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Sesame Ground Beef Peanut Noodles
These sesame ground beef peanut noodles come together in just 45 minutes with a seriously delicious creamy peanut sauce you’ll want to put on everything!
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 25 minutes
- Total Time: 45 minutes
- Yield: 8 servings 1x
- Category: Dinner
- Method: Cooking
Ingredients
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Noodles + Extras
- 2 packages ramen (discard seasoning packets)
- 1 cup chopped roasted lightly salted peanuts
- thinly sliced green onion
- fresh chopped cilantro
- fresh chopped mint
- lime wedges
Ground Beef + Broccoli
- 1 pound ground beef
- 1 teaspoon sesame oil + more for garnish
- 4 cloves garlic, grated on a microplane
- 1 teaspoon ginger paste
- 3 cups broccoli florets
- 2 tablespoons soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon rice vinegar
- Kosher salt
- fresh cracked black pepper
Peanut Sauce
- 1/2 cup low-sodium soy sauce
- 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
- 4 tablespoons seasoned rice vinegar
- 2 tablespoons sesame oil
- 1 tablespoon brown sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
- pinch of cayenne pepper
Instructions
- COOK RAMEN. Cook ramen, boiling it for just 2 minutes. Drain, toss immediately with 1 teaspoon sesame oil, and set aside.
- COOK BEEF. Heat a large saute pan over medium-high heat. Add ground beef and season to taste with salt and pepper. Wait until the beef forms a dark brown crust on the bottom, then flip, break up with a spatula, and continue cooking until browned and almost cooked through. Drain excess fat, then drizzle with 1 teaspoon of sesame oil and cook for another minute or so until cooked through.
- COOK BROCCOLI. Use a slotted spoon to remove ground beef and set aside on a plate. Add broccoli and sauté in the pan drippings for about 4-5 minutes or until the broccoli is tender.
- MAKE PEANUT SAUCE. While everything is cooking, whisk together peanut sauce ingredients in a medium bowl. Adjust flavors to suit your taste.
- ADD AROMATICS. Reduce heat to medium-low. Stir in fresh garlic and ginger and cook, stirring frequently, for about 30 seconds.
- DEGLAZE PAN. Add soy sauce and rice vinegar and scrape any yummy bits off the bottom of the pan.
- FINISH IT UP. Add cooked ground beef, cooked ramen, and half the peanut sauce. Stir until well combined. Cook for a minute to heat everything through. Garnish with a drizzle of sesame oil, peanuts, green onion, cilantro, mint, and lime wedges. Serve with remaining sauce and enjoy!
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Notes
- Boil the ramen for just 2 minutes and no longer. It keeps cooking as it mingles with the hot beef and sauce in the pan, so slightly undercooked noodles at this stage turn perfectly tender by the time you serve.
- Don’t skip tossing the noodles with sesame oil right after draining. It keeps them from clumping together while everything else finishes cooking.
- Grating the garlic and ginger instead of mincing makes a real difference here. It disappears into the sauce just beautifully. If you don’t have a microplane, just grate it as finely as possible.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1/8 of the recipe
- Calories: 388
- Sugar: 5.4 g
- Sodium: 821.8 mg
- Fat: 23.4 g
- Carbohydrates: 23.5 g
- Fiber: 3.7 g
- Protein: 24.7 g
- Cholesterol: 33.9 mg
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