Quick Fix Meal: Thai Basil Beef
Can you have an amazing, delicious, impressive meal on the table in 20 minutes? Yes!!! A good meal doesn’t have to be fussy or time-consuming. This Thai Basil Beef uses fresh ingredients, homemade sauce and ground beef and yet can be whipped up in no time. Asian inspired meals like this are just the kind my family loves. This one is no exception and actually jumped to the top of the charts for preferred meals that should go in our standard rotation. Hopefully this will be a winner for you too!
This would be perfect to try out on a day when you didn’t get a chance to start your slow cooker meal. A quick stop at the store and you could grab all the ingredients. Having a few staples on hand like jarred minced garlic and ginger as well as bottled lime juice will make super quick work of so many meals like this.
Add in some fresh red chili peppers, carrots, and basil for even more fresh flavor. You can heat up the skillet and have your beef browning while you do the little bit of chopping and whisking that needs to be done.
Serve up over perfectly steamed rice or noodles and you have a complete meal! This is one I know we will eat over and over again!
Quick Fix Meal: Thai Basil Beef
Ingredients
- 2 pounds ground beef
- 2 teaspoons jarred minced garlic
- 1 teaspoon jarred minced ginger
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- 1/2 cup beef broth
- 4 oz baby carrots or regular carrots, peeled
- 1 red chili pepper (I used a Fresno pepper)
- 1 teaspoon freeze dried basil
- 1/3 cup + 2 tablespoons sweet chili sauce
- 1/3 cup soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon bottled lime juice or fresh squeezed
- 1 tablespoon fish sauce
Instructions
- Heat skillet over medium high heat
- Crumble ground beef into skillet stirring occasionally while it browns
- While beef is browning slice carrots into thin slivers or matchsticks
- Cut pepper in half lengthwise and remove ribs and seeds, then slice each half into thin pieces
- Whisk together chili sauce, soy sauce, lime juice and fish sauce
- Drain excess grease from fully cooked beef
- Add garlic and ginger and stir for 1-2 minutes to cook
- Add broth to deglaze the pan and simmer for 1-2 minutes
- Add carrots, pepper and basil and continue to saute for 3-4 minutes until veggies start to soften
- Add the sauce you whisked earlier and let simmer while stirring occasionally for 2-3 minutes
- Serve over rice or noodles and garnish with fresh basil leaves, extra chili peppers and lime wedges or as desired
Notes
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If you cook the rice with coconut milk instead of water, it will really blow the mind with how good this is! A little srichicia sauce on top and I could eat it everyday!!
That sounds perfect! I love coconut rice!
This thai beef stir fry is definitely going to be getting made in my kitchen this week. Love how quick, easy and delicious the recipe is!