What can I make with ground beef?

Meatballs w/ brown gravy over rice or mashed potatoes.

Chili

Shepards pie

Tater tot casserole

Goulash

Sloppy Joes

Meatball sandwiches

Stroganoff

Tacos

Browned w/ rice or potatoes and cabbage in one skillet

Taco soup

Cheeseburger pizza

Minced beef. Different.

MULLIGATAWNY SOUP

Makes 2 x 250ml servings

INGREDIENTS

1 clove of garlic

2cm (1 inch) piece of fresh ginger

2 onions

1 tablespoon of oil

250g of minced beef

200g (½ a 400g tin) of chopped tomatoes

½ a teaspoon of chilli powder

1 tablespoon of garam masala

½ a teaspoon of ground turmeric

500ml of water

1 portion of boiled rice

METHOD

Peel the garlic and chop it into tiny pieces. Peel the ginger and chop it into tiny pieces. Peel the onions and chop them into tiny pieces.

Put the oil into a saucepan on a low heat. Put the garlic, ginger, meat and onions into the pan and fry for 2 to 3 minutes, stirring all the time, until the meat has broken up and is an even colour, with no pink bits.

Add the tomatoes, chilli powder, garam masala, turmeric, and water. Stir thoroughly.

Bring to the boil, then turn down the heat until it is just boiling. Put the lid on the saucepan and cook for 15 minutes. Check the water level from time to time and top up if it starts to dry out.

If you have a food processor, put the soup in it and blend it to the desired consistency. If you have a hand blender, put it in the soup and blend it to the desired consistency. If you don’t have a food processor or hand blender, use a potato masher, press the soup through a sieve with the back of a spoon, or leave it lumpy. If you used a food processor, rinse out the saucepan and put the soup back into the saucepan.

If you want to refrigerate or freeze this soup, allow it to cool and do so now. When you reheat it, resume the recipe from this point.

Add the boiled rice to the soup. Mix thoroughly.

Put the saucepan on a low heat and reheat the soup gently.

ADDITIONS & ALTERNATIVES

The quantity of chilli powder above makes for a medium hot soup. For a hot one, increase this to 1 teaspoon. For a mild one, decrease this to ¼ of a teaspoon.

cook you pound of hamburger with 1/2 onion, a green pepper and other vegetables. Add a teaspoon of oregano and teaspoon of basil and cook for about 15 minutes. Pour off the grease. Add chopped tomatoes and tomatoes paste. Cook it down until everything get to smelling or the spoon stands up in the sauce. Pour over pasta and serve with buttered/toasted French bread and maybe a vegetable of your choice. A nice red wine would go well with this.

season and brown the ground beef separating the bits. Add a minced onion, some celery slices, some shredded potatoes, and then make gravy stirring the beef and veggies in it.

serve over those toaster waffles. and have a great tossed garden salad.

I can't believe you don't have a cookery book or two with recipes for ground/minced beef. It is so versatile. You can make a sauce for spaghetti, or any pasta, lasagne, cottage pie, meat balls, a curry sauce, meat cobbler - the list is endless.

casseroles

lasagna

hamburger helper, or spaghetti,