Easy Ground Beef Recipes

We made a huge batch of taco meat this past weekend. Tonight, my husband took a big portion of it and dumped it into a pot of mac 'n cheese. It was soooo good! Yum.

(Don't worry, we topped it with veggies...gotta be healthy and all that!)

I make a taco-like casserole that's pretty yummy...

Make 1 box jiffy corn bread according to directions and spread in the bottom of a greased 11X17 (or close to it) baking dish.
Brown ground beef then mix with taco seasoning, 1 jar of salsa and I can of black or kidney beans.
Spread beef mixture over corn bread, sprinkle with cheese and bake for about 30 minutes. Top with sour cream if desired!

Hungry Jack Casserole... a favorite when my kids were little!

Brown 1 lb ground beef, add some chopped onion (or the dried minced onion.. very easy!), chopped green pepper.

When the ground beef is browned, add 3/4 c barbecue sauce, 2 tbsp brown sugar, 1 can pork and beans, and heat a bit longer.

Pour into a greased casserole, and top with 1 tube canned biscuits cut in half, and placed on the beef mixture cut side down, in the shape of a circle.

Top with 1 c shredded cheddar cheese.

Bake at 375 degrees 20 minutes

Yummy, and quick and easy!

Here is a link to the recipe... I just used the cheap smaller basic biscuits...

http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,188,157166-239205,00.html

Go to allrecipies, click on ingredients, see what you have and type it in. This will give you a whole list of suggestions!

Good luck

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Some of my ground beef staples are
Tacos
Tatertot casseole
English muffin pizzas
hamburgers
hamburger mac and cheese

1.super easy would be to add it to mac and cheese and then add peas to make it 'a bit' healthier.
2.you can add it to mash potatoes and peas and make shephard's pie
3.just buy hamburger helper....
4.make burritos, just add cheese and sour cream on a tortilla
5.add it to noodles and sauce for spaghetti
6.make nachos and pour it over chips with sour cream, salsa, cheese, etc

I know I'm late but for next time hamburger surprise is one of my favs. Make the hamburger into thin patties, make stuffing into balls (i use stove top) and place on the patties. Wrap the stuffing with the patties, put into a baking dish and cover with cream soup. I use cream of chicken and cream of mushroom. Adding veggies to the stuffing in the middle is great, onions, corn, sliced grean beans. I serve this with mashed potatoes, the cream soup is the gravy. mmmmm

I made my own shepard's pie and it was a huge hit and so easy! Here is what I did:
1 pound of ground beef
1 packet gravy
1 packet instant potatoes
1 small can mushrooms (optional)
1 frozen pre-made pie crust

I baked the pie crust for 12 minutes. I browned the beef in a pan. Cooked the potatoes and gravy according to packet directions on both. Pour the gravy over the ground beef and mushrooms. Remove the pie crust from the oven. Pour the ground beef mixture into crust, then smooth potatoes over the top of it. Voila! Dinner is served. I served a side of green beans and corn with it.
My whole family loved it. There are four of us and we ate the whole pie!

A.

tacos
stuffed peppers
pizza burgers
sloppy joes
meat loaf

one of my kids favorites...
I sautee a large onion and 2 green peppers. Brown the ground beef, and pour off fat. Combine with a large can of tomatoe sauce or crushed tomatoes and some seasoning, italian seasoning, oregano, garlic powder, black pepper. Serve over rice or pasta.

Taco soup is really really good, and ridiculously easy. (brown a pound of meat with onion, drain, put in a pot with 1 can of ranch style beans, 1 can of chopped tomatoes, 1 can of rotels, 1 can of corn, a packet of taco seasoning, a packet of ranch seasoning (the dry salad dressing mixes--can use the dip or the dressing packet), stir it up and heat through, and serve with shredded cheese and corn chips)
Spaghetti and meatballs (allrecipes.com, type in meatball, and click sort by rating--the one by "bigguy" is the best, and easy)
Chili (if you can find the Tobasco chili in a jar, then after browning the meat with onion and draining, pour the chili sauce, a can of rotel chili fixin's, 1/2 a beer, and a can of beans to it if you want it good, fast, easy).
Burgers: I'll do different versions of hamburgers to keep it interesting. I think I found "firecracker burgers" off allrecipes.com (curry and a special mayo with yogurt....sounds gross but really good), Taco burgers: I will do taco seasoning, diced jalepenos, and a little shredded cheese in the meat...serve with wholly guacamole or sliced avocado and tomatoes. You could do lipton onion soup mix or ranch seasoning instead, kinda anything.
Meatloaf is something, but we're not big on meatloaf. However, we love mexican meatloaf, even the kids. (2lbs beef, a splash of worchester sauce, some chopped onion, taco seasoning, some rotels, some cheese, an egg, and instead of bread crumbs use the corn chips and put them in a big ziploc bag and smush them into little crumbs with the rolling pin, mix it all together and put it in a dish in the loaf shape, bake however long you're "supposed" to do normal meatloaf (I can't remember offhand)...then pull the meat out, top with some salsa and shredded cheese and put in another 10 minutes, til the cheese is all melted). We serve that with either fiesta corn or mashed potatoes, and some peas or green beans.
Tacos or burritos---you can't go wrong there, and serve with some refried beans, mexican rice or spanish rice, and a little simple salad to make it a "meal". Buying some jarritos (Mexican sodas in glass bottles) and throwing in some simple bean, cheese, and pepper nachos makes it festive at our house.
A box of Zatarains dirty rice with a pound of beef (I do like to add drained rotels to that but not necessary) is cheap and fast, but tastes good.
One day I accidentally made SOS when I'd cooked some meat, threw in some cream of mushroom soup, the leftover steamfesh mixed vegetables I had in the fridge, etc. I can't really remember what else I did there, but that was the idea. That was kind of funny....The boys ate it on toast with potatoes on the side, we ate ours over mashed potatoes. Sometimes things like that happen when you're trying to clear out the fridge, and it was surprisingly good.
Stuffed bellpeppers are good too, or even just the "stuff" for it, and then chop up the peppers and serve it like that (easier for kids to eat that way).
You could make patties with them, mixed with lipton soup mix (onion, beefy onion, mushroom, whatever you want) and then fry them up, serve them with mushroom gravy, rice or mashed potatoes, and a vegetable.

I know its too late for dinner but google "tater tot casserole". Its super easy, super good and you don't even have to cook the hamburger! You just put it all in a baking dish and cook. Maybe you can do it next time! =)

Sloppy joes-- and then used the leftover sloppy joes for homemade pizza another night (I use a home made whole wheat crust, but you can buy pizza crust or use a mix, the sloppy joes and cheddar or co-jack)

Shepherd's Pie
Stroganoff
BBQ meatballs

Stuffed bell peppers
Taco Salad (Tostadas)
Hamburgers
Goulash

This might be too late for dinner tonight, but you can fry it up, drain, add a bag of frozen veggies, cook till veggies are done, splash on some soy sauce, serve over white rice.