Honey sesame ginger beef from RecipeTin Eats - Tonight / Delicious Tonight: Dinners for Every Night of the Week (page 31) by Nagi Maehashi

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Accompaniments: Cucumber ribbons; White rice; Brown rice; Jasmine rice; Basmati rice; Cauliflower rice; Fluffy coconut rice

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Notes about this recipe

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    Can substitute ground pork, chicken or turkey for beef.

  • Chelsea_c88 on May 07, 2026

    Not bad at all. Easy, I love the technique. The beef is super tender and has a great flavor - albeit a little sweet. I can’t add any chili (cooking for a little child) but if I could, I would! Gochujang would probably go a long way in this one. As it is, a good pantry staple type weeknight dinner if you have a pound of ground beef. I’d make it again but it isn’t anyone in the house’s favorite.

  • julia_455qai on April 25, 2026

    Made with chicken, good but not great

  • marissa_lgp76x on March 22, 2026

    This is a hit with the kids! So easy and fast for a night you don’t really feel like cooking.

  • breakthroughc on February 27, 2026

    We really enjoyed this. It exceeded my expectations based on the notes. I did use dark soy sauce. I also served it in a bowl over rice with Chinese broccoli and quick pickled cucumbers. Eaten alone it is a bit salty, but when mixed with rice and vegetables it was delicious. I also used really high quality hamburger. Supermarket 80/20 would definitely need to be drained. I suspect the leanness and quality of the hamburger in Australia is superior to the American grocery store variety. I will had some chili oil to the sauce next time I make it. There will be a next time as it is quick, flavorful and I have a freezer full of hamburger.

  • angela_woef21 on February 09, 2026

    Doubled the recipe and it took longer to caramelise, but worth it

  • Anjackson1003 on January 27, 2026

    Really easy to put together for a weeknight dinner! The sauce has a lot of depth and the sesame was present throughout. Served over TJs brown rice with a Korean style cucumber spicy cucumber salad.

  • eileentien on October 06, 2025

    The Honey Sesame Ginger Beef was ridiculously easy to pull together. That glossy, caramelized sauce hits every note: sweet, savory, gingery, nutty, and just the right amount of sticky goodness.

  • anya_sf on August 26, 2025

    Super quick and easy, but I agree with others that this was fine, not great. I used 12 oz turkey but made the full amount of sauce and added some bean sprouts and frozen peas at the end. Served with quick pickled cucumbers and carrots, plus some chili crisp, which were nice counterpoints to the sweetness.

  • vegabond2016 on August 24, 2025

    This dish was okay, but Nagi has other ground beef recipes that are a lot better (like her Biryani recipe from her first book). I felt like something was missing. If I cook this again (big 'if'), I would add more ginger and maybe some other spices. And serve it with something besides plain rice. I didn't make the cucumber ribbons - maybe it would have been better if I had.

  • averythingcooks on February 04, 2025

    Based on the notes here, I made some quick changes including draining the fat from the meat (a 50:50 beef:pork mix). I added a mix of diced peppers (Fresno, banana, serrano & shishito) to the pan with the onions etc. I made the sauce as written but for us, the issue was that it came across as salty. Also, (I guess due to my Kikkoman low sodium soy sauce) the end result was nowhere near as dark as the pic. We served this over cauliflower rice with an Asian slaw and agree that this is an idea worth playing with but we will definitely need to get that salt down.

  • dbuhler on January 10, 2025

    We actually liked this, but I would make some small changes next time. I had to sub regular soy sauce, and I used mirin instead of the called for wine because that is what I had on hand. I found the dish to be way too greasy, so next time I will drain the beef after browning before I add the sauce. I served it over brown rice with steamed veggies on the side My kids really enjoyed this so I'll probably make it again, and it is a super quick dinner to get on the table on a weeknight!

  • Logan92995 on November 21, 2024

    Really lackluster. Nothing stood out.

  • mondraussie on October 26, 2024

    This was OK, but not amazing... don't know if I would bother again.

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