What To Do With Minced Beef???

[katydidthat]

I realised yesterday, that while I like minced beef I know very few recipes for it:  

Spag bol

Stuffed capsicums

Meat loaf

Meatballs 

Recipes, suggestions, and ideas are all welcome.  

And, hello to those that still remember me 🙂 🙂 🙂 

[kopenhagen5]

Lasagna

Homemade hamburgers with the lot. Yummm.

Middle Eastern kofta

Sheperds pie

[imastawka]

What about a chilli con carne recipe, fill crepes, place in casserole dish,

top with grated cheese and bake for 10 mins.  Serve with sour cream

and salad

Yum

[tcmsecretuseid]

Tacos:

Corn tortillas, meat, cheese, lettuce, avocado, cilantro, tomato, hot sauce, or salsa.

Burrito:

Flour tortillas, meat, cheese, beans, sour cream,hot sauce, etc. 

We had meatloaf tonight. 

Meat, I use hamburger(mince), and a sausage patty, eggs, panko bread crumbs, grilled onions, spices(garlic, Italian herbs, S and P), ketchup with a T of balsamic. Mix together, top with additional Ketchup/Balsamic. Pop in the oven at 350 for about an hour and a quarter. 

[katydidthat]

You know, just before I reopened the thread, I thought "OH BURGERS". And, I just recently made shepherds' pie.

Lasagne ... the kid loves that, but I prefer MOUSSAKA.

What exactly are kofta? If they are the large meatball type thingies, they're yummy.

I don't think I've ever made chilli con carne ... I think I had a bad experience with it as a kid.

BUT, that reminds me of TACOS ...

[sineaterdoodah]

beef stroganoff with noodles

beef pate with a dark demiglace

beef and peapods

beef and gravy on toast!! yum! 

beef stirfry

[cherry*135]

Most meals have already been mentioned what I use mince for. Can use it to make a pie ( traditional or a filo pastry parcel)

Sineater - Mince is ground beef here...not what we would use for stroganoff, stirfry etc ( beef strips). 🙂

[ufo_investigations]

My top secret home made lasagna recipe. The way my grandma used to make it.

Ingredients:

500 gram beef

300 gram mortadella (peppered or plain) and chop it all up finely.

500 gram mozzarella cheese

200 gram parmesan cheese

6 hard boiled eggs. (use a manual slicer to get even slices)

1 beef stock cube

1 onion

2 cloves garlic

5 smoked pork bones

1 bottle Italian tomato sauce

1 litre water

a bit olive oil

1 pack egg based lasagna sheets (pre-cooked).

Method:

Chop onion and put in a large pot. Add oil and fry till it starts to lightly brown don't over cook. Then add 500 gram beef. Use wooden spoon to break it all up. Add garlic. Fry meat till it turns brown. Then add bottle of sauce and 1 litre water. Add stock cube. Stir and make sure it is well broken up. Then add smoked pork bones. Add more water if required, the pot should be at least 3/4 full of liquid. Place the lid on an angle, leave a little bit air to escape preferably use a lid with the airpin hole if you have one.

Now comes the trick to gourmet taste:

You GOTTA cook this on the stove, on a very low heat, for at least 5 hours. The sauce should be thick and creamy after 5 hours.

The smoky flavors from the bones will intensify the whole sauce. This will be your base to an awesome lasagna. Once this process is finished make sure you use a fork to take the meat off the bones then discard the bones. Then stir all the meat well. The consistency of the sauce should be like a ragu. Just like what you get in a gourmet meat pie.

Using a white corningware tray, place a bit sauce on the bottom. Then add a layer of lasagna sheets. Then put sauce on sheets. add mozzarella, parmesan cheese, mortadella, boiled eggs. REPEAT this process until you get to the top. Once you finish make sure the TOP layer is full of cheese. Then put aluminium foil over the tray.

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees celsius.

Cook for 1 hour.

Then take the foil off and cook till cheese is golden brown (about 7 min).

Then take it out. Let it stand for at least 20 min. Don't touch it. Leave it to settle!

Then CUT and EATTTTTTTTTT.... YUM.

[katydidthat]

AM*3 ... of course ... pies ... LOL, I almost never eat them because I'm allergic to margarine (in the pastry). We have this amazing bakery nearby, though that uses REAL BUTTER in everything.

[lealta]

Actually, I was also going to suggest beef stroganoff too.  It turns out very good with ground beef.  You just brown the meat and then add the other things that go in a normal stroganoff.  Here is a picture of one that I fixed recently and served with bowtie pasta.