This recipe for teriyaki beef stir fry is tender slices of beef sauteed with a variety of colorful vegetables, all coated in a quick and easy homemade teriyaki sauce. A restaurant quality meal in the comfort of your own home!
I make stir fry almost every week, my family always requests chicken and asparagus stir fry, honey garlic shrimp stir fry and this delicious beef teriyaki.
Stir fry: in my opinion it’s one of the easiest and quickest dinner options around. I love the versatility and it’s often a healthy dinner option which is always a huge bonus. Why would you ever want to order take out when you could whip up this teriyaki beef stir fry in about 20 minutes?
How do you make teriyaki beef?
Let’s talk about the meat first – I used thinly sliced flank steak in this teriyaki beef stir fry, but sirloin or another tender cut would work well too. I cook the vegetables first, in this case I used broccoli and various colors of bell peppers, but you can easily substitute your family’s favorites. After the vegetables are cooked, they come out of the pan and the beef goes in – make sure your pan is very hot to get a nice sear on the meat.
How do you make homemade teriyaki sauce?
This teriyaki sauce is a simple blend of soy sauce, brown sugar, garlic, ginger, honey and sesame oil. The ingredients are simmered together, then some cornstarch is added into the mix to thicken the sauce. You can make this sauce up to 3 days before you plan to serve it.
Beef Teriyaki Variations
There are so many different ways to customize this recipe to your family’s tastes.
- Protein: Instead of sliced beef, you can use ground beef, or even chicken, shrimp or tofu.
- Vegetables: While I used bell peppers and broccoli, other great options are snow peas, mushrooms, carrots, bok choy or asparagus.
- Pineapple: For a tropical twist, try adding some cubed pineapple to your stir fry.
I add a garnish of sliced green onions and sesame seeds, but you can skip that if you’re pressed for time or don’t have those items on hand. Even my kids love this teriyaki beef stir fry, that salty, sweet and savory combination just can’t be beat. When you begin cooking the vegetables, start a pot of rice at the same time and dinner will be ready in less than 30 minutes. And you won’t even have to call the take out delivery guy! Not to mention this version is so much healthier – how can you argue with that?
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Teriyaki Beef Stir Fry
Ingredients
For the stir fry
- 1 1/4 lbs thinly sliced steak such as flank steak or sirloin
- 3 cups of mixed vegetables (I used broccoli florets and sliced bell peppers)
- salt and pepper to taste
- 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
- Optional garnishes: sliced green onions and sesame seeds
For the sauce
- 1/4 cup soy sauce
- 1/2 cup water
- 1/4 cup brown sugar
- 2 teaspoons minced garlic
- 2 teaspoons minced ginger
- 1 tablespoon of honey
- 1 teaspoon toasted sesame oil
- 1 tablespoon + 1 teaspoon cornstarch
Instructions
- For the sauce: Place the soy sauce, water, brown sugar, garlic, ginger, honey and sesame oil in a small pot over medium high heat. Stir until sugar is dissolved, about 3 minutes. Turn up heat to high and bring to a boil.
- Mix the cornstarch with 2 tablespoons of cold water until dissolved. Add the cornstarch mixture to the sauce and boil for 1-2 minutes or until sauce has thickened. Set sauce aside.
- For the stir fry: Heat 1 teaspoon vegetable oil in a large pan over medium-high heat. Add the vegetables and season with salt and pepper to taste. Cook for 3-5 minutes or until vegetables have started to brown and soften.
- Add 2 tablespoons of water and cook, until water has evaporated. When your vegetables are crisp tender remove them from the pan and set aside.
- Wipe out the pan. Heat the remaining 2 teaspoons of oil in the pan over high heat.
- Place half of the steak in the pan and season generously with salt and pepper. Cook for 2-3 minutes on each side or until just cooked through.
- Set the first batch of steak aside and repeat the process with the rest of the beef.
- Add all of the meat and vegetables back to the pan. Pour the sauce over the top and cook for 2-3 minutes over medium high heat until warmed through.
- Garnish with sesame seeds and sliced green onions if desired.
Absolutely delicious! Just found this recipe and made it tonight – love it! Definitely making my sauce from scratch from now on 🙂 Thanks!
Huge hit at our house! I added a little diced jalapeno & rice wine vinegar to the sauce – just because I always have to do something lol. My husband loved it, my son loved helping cook it and eating it. Great way to use up whatever vegetables you need to! Definitely recommend.
THE perfect recipe! The home-made teriyaki sauce is to die for! I have never made a better stir fry. This has become a regular in my meals at home! Could NOT be better! Actually blown away and tastes even better than takeout
The sauce is amazing–the fresh ginger lifts it over the top! (I used a mixture of peppers, broccoli, carrots, cauliflower, celery, onion, and added leftover thinly-sliced ball tip steak from our Cinco de Mayo carne asada. It was the best stir fry I’ve ever made.)
This was amazing….thank you so much for sharing this recipe. I just made and it is so freaking good.
Why change this recipe st all it’s perfect just the way it is thanks for sharing it my kids loved it
This looks incredible! I was just wondering if you happen to have a recipe to make the beef with lo mein or what I would use for the sauce for lo mein?
TIA
LOVE your recipes ❤️
I have a chow mein recipe here, no lo mein yet! https://www.dinneratthezoo.com/chicken-chow-mein/
Sound fantastic, although I do have a few questions. Do I have to use the ginger or will it be ok without it? And what is the serving size to get this calorie count? Any help will be greatly appreciated
It will be fine without ginger, the serving size is about 1 1/2 cups!
This is better than take out! The sauce was delicious. I used a sirloin steak cut thin on a diagonal and a mix of fresh veggies. This will become a regular in our home. Thank you!
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Excellent use of a leftover, wonderfully cooked eye round roast. Made exactly as written, just added the
sliced roast after the sauce and veg. I added onion mushroom and carrots – real good. Thanks!
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just made it for my fam, it was a big hit super quick and easy. I didn’t use broccoli and green peppers, I threw a bag of frozen stir fry veggies in it instead, was super good!
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I made this recipe last night and It was absolutely delicious! My whole family enjoyed it. Definitely a recipe to keep. Thank you 😊
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Does it matter if you use golden or dark brown sugar?
Which is preferred for this recipe?
I typically use light brown sugar but it’ll work either way!
Made it just now for dinner tonight. Turned out really good. It’s quite delicious, and very addicting! 🙂
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I made this tonight for my family. They loved it. I just used half the garlic for my family’s taste and dubbed sesame with olive oil since we were out. Will definitely make again.
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This was very good, next time I will half the sugar and honey. I used cauliflower rice to low carb it a bit. Thank you for the recipe I will be making this again !!!!
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Half the sugar and half the honey. Then give it a liberal dose of sriracha but not to much. Use either ny strip or pre-cooked chuck roast. If steak, sear it first then cook to desired.
Less sweetness and a slight bite made it fantastic. Also added shrooms, pea pods and water chestnuts.
5 star with these mods -even the millen—l …..s liked it
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Absolutely amazing!!!! Entire family loved it!!!!
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This recipe was AWESOME! Such Great Flavor! Thank you! I will be using this homemade sauce from now on!
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I’m not going to say anything new here! This was SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO good!! Thank you! I added some sliced green peppers and mushrooms …. it was DELICIOUS!!!!!
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