Ground Beef Recipes? - Bluffton,SC

My boys and i love "meat muffins" It is basically a mini meatloaf in muffin tins. 1 lb gb, 1 package prepared stove top you can stir in garlic, chili powder or an oregano/basil for a themed muffin and top with the corresponding sauce/cheese combo (bake with the sauce on it - add the cheese the last 5 min)
Garlic = bbq and cheddar
chili powder = salsa and montery jack or pepper jack
orgeno/basil = tomota sauce and mozzerella
(I think you bake at 425 for 30 min - I always have to consult the recipe and don't have it in front of me right now)
So yummy. My kids eat them up - Oh - this makes aobut 14 muffins, so vary accordingly for you family size.

I make a "cheeseburger cassarole" that my family likes. Brown ground beef and drain. Add about 1/4 C. Ketchup and brown sugar. Simmer. Layer in an oven safe cassarole dish with shredded cheese and top with biscuits. Bake according to biscuits temp/time. It is easy and the kids love it.

Salsbury steak. season meat, shape into patties. cook on stove top in skillet to about medium rare. pour off the grease. Add beef broth and sliced mushrooms, maybe a little red wine. Make a slurry of corn starch and water and pour into the beef broth to thicken it. Cook until mushrooms are done. Serve over buttered noddles or mashed potatoes.

Did you get the mamapedia cookbook that Rachel put together for us?

Here's my "go-to" thanks to Mom2KCK


8 oz medium shells

1 lb 95% lean ground beef

1 oz packet reduced sodium taco seasoning

1 ½ c chunky salsa

½ c water

¼ c fat free sour cream

¾ c shredded 2 % reduced fat cheddar cheese

¾ c shredded sharp cheddar cheese (I used extra sharp)

Salt & pepper to taste



1. Cook pasta according to package instructions.

2. While pasta is cooking, place ground beef in a large sauté pan and cook over medium-high heat, breaking up the beef as it cooks. When the beef is cooked, drain any grease from pan. Add the taco seasoning, salsa and water and reduce heat to simmer. Simmer for 5 minutes or until pasta is done cooking.

3. Once pasta is done, drain pasta and add it to the beef mixture. Add the sour cream, cheese, salt and pepper and stir to combine. Cheese will melt when thoroughly mixed. Remove from heat and serve immediately. 

Yields 6 (1+ cup*) servings.

I have added 1 lb of sausage to this as well as a can of sliced black olives.

layer sliced eggplant rounds, burger patties, onion rounds, and tomatoes in a greased broiler, top with tomato paste and diced tomatoes, season leaning italian, mexican, indian, greek, whatever you prefer. Serve with rice, pasta, potatoes, or with cheese panini.

make stuffed hamburgers, fill the centers with goat cheese and basil, or with riccotta and spinach, or with onions tomatoes and mustard.

make a mango chutney or a mango salsa mix with browned ground beef, put a generous amount into french bread, toast the whole thing in the oven (a la quiznos).

season with teriyaki, make japanese burgers top with wasabi, serve with japanese stir fry and jasmine rice.

use it to stuff something, mushrooms, tomatos, zucchini, eggplant, all lend themselves to stuffing.

good luck to you and yours,
F. B.

Swedish Meatballs.

They have a little McCormick pack in the seasonings section of grocery stores. It's that packet, Egg Noodles and Milk and your ground beef. Serve with a salad and your good.

Stuffed bell/poblano peppers--peppers, ground beef, rice, pine nuts. Season meat with whatever you like to use (garlic, salt, pepper, onion). Cut tops off peppers and blanche. (I freeze the tops for future meals.) Mix rice and meat and nuts, and stuff them into peppers and stick it all in the oven.

Taco salad. Make meat like you would for tacos, add on top of salad mix, drain and rinse any can of beans, add on top with salsa, sour cream, cheese and crumble up some tortilla chips. =)

Hmmm, well you could make taco burgers (hamburgers wrapped in a tortilla served with salsa and avocado). I've also done a stir fry style meal that's a little different since it's with hamburger meat. Serve on top of rice with mushrooms, broccolli. Cook it with soy sauce, garlic and ginger. Sorry, not good with writing out recipes but that's the gist. Or just cook up with potatoes and broth topped with cheese.

Shepherd's pie. It's a dish from my childhood that I only recently started making and my girls LOVE it!

if you have a box of bisquic or jiffy mix you could make one of the "impossibly easy pies"
cheeseburger
swiss / mushroom
italian
etc. they have a bunch of them on the website. we love them

I've got an easy sloppy joe recipe! Brown the beef with some onion, salt and pepper. Then add in a can of tomato soup and cream of mushroom soup and season to taste with liquid smoke. Simmer until it's a thicker consistency. :)

I love tater tot casserole! Cooked Hamburger, cream of mushroom
Soup, corn, then a layer of tater tots on top. Bake according the directions on the tater tot bag, then add cheese on top.

Every now and then I make SOS aka Hamburger gravy. Basically it was a depression era meal and a good comfort food. You can serve it over biscuits or mashed potatoes or rice. Here's a reciped from allrecipes.com, it's pretty similar to mine. I dont use the boullian cube tho, it would be too salty.
http://allrecipes.com/recipe/army-sos-creamed-ground-beef/

So what did you end up making?

Sloppy Joe's, Tater tot casserole and shepherd's pie are all easy and family friendly. (Double the sloppy joe's and make home made sloppy joe pizza later in the week!)

http://www.lynnskitchenadventures.com does a ground beef day every week and is giving away a free ebook of ground beef recipes

http://www.lynnskitchenadventures.com/2012/05/free-ground...