95 smoked beef recipes

Bacon-wrapped chicken breasts baked low and slow over smoked beef in a creamy mushroom and sour cream sauce. Five ingredients, zero fuss, and enough to feed a crowd of eight.

Hearty smoked pork and bean soup built from ham hocks, dried pink beans, and beef stock with paprika and sauteed garlic. Partially pureed for a thick, velvety body. Serves 6.

Texas-style smoked beef brisket rubbed with spices and barbecued low and slow, then wrapped with beer for a juicy, tender finish. The Texan way to smoke a brisket.

Smoked beef short ribs slow-cooked over mesquite or hickory with a red wine and tomato barbecue sauce. Bone-side down for 2 hours of real charcoal smoke flavor.

Andouille smoked sausage in Cajun red gravy: smoky pork andouille smothered with onions, celery, bell pepper, and garlic in a tomato-laced beef gravy. Spoon over rice for a Louisiana classic.

Southern pot likker chili built on collard-green broth with smoked chuck, ground beef, pintos, chipotle, habanero, and a splash of beer. Long-simmered, deeply smoky, bowl-licking good.

Hungarian goulash in a pressure cooker with beef, smoked bacon, paprika, potatoes, and caraway seeds. A rich, authentic goulash ready in under 40 minutes.

Homemade beef jerky cured in a bold coffee-teriyaki-soy marinade with liquid smoke, then slow-dried right in the oven, no dehydrator needed. Sweet, smoky, and peppery.

Mesquite-smoked beef brisket on a gas grill rotisserie, rubbed with paprika and cayenne, then basted for hours in a beer-spiked barbecue sauce. Slice it thin and watch it fall apart on the cutting board.

Sticky monster beef ribs marinated overnight, hickory-smoked low over a beef broth drip pan, then basted with mesquite BBQ sauce until the bark turns glossy black. Backyard beef ribs done right.

"Kohlrouladen" used to be a staple on the menu for regular people in Germany during winter time. The relatively long preparation and cooking time pays out, because it can be easily reheated over a couple of days and gets even better and tastier then. Fried potatoes complete the picture, but you can cook the potatoes also in the pot with the sauce, if there is space left. This recipe can be varied in many ways, be it the stuffing (ground meat here), or the sauce. The recipe is as traditional as it can be; the ingredients are adjusted to availability in North America (like Savoy cabbage in lieu of "Weisskohl", bacon to replace "Speckwuerfel"). For sure the ground meat can vary depending on preferences or diets - I bet quite often in the "good old times " regular people did not exactly know what's in the ground meat they got from the butcher - at least it was some meat, for most of the families only once a week.

Texas BBQ beef brisket: seven pounds of brisket smoked low and slow with paprika rub and wood chips, finished with a tangy homemade sauce built from the pan drippings.

Roast beef po'boy with paper-thin sliced beef marinated in hickory smoked Worcestershire sauce, sauteed onions and bell peppers, melted Swiss cheese, and mayo on broiled French bread.

Theada's beef jerky uses an old-school boil-and-bake method with a salt-vinegar brine, finished with Liquid Smoke and A-1 sauce. A pantry-friendly homemade jerky that skips the dehydrator.

Pressure cooker black bean soup with smoked ham hock, leeks, and beef stock pureed silky smooth with a splash of dry sherry. Hearty, smoky, and ready in under an hour.

Barbecued Brisket of Beef: a two-stage brisket braised in apple cider, wine, honey, and soy, then mesquite-smoked on the grill with a reduced glaze. Sliced thin against the grain.