These 15 Minute Ground Beef Chili Garlic Noodles Will Change Your LIFE! 🔥

Hello from Seoul! If you are craving some great noodle stir-fry, but don't feel like take-out, and don't want to put too much effort into it, then you came to the right place! Trust me! This is gonna be one of the easiest noodle stir-fries that you will ever make, and one of the best weeknight dinners of your entire life! I guarantee! Today, we're gonna be making chili garlic noodles with ground beef. Ever since the baby came along, life has been so busy that our meals are basically whatever we can grab in a hurry. But you know, we can't just eat quick bites or take-out every night, right? So when we crave a super flavorful noodle stir-fry, I always make this dish because it's super easy, budget-friendly, and insanely delicious! So if your days are crazy busy like ours, please give this a try! If you do, you will slurp one of the best noodle stir-fries of all time! For this, you'll need some ground beef, noodles, onion, garlic, green onions, and a little bit of ginger. That's it! Super simple, right? Honestly, you can make this dish with just these aromatic vegetables. But today, I'm gonna be adding some cucumber for our beautiful garnish. Trust me! It will add a nice refreshing taste to your noodles and some crunch. And if you happen to have some cilantro in your fridge, feel free to use a little as a final touch. Trust me! That's gonna be a good option, too! Alright, let's start preparing our vegetables. First, finely chop a quarter of an onion. Actually, today's recipe works perfectly fine with just garlic and green onions. But this little bit of onion will make our aromatic oil even more fragrant. So if you feel like that's too many ingredients, then you can totally skip this. No problem at all! Next, thinly slice 2 to 3 green onions. Mine is a little small today, so I'm gonna slice 4 green onions. And as always, separate the whites and greens. The whites are gonna be stir-fried to infuse our oil and the greens are gonna be used for our garnish. Once that's done, smash 2 cloves of garlic and finely chop them. And then, grab a small knob of ginger and grate it. About half a teaspoon would be enough. This time, let's prep the cucumber. Take half a cucumber and cut it into thin matchsticks. Today, I'm using cucumber as a fresh garnish, but if you wanna use other crunchy vegetables like bell peppers or broccoli, you can also stir-fry them with the noodles. Trust me, any crunchy vegetables will work beautifully in this recipe. So feel free to play around with whatever you have in your fridge. No matter what you use, it's gonna be all delicious. Now, let's make the sauce. In a small container, add 2 tablespoons of gochugaru, Korean chili pepper flakes, 1 tablespoon of sugar, 2 tablespoons of soy sauce, 2 tablespoons of oyster sauce, 2 tablespoons of mirin and give it a good mix. What? No chili pepper flakes at home? That's OK. Then, just use chili oil instead. What? Can't handle spicy food? Don't worry about it. Then, you can totally skip it. No problem at all. By the way, we have all the instructions and a list of ingredients on our blog, so please visit here if you need a written recipe. Alright, it's cooking time. Fill your pot with enough water and bring it to a boil. Once it comes to a boil, add 2 servings of your noodles and cook according to the package instructions. For information, I'm using spaghetti today, but almost any kind of noodles will work great for this recipe. So just use whatever you have or go with your favorite noodles. Trust me, it will all taste amazing. And no need to season the water with salt because our sauce will perfectly flavor the noodles later. While the noodles are cooking, let's build our savory meat sauce. Get yourself a large wok or pan. Add 1 1⁄2 tablespoons of oil and heat it over medium-high heat. Once it gets nice and hot, add 250 grams of ground beef and spread it out evenly. Season with a pinch of salt and let it sear for about 2 minutes. Once the bottom turns nice golden brown, flip and break up the beef and stir-fry for about 1 to 2 minutes. Once the beef is beautifully browned and you've got some fat from the beef, add the onion, white parts of the green onion, garlic, ginger, and stir-fry for about 1 minute. This is where the magic happens. When the fat from the beef mixes our lovely aromatics, they will create the incredible flavor that you're looking for. So if your beef is too lean and didn't release much fat, then just add a little bit of oil or adding some finely chopped bacon will be a great option too. What? You wanna know this kind of tip more and more? I'm so glad you brought that up because everything you need is in these two books. Trust me. With these bad boys, Simply Korean and Beyond Korean, you can cook 200 East Asian dishes like Korean, Chinese, Japanese, and even Korean fusion dishes like a pro. So don't forget to check them out. The link is in the description. Once your kitchen is filled with that incredible aroma, add your noodles and stir-fry for about 1 minute so that our beautiful aromatic oil can coat every strand of the noodles. Now, let's pour the sauce and stir-fry for about 2 minutes. When the sauce is fully combined with the noodles, turn the heat off. Now, all you need to do is add a half a tablespoon of sesame oil and give it a final mix. That's it. Couldn't be any easier, right? Even on the busy weeknights, with this recipe, you can whip up this incredible noodle dish in just 15 minutes. So please give this a try. I'm sure you will absolutely love this. All right. Let's put some noodles and sauce nicely on a plate and top it with some cucumbers and green onions. And if you want it to be a little spicier, just add a spoonful of chili crisp. Then you will get another layer of incredible flavor. All right. It's done. How does it look? Looks absolutely fantastic, right? You want to know how it tastes? All right. Let's call our taste tester. Claire. Wow. Because I didn't eat a lot in the morning and it smells wonderful, I got super hungry. Let's give it a try. Yeah. Cheers. Hmm. Cheers. Hmm. I think I have nothing to complain about, so I'm going to enjoy it. Hope you guys try. Bye. Today, I showed you how to make chili garlic noodles with ground beef, one of my absolute favorite noodle stir-fries of all time. How was it? It's quick, easy, budget-friendly, and most importantly, packed with flavor, right? So if you got some ground beef sitting in your fridge or freezer, run to your kitchen and just invest 15 minutes. If you do, you're not going to order takeout anymore. All right. This is it for today. And I'll see you next time.