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Easy 20 Minute Beef Teriyaki. Tender, juicy and smothered with a homemade teriyaki sauce. So much better than takeout!
Hi guys! It’s Kelley back from Chef Savvy! Today I am sharing this Easy Beef Teriyaki! A quick and easy dinner that is ready in under 20 minutes!
I love making my own teriyaki sauce at home. It’s just as flavorful, super easy and a lot healthier. I adapted this sauce from my Easy Chicken Teriyaki.
The teriyaki sauce consists of soy sauce, mirin, sesame oil, fish sauce, ginger, garlic and brown sugar. The sauce gets nice and thick with a simple cornstarch slurry (1 teaspoon cornstarch + 1 tablespoon cold water).
I like to serve my Beef Teriyaki over fried rice or noodles. Either way it’s awesome. Enjoy!
Easy Beef Teriyaki
Ingredients
- 1 pound flank steak sliced against the grain and cut into bite size pieces
- 1/4 cup cornstarch
- 3 tablespoons oil divided
- 1 garlic clove minced
- ½ teaspoon ginger minced
- ½ cup soy sauce
- ½ cup mirin
- 4 tablespoons brown sugar
- ½ teaspoon sesame oil
- a couple of dashes of fish sauce
- 1 teaspoon cornstarch
- 1 tablespoon water
Instructions
- Toss the beef in the cornstarch and place in the fridge for 10 minutes while you are making the sauce and heating up the oil.
- Heat 2 tablespoons of oil in a large skillet.
- When the oil is nice and hot add in the steak (I had to do two batches to avoid overcrowding the pan). Sauté until browned on both side, 3-4 minutes. Remove from the pan and set aside.
- Add the remaining tablespoon of oil to the same pan.
- Add in garlic and ginger and cook for 1-2 minutes.
- In a small bowl combine soy sauce, mirin, brown sugar, sesame oil and fish sauce.
- Pour the soy sauce mixture into the pan and bring to a simmer and cook for 2-3 minutes.
- In a small bowl mix together the cornstarch and water.
- Slowly pour in the cornstarch mixture whisking continuously. Continue to cook until your desired thickness.
- Add steak back to the pan and toss to coat the beef with the sauce.
- Serve immediately with green onions and sesame seeds if desired.
Nutrition
Serves: 4
All nutritional information is based on third party calculations and is only an estimate. Each recipe and nutritional value will vary depending on the brands you use, measuring methods and portion sizes per household.
What is fish sauce? Is patis the same thing? And mirin? Any substitute for it?
Patis is a fish sauce from the Philippines. You can also use oyster sauce as a substitute!
HALVED the sauce for 1 lb and marinated overnight. (These cuts of meat require that). Added snow peas. Came out very tender and delicious.
Nice but too salty!!
very good! we enjoyed it —
easy peasy! thank you
This was so easy, and soooo good. I currently live 45 miles away from town, where there’s only one Chinese restaurant, so learning how to make the dishes my son and I enjoy is a necessity. I served it over rice with steamed broccoli. Yummy!
The steak that stays in my memory was a NY strip cooked in a skillet on the range. I was a college student living off-campus. It so far exceeded any steak I had had up to that point that it has become a legend. Now, as a (much) older adult, I like grilling steaks on the back patio with my husband, having a beer, eating boiled peanuts, and talking, while we wait for the charcoal fire to come up. In other words, the steak is great; but I like the ritual, too.
My roommates and I all adored this! Made it exactly to the recipe and its just as good as takeout for a third of the price. Thank you!
I took this delicious recipe and doubled the sauce, added red pepper flakes and sriracha to spice it up a little. Thanks for sharing!
My go to recipe! My family loves it! I found this recipe awhile back. I hate cooking but this recipe is tasty and easy which is exactly what I’m looking for. Thank you!
Delicious recipe! Hi from Switzerland!
Hello! Thanks for following along with me! Enjoy more recipes and let me know if you have any questions!
I was looking for an easy recipe for beef teriyaki. Yours was simple but flavorful! Thanks for sharing! My family loved it!
Great recipe!
I’ve tried this recipe last night and they all loved it! I added chili flakes to add a little bit of spice and it’s sooo good! Thanks for sharing your recipe!
That is great to hear! Thank you so much for sharing! XOXO
Hello, interesting recipe 😉 can’t wait to try it. I want to ask, no need to marinate the beef with the sauce overnight? Thankyou 🙂
You don’t need to but it never hurts. It adds so much more flavor the longer it is marinated. Thanks for choosing one of my recipes! XOXO
Love it doing tonight can I add broccoli?
Yes, of course. That is a great idea. Thanks for following along.
I have not tried but i love to cook and these recipes sound very good i will try them and get back to you with my feed back from family .
Awesome! I can’t wait to hear how it turned out! XOXO
Easy beef teriyaki was the best we ever had ,my family love it . Thanks.
Just made this for dinner. I hate to cook but this was easy. My family absolutely loved this!!!!!
That is so good to hear!! I am so happy it was simple for you! Thanks for sharing!! XOXO
Put this on rice! Super good!!!
Couldn’t agree more!!
oh yummy for my tummy!