Healthy Korean Beef Bowls
Healthy Korean Beef Bowls, served with an apricot sweet chili sauce, lots of vegetable toppings, and brown rice, is a delicious meal to serve!
We’re still enjoying delicious healthy recipes for the new year, like this Healthy Korean Beef Bowl recipe.
Rice and noodle bowls
Rice bowls are like a noodle bowl, except with rice and your favorite meat and vegetable toppings! You may also want to check out my Acorn Squash Sprouted Rice Bowls or Vegetable Quinoa Bowls.
My husband and I haven’t always had it easy. I mean, who has? We’ve gone through hard times just like everyone else, experiencing financial pains, losing three parents in five years when we were newly married, and then parenting ourselves. We always say, parenting is not for wimps. But life happens, and we rally and we rely on God. And then there is grace.
Parenting is not for wimps
Recently we went to dinner with great friends, and spent about an hour talking about parenting. On the table we devoured noodle bowls at one of our favorite restaurants in town.
What is a rice bowl?
Speaking of noodle bowls, these Healthy Korean Beef Bowls are the perfect meal in a bowl.
More rice bowls from my friends: Quick Teriyaki Chicken Rice Bowls [Crunchy, Creamy, Sweet] and Chipotle Lime Shrimp Bowls [FoodieCrush].
You can certainly serve this Korean beef over rice, or vermicelli rice noodles, fresh herbs and vegetables, and a delicious chili dressing.
Healthy Korean Beef Bowls
The recipe today, Healthy Korean Beef Bowls, are made with rice and a delicious apricot sweet chili sauce!
Want to buy Korean Gochujang Chilli Paste? Click HERE to buy from Amazon!
What toppings do you put on a rice bowl?
- Shredded carrot
- Brown rice
- Mushrooms
- Sliced cucumber
- Kimchi
- Sesame seeds
- Scallions
Insights on parenting
Our kids, now in their 20’s, and our friends’ kids, the oldest barely old enough to babysit the younger.
It’s easy to slip into believing that it’s better to offer our perfect parenting stories, when in reality we need to share our failures and truth-telling stories with one another.
What worked, what did not. Where we messed up, where we learned about grace, how we asked our children for forgiveness when we knew we missed the mark.
There are some moments of these days when we still feel our failures. But then, we come together (around food is always the best), and we share our wisdom and we listen.
It was a privilege to be asked questions and to offer our humble insight on parenting.
Time so the most important
Time … time with your kids is the most important, my husband would say over and over again.
We’d nibble on our noodle bowls, and then dive into another parenting subject.
Our kids are grown and we’ve been through the drill of parenting, but we know the importance to offer our guidance (if asked) from younger parents.
Drop the comparisons
Drop the comparisons, young parents with kids, and find good role models.
Let’s think about inviting a family over for dinner, telling our stories, being open and honest.
Big kids and little kids around the table.
Start with an easy dinner
Start with an easy dinner, like these Healthy Korean Beef Bowls.
Saute, saute, saute!
Don’t forget, you can add whatever toppings you like. And most grocery stores have veggies already sliced and ready to go (if you are in a hurry, or you don’t mind paying the price). ENJOY!
6 porcelain bowls with colorful designs inside and outside
Do you love these large cereal, soup, rice, or pasta bowls? You can buy the Chelsea Collection, HERE. I am in love with these bowls, and I display them on our open shelves. Plus, we use them daily!
Healthy Korean Beef Bowls:
Ingredients
Meat mixture:
- 1/4 c sesame oil
- 1.3 pounds organic ground beef
- 1/8 cup coconut aminos or soy sauce if using soy sauce, add 2 Tbsp coconut sugar
- 1 1/2 Tbsp rice wine or mirin
- 2 Tbsp minced garlic OR 2 tsp garlic powder
- 2 tsp ginger paste or 1 tsp ground ginger
- Salt and pepper to taste
Apricot Sweet Chili Sauce:
- 1/4 c apricot preserves
- 3 tbsp Korean Gochujang Chilli Paste will add link to buy
- 1/4 c coconut aminos or soy sauce
- 1/8 c rice vinegar
Suggested Toppings:
- Shredded carrot
- 3-4 cup cooked brown or white rice
- 1 cup enoki mushrooms or other mushrooms
- 1/8 cup coconut aminos or soy sauce
- 1 Tbsp sesame oil
- Sliced cucumber tossed in 3 Tbsp rice vinegar
- Kimchi
- Sesame seeds
- Scallions to garnish
Instructions
- In a large skillet, heat the sesame oil. When oil is hot, add in ginger paste, and stir for 1 minute before adding in the ground beef. On medium high heat, cook beef until browned, then add in the coconut aminos, garlic powder, rice wine/mirin, and salt and pepper to taste. Stir until meat is fully cooked and set aside.
- If you are adding mushrooms to your bowl (highly recommended), heat sesame oil on medium high heat. When oil is hot, add in mushrooms and stir gently for 4 minutes with salt and pepper to taste. Next add in coconut aminos, reduce heat to medium, and stir for 2-3 more minutes. Remove from heat and add to bowl of rice while mushrooms are still warm—along with cucumber, beef, carrots, sweet chili sauce, and kimchi.
- Top with sesame seeds and green onion. Enjoy!
- This recipe can also be made as a salad, with fresh or sautéed greens.
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I love rice and noodle bowls…so so good. How often as parents of older children do we have to bite our tongues, search our memory for when our kids were “that age”, remembering that not every moment was “enjoyable”, and to hold back judgement. Great post.