Slow Cooker Beef Ramen Stir Fry

Slow Cooker Beef Ramen Stir Fry

If you love takeout-style stir fry but want something easier (and way cheaper), this Slow Cooker Beef Ramen Stir Fry is about to become your new weeknight favorite. It’s hearty, flavorful, and comes together with simple ingredients — brown the beef, and the rest is cooked right in your slow cooker.

❤️ Why You’ll Love This Recipe

• Minimal cleanup: You need to brown the ground beef, but otherwise everything cooks right in the slow cooker for a no-fuss meal.
• Big flavor, easy prep: A sweet and savory sauce made with soy sauce, brown sugar, garlic, and a little chili crunch gives you that classic stir fry taste with almost no effort.
• Better than takeout: Tender ground beef, fresh veggies, and chewy ramen noodles — all in one cozy bowl.

🥢 What You’ll Need

• Ground beef: Adds richness and depth to the dish.
• Veggies: Matchstick carrots, colorful bell peppers, green onions, and sugar snap peas bring texture and color.
• Sauce: A blend of soy sauce, beef broth, brown sugar, and garlic ties everything together. And you can use chili garlic crunch for a little heat!
• Ramen noodles: Simple, inexpensive, and perfect for soaking up all that delicious flavor.

🍲 How to Make It

1. Brown the beef: Start by browning your ground beef and draining the excess fat.
2. Mix the sauce: In your slow cooker, whisk together soy sauce, beef broth, brown sugar, minced garlic, and chili garlic crunch (if using).
3. Combine and cook: Add the browned beef, carrots, bell peppers, and green onions to the slow cooker. Stir to coat everything in the sauce.
4. Cook: Cover and cook on low for 1–2 hours, until the peppers begin to soften.
5. Add noodles: Stir in the sugar snap peas and ramen noodles (discard the seasoning packets). Cook covered for about 30 minutes, stirring occasionally. If noodles aren’t tender, cook an extra 5 minutes. For crisper veggies, add with noodles, or in the last 10 minutes of cooking. 
6. Serve: Top with sliced green onions and a sprinkle of sesame seeds for that final touch.

💡 Tips for Perfect Results

• Want crisper veggies? Add the bell peppers when you add the noodles, and toss in the sugar snap peas with 10 minutes left.
• Customize it: Try swapping ground beef for chicken, pork, or turkey.
• Make it spicy: Add more chili garlic crunch or a drizzle of sriracha before serving.

🍜 Easy, Flavor-Packed, and Family-Approved

This Slow Cooker Beef Ramen Stir Fry is everything you love about stir fry — flavorful, colorful, satisfying — but made simple. Perfect for busy weeknights or when you want comfort food without the work.

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• Slow Cooker Steak Bites

Slow Cooker Beef Ramen Stir Fry

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Ingredients

• 1 lb ground beef browned
• 1 cup matchstick carrots
• 1 red bell pepper sliced thin
• 1 orange bell pepper sliced thin
• 3 green onions chopped fine
• ½ cup soy sauce
• 2 cups beef broth
• 2 Tablespoons brown sugar
• 1 Tablespoon minced garlic
• 1 Tablespoon chili garlic crunch optional
• 8 ounces sugar snap peas
• 2 packages ramen without seasoning packets

Garnish:

• 2 green onions sliced thin
• Sesame seeds

Instructions

• Brown beef, and drain, set aside.
• In the slow cooker, mix together the soy sauce, beef broth, brown sugar, minced garlic, and chili garlic crunch.
• Pour beef into sauce, as well as the matchstick carrots, green onion, and peppers (see note). Stir well to coat everything.
• Cover and cook on low for 1-2 hours until carrots are starting to get tender.
• Take lid off, and add the ramen. You can also add the snap peas at this point, or wait a little longer. Cook for 30 minutes, and stir into the rest of it. If the noodles are not yet tender, give them another 5 minutes, then stir it all together.
• Top with green onion and sesame seeds before serving.

Notes

Note: For crisper veggies, add peppers when you add the noodles, and add sugar snap peas with ten minutes left.

Our recipe card software calculates these nutrition facts based on averages for the above ingredients, different brands, and quality of produce/meats may have different nutritional information, always calculate your own based on the specific products you use in order to achieve accurate macros for this recipe.

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