716 ground meat recipes

Easy Tijuana pie layers tortilla chips with browned ground meat, ranch beans, green chilies, cream soup, and grated cheese for a 10-minute Tex-Mex casserole. Pantry-stocked weeknight win.

So to start off with the first post, I decided to make a meal that screams of comfort food. Whilst it does take a bit of a while to get the meal done, once you take that first bite, heaven couldn’t seem closer if you were Adam trying to touch God’s finger in the “Creation of Adam” fresco created by Michaelangelo. The meal I speak of is Cottage Pie. There is much debate as to what exactly a cottage pie is and how it is different to a Shepherd’s pie...I don’t know. The dominant theory is that Sheperds pie uses lamb mince, whilst a cottage pie uses beef mince. I don’t know about you, but the term “Sheperds Pie” does not get my tastebuds going quite as well, so I prefer the term cottage pie. Besides, comparing the price of ground (mince) beef to ground lamb, a student would pick up the beef mince in a heartbeat without even so much as glancing at the lamb in the meat section. This cottage pie that I made is full of flavour, and just makes you want to cuddle up next to a fire and watch TCM movies all day either by yourself, or with a significant other. Here is the recipe:

Homemade chicken and veal sausage with bacon, brandy-flamed spices, coriander, and cloves. Stuff into casings, form patties, or shape in plastic wrap and poach before grilling.

Classic Italian lasagna with homemade meat sauce from Italian sausage and ground beef, ricotta filling, mozzarella, and Parmesan. A from-scratch Sunday dinner.

Two-meat meat loaf made with ground chuck and ground pork, bound with oatmeal and seasoned with allspice and thyme. Served with a whiskey-tomato pan sauce.

Three-meat chili loaded with ground beef, steak, pork, and linguica sausage, slow-simmered with black beans, green chilies, and beer for deep, layered heat that feeds a crowd.

Pastichio (Greek lasagna) with ziti, seasoned ground meat, crumbled feta, cream cheese, Parmesan, and eggs baked into a rich, set casserole. A simplified take on the classic Greek baked pasta.

Easy runzas made with crescent roll dough, ground beef, cabbage, and onion soup mix. A shortcut version of the classic Nebraska meat-and-cabbage pocket.

Tater tot casserole with seasoned ground meat, golden mushroom soup, onions, and red bell pepper baked under a crispy layer of tater tots. Easy weeknight comfort food.

Saltsa Kima, the classic Greek meat sauce with ground beef, cinnamon, bay leaf, red wine, and tomatoes. Perfect over pastitsio, pasta, or moussaka.

Mediterranean lasagna layers tender pasta with eggplant in tomato sauce and a creamy mix of ricotta, feta, and yogurt. A vegetarian Greek-Italian fusion lasagna without ground meat or heavy bechamel.

This delicious meat sauce made with minced carrots, celery and succulent ground veal tastes wonderful with any kid of pasta you like.

Quick beef spaghetti sauce with ground beef, garlic, green pepper, basil and oregano. Weeknight meat sauce ready in under 30 minutes.

Mayflower meat loaf rolled with ground turkey and mixed vegetables inside, seasoned with thyme. A lighter stuffed meat loaf with a colorful vegetable surprise.

Alton Brown's homemade gyro meat: ground lamb processed to a paste with onion, garlic, and herbs, baked and pressed dense so it slices thin, served on pita with cool homemade tzatziki, tomato, and feta.

Classic stuffed green peppers filled with seasoned ground meat, rice, and tomato sauce. A comforting family dinner that bakes to tender perfection in one hour.