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 Video
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.
This was so so so good, the sauce was perfect, perfect amount too, no need for me to double, which I usually do. I sliced up some steaks that were bogo, served on top of rice, perfect! Ty!
Delicious! Thank you for sharing. This will be staple in my kitchen.
Has anyone made this with ground beef?
I just made this recipe! It’s amazing, thanks for sharing ❤️
Honestly this is the best sauce I’ve ever made. So easy to make and so flavorful!! I also love that the ingredients list isn’t crazy. THANK YOU!
This is so good! I made it with sirloin steak, red bell peppers, broccolli and mushrooms. It’s definitely going to be one of my regular meals. Loved the sauce so much. I only added a tiny bit more soy sauce to it, but it was really perfect. Thank you.
I doubled the recipe for the sauce because I love it saucey. I honestly cant even pull off kd. This recipe was so easy and tastes absolutely amazing! Thank you for sharing! Definitely will be making this again.
P.s. 2 1/2 year old loves it too!
I made the sauce in a 2 cup pyrex measuring cup. It is awesome. I served it with rice. Definitely keeping this recipe.
This was excellent!
Can it be made in the crock pot??
I think that would work just fine!
This was amazing! I might add a few dashes of fish sauce to the teriyaki sauce just to enhance the flavor a bit, but we really loved it!
This was the best stir fry sauce I’ve tasted. It wasn’t too salty and I didn’t add any salt to the meat. Soy sauce is enough salt. I’ve saved the recipe as my go-to teriyaki sauce.
Lovrd it. Easy and my family loved it
Its a keeper.ty
My OH and I like to cook from scratch with just about everything as we both like to know exactly what goes into our food, as well as for when we are catering for family members with allergies, and I found this recipe tonight while looking for a different style of stir fry sauce to what I normally make. Definitely a keeper of a recipe. Also I would like to know if you’ve ever used this sauce as a marinade base for a roast? I am thinking of making up a double batch of the sauce the day before and putting it in the fridge with a nice boneless piece of roast to then slow cook. A great sauce can be very versatile
This would be a great marinade!
You are the best my family loves every recipe you show us I don’t know where we would be with out you
This was such a great recipe! Easy to follow and my family agreed that it tasted amazing. Thank you!
Hi. May I just know if it is toasted sesame oil or sesame seeds? Thank you.
The sauce contains toasted sesame oil, and you can add sesame seeds on top for garnish if you like!
So good! Not a big ginger fan so I only did 1 instead of 2. Thank you for sharing!
Super-easy to make and outstanding flavours! Our family loved it. I made extra sauce (3 serves for two people) as stir fry recipes can often be dry – it was plenty so the original recipe is well balanced. Will definitely make it again!
I made way too much sauce. Can I freeze it?
Thanks!
Yes that’s totally fine!
Omg. This was so delicious. My family loved it. They have been asking me to make again. I doubled the sauce.
Great recipe! Easy to whip up in a pinch, but it certainly isn’t gluten free when made with soy sauce. I use liquid aminos instead which is gluten free 🙂
You can buy gluten-free soy sauce or Tamari