When I was at the Costco this week, I decided to grab the ground bison instead of the ground beef. I didn't want to just do a boring fallback of bison burgers, so I was perusing recipes that use ground bison, and one recipe was for ground bison stir fry. It had mentioned that bison worked better than beef because of its flavor profile. I just happens that lately I have been buying the big bags of Kirkland frozen stir fry vegetables to make stuff like chicken stir fry, so I thought I would give this a go.
I actually didn't use much of anything from the recipe I saw. I just threw some stuff together, but man, did this come out great. There really was a different, but really delicious flavor using the bison. This is what I did:
Because the frozen veggies always seem to collect water as they cook, I actually did them up in a separate pan, getting them about 2/3 done. In a large cast iron pan, I cooked up 2lbs of ground bison. While the bison was cooking, I added around 3tbsp of brown sugar and a few dashes of soy sauce. When the bison was 2/3 done, I added in the veggies - spooning them in to leave the water behind in the other pan. I then added maybe 4-5tbsp of hoisin sauce, thoroughly mixing everything as it all finished cooking.
I served it over jasmine white rice, and I will definitely be making this more often. Super quick to prepare and delicious. The above quantity is enough for three meals for me.
