce, I used coconut aminos (even more delicious than soy sauce!). I also used coconut flour to thicken the sauce a bit. I added crushed red chili flakes for a nice kick, and freshly cut ginger pieces. The meat I used was thinly cut oyster steak, grass fed.

    Reply
    • Julia

      Nov 24, 2017 at 10:17 pm

      Such great tips, Jacob, thank you! Thinly cut grass fed steak is a great choice, too! 🙂

      Reply
    • Marina

      Jan 25, 2018 at 4:06 pm

      You must have a very large sweet tooth. Aminos is too sweet and the flavor is nothing like soy sauce, plus brown sugar. Brrr.

      Reply
  5. Judy Barbiaux

    Aug 25, 2017 at 8:36 pm

    Made this tonight and it was way too sweet for my taste. Next time I will cut back to 2 tablespoons of brown sugar and add some asian chili. Maybe a little cornstarch for a nice thicker sauce.

    Reply
    • Julia

      Nov 03, 2017 at 6:29 pm

      Thank you, Judy. I really appreciate you feedback and your tips.

      Reply
  6. Season C

    Jul 24, 2017 at 10:19 pm

    This was delicious! I used chicken breast instead of beef (because I already had it). My daughter’s friend was over. She ate 3 helpings and asked me to send the recipe to her mom! Thank you very much.

    Reply
  7. Alisa Ewert

    May 12, 2017 at 4:05 am

    Learning new dish provide me too peace and this is always sources of joy to visit your blog. Thank You

    Reply
  8. Kathy

    Feb 04, 2017 at 7:10 pm

    Oh my goodness…… make this for dinner this evening. Sooooo good. Only thing I did differently was to thicken the sauce with corn starch. Yummmm. Will defiantly make again and again. Thank you for this delicious receipe.

    Reply
    • Julia

      Feb 06, 2017 at 3:07 am

      Thank you, Kathy! Glad you liked it! Corn starch is always great for thickening the sauces!

      Reply
  9. Mary Beth

    Jan 29, 2017 at 7:24 am

    Just tried this recipe. Easy to put together at the end of a work day. It was delicious without any changes. But I will add the hoisin and oyster sauces and some red pepper the next time I make it. They are ingredients we will like very much.

    Reply
    • Julia

      Jan 30, 2017 at 11:17 pm

      Hoisin and oyster sauces are really delicious, I agree! 🙂 This recipe was intended to use really simple and basic ingredients. 🙂

      Reply
  10. Leah

    Jan 16, 2017 at 8:57 pm

    I just made this recipe for my lunch and it is soooo good! I was separating into my containers and finally just had to have a serving. I substituted broccoli because I needed to do something with it. I also took the suggestion and added water to th low sodium soy sauce. This will be made again!

    Reply
    • Julia

      Jan 31, 2017 at 2:51 am

      Thank you, Leah! I am so glad you enjoyed the recipe! 🙂

      Reply
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