Quick Ramen Noodle Stir Fry
Fast, easy, and budget-friendly using ramen noodles and ground beef for an amazing, saucy stir fry the whole family will love!
You have no idea how much I love a good stir fry. It’s always so quick to whip up, and you can essentially use up anything and everything in your fridge – making it cheap and budget-friendly.
And that’s exactly what this is. It doesn’t require too many ingredients, and by using ground beef and instant ramen noodles, this dish can’t come together any quicker.
The noodles just need 3-4 minutes to get nice and tender while your ground beef gets that beautiful crumble before you stir in the sauciest of all sauces that require only a few pantry staples.
From there, you can stir in those softened ramen noodles to sop up all those saucy bits.
You’ll be amazed as to how quickly this really comes together – 30 minutes or less from start to finish. Not to mention how many requests you’ll get for seconds and thirds guaranteed!
Quick Ramen Noodle Stir Fry
Ingredients
- 2 3.5-ounce packages instant ramen noodles, flavor packets discarded
- ⅓ cup beef stock
- ¼ cup oyster sauce
- 1 tablespoon rice wine vinegar
- 1 teaspoon Sriracha, or more, to taste
- 1 tablespoon toasted sesame oil
- 1 pound lean ground beef
- 1 cup diced sweet onion
- 3 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 tablespoon freshly grated ginger
- 2 green onions, thinly sliced
- ½ teaspoon toasted sesame seeds
Instructions
- In a large pot of boiling water, cook ramen noodles until tender, about 3-4 minutes; rinse with cold water and drain well.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together beef stock, oyster sauce, rice wine vinegar and Sriracha.
- Heat sesame oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Add ground beef and onion, and cook until beef has browned, about 3-5 minutes, making sure to crumble the beef as it cooks; drain excess fat.
- Stir in garlic and ginger until fragrant, about 1 minute.
- Stir in beef stock mixture, scraping any browned bits from the bottom of the skillet.
- Stir in ramen noodles until heated through and evenly coated in sauce, about 1-2 minutes.
- Serve immediately, garnished with green onions and sesame seeds, if desired.
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This is truly incredible. Thanks for sharing.
Midweek favourite in our house! I add carrots and green beans and double the noodle and sauce. Makes enough for lunches the next day too!
This one is a keeper. It’s become a family favorite because it’s easy AND delicious! Thanks so much!!
The recipe looks quite delicious, please add a video too it’ll help novice chefs like us. Thanks.
This dish looks so yummy!
Absolutely fabuloso, flavorful and so very easy. I’ve made this recipe several times and it freezes well (add ramen later)
This is very, very good as the recipe is written. So is the chicken ramen recipe. But our very favorite is to take all the veggies from the chicken ramen recipe and use them in this beef ramen recipe! Mmmmm…. Plus it’s such an incredibly quick and easy weeknight recipe! Thank you!
This was super delicious. My daughter picked it out online and I made it for dinner. I loved it! It is meat heavy, so I would halve the meat and double the noodles next time. I also added some veg that I had in the fridge from Hungry Root. This is definately a keeper–super quick and easy as well.
Really delicious meal. Kids even liked it. There was just enough for our family of four with a little left over, but we could have added a third packet of ramen noodles to stretch the recipe for six people.
Absolutely delicious! Wonderful flavor.
This was excellent! I will definitely make it again.
I make this once a month for my family. My husband would have it more often! Very tasty, easy to modify. Julienned carrot, diced bell pepper, really any extra veg works. My husband sometimes adds SE Asian flavor with crushed peanuts, lime juice and cilantro. I’m thinking a little gochujang would be a great variation, too. I agree with other comments that you could also increase the number of ramen packets to 3 or 4 for this amount of ground beef.
This was tasty and easy, but too meat heavy for me personally. I will make again and double everything but the meat. I served with steamed broccoli.
Love this! So so easy to make. I made it a second time yesterday and added some sauteed broccoli and tempeh, it was delicious!
Absolutely fabuloso, flavorful and so very easy. I’ve made this recipe several times and it freezes well (add ramen later)
Just made this – Absolutely delicious!
We really enjoyed this recipe. Family was not convinced that ground beef and ramen was a good idea – but they changed their
minds quickly! Can’t wait to make this again. I doubled the recipe so I cooked it in a big wok. One thing that worked for me was to cook the noodles at the same time I was cooking the beef. When the beef was ready I took the noodles from the water drained a bit and added right to the wok. It was a lot easier than trying to stir in noodles that had been drained in the colander and were already kind of clumped together. Thanks for a great and easy recipe!
I have made this for dinner but switched some of the ingredients as I didn’t have some of the listed items. It was still very tasty, and I usually end up adapting recipes based on what I have in. I have only recently started cooking noodle dishes, I generally cook more with rice. The kids are loving my noodle experiments. I can now add this dish to my noodle repertoire.
I made it yesterday but used chicken in place of beef, it was a great taste. You can feel the texture of toasted sesame seeds.
Thanks for sharing such delicious recipes
Cheers!!
We are a huge ramen fan here. This noodles looks just DELICIOUS. seems like our weekend is sorted.