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Beef and Broccoli Lo Mein has melt in your mouth tender beef with broccoli, carrots, and noodles. The sauce adds such amazing flavor to this incredibly easy meal!
Try this beef and broccoli combo in a slow cooker or insta pot too. Slow Cooker Beef and Broccoli or Insta Pot Beef Broccoli are two flavorful recipes your whole family will enjoy.
20 Minute Garlic Beef and Broccoli Lo Mein
Quick and easy meals to make for your family are always top priority. I especially love creating easy meals that don’t require a lot of effort, but are absolutely delish! For example, this Beef and Broccoli Lo Mein is a tried and true family favorite of ours. The beef and broccoli coated in the sticky and sweet sauce is a dinner we all crave often!
This is THEE perfect meal to make for your family and especially for the busy back to school time. I put this meal together in under 20 minutes without rushing around. It is simple and easy to throw together at the last minute or to make ahead. This is the perfect filling and satisfying dinner at home and I know that you are going to love it as much as we did!
Ingredients for Beef and Broccoli Lo Mein
This list of ingredients may look long, but don’t worry, you probably have most of these items on hand. Traditional asian ingredients like hoisin sauce, soy sauce, and sesame oil are staples you will use again and again for delicious asian flavors. This Garlic and Beef Broccoli Lo Mein also uses a little bit of garlic, brown sugar, and pepper give the best spice to the sauce!
- Lo mein noodles or spaghetti noodles: Either will be delicious!
- Broccoli florets: Add to boiling water in the last 5 minutes of cooking the pasta.
- Olive oil: Coat skillet with oil before adding in steak to cook it perfectly.
- Flank steak: sliced against the grain
- Garlic cloves: Minced will give a great flavor to the steak.
- Carrot: Shredded carrots quickly cook in the skillet with garlic after steak is done.
- Brown sugar: Measure packed for a great rich sweetness in the sauce.
- Soy sauce: Reduced-sodium adds a perfect amount of saltiness.
- Hoisin sauce: Adds thick glaze-like texture and sweet and salty flavor.
- Sesame oil: Combine with soy sauce, hoisin, ginger, and seasonings for the perfect sticky-sweet sauce.
- Ground ginger: Warm spicy flavor that is a little sweet.
- Crushed red pepper flakes: Adds a bit of heat.
- Pepper: To taste!
- Green Onion and Sesame Seeds: Add these on top for garnish if desired. Adds great flavor as well!
Let’s Make Lo Mein!
Beef and Broccoli Lo Mein is so easy to put together with just 2 pans and 20 minutes. It is a restaurant quality meal that you can make at home.
- Cook pasta: In a large pot with boiling water, cook the noodles according to package directions. Add the broccoli the last 5 minutes of cooking and let them cook until tender. Drain the noodles and broccoli.
- Cook steak: While the pasta is cooking, add olive oil to a medium sized skillet. Cook the steak until no longer pink. Add the garlic, and carrots and cook for a minute more.
- Mix sauce: In a small bowl whisk together the brown sugar soy sauce, hoisin sauce, sesame oil, ginger, red pepper and pepper.
- Toss everything together: Add the spaghetti to the skillet and pour the sauce on top and toss until incorporated.
Variations of Lo Mein
Traditionally Lo Mein is a stir fry meal that is made up of noodles tossed with veggies or meats and an asian sauce. The great thing about it is that you can customize this incredible mixture of flavors and textures depending on what veggies and meats you have on hand. Variations will make this meal more convenient and fast, while still giving the same great tasting results!
- No noodles: Leave out the noodles for a simple veggie and meat stir fry. The thick and sweet sauce is insanely delicious and gives the dish so much flavor you will not even miss those carbs!
- Protein: Swap out the beef for chicken or shrimp if that’s what you have handy. Also try Chicken Chow Mein or Shrimp Stir fry for great tasting recipes your family will go crazy over.
- Veggies only: Leave out the meat for a delicious vegetarian version of this meal. For more details on how to create the BEST veggie Lo Mein be sure to read my 20 Minute Vegetable Lo Mein recipe. Easiest Vegetable Stir Fry is a great recipe to check out too!
Can You Make Beef and Broccoli Lo Mein Ahead?
Yes! This is a fantastic recipe to make ahead as part of your family’s meal prepping! Allow it to cool completely and store in an airtight container. It will remain good in the refrigerator for 3-4 days. Or, freeze it for up to 6 months. Thaw in the refrigerator then heat on a skillet until warm throughout.
More Savory Beef and Broccoli Recipes
- Mongolian Beef and Broccoli
- Slow Cooker Cashew Beef and Broccoli Stir Fry
- Garlic Beef and Broccoli Noodles
- Slow Cooker Korean Beef
- Super Easy Mongolian Beef
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20 Minute Garlic Beef and Broccoli Lo Mein
Ingredients
- 8 ounces lo mein noodles or spaghetti noodles
- 3 cups broccoli florets
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 8 ounce flank steak sliced against the grain
- 3 garlic cloves minced
- 1 medium carrot shredded
- ¼ cup packed brown sugar
- ¼ cup reduced-sodium soy sauce
- 2 tablespoons hoisin sauce
- 2 teaspoons sesame oil
- ¼ teaspoon ground ginger
- ¼ teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
- ¼ teaspoon pepper
- green onion for garnish
- sesame seeds for garnish
Instructions
- In a large pot with boiling water, cook the noodles according to package directions. Add the broccoli the last 5 minutes of cooking and let them cook until tender. Drain the noodles and broccoli.
- Cut the flank steak across the grain in 1/4 inch strips.
- While the pasta is cooking, add olive oil to a medium sized skillet. Cook the steak until no longer pink.
- Add the garlic, and carrots and cook for a minute more.
- In a small bowl whisk together the brown sugar soy sauce, hoisin sauce, sesame oil, ginger, red pepper and pepper.
- Add the spaghetti to the skillet and pour the sauce on top and toss until incorporated.
- Garnish with chopped green onion and sesame seeds if desired.
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I loved the flavors in this dish and have moved it into my favorites file. I will definitely be making this again. Kudos to anyone who can prepare this in 20 minutes. First you need to buy all the vegetables pre-cut to make that time line. The lo mein noodles only take three minutes to cook so I ended up sautéing the broccoli for five minutes before sautéing the beef. I have to control my carbs so I will cut the noodles in half the next time I prepare this.
Hi, Alyssa! My wife & I tried this recipe today and really enjoyed it. It is not too difficult to put together and the flank steak came out so tender! The oriental sauce is just the right touch, and not so much that it turns the dish into a dessert. Thanks for the good recipe!
Tried this tonight and we loved it! Based on other reviewers comments, I cut back the brown sugar to 2 tablespoons and I was pleased with the results. I think there’s lots of things you could do to tweak to make it your own. I like onions so I would probably add while cooking meat next time. Num!!
2nd time making this. I use rice noodlesI added water chestnuts and next time will also add mushrooms. This recipe is so good.
Just made your Broccoli Beef LoMein. I added red bell pepper and mushroomd because I wanted a vegetarian version this time. I also found myself out of hoisin sauce and used some oyster sauce and a splash of dry sherry. IDidn’t know what to expect but it turned out fantastic!! Thank you for this delicious recipe!
Love your low / no- sodium recipes ! I really wished you had the nutritional listings for how much sodium each dish has in it per serving !
This was my first time ever making beef lo mein. Oh my, it was delicious! It was so easy to make too. Definitely a keeper. Thanks!
You are ridiculously talented! This tastes awesome!
AW! You are so sweet! Thank you so much! I really appreciate it and am so happy to have you following along with me! Thank you for choosing one of my recipes to make! XOXO
Hi. Whats hoisin sauce? Any alternative sauce to use if i cant get hoisin sauce?
Hoisin sauce is a sweet, spicy, dark red sauce made from soybeans, vinegar, sugar, garlic, and various spices, widely used in southern Chinese cooking. You will be able to find this sauce in the oriental isle at the grocery store. It is a popular sauce and a must for this recipe. Hope that helps and you can find it! XOXO
Once again, this meal has saved the day. I discovered this recipe here about, oh I’d say, 6 months ago… maybe longer. Since then, I’ve made it for the family numerous times and it is ALWAYS a favourite! Sometimes we change or add vegetables (mushrooms, red bell pepper, you name it!) and we’v even used chicken instead of beef. Each time it comes out amazing as this recipe is highly adaptable to pretty much whatever you have in the veggie drawer and works great with beef, chicken, or pork. Seitan works great as well! The sauce is the absolute champion of this recipe and needs absolutely no tweaking or changes whatsoever. It has the right amount of heat, its bursting with flavour, and this dish will always have a place in the “family cookbook”. Thank you so much!
Thank you for the quick dishes. ❤
This was an fabulous recipe. Quick to make on a work night. Wonderful flavors. Makes a lot.
This looks like a recipe I would love to try but I have a few problems with it. I live in a very small town with only one grocery store and it does not carry an reduced-sodium soy sauce, sesame oil, or hoisen sauce. Heck, I don’t even know what that is! So can you recommend substitutes for those things?
Those ingredients are usually down the asian isle in the grocery store or somewhere near the sauces. I hope you are able to find them to make this recipe. You are welcome to substitute them all but it will alter the taste on this recipe. Thank you for following along with me! I hope you are able to find the things you are looking for! XOXO
Haha my name is DJ Hernandez. We live in a small town. We only have one grocery store!!
I made this tonight. So good! I did add 1 teaspoon cornstarch to the sauce so that it would cling to the pasta as recommended by another reviewer. So quick and easy!
How many does this feed?
This will serve 4-6 people.
Made this but I doubled the recipe. It was so good that everything was eaten up by 4 people. It’s a keeper, especially since it’s SO easy.