Quick Recipes Using Ground Beef

I have always been a red meat eater. I remember when I was pregnant with my first daughter. I ate red meat just about every single day. I'm sure some of it was because of the iron, but I've just always loved red meat.

I love when the stores put multi-packs or family-size packs of ground beef on sale. I'll buy the multi-packs and then divide them into one pound servings and freeze them.

Meat Casseroles

I'd like to share a few quick recipes using ground beef. This first recipe is a very kid friendly recipe. Kids love tater tots and kids love ground beef:

2 pounds ground beef
2 pounds frozen tater tots
1 cup shredded cheese
1 can cream of something soup (we like either chicken or broccoli)

Spread the meat into the bottom of a 9x13 casserole dish. Pour the soup over the meat. Sprinkle the cheese on top of the soup and finally spread the tater tots on top. Cover and bake at 350 degrees for forty-five minutes. Uncover and bake an additional fifteen minutes.

One of my kids' favorite recipes is sloppy joes. All I do is take ground meat and brown it in a frying pan. I then add bottled BBQ sauce and stir. I allow it to simmer for a bit and then serve on hamburger buns. My girls both love this.

The next recipe I'd like to share is actually made for the crockpot. It's a beef stroganoff recipe that's very quick to make.

Brown two pounds of ground beef. Add in chopped onions and a few cloves of chopped garlic. Drain off the fat. Pour the beef mixture into the crockpot.

Mix together the following:

1 cup beef broth
3 tablespoons tomato paste
Salt and pepper to taste.

Pour over the beef and then cook on low six to eight hours. For the last hour of cooking add in one and a half cups of sour cream mixed with four tablespoons of flour. We use non-fat sour cream.

When ready to eat, cook the noodles of your choice and pour the beef mixture over the noodles.

This last recipe is what I call comfort food. There is just no other way to explain how it tastes:

Brown one pound of ground beef and drain. Make brown rice according to package directions.

In a bowl combine one package of onion soup mix, one can of cream of chicken soup, 1 1/2 cups of cooked rice and ¾ cup of water. Add in the meat and mix well. Pour this into a casserole dish and sprinkle with crushed potato chips or crushed Corn Flakes. Bake at 350 degrees for one hour.

There are just so many possibilities on using ground beef in cooking.

Quick Recipes Using Ground Beef

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