Ground Beef Recipes

Supreme burgers loaded with onion soup mix and sour cream for unbeatable juiciness and built-in seasoning. A four-ingredient patty that bakes into something memorable from your broiler or grill.

Fiesta meat balls piquante are Mexican-style albondigas with rice baked into the meatballs and a chipotle-spiked tomato sauce. One-pan dinner with smoky, smoldering heat from pickled chiles.

College Park fire alarm chili with two pounds of ground beef, chili beans, canned tomatoes, and a generous hit of chili powder. Hearty, no-fuss, and simmered for an hour.

Freezer mix barley soup made with beef-mushroom freezer mix, pearl barley, carrots, and celery. A hearty one-pot meal from frozen to table in about an hour.

Freezer mix dinner using pre-browned, seasoned ground beef from the freezer with a boxed beef noodle or chili tomato dinner kit. A meal-prep shortcut for fast weeknight dinners.

Lentil stew made with frozen beef-tomato mix, mushrooms, carrots, celery, and red wine. A hearty, high-fiber weeknight dinner from freezer to table in one hour.

One-dish spaghetti made from a frozen beef-tomato mix with mushrooms, oregano, chili powder, and melted cheddar cheese. A freezer meal shortcut that cooks pasta and sauce together in one pot.

Freezer mix pizza with a quick Bisquick-yeast crust topped with beef-tomato sauce, Italian seasoning, cheddar, mozzarella, and Parmesan. A homemade pizza using pantry staples.

One-skillet beef goulash using freezer mix with canned tomatoes, noodles, and herbs. A quick weeknight dinner where the noodles cook right in the sauce.

One-skillet beef-a-roni with ground beef, elbow macaroni, green beans, and French onion soup. A quick weeknight dinner that cooks entirely in a frying pan.

Garlic burgers loaded with 10 to 15 cloves of fresh minced garlic plus garlic powder, bound with bread and egg. Football-shaped pan-fried patties with serious garlic punch.

Big-batch chili with ground beef, cubed steak, and 75 whole chilies floating in the pot. A killer party chili where the green floaters decide how hot your bowl gets.

Goldwater's expert chili slow-simmered 5 hours with dried pinto beans, coarsely ground beef, tomato paste, and red pepper flakes. No-frills, Arizona-style bean chili.

German Hackbraten (Falscher Hase) meatloaf recipe made with ground beef and pork, roasted with onions, garlic and yellow turnip until the crust turns deeply golden. A traditional oven-roasted meatloaf sliced and served with its own pan juices over potato salad.

Hamburgers au poivre take the French steak au poivre treatment and apply it to ground beef patties: black pepper-crusted burgers seared hard, served on a toasted bun with a red wine, Dijon, green peppercorn, and tarragon cream sauce.

When the outfit got back after months out on a cattle drive, the headquarters cook took over. He had a lot more fixin's to work with, and after a lot of mixin' and tastin' he'd serve up a smooth, thick chili the cowboys could really dig into.