This Korean Beef Bowl is the perfect bowl full of greens, rice, Korean beef, and veggies. It’s super customizable and a great dinner option for your entire family!
About This Recipe
I love a good bowl recipe. They’re so filling and can be packed full of veggies. These Korean Beef Bowls are packed with protein, veggies and SO much flavor!
Seriously, these are one of the top recipes on the blog and for good reason! They’re easy to make, delicious and endlessly customizable.
Add any of your favorite toppings or veggies to make these bowls your own. Enjoy them for a delicious, macro-friendly meal that will definitely leave you feeling full and satisfied!
Ingredients and Substitutions
- Ground beef: I used 93/7 lean ground beef to make this Korean beef. Easily sub ground turkey or ground chicken if you prefer.
- Bell pepper: Use a sweet bell pepper (red, orange, or yellow).
- Sauce ingredients: Minced ginger and garlic, soy sauce, rice vinegar, sesame oil, fish sauce, brown sugar, and gochujang sauce.
- Mixed greens or cabbage: You can use any type of greens (spring mix, arugula, spinach) and chopped cabbage. I love using a mix of both for different textures but it’s totally up to you.
- Cooked rice: You can use brown or white rice. Or sub for cauliflower rice for a lower carb option.
- Cucumber and carrots: I love using a julienne peeler or handheld mandolin to get the perfect chopped veggies for these bowls!
- Avocado Great for adding healthy fats and fiber to these bowls!
- Egg: I love to fry up an egg (you can leave the yolk nice and runny if you prefer) to add on top of these bowls. You can also omit if you aren’t a fan.
- For topping: Green onions, cilantro, sriracha, jalapeños, sesame seeds
Dietary Adaptations
These Korean Beef Bowls are naturally dairy-free.
To make gluten-free, just use gluten-free soy sauce for the Korean beef sauce. The macros will stay the same.
How to Make
- Brown the beef: Heat a large skillet over high heat with a spritz of oil. Add beef to the pan, breaking it up a bit (I love this meat chopper), and then let it sit without stirring for a couple of minutes for it brown on the bottom. Season it with salt and pepper.
- Add chopped bell pepper to the pan, and break up the meat further, letting the meat and peppers cook for about 3-4 minutes while you make your sauce.
- Make the sauce: In a small bowl or jar, whisk or shake the ginger, garlic, soy sauce, rice vinegar, sesame oil, fish sauce, brown sugar, and gochujang sauce all together.
- Add sauce to beef: Pour the sauce over the cooked meat and bell peppers, combining well. Stir in your chopped green onions. Cook for one more minute before turning off the heat.
- Assemble bowls: Prepare your bowl by layering greens in the bottom of a large bowl. Add your cooked rice and top with the cooked Korean Beef. Add your sliced cucumbers, carrots (to get the perfect carrots, I love using this julienne peeler or handheld mandolin), and avocado. Fry an egg, leaving the yolk nice and runny (if you prefer), and add it on top of your beef.
- Garnish: Finish with a sprinkle of green onions, cilantro, and optional sriracha, jalapeños, and sesame seeds. Enjoy!
Serving Suggestions
These Korean Beef Bowls are a meal all on their own! The best part about them is that they’re super buildable and can be modified to your tastes (just make sure to note the changes in your macros, if that matters to you)!
We love to build these Korean Beef Bowls using veggies like cucumbers, carrots, radishes, and greens. Put your beef and veggies over rice with a fried egg and some additional sriracha! YUM! Other optional yummy additions are avocado, cilantro, mint, and sesame seeds.
For More Delicious Bowl Recipes
- Fish Taco Bowls
- Roasted Veggie and Ground Turkey Bowl
- Blackened Fish Bowls with Cilantro Pepita Sauce
- Mediterranean Grain Bowl (Cava Copycat)
- Easy Dairy-Free Cava Bowl
- Summer Grill Bowls
- Macro-friendly Spicy Shrimp Taco Bowl
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Korean Beef Bowl
Ingredients
Korean Beef (Serves 8, 124 g portions)
- 2 lb 93/7 ground beef (908g)
- 2 tsp kosher salt
- ¼ tsp pepper
- 3 ½ cups bell pepper chopped (454g)
- 2 Tbsp minced ginger
- 3 minced garlic cloves (or 3 frozen garlic cubes)
- 2 Tbsp soy sauce (30g)
- 2 Tbsp rice vinegar (30g)
- 1 Tbsp sesame oil (15g)
- 1 Tbsp fish sauce (if you hate it, just skip it; 15g)
- 1 Tbsp brown sugar (15g)
- 1 Tbsp gochujang or sriracha sauce (15g)
- 1 cup green onions, chopped (60g)
Korean Beef Bowl (serves 1)
- 1 cup mixed greens and/or cabbage
- ½ cup cooked brown or white rice (75g)
- 3 ½ oz prepared Korean Inspired Beef (recipe above) (100g)
- ¼ cup persian cucumber thinly sliced (50g)
- 1 carrot thinly sliced using a peeler (30g)
- ¼ avocado sliced (25g)
- 1 large egg
- 2 Tbsp green onions chopped
- 2 Tbsp cilantro chopped
- optional toppings: sriracha, jalapeños, sesame seeds
Instructions
- Heat a large skillet over high heat with a spritz of oil. Add beef to the pan, breaking it up a bit, and then let it sit without stirring for a couple of minutes for it brown on the bottom. Season it with salt and pepper.
- Add chopped bell pepper to the pan, and break up the meat further, letting the meat and peppers cook for about 3-4 minutes while you make your sauce.
- In a small bowl or jar, whisk or shake the ginger, garlic, soy sauce, rice vinegar, sesame oil, fish sauce, brown sugar, and gochujang sauce all together.
- Pour the sauce over the cooked meat and bell peppers, combining well. Stir in your chopped green onions. Cook for one more minute before turning off the heat.
- Prepare your bowl by layering greens in the bottom of a large bowl. Add your cooked rice and top with the cooked Korean beef. Add your sliced cucumbers, carrots, and avocado. Fry an egg, leaving the yolk nice and runny (if you prefer), and add it on top of your beef.
- Finish with a sprinkle of green onions, cilantro, and optional sriracha, jalapeños, and sesame seeds. Enjoy!
Notes
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Absolutely delicious! Has anyone tried freezing the cooked meat and sauce?
Delicious! Left out the fish sauce – still very tasty. Chopping/prep takes a minute, but otherwise a quick meal!
Absolutely delicious and authentic! Wonderful flavors! As a major foodie, I highly recommend!
Beef flavor is so good, whole family loved it!
Made these a few weeks ago and my husband has requested them every week since. So easy to throw together and SO GOOD. we like the cabbage steams instead of raw!
We made this tonight for the first time. SO good!
I like mine a little spicier than my family so added some extra kick to my bowl. We customized it… I had cauli rice and they had jasmine rice. Then we added steamed broccoli, shaved carrots and cilantro.
We will definitely make this again!
Quick to make and totally delicious. Will definitely make again!
This was great! So happy to find recipes my family loves too so I can work on my goals and feed them well at the same time.
Thanks Lillie for another great weeknight dinner option. I made it exactly as called for. I will say doubling the sauce might be my only change for next time. Thank you.
Love this recipe. I crave it all the time. So delicious & easy! Thanks Lillie!
This recipe is a 10/10. My husband went back for seconds! Sharing this recipe with my kids and girlfriends. The flavors are amazing!
This was delicious! Only thing different was unused chili garlic sauce instead of sriracha. My kids even enjoyed (8 &15)!
Sooo good! And quick and easy to prepare. My whole family loved it. Thank you!
I have made this recipe a few times, I sub in ground turkey in place of the ground beef and just make the sauce stronger. Super super good!!
Hi! How many servings does this recipe make? Thanks!
How may servings is this recipe?
The beef makes 8 servings and then below the beef recipe is how to make 1 bowl (so 8 people could make their own bowl with the beef recipe). Hopefully that helps!
How many servings does this make? It says 1- but I’m pretty sure it’s more than that- thank you!
The beef makes 8 servings and then below the beef is how to make 1 bowl (so 8 people could make their own bowl with the beef recipe). Hopefully that helps!
Really really good!
Hi Lillie!! I’m so, so excited to try this recipe. It’s Bi-bim-bop, one of my favorite Korean dishes! I lived in Seoul, South Korea from 2012-2017 and I am so excited you shared this Korean favorite because we miss the food there so much.
Thanks and as always, LOVE everything you create and share, LOVE my Planned cook book, and I’m making Pickle Chicken Salad for lunch! 🙂 Best, Charlotte
Everyone loved this so much there were no leftovers. This will be on repeat.
This was a great recipe–quick, easy, versatile, and delicious. Thank you!
We love bowls and this one was really good!! Great flavors and easy to make! Will definitely make this one again!
Will you expand on these points?