Thai-Style Ground Beef

Redsie's Note:

A wonderful recipe from Cooking Light. A delicious way to use ground beef. You can make it spicier by using more red curry paste.

• Total Time: 20 mins
• Prep Time: 10 mins
• Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 4

• cooking spray
• 1 cup thinly sliced leek
• 1 teaspoon minced garlic
• 1 lb lean ground beef
• 1 teaspoon red curry paste
• 1 cup tomato sauce
• ½ cup light coconut milk
• 1 tablespoon brown sugar
• ¼ teaspoon grated lime rind
• 1 ½ teaspoons fresh lime juice
• 1 tablespoon asian fish sauce
• 3 cups hot cooked short-grain white rice

Directions:

1. Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat. Coat pan with cooking spray.
2. Add leek; sauté 5 minutes.
3. Add garlic; sauté 1 minute.
4. Add beef; cook 7 minutes or until lightly browned, stirring to crumble.
5. Stir in curry paste and tomato sauce; cook until half of liquid evaporates (about 2 minutes).
6. Add milk and next 4 ingredients (through fish sauce); cook 2 minutes or until slightly thickened.
7. Serve with the rice.

Reviews

[Captain's Lady]

This wasn't quite as quick a lunch as I had hoped for but it was a totally different use of ground beef than just the usual. Fairly well flavored but needed more heat so I added about 1/2 t of sriracha. Served it to DH over rice noodles and myself over pasta. Rice noodles were clearly the better choice. Sprinkled with cilantro, it was a very decent dish!

[misscain]

I loved this!

[Briangmu]

This was really good. I followed the directions exactly and we all loved it. Served it over some thin Thai noodles instead of rice, and we joked that it was sorta like a 'Thai Spaghetti'.