GROUND BEEF MONGOLIAN NOODLES
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Easy to make Ground Beef Mongolian Noodles is sweet, spicy, and perfect for busy weeknights! You can make these mongolian beef noodles in 30 minutes or less and it tastes even better than the restaurant version.
GROUND BEEF MONGOLIAN NOODLES
There is no food group that I love more than pasta! Recently, I’ve been enjoying Asian flavors and wanted to create an easy beef noodle recipe and came up with these mongolian beef noodles. This recipe can be made so quickly, it has become a staple on our weeknight table.
Mongolian beef noodles
I modeled my recipe after PF Chang’s Mongolian Beef with a sweet soy glaze, garlic, and green onions. However, instead of flank steak, I used lean ground beef. This is the perfect dish to satisfy all your quick fix Asian/Chinese food cravings and it’ll make your house smell amazing while cooking!
If you notice, there’s no salt in the beef and sauce mixture. Hoisin sauce tends to be salty and I haven’t found a low-sodium version of it yet. That’s also the reason I recommend using low-sodium soy sauce for this recipe.
mongolian ground beef noodles
- For the ground beef – I used 90% lean ground beef, you can also use ground turkey, pork, or chicken.
- For the minced garlic – I recommend fresh garlic or jarred minced garlic in water instead of dried granulated garlic or dried garlic powder. Fresh has much more flavor than dried.
- For the ginger– If there’s one ingredient that you simply must use fresh it’s ginger. Dried ginger tastes nothing like fresh ginger. Ginger is a root and it adds so much flavor to recipes. A little ginger goes a long way! It’s in the produce section of your grocery store. It’s inexpensive and you’ll just need a very small knob. As well, it’ll last 3 to 4 weeks on the countertop.
- For the soy sauce – I highly recommend you use low-sodium soy sauce.
- For the hoisin sauce – Hoisin is an Asian barbecue sauce and can be found on the International food section at your grocery store. There’s really no substitute for hoisin.
- Red Pepper. A reader recommended Assi brand red pepper which is an authentic Asian brand. If you want to try it, you can purchase it here.
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Ground Beef Mongolian Noodles
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Save To Your Recipe BoxIngredients
- 1 pound lean ground beef
- 4 teaspoons ginger minced
- 6 cloves garlic minced
- ½ cup brown sugar can reduce to 1/3 or 1/4 cup
- ½ cup beef broth
- ½ cup soy sauce low sodium
- 4 tablespoons hoisin sauce if you can find low-sodium, I recommend it.
- ½ teaspoon ground black pepper
- ½ teaspoon red pepper flakes optional
- 10 ounces noodles linguine, fettuccine, or spaghetti
- 1 tablespoon cornstarch
- 2 tablespoons water
- 4 medium green onions sliced
Instructions
- In a large skillet with high sides brown the ground beef on the stovetop. Add the ginger and garlic the last 2 minutes of browning the ground beef. Break up the meat as it cooks.
- While the ground beef is cooking, cook the pasta according to the package instructions. (I recommend you do not salt the water.) Drain.
- Drain the ground beef and return it to the skillet along with the soy sauce, beef broth, brown sugar, red pepper flakes, pepper, and hoisin sauce. Stir to combine.
- Dissolve the cornstarch in the water and add it to the ground beef mixture. Stir and bring the mixture to a low boil. After the sauce has thickened slightly add the drained noodles to the beef mixture. Stir to combine.
- Allow the noodles to sit in the sauce a few minutes to absorb flavor. Serve hot with a garnish of sliced green onions.
This was awesome. I added mushrooms and zucchini and used lo mein noodles. I doubled the sauce ingredients all except the brown sugar only did about 3/4. Fantastic!
Had this in my recipe collection for a while, wanted something quick and easy and this fulfilled the requirements. My husband and I really enjoyed this and will be making it more often! It was delicious and makes a lot, we will be cutting the recipe down for the two of us.
I discovered I could use the dial down serving feature at the top of the recipe heading page after the fact so I made a lot. But we will have leftovers. It is a very good recipe and the flavor was delicious. I will definitely be making this again.
Was looking for a new recipe with ground beef and found this one. We enjoyed this with rice noodles. Followed recipe as is and enjoyed the flavor but it was too sweet (thus four stars). The recipe is a keeper but I will use less sugar.
Thank you for sharing this. This was our dinner last night, my family loved it. The best part quick & easy.❤️
I sincerely thank you for this and the many recommended recipes. this and the other look really good, I haven’t been able to find many recipes like this.
I made this for dinner last night and it was awesome!
We loved this recipe. Made it like exactly like written except red pepper flakes… we are wimps when it comes to spicy hot foods. I can see this recipe being made many times in the future but we are such mushroom lovers that we will be adding them. This recipe seems made for them. We might even go all out and try a few red pepper flakes!!
Yum this is so good! I added about half a chopped yellow onion to the beef while cooking to add some flavor, used chicken instead of beef broth because that’s what I had, and used white pepper instead of black but otherwise cooked as instructed! Used spaghetti noodles and it’s so good! I probably could have used less sugar though, it’s pretty sweet.
We really enjoyed this dish. I used lo mein noodles which absorbed the sauce wonderfully. The only change we plan to make next time is to use half of the brown sugar
I have to tell you, my husband came into the kitchen when I was preparing this, and said, “Ooh, Mom’s making dirty noodles!”. 😄 Needless to say, we really like this dish. Tomorrow the leftovers will be even better!
Love it!!! I love these noodles too!
Great recipe! My family loves it. Anyone ever try using glass noodles(japchae) instead of the linguine?
This is fantastic! I’ve made it twice. The second time I used stir fry beef instead of ground and it turned out good too. Your recipe is a keeper!
Loved this recipe. Made it as printed except cut down on the red pepper. Making it again tonight but will actually add the full amount of red pepper per recipe. A real winner that I will rotate along with my other go to recipes.
Love this recipe, it is delicious. Family asked for it to be made again. Thank you!!