Ground beef recipes ... something different

subcounter wrote: »

Pastel De Papa, they're so good.

I had never heard of this... after Googling now I MUST make it. Immediately.

Alatariel75 wrote: »

My Dad's signature dish growing up was "*kitten* on a Shingle" - basically browned ground beef, a bag of frozen mixed veg (the cheap one where everything is in cubes), once cooked, mix through enough water and instant gravy to make it the consistency of pie filling and eat it on toast or crackers. It's still one of my go-to no-time dinners, or comfort foods.

Hmmm...must be a regional thing. In my SoCal family, "SoaS" was what we called chipped beef.

Bobotie. Or moussaka.

individual meat patties ... a.k.a. salisbury steak but gravy is optional. We make it by adding a couple of slices of bread (per lb of meat) that have soaked in some water, and a minced onion, salt and pepper to taste. Mix together like for meatloaf, then fashion little torpedo shaped patties and either fry or bake em. Serve with pickles or fermented vegetables.

Mince and doughballs:

Brown a pound of the beef, remove from the pan and add a diced onion and a diced carrot. Cook til the onion is soft. Add two or three tablespoons of flour, stir in and add the beef and a bit of beef stock (from cubes is fine, or whatever you want). Bring to the boil and simmer a bit until the beef is cooked and you're sure it's going to be the right consistency (add more stock if needed). Season to taste and put in a deep oven dish. Make sure the oven is heated (moderate, 180C/350F) and put the dish in - it needs to be hot for the next step.

Make up doughballs by rubbing 1-2oz fat (eg butter - dripping or grated suet are best if you have it) into 8oz self raising flour. Add a pinch of salt, herbs if you want them, and enough milk to mix to a soft dough, similar to scones/biscuits.

Pull off lumps of the dough and drop them into the hot mince. Don't shape or roll them, they should be irregular, like fluffy clouds. Cover with a lid or foil - make sure they have room to rise, they will about double - and bake for about 20 min until the doughballs are cooked through. If you want you can then bake them uncovered for 5 min to brown a little, but don't dry them out or make them hard.

This is not exactly low calorie but is rib-sticking and satisfying, traditional Scottish fare. Doughballs are what the English would call dumplings, but doughballs should be irregular and super-fluffy, where English dumplings are generally rolled into balls. I have reduced the fat in the doughballs - the traditional recipe is 4oz fat to 8oz flour, but I find that can make them heavy.

I didn't mention the seemingly ubiquitous fat-draining step you see in ground beef recipes as I have never needed to do that, and if your beef is good quality and grass fed, neither will you.

Enjoy your half a cow! Sounds amazing.

Porcupines : 1lb ground beef 1 box of beef rice a roni ..mix hamburger 1 egg and the rice shape into meatballs brown meatballs use the seasoning package and water to finish cooking meatballs it makes a nice little gravy...I have made this using my own ingredients of hamburger rice garlic and onion powder and beef bouillon and seasonings..But the 2 ingredient meal mentioned above is easy quick and delicious perhaps a salt bomb and may need to watch portion..Goes well with green beans and skinny mash potatoes

Yessss an old fave of mine Minced Beef Kebab

Fry off your beef and add
Salt
Pepper
Cayenne pepper
Paprika
Oregano
Parsley
And sprinkle some dry beef stick

Cook until the moisture drys out and have it with ice berg lettuce, onion tomato and mint yogurt on a wholemeal pitta

Use a teaspoon of all spices except ceyenne just use a quarter if even

Lovely with chicken too

Got this in my inbox today and thought of this thread.

Oh, I also made a spaghetti squash with a ground turkey and tomato sauce, but I think ground beef would sub nicely.

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All sound so good

Im making cabbage rolls tonight prob use the allrecipe website or come up with my own im using brown instant rice in my lean ground..for a low carb low cal dish..Or a good old fashioned hamburger steak topped with pan seared onions and mushrooms..Pioneer dry brown gravy mix is only 20 calories a tbs prepared a couple of tbs wont set ya back to far..good luck with your meal plan hope I helped

I make a taco meat sauce, and use it for (obviously) tacos, but then if there is any left over, it tastes great over a bed of greens and some sour cream as dressing. Sort of taco without the taco shell. I take it for lunch a lot and dont even bother to reheat the meat mixture - there is just something really satisfying about the contrast of the lettuce greens and the spicy ground beef mixture with the cooling effect of the sour cream..............

I brown it with taco seasoning, spread a bit over salad (weighing it, of course) and use salsa as a dressing. Super low cal. Just have to watch the sodium in the salsa.

http://www.food.com/recipe/crack-slaw-low-carb-434863 this

I'm low carb, but my hubby is not and he loves this too.