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50+ Best Ground Beef Recipes

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by: Joanna Cismaru
09.17.21

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If you’re wondering what’s for dinner tonight, stop right there! I’ve got you covered with more than 50 of my best Ground Beef Recipes! With this versatile and inexpensive ingredient, you can make so many different types of meals, so grab a coffee, sit down and have a read through all these delicious recipes. You’re bound to find a couple you like!

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Ground beef has got to be one of the most popular all American ingredients, and we’ve all got some in our freezer! It’s versatile, it’s inexpensive and you can make some seriously delicious dinners! It’s also an ingredient that people ask me all the time for recipes!

So here’s my collection of over 50 ground beef recipes that you can find on my blog here. That doesn’t mean that this is all I have, there are a lot more, so feel free to search for some yourselves. But these recipes are some of my favorite!

I’m sure you’ll find some you like here as well, and you’ll want to bookmark some of them for next time you’re looking through your fridge and pantry wondering what to make for dinner!

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Easy Meatloaf
This Easy Meatloaf is a favorite at my house. It’s the recipe we always use when we want a meatloaf that’s tender, super moist and utterly delicious!
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Easy Ground Beef Tacos
Easy Ground Beef Tacos perfect for those busy weeknights! Add your favorite taco toppings, and dinner is served. Simple, customizable and don't forget delicious!
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Hoisin Beef Noodles
Hoisin Beef Noodles – Let's find a more fun way to use up that ground beef in your fridge! This recipe is made with an easy sauce, tender ramen noodles, crunchy veggies, and lots of beef. Check out my easy-to-follow instructions plus all the amazing ways you can customize this recipe to fit the ingredients you have at home!
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Salisbury Steak
Everyone needs a good Salisbury Steak recipe for their weekly dinner rotation! While it tastes like an absolute treat, this meal is made with a simple ground beef patty and a rich mushroom gravy.
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One Pot Beef Stroganoff
One Pot Beef Stroganoff is a simple weeknight meal. With mushrooms and beef in a creamy rich sauce with egg noodles, this dreamy dish is packed full of flavor and yumminess.
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One Pot Beef Ragu Pasta
One Pot Beef Ragu Pasta – nothing says comfort food like a big bowl of meaty and delicious pasta. This fettuccine is cooked in a hearty beef sauce making for a quick and easy dinner.
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Instant Pot Hamburger Helper
Who needs the box when you can have this homemade Instant Pot Hamburger Helper on your table in less than 25 minutes! Easy, delicious comfort food made entirely in one pot.
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Tex Mex Stuffed Peppers
These easy Tex Mex Stuffed Peppers are the perfect nutritious weeknight meal. Packed with ground beef, rice, corn, beans, enchilada sauce, and cheese, you won't have to fuss over any side dishes. 
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American Goulash
American Goulash – One of the original classic one-pot meals! Loaded with beef and macaroni noodles, cooked to tender perfection in a rich tomatoey sauce. With a simple list of ingredients and fool-proof instructions, this comforting recipe is a favorite for busy families. Even picky eaters will lick their bowls clean!
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Three Cheese Hamburger Helper
This Three Cheese Hamburger Helper is so much better than anything you'll find in a box. This homemade twist is packed full of flavor, ooey gooey cheese, and best of all – ready in a heartbeat!
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Italian Meatballs
These Italian Meatballs come complete with marinara sauce and are a classic comfort food! Juicy meatballs made from scratch, smothered in a delicious homemade marinara sauce. Serve over pasta for the perfect Italian dinner.
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Baked Ziti
This Baked Ziti is a classic Italian-American comfort food! It’s easy to make, perfect for a weeknight meal or a special occasion. Tender pieces of ziti noodles, delicious meat sauce, three different kinds of cheese, you can’t go wrong!
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Skillet Shepherd’s Pie
This Skillet Shepherd’s Pie recipe, also known as cottage pie, is loaded with flavorful beef and veggies, topped with fluffy and creamy mashed potatoes, then baked to perfection!
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Salisbury Steak Meatballs
These Salisbury Steak Meatballs with Gravy and Mashed Potatoes are a classic and a true comfort food. An incredibly delicious and easy dinner recipe!
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Baked Spaghetti Casserole
This Baked Spaghetti Casserole is a simple, kid friendly weeknight dinner consisting of all the classic Italian flavors we know and love. Easy to put together and always a crowd favorite.
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Bacon Wrapped Meatloaf
This easy Bacon Wrapped Meatloaf recipe will become a family favorite for sure! Meatloaf is back and better than ever, full of flavor, some hidden veggies, and wrapped with delicious thick cut bacon!
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Italian Stuffed Peppers
These Italian Stuffed Peppers are incredibly simple to make, with only 15 minute prep time, you'll end up with a sinfully delicious and sophisticated dinner. Classic Italian comfort food that's not only tasty but really healthy and good for you!
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One Pot Hamburger Helper Lasagna
This One Pot Hamburger Helper Lasagna is the perfect quick weeknight dinner! Ditch the boxed mix Hamburger Helper and make your own, lasagna style, much healthier and homemade. Comfort food at its finest.
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Korean Beef Rice Bowl
These Korean Beef Rice Bowls can be on your dinner table in only 20 minutes! We're talking a delicious, quick, easy, and budget-friendly dinner!
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Porcupine Meatballs
These classic Porcupine Meatballs are hearty, delicious, super easy to make, and the perfect home cooked meal.
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Chile Con Queso
This Chile Con Queso recipe is delicious, spicy, silky, super cheesy and perfect for a crowd! It’s the dip that you’ll be asked for over and over again at all gatherings. It’s also ready in only 25 minutes!
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One Pot Chili Mac and Cheese
This One Pot Chili Mac and Cheese combines two great comfort foods all in one! Delicious and hearty, quick and comforting, perfect dinner for back to school and ready in under 30 minutes.
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Sloppy Joes
Oh, Sloppy Joes! Saucy, meaty, sweet, and savory. This American classic sure does live up to its name! It's a meal that everyone will approve of, while barely taking any effort to execute. So, grab a plate, a napkin (or ten), and get ready to put together this spectacular dinner!
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Instant Pot Spaghetti
Classic spaghetti, made in the Instant Pot! My Instant Pot Spaghetti recipe is as easy as 1,2,3! Requiring simple, kitchen staple ingredients and minimal prep, you can sit back and let the instant pot do all the work for you! Perfect for busy weeknights!
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Instant Pot Chili Mac
Easy, cheesy, Instant Pot Chili Mac! This dish is the epitome of comfort food. Combining two classics to create one epic meal, perfect for busy weeknights! Using staple kitchen and pantry ingredients, this recipe is ready in just 25 minutes, all thanks to the instant pot!
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Incredibly delicious Lasagna Roll-Ups that are totally delicious and a true comforting dish presented in a fun new way. Take the guesswork out of portion control.
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This Easy Beef Lasagna is the easiest lasagna ever! There's no need to boil noodles or slave away for hours over the stove for this recipe. It's the perfect meal for a busy weeknight dinner.
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You read that right! My Lasagna Dip recipe is layered with sausage, marinara sauce, and lots of ooey-gooey melty cheese. Made and served all in one skillet, it's a great addition to any appetizer table. It's so delicious, you might just want to enjoy it as a meal all on its own!
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All the flavors of traditional Lasagna, in soup form! This Lasagna Soup comes together in just over 30 minutes, making it perfect for those times when you're craving lasagna, but lack the time.
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This Zucchini Lasagna is low fat, gluten-free, Keto friendly, ridiculously delicious and only 368 calories! This lasagna uses zucchini in place of pasta thereby reducing calories. Guilt free!
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This Taco Lasagna is saucy, cheesy and delicious. Try this fun twist on your traditional lasagna with lots of Mexican flavors, yet still an easy weeknight and family-friendly meal.
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Spaghetti Bolognese is a classic Italian meat sauce that is a staple in most families. My super simple Spaghetti Bolognese is the perfect dinner for any night of the week and will wow your family or guests.
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This is the Best Meat Sauce recipe! Never go back to a store-bought jar again. Once you discover how simple it is to make your own and how much better it tastes, your pasta making world will never be the same! Chop, sauté, simmer, and you'll be rewarded with incredible, rich, deep, homemade flavors.
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Swedish Meatball Pasta – This spin on a classic recipe gives you an entire meal-in-one made with pasta shells cooked down in a rich, creamy sauce, and loaded with flavorful meatballs. You'll need just one pot and 30 minutes to turn this dreamy, creamy dinner into a reality!
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This Halifax Donair is a true Canadian Treasure and the official food of Halifax. But you don't have to go to Halifax to enjoy one, you can now make it right at home. With bold flavors, easy to follow steps and convenient ingredients, the Donair will become a guaranteed family favorite!
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This Deconstructed Stuffed Pepper Casserole offers you all the great flavors of stuffed peppers, but ready in a fraction of the  time. This casserole really does taste like real stuffed peppers and it's perfect for any busy weeknight!
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Enchilada Meatball Bake
This Enchilada Meatball Bake encompasses everything you know and love about enchiladas. These enchilada meatballs are made with pork and beef, baked to perfection in an enchilada sauce and smothered with cheese. 
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Classic Spaghetti and Meatballs
Spaghetti and Meatballs is a classic comfort food and pretty much everyone’s favorite. A classic dish with delicious and hearty meatballs in a simple flavorful and tasty tomato sauce served over spaghetti. 
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Beef Ragu
I give you Braised Beef Ragu with Fettuccine for when you need a comforting and delicious dish. This slow braised, fall-apart-tender beef is cooked in a rich tomato and veggie sauce served over a bed of al dente fettuccine.
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Philly Cheese Steak Meatballs
These Philly Cheese Steak Meatballs are just as delicious as the popular Philly Cheese Steak Sandwich, but in a bite size meatball with an incredible cheese sauce.
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Beef Tamale Casserole
This Beef Tamale Casserole will certainly make your dinner time easy. We're talking comfort food to the max: layers of cornbread, enchilada sauce, spiced ground beef, all loaded with cheese then baked to perfection!
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Chimichurri Meatballs
These Chimichurri Meatballs are epic, so easy to make, yet super impressive and perfect for your holiday party! There's nothing boring or bland about these meatballs, it's the chimichurri sauce and feta cheese that take these meatballs to the next level of flavor.
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Moussaka Recipe
This Greek Moussaka is packed with layers and layers of eggplant, zucchini, potatoes, meat and, of course, a creamy bechamel sauce. This Moussaka is mouthwatering and hearty and will surely tickle your tastebuds. 
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Taco Meatball Ring
This Taco Meatball Ring is perfect for parties, fun to make and easy to assemble. The jumbo size meatballs are stuffed with Monterey Jack cheese and they're incredibly delicious. 
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Thai Meatball Lettuce Wraps
These irresistible Thai Meatball Lettuce Wraps with peanut sauce are packed with flavor. These meatballs are crispy on the outside, tender on the inside and make for the perfect lunch or appetizer!
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Stout Meatballs with BBQ Sauce
These Stout Meatballs with BBQ Sauce are everything you've ever dreamed of and more! They're juicy, a bit spicy, not to mention they're baked and then drowned in a homemade stout BBQ sauce that is to die for.
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Taco Pasta Salad
My Taco Pasta Salad recipe with Doritos and French dressing is a must try. Loaded with everything you'd want to see on your taco and more, this is a great recipe to serve to guests or even enjoy with your family at the dinner table!
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Mexican Beef and Rice Casserole
This Mexican Beef and Rice Casserole is an easy and delicious comfort food! A colorful dish loaded with beef, rice, fire-roasted tomatoes, and so much more! It's the perfect weeknight meal that will satisfy even the pickiest eaters.
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Beef Empanadas
Baked Beef Empanadas made with puff pastry, so easy and so delicious. Don't underestimate puff pastry, it's quite versatile and makes some delicious empanadas.
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  1. Leah SG says

    September 18, 2021 at 12:14 pm

    Oh my goodness! I don’t know where to start! At first glance the swedish meatballs, the Moussaka, the Chimichurri meatballs caught my eye. So many ideas! Thank you

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    • Joanna Cismaru says

      September 18, 2021 at 1:50 pm

      My pleasure, hope you give some a try!

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  2. Emme says

    September 18, 2021 at 9:55 am

    I appreciate all of your recipes. Every one I’ve tried has been excellent.

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    • Joanna Cismaru says

      September 18, 2021 at 11:03 am

      Thank you, I’m glad you like them!

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  3. Bob Cottingham says

    September 18, 2021 at 7:53 am

    Are these 50 Ground Beef Recpes available in printe form? Too hard to print each individually

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    • Joanna Cismaru says

      September 18, 2021 at 11:04 am

      Not all of them, but I have a new cookbook being released on Sept 28th and some of them are in the book. You can find more info here: https://www.jocooks.com/the-big-book-of-jos-quick-and-easy-meals/

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      • Bob Cottingham says

        September 18, 2021 at 11:23 am

        Not what I wanted to hear. i will live with it though

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