Chinese Beef Recipes

Today’s roundup gathers the most flavorful Chinese beef recipes. From quick stir-fries to elaborate stews and soups, they are sure to spice up your week.

What Does a Typical Chinese Meal Have?

You’re likely to find balance in a typical, wholesome Chinese meal: carbs (cooked rice, bread, buns, etc.), cooked meat (sometimes with vegetables), pickled vegetables, and a light soup. Each dish contributes a different flavor profile, harmonizing with one another.

Of course, not everyone has the time to be so elaborate, so they opt for easier alternatives. Meals like rice with sautéed vegetables or sautéd noodles can be seen more often, and even more commonly in lunch boxes sold at vendors. When there is time, however, every Chinese tends to stick to their tradition, where both their soul and body are nurtured.

Our Favorite Chinese Beef Recipes

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Beef Chow Fun Recipe

This Chow Fun is a rice noodle stir-fry that exudes umami undertones. With tender mushrooms basking in a luscious soy sauce, it’s just what you need for a gratifying feast.

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Beef and Broccoli Recipe

This recipe will show you how to make a Chinese stir-fry look easy. It’s a matter of cooking your marinated meat and veggies in one skillet until tender. Serve over a bed of fluffy white rice.

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Beef Fried Rice Recipe

Fried rice is already a game-changer. With some beef added in, it turns more chunky and satiating. An easy crowd-pleaser.

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Beef Tomato Recipe

What looks like a simple dish produces many irresistible, tomato-sweet flavors. It’s so succulent and delicious you’ll have to eat it with your shoes off so you can wiggle your toes.

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Beef Lo Mein Recipe

This remake of a restaurant Chinese dish will make you want to exchange your versatile menu for this treat throughout the week. The marrying of carrots, bell pepper, and ginger is utterly irresistible. You’ll soon realize you can only take so much goodness.

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Ginger Beef Recipe

We love how the bitterness of ginger in this treat works well with the brown sugar sauce. It creates a playful dynamic of flavors from peppy to sweet and an array of aromas in between.

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Beijing Beef Recipe

If ever you wish for a meal of chunky meat sauteed to tender perfection, try this Beijing Beef. Plus, the recipe couldn’t be simpler; everything is ready to be served in 20 minutes.

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Hunan Beef Recipe

When you bring a dish as dazzlingly colorful as this Hunan Beef to the table, your guests should expect it to be every bit as explosive in flavor. All in all, it’ll come down to their tastes. But you can still rest knowing that the effort you put into preparing it will count for something.

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Beef Stir-Fry Recipe

This recipe will become a top choice for down days. You need just 25 minutes to turn broccoli, carrots, and snow peas into allies for a quick yet satisfactory meal.

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Beef Chow Mein Recipe

Another egg-noodle dish to fulfill, Chow Mein is easily a favorite for curbing carb cravings. Stir-fry flank steak with voluminous veggies (bok choy, cabbage) and noodles in soy sauce and serve right away.

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Ground Beef and Broccoli Recipe

Broccoli always makes a dish look effortless. Pair it with ground beef, and you get this trouble-free yet impressive meal.

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Popular Flavors

Now, if you’re not very familiar with Chinese cuisine, you must have thought it’s all about adding chili oil to everything. Many dishes are indeed so, but there’s certainly more to it.

Chinese cuisine leans heavily on the seasonings, such as soy sauce, hoisin sauce, sugar, cooking wine, and vinegar. Sometimes, aromatics like peppercorn, star anise, five spice, cinnamon, cloves, ginger, etc. are used as well. For this reason, some Westerners find Chinese dishes overpowering, but can’t seem to go back to their usual meals once growing fond of them.

Some dishes, especially soups, are cooked for hours and use exotic aromatics that low-key complement the main ingredients. A beef soup, for instance, simmers chunks of brisket with garlic, ginger, cinnamon, and star anise, providing a serious depth of flavors. Stews like this are well-favored among the elderly.

Occasionally, Chinese people enjoy hot pots. Hot pots are easy nowadays with pre-packaged seasonings, and come in many flavors ranging from very spicy to very soothing. A beef hot pot might be the easiest to prepare on this list.

What Cuts of Beef Work Best?

Tough cuts, such as the shoulder, the brisket, etc. are used in soups and stews. Flank steaks are commonly made into stir-fries with vegetables. More tender cuts, such as the loins, are sliced thinly and best served in hot pots.

Now, if all there’s left in the house is a shoulder cut and you feel like making a simple beef sauté, here’s a trick to make the cut more tender:

• Thaw it, slice it thinly, and marinate it with seasonings you like. Be sure to cut against the grain.
• Mix it with some cornstarch (1 tbsp per 4 oz) and leave it to rest for about 5 minutes. All-purpose flour or tapioca starch won’t work as well.
• Heat a skillet on high heat and only when it’s very hot, add the oil. Dip a pair of bamboo (or wooden) chopsticks in, and when you see bubbles coming out of the tips, add the beef. Stir the beef constantly with the chopsticks, and remove it from heat as soon as some brown spots begin to develop. The meat should be just cooked and very juicy.

Typical Vegetables in a Chinese Meal

In stir-fries, a few common choices are bok choy, carrot, Chinese cabbage, mustard greens, eggplants, and cucumbers. They’re quite neutral in taste and suitable for many meats, including beef.

In soups and hot pots, people also use mushrooms of all sorts, winter radish, Konjac, and soy-based products like silk tofu or tofu skin. These ingredients are available in most supermarkets.

Chinese Beef Recipes

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Today’s roundup gathers the most flavorful Chinese beef recipes. From quick stir-fries to elaborate stews and soups, they are sure to spice up your week.

Ingredients

• Beef Chow Fun
• Beef and Broccoli
• Beef Fried Rice
• Beef Tomato
• Beef Lo Mein
• Ginger Beef
• Beijing Beef
• Hunan Beef
• Beef Stir-Fry
• Beef Chow Mein
• Ground Beef and Broccoli

Directions

1. Choose a recipe that you like.
2. Assemble all the essential ingredients.
3. Follow the instructions to give you incredibly tasty Chinese beef in less than 45 minutes!