Low Carb Asian Beef & Cabbage Noodles – A Quick Stir Fry Dinner!

These low carb Asian beef & cabbage noodles make for an easy stir fry dinner any night of the week.  If you like Asian noodle dishes, you’ll love these cabbage noodles with tender beef and spicy sauce. Each serving has only 4.1g net carbs!

You might also like this red curry cabbage noodles recipe!

My friend introduced me to a great Thai restaurant this summer and I’ve been there quite a few times. I always get a beef & basil noodle dish and I notice they use a lot of cabbage in it. So this is my low carb version of that dish.

Though I didn’t have any basil to make these low carb Asian beef & cabbage noodles, it was still crazy good. You would be surprised how good cabbage noodles taste in a stir fry.

Cabbage Noodles As A Low Carb Pasta Substitute

About 10 years ago I was on a Paleo forum and someone there introduced me to cabbages noodles as a low carb substitute for pasta. I thought it was a genius idea and have many recipes using cabbage noodles. Below are a few of my favorites.

Cabbage is low calorie but very nutritious. In 1 cup of raw cabbage there has only 22 calories and 3g net carbs. It’s also very high in vitamin C and vitamin K. Check out this article to learn more about the health benefits of cabbage.

Ingredients For Asian Beef & Cabbage Noodles

All you need to make this recipe is cabbage, soy sauce, rice wine vinegar, sesame oil, Swerve brown sugar, Mae Ploy curry paste and top round beef. You can use another cut of beef if you wish but this was what I used.

Lately I have been using my Mae Ploy curry paste with my Asian flavored dishes because it has so much flavor, is inexpensive and it comes in a big container.  If you buy some, here are a few more low carb recipes using curry paste. 

• Thai marinated flank steak with peanut dipping sauce
• red curry cabbage noodles
• Asian smoked beef jerky
• roasted Thai curry pumpkin seeds
• Thai curry zucchini soup
• Roasted curry nuts

Beef & Cabbage Noodle Stir Fry Recipe

First you heat up a little oil in a large saute pan. Add the sliced beef pieces and saute until they start to brown a little. In the meantime make the sauce by combining the sauce ingredients. When the beef has browned a bit, add in the cabbage and pour the sauce over it.

Cover and cook for 5 minutes until the cabbage gets tender. If you want them softer, cook them for 5 minutes more. Garnish with cilantro or basil or both! 

Low Carb Stir Fry Substitutes

Now if you don’t have all these products, here are a few substitutes. If you don’t have Mae Ploy you can use Thai Kitchen red curry paste. That should be in most grocery stores or Walmart. You can use a mild vinegar for the rice wine vinegar and any brown sugar sweetener for the Swerve brown. You could also just use a regular sweetener in place of the Swerve brown. 

The sesame oil and soy sauce should be readily available at most grocery stores. 

My hubby and I really enjoyed this dinner and I will be making it again very soon. It’s so easy and there was so much flavor so it’s great for a low carb dinner. I hope you give low carb cabbage noodles a try next time you need a substitute for noodles. Let me know what you think of them.

The nutritional information for 1 serving is:

390 cals / 22.3g fat / 7.1g carbs / 3g fiber / 38.2g protein = 4.1g net carbs

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Low Carb Asian Beef & Cabbage Noodles

These low carb Asian beef & cabbage noodles make for an easy stir fry dinner any night of the week.  If you like Asian noodle dishes, you'll love these cabbage noodles with tender beef and spicy sauce. Each serving has only 4.1g net carbs!

Course Main Course

Cuisine Thai

Keyword beef stir fry, cabbage noodles, skillet dinner, stir fry

Prep Time 10 minutes

Cook Time 15 minutes

Total Time 25 minutes

Servings 4

Calories 390 kcal

Author Denise

Ingredients

• 1 lb beef, thinly sliced (I used top round)
• 1 tablespoon oil
• 5 cups cabbage, thinly sliced into noodles
• 4 tablespoons soy sauce
• 2 teaspoons Mae Ploy curry paste (can use Thai Kitchen red curry paste to substitute)
• 2 tablespoon sesame oil
• 2 teaspoons rice wine vingear (can sub with white winte vinegar)
• 4 tablespoons Swerve Brown sugar
• fresh cilantro or basil for garnish (optional)

Instructions

1. Heat up a large saute pan and add the oil. When hot saute the beef until it's starting to brown.

2. In the meantime, mix the curry paste, soy sauce, sesame oil, Swerve brown sugar and rice wine vinegar.

3. When the meat starts to brown, add in the cabbage and pour the sauce over top. Cover and cook for 5 minutes.

4. Take the cabbage noodles, if you want them softer, cook for another 5 minutes.

5. Garnish with fresh cilantro or basil .

Recipe Notes

The nutritional information for 1 serving is:

390 cals / 22.3g fat / 7.1g carbs / 3g fiber / 38.2g protein = 4.1g net carbs