Thai Sweet Chilli Beef Bowls

This speedy meal utilizing beef mince channels Thai chilli basil disturbance fry vibes (except, nary basil!) with poke bowl versatility (except, nary pricey earthy fish!). The saccharine chilli drizzle condiment ties it each together, and gives you the flex to usage immoderate earthy oregon cooked veg side. Jumble it each up and excavation in!

About these Thai Sweet Chilli Beef Bowls

I privation I could archer you today’s look is an authentic Thai homecooked meal, lovingly prepared each time by thousands of families crossed Thailand…..

But it’s not (at least, not to my knowledge). It’s conscionable thing I made up, speedy to make, versatile and a large all-rounder that volition delight picky young eaters arsenic good arsenic those who see themselves connoisseurs of South East Asian food. Because though it is not authentic, it’s made with staple Thai disturbance fry ingredients (oyster sauce, food sauce, garlic, sugar) truthful the flavour is pretty* legit.

It’s truly tasty. I anticipation you emotion it!

* I accidental “pretty” legit due to the fact that I’ve dialled up the velocity origin by utilizing saccharine chilli condiment alternatively of caller chilli + ail + sweetener + thickener. It wholly works!

Simple saccharine chilli lime drizzle condiment truly makes this!

Ingredients

Here’s what you request to marque this. NOTE: There’s a just fewer repetition ingredients!

The sauces

We’re making 2 sauces contiguous – 1 for cooking and 1 for drizzling. Common ingredients, but they sensation antithetic due to the fact that cooking the condiment changes the flavour – it intensifies and caramelises. On the different hand, the drizzle condiment is fresher.

• Sweet chilli sauce – Just your regular mundane saccharine chilli condiment from regular market stores. I usage Trident which is simply a communal marque present successful Australia. There is nary request to hunt down a legit Asian marque (unless you privation to!). Despite the connection “chilli” successful the name, it’s not spicy, it’s conscionable sweet, though determination is subtle chilli flavour successful it.

• Fish sauce – Stinky successful the vessel but fantastic erstwhile cooked, can’t sensation fishiness astatine all! You conscionable extremity up with tasty savoury saltiness – much absorbing than salt, soy etc. We besides usage it successful the drizzle condiment but not precise much. If earthy food condiment scares you, a) I presume you don’t similar Vietnamese nutrient (because it’s abundantly utilized successful earthy signifier successful Vietnamese sauces!) b) conscionable usage soy instead.

• Dark soy condiment – This stains the beef a beauteous affluent colour and adds tasty soy flavour successful a mode you don’t get with regular oregon airy soy sauce. But, if you don’t person acheronian soy sauce, you tin usage either of these (though the beef won’t beryllium arsenic dark). There volition beryllium a interaction little flavour excessively but don’t beryllium concerned, the drizzle condiment volition marque up for it.

• Rice vinegar – To equilibrium retired the saccharine and savoury successful the disturbance fry sauce. Substitute with cider vinegar.

• Lime juice – I chose to usage this for the drizzle condiment alternatively than vinegar due to the fact that it’s fresher. But if you don’t person lime oregon it’s extortionate (which it tin beryllium astatine times present successful Australia) and you privation to prevention it for your G&T (I get it), substitute with atom vinegar. It’s not a large deal, I promise. 🙂

• Garlic – For the drizzle sauce. (We sauté ail for the beef).

PS With a just fewer communal ingredients, I thought I could marque 1 double-duty sauce. I did try, and it was ok, but it was amended making 2 abstracted ones with antithetic ratios of each ingredient. So sorry, you request 2 abstracted bowls!

For the beef disturbance fry

All you request for the disturbance fry portion is beef, ail and onion. The cashews and coriander/cilantro are for sprinkling – and there’s plentifulness of alternatives.

• Beef mince – Use immoderate abdominous % you want. The fattier it is, the stronger the beef flavour and the juicier the disturbance fry.

  Other proteins – I haven’t tried but I’m assured this would beryllium precise tasty with chicken, turkey and pork. Not convinced lamb works – but I could easy beryllium swayed.

• Garlic and onion – I situation you to find a disturbance fry connected my website that doesn’t see these!

• Cashews – A bully sprinkle of chopped toasted cashews is specified a tasty finishing touch! Elevates this from “yum” to “I request seconds!”. Peanuts would enactment arsenic well, oregon almonds. For a nary seed option, I’d astir apt opt for crispy fried shallots (buy them).

• Coriander/cilantro – Lovely caller touch. I usage a just magnitude due to the fact that I emotion the flavour of coriander, it is simply a Thai nutrient essential! Substitute with greenish onion.

Rice and vegetable/salad sides

Serve with jasmine oregon immoderate plain rice

There’s nary earthy food successful sight, but speech from this it’s a akin conception to a poke bowl. It’s served implicit rice, it’s got a sauce, and it works with earthy oregon cooked vegetables. The saccharine chilli drizzle condiment fundamentally acts arsenic a crockery dressing which means you tin virtually usage immoderate rootlike you want.

It’s pictured passim this station with cucumbers and reddish bulb tossed with coriander (keeping with the Thai vibes!), but deliberation – blanched broccoli florets, shredded carrot oregon cabbage, sliced radish, blanched asparagus, finely sliced kale, cherry tomatoes, edamame oregon peas.

As for the atom – I’ve utilized jasmine (on-theme for the Thai flavours) though immoderate plain rice oregon noodles volition work. Faux rice, likecauliflower rice, quinoa (cook directions here) oregon those caller fangled low-cal-faux atom options sold astatine market stores these days, tin besides beryllium used.

How to marque it

Don’t skip toasting the cashews. It truly goes a agelong mode to heighten the seed flavour!

1. Drizzle sauce – Mix the ingredients successful a tiny bowl.

2. Stir fry sauce – And premix these ingredients successful a abstracted bowl.

3. Toast cashews – Toss the cashews successful a adust cookware for a fewer minutes until you tin odor them and there’s small aureate spots connected the cashews.

4. Chop – Let them chill past astir chop them truthful you person immoderate larger pieces and immoderate “dust”.

5. Sauté the bulb and ail for a infinitesimal until the bulb is astir translucent. (We’re connected precocious vigor now, velocity is our friend). The bulb volition navigator done much with the beef.

6. Beef – Add the beef and navigator it, breaking it up arsenic you go, until you tin nary longer spot red. Then adhd the condiment and support cooking until the condiment mostly reduces, the beef is sizzling and it gets bully colour connected it. Don’t skimp connected this measurement arsenic the caramelisation of the condiment connected the beef is wherever the flavour is! It volition instrumentality astir 2 – 3 minutes connected a beardown stove, oregon 3 – 4 minutes connected a weaker stove.

7. Juicy and tasty! Here’s what it looks like. The beef is simply a beauteous affluent brownish colour but it’s inactive “juicy” acknowledgment to the saccharine chilli sauce.

8. Assemble bowls – Spoon the beef implicit steaming rice. Pile vegetables of prime connected the broadside (raw oregon cooked, much connected this above), douse with the Drizzle sauce, sprinkle with coriander and cashews. Then it’s meal time!

Eating etiquette

And finally, a precise important substance – the eating etiquette. When it’s archetypal placed successful beforehand of you, instrumentality a infinitesimal to respect it. So beauteous and colourful!

Then dive successful and premix it each up. Mix with vigour! If you are not flicking cashew bits and atom connected the table, are you truly living? Embrace the chaos, due to the fact that the amended it’s jumbled, the much enjoyable each azygous wound volition be.

Bring connected the delicious mess!! – Nagi x

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Thai Sweet Chilli Beef Bowls

Recipe video above. This speedy meal utilizing beef mince channels Thai Chilli Basil disturbance fry vibes (but, nary basil and not spicy) with poke bowl versatility (but, nary pricey earthy fish!).

I usage bottled saccharine chilli condiment for simplicity alternatively of caller chilli, garlic, sweetener and thickener, and it works a treat. Plus, it's much kid affable due to the fact that you tin hardly sensation the spice.

The cardinal is the Sweet Chilli Drizzle Sauce! It adds spirit to the beef, rice, and veggies (raw oregon cooked). Jumble it each up and excavation in!

Course Main

Cuisine Western

Keyword beef bowl, beef mince recipe, Ground beef recipe, speedy disturbance fry, thai beef recipe

Prep Time 13 minutes minutes

Cook Time 7 minutes minutes

Total Time 20 minutes minutes

Servings 4

Calories 585cal

Author Nagi

Ingredients

• 1/3 cup roasted cashews , unsalted (or peanuts, Note 1)
• 1 tbsp canola oil , oregon different plain cooking oil
• 500 g / 1 lb beef mince (ground beef)
• 1 small onion , finely chopped
• 2 garlic cloves , finely minced
• 3 tbsp roughly chopped coriander/cilantro leaves (sub greenish onion)

Sweet chilli disturbance fry sauce:

• 2 tbsp sweet chilli sauce (I usage Trident)
• 2 tbsp fish sauce (Note 2)
• 2 tbsp rice vinegar (sub cider vinegar)
• 1 tbsp oyster sauce (Note 3)
• 1 tbsp dark soy sauce (Note 3)

Sweet chilli drizzle sauce:

• 1 garlic clove , minced utilizing ail crusher
• 3 tbsp sweet chilli sauce
• 2 tbsp lime juice (sub atom vinegar erstwhile limes are brainsick expensive)
• 2 tsp fish sauce (Note 2)

Serving:

• 2 batches jasmine rice or different plain atom of choice
• Steamed oregon caller veg (Note 5) (pictured: chopped cucumber, coriander/cilantro, reddish bulb finely sliced)

Instructions

Abbreviated recipe

• Mix each sauce. Toast cashews, sauté bulb + ail 1 min, past navigator beef. Add sauce, navigator until reduced/caramelised, service implicit atom with veg connected side. Spoon implicit drizzle sauce, apical with cashews and coriander.

Full recipe:

• Drizzle condiment – Mix the ingredients successful a bowl, acceptable aside.
• Stir fry condiment – Mix the ingredients successful a abstracted bowl, acceptable aside.
• Toast cashews – Heat a ample non-stick cookware implicit mean precocious heat. Add the cashews and toast for 2 minutes. Transfer to a cutting committee past astir chop erstwhile cool.
• Cook beef – Heat the lipid successful the aforesaid cookware implicit precocious heat. Add the ail and onion, navigator for 1 minute. Add the beef and cook, breaking it up arsenic you go, until you nary longer spot earthy meat.
• Sauce it! Add the cooking condiment and navigator well, stirring, until it mostly reduces down truthful the condiment caramelises connected the beef, astir 3 – 4 minutes. (Don't shortcut this step, it's wherever the flavour is!)
• Serve the beef implicit atom with a broadside of veg. Douse everything with the sauce, apical with cashews and coriander (fresh chilli wouldn't spell astray either). To eat, jumble everything up past excavation in!

Notes

1. Cashews – Toasting brings retired the flavour, committedness it’s worthy it. Raw nuts – conscionable toast for a small longer truthful they are cooked through. Peanuts and almonds would besides beryllium tasty, other a generous pinch of sesame seeds. Salted nuts – that’s fine, but possibly chopped down the food condiment (in disturbance fry sauce) by astir 1/2 tbsp.

2. Fish sauce – It’s stinky successful the bottle, but it cooks retired truthful don’t beryllium scared! It’s the concealed constituent that adds much flavour than different salty things similar salt, soy etc. If you truly person to sub, usage all-purpose soy oregon airy soy (NOT acheronian soy, excessively intense).

3. Oyster sauce – Similarly stinky (but besides sweet), but is simply a flavour shortcut. Don’t skip it. Sub vegetarian oyster condiment (yes, specified a happening exists!).

4. Dark soy sauce gives the beef an enticing heavy brownish colour arsenic good arsenic adding tasty soy flavour. Substitute with each intent oregon airy soy sauce, though the beef won’t beryllium arsenic dark. While the flavour volition besides beryllium a small less, it’s good present due to the fact that the drizzle condiment volition prevention it!

5. Veg – The drizzle condiment volition marque immoderate veg tasty, whether earthy (like cucumber pictured, shredded cabbage, carrot, leafy greens, radish) oregon cooked (just plain steamed oregon blanched, similar broccoli, cauliflower, asparagus, peas). Think: poke vessel situation!

6. Leftover beef volition support for 3 to 4 days successful the fridge, 3 months successful the freezer. Great repast prep if you usage steamed veg due to the fact that everything successful the tin beryllium reheated (though I wouldn’t support cooked atom longer than 3 days successful fridge). Best to support the drizzle condiment separate, if you can.

Nutrition per serving, assuming thin beef is used, 1 cupful cooked rice, each the drizzle condiment and pictured cucumber side. 206 calories is from the rice, truthful power it retired with little cal / little carb alternatives if you privation to trim the calories (eg cauliflower rice).

Nutrition

Calories: 585cal | Carbohydrates: 62g | Protein: 33g | Fat: 22g | Saturated Fat: 7g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 11g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 81mg | Sodium: 1617mg | Potassium: 657mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 13g | Vitamin A: 24IU | Vitamin C: 6mg | Calcium: 58mg | Iron: 4mg

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