Ground Beef and Broccoli Noodle Bowls

Ingredients

• 1 lb / 454 g Ground beef, 90% lean
• 2 Tbsp Olive oil
• 1 tsp Seasoning salt
• 1 Tbsp Cornstarch
• 3 cloves Fresh garlic
• 2 tsp Fresh ginger
• 6 oz / 170 g Lo mein noodles
• 12 oz / 340 g Broccoli florets
• 5 Tbsp Low-sodium soy sauce
• 1 tsp Rice vinegar
• 3 tsp Sesame oil
• 2 Tbsp Light brown sugar
• 1 cup Beef broth
• ½ cup + 2 Tbsp Water

Method

1. Bring a pot of water to a boil. Cook the lo mein until just tender, following the package. Drain it. The post also allows spaghetti. This version uses 6 oz / 170 g of lo mein. The post does not salt the noodle water, so that salt is not in the count. The boiling water is not in the count either.
2. Heat the olive oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Add the ground beef, the seasoning salt, and the cornstarch. The post allows 90% lean or 96% lean. This version uses 90% lean. The post named a seasoned salt. This version uses seasoning salt. Break the beef up and cook until it is browned and no longer pink. The post does not have you drain the skillet. The fat stays in the pan.
3. Add the broccoli florets, the garlic, the ginger, and 2 tablespoons of the water. Cover and cook about 5 minutes, until the broccoli is tender and still bright green.
4. Stir the low-sodium soy sauce, the beef broth, the remaining ½ cup of water, the rice vinegar, the sesame oil, and the brown sugar together. The post allows honey in place of the brown sugar. This version uses light brown sugar.
5. Add the noodles and the sauce to the skillet. Cook until the sauce bubbles and coats the noodles. The cornstarch already on the beef thickens it.
6. Serve 4 bowls. The post did not give a yield. Four bowls is the cut used here, about a quarter of the beef, the broccoli, and the noodles in each bowl. Leftovers keep covered in the fridge for a few days. Reheat until the beef is hot in the center again.

Nutrition

Kitchen estimate only, not lab-verified. Counted as 1 of 4 bowls: the 90% lean ground beef, the olive oil, the seasoning salt, the cornstarch, the garlic, the ginger, the lo mein, the broccoli, the low-sodium soy sauce, the rice vinegar, the sesame oil, the light brown sugar, the beef broth, and the water. The post did not give a yield. Four bowls is the cut used here. The post also allows 96% lean beef. The row is 90% lean raw, and the skillet is not drained, so that fat stays in the count. The beef line is 1 lb and also 454 g. The written 454 g is used. The noodle line is 6 oz and also 170 g. Six ounces is about 170 g. The written 170 g is used. The post allows spaghetti. The row is dry enriched pasta, because there is no separate lo mein row. The broccoli line is 12 oz and also 340 g. The written 340 g is used. The soy sauce is the low-sodium shoyu row, 14.2 g per tablespoon, so 5 tablespoons are 71 g. Regular soy sauce is not used. Rice vinegar uses distilled vinegar, because the legacy set has no rice vinegar. A teaspoon is 5 g. A rice-vinegar label rounds 1 tablespoon to 0 kcal, so this teaspoon does not move the rounded bowl. The seasoning-salt label rounds the teaspoon to 0 kcal. That label lists sugar, and the published sugars are 0 g. Added sugars are the brown sugar, 7 g per bowl. About 2.7 g of other sugars per bowl sit in the noodles, the broccoli, and the soy sauce, and those rows do not split added sugar from naturally occurring sugar. The seasoning salt, the soy sauce, and the broth are the salty parts.

Guest diet / allergy swaps

Short kitchen notes for guests. A fuller gluten-free or dairy-free ingredient list, when we have one, is in the panels below.

• Dairy-free

  The written list has no milk, butter, or cheese. Read the beef broth and the noodle package. A carton of broth can carry a dairy note, and some noodle bags do too. This is a kitchen note, not a dairy-free certification.

• Gluten-free style

  The wheat is in the lo mein and in the soy sauce. The counted soy sauce is low-sodium shoyu, which is made from soy and wheat. Use 170 g of rice noodles, and 5 Tbsp of a soy sauce or tamari whose bottle does not list wheat. Read the broth, the seasoning salt, and the cornstarch. Beef, broccoli, olive oil, garlic, ginger, rice vinegar, sesame oil, and brown sugar do not call for wheat. The cornstarch row is corn starch. This is a kitchen note, not a gluten-free certification.

• No beef

  Use 1 lb / 454 g of ground turkey and cook it until the center is no longer pink. The bowl is no longer a beef dinner. The soy sauce, the broth, and the seasoning salt still need a label check if the turkey has to be the only change.

• Sesame-free

  The sesame is the sesame oil, 3 tsp. Leave it out. The sauce will taste flatter. That oil is in the count, so skipping it changes the plate. Soy sauce is a different ingredient. Read it anyway. This is a kitchen note, not an allergen clearance.

• Honey instead of brown sugar

  The post allows honey in place of the brown sugar. Use 2 Tbsp of honey. That is a different row, and it is not the count used here.