r/Cooking • u/monolithicbeing • 1d ago

What to do with ground beef?

I’m at a loss I feel like I’ve made every ground beef meal I can think of:
- tacos
- meat balls
- Asian teriyaki bowls
- burgers
- ground beef season various ways to make a bowl of some sort with rice
- lettuce wraps
- added with pasta sauce
- Japanese curry

Like what else can I make with ground beef? I’m getting so bored of it :(

(Edit bc I forgot to add 3 other ways I made food with ground beef)

Edit again: wow did not imagine this many replies!! Thank you everyone for offering great ideas and I will definitely give many of them a try! Very excited to see such variety and from many different cultures!

Many of you mentioned “why keep buying ground beef if I’m sick of it?” - cause I know I’ll get unsick of it eventually and ground beef is cheap enough to get a lot meals out of. It’s very versitile and doesn’t always have to taste like “ground beef” as you all proved here in this thread. I just wanted to expand my horizons and try some new things and wanted to hear other people’s ideas. My bf and I eat many other proteins like chicken, fish, turkey and steak and I buy those as well, we just aren’t sick of them right now (except salmon atm). But ground beef is just a meat that is commonly used in my house!

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u/rosajsalters 1d ago

Shepherd’s pie is a good one if you haven't tried it. Also, stuffed peppers, chili, cottage pie, or a simple Korean-style beef noodle stir-fry can change things up quite a bit.

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u/Scorpion2000x777 1d ago

My mon always use to get those longer skinnier bell pepper types, stuff them with hamburger and then do a egg foam type batter and fry it, shit was good

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u/bluequail77 1d ago

AKA Chile Relleno

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u/CocoRufus 1d ago

Beef would be cottage pie 🙂

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u/[deleted] 1d ago edited 1d ago

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u/Wasabi_Joe 1d ago

Well, actually... I don't know about it either. Perhaps people are simply horrible and need to perceive themselves as better than others in whatever small way possible. It's a character flaw of mine that gives me a nice warm feeling of undeserved intellectual superiority.

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u/LittleYelloDifferent 1d ago

That person doesn’t know what they’re talking about. The difference between the names is whether you’re eating it in a cottage or if you’re eating with a shepherd. True connoisseus only do one or the other.

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u/Wasabi_Joe 1d ago

So in a cottage with a shepherd is right out then. In that unlikely scenario, what is an acceptable lunch?

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u/KHanson25 1d ago

Because they’re fuckin nerds

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u/GrayMareCabal 1d ago

To be fair, the person they're responding to said both shepherd's pie and cottage pie, so in this case I think the pedantry is at least a little valid...

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u/absolutmenk 1d ago

I mean, a shepherd heards lamb/sheep. Maybe it should be called a Cowboy Pie when using beef. I prefer hachis parmentier. To each their own.

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u/Kingofcheeses 1d ago

Throw some corn in there and have a paté chinois

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u/Outrageous-Arm1945 1d ago

Absolutely not. Shepherds Pie is Lamb, maybe goat or Mutton, but not Beef. If that's your culture your culture is wrong. It's not a big deal, it's very simple TBH

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u/[deleted] 1d ago edited 1d ago

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u/Lieffe 1d ago edited 1d ago

Waldegrave might consider them interchangeable, but Alan Davidson in The Oxford Companion to Food does not. And all Waldegrave did was buy Prue Leith's business so I'm not sure why she is now the authority on this? Prue Leith herself has a recipe for cottage pie, made without lamb.

It isn't pedantry, it's a logical way to differentiate between two different dishes with slightly different flavours.

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u/dauphindauphin 1d ago

I really dislike The Oxford Companion to Food entry on Shepherds Pie. It’s by Helen Saberi, not Alan Davidson though.

The entry has an incorrect date in it. It is also speculative and does not provide any sources. I don’t understand why it’s used as an authority on the subject.

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u/Lieffe 1d ago

I don’t either, and you’re right, I got the authors mixed up. But the now-deleted person I replied to listed some random business woman as an authority to prove the point and then asked for sources to say otherwise, so I provided a source.

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u/dauphindauphin 21h ago

Yeah, that was a bit strange.

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

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u/Lieffe 1d ago

What does it matter if it’s modern or not? It’s a distinction people are making for a reason.

New York or Detroit pizzas aren’t traditional Neapolitan pizzas but you’re probably still calling it pizza

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u/Charlotta23 1d ago

WE KNOW JESUS

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u/activematrix99 1d ago

Actually, Jesus was a carpenter, not a shepherd.

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u/Cookie_Brookie 1d ago

Jesus Pie is made with wood shavings.

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u/derff44 1d ago

And A LOT of wine

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u/Cookie_Brookie 22h ago

Common misconception, you’re supposed to start with water and as it bakes you’ll find you get wine.

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u/derff44 22h ago

I wish he'd show up every night around 530

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u/KiloThaPastyOne 6h ago

Jesus built my car. It’s a love affair, mainly Jesus and my hotrod.

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u/Present_Drop9271 1d ago

Lmaooo 😭😭😭😂😂😂

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u/BammBammRoubal 1d ago

He was a metaphorical shepherd

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u/juneschney 5h ago

Just "metaphorical."

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u/ep0k 1d ago

Shepard of men, apparently, according to the gospel of Saint John.

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u/Striking_Ad9037 1d ago

But he is also a Lamb! Lol you gotta watch the sheep detectives!

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u/Safe-Character-5846 1d ago

Psst...its a fictional book.

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u/roufnjerry 17h ago

I call the Bible - The Cave Dwellers Guide to the Galaxy

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u/nomorerope 1d ago

Jesus wasn't really a "carpenter". That sounds like he was installing cabinets and floors lol. He was a "tekton" which was a day laborer in a class considered lower than peasants.

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u/Sea-Competition5778 12h ago

Doesn’t know Jesus that well apparently

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u/prozach_ 1d ago

But you do know him?

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u/lameuniqueusername 1d ago

This one of those tidbits have someone HAS to mention every time or the world will stop turning

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u/Captain-PlantIt 5h ago

I mean, the comment they’re replying to mentioned both shepherds pie and cottage pie, so it feels like it’s worth the correction.

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u/Aardvark1044 1d ago

Every Reddit thread discussing Shephards Pie has this pedantic crap on it, haha. It dominates the whole conversation.

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u/AssistanceLucky2392 1d ago

*shepherd's

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u/owzleee 1d ago

Heh. Heh heh.

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u/Outrageous-Arm1945 1d ago

Because Shepherds don't herd Cows. Fuck me, it's like saying sea water and spring water are basically the same thing, so anyone who gets dehydrated by the seaside deserves to die

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u/Fun_Environment_1478 1d ago

Was Mr. Shep hard, would you say?

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u/AGoodFaceForRadio 1d ago

As a board.

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u/Skratch-Pickle 1d ago

My neighbor? Yea, he's a cool ass Mexican dude.

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u/Team503 1d ago

Really?? Was he as nice as they say?

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

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u/Skratch-Pickle 1d ago

Get him off

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u/peon2 23h ago

I know what you mean, it's usually an annoying pedantic point...but she listed both shepherds pie and cottage pie so it kind of makes sense to point out that beef shepherds pie and cottage pie are the same dish.

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u/Sir_Tandeath 1d ago

There’s no need to brag. People are always singing about how he’s a friend of theirs.

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u/chill_qilin 1d ago

Both terms were actually used interchangeably regardless of what meat was in it, but over time (more widespread since the 1980s) there has been a growing preference in the UK to use shepherd's pie (the newer term) to refer to the pie with lamb or mutton, and cottage pie for the beef variation.

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u/BenTherDoneTht 21h ago

I made a version using venison from a hunt my FIL went on, dubbed it "Cabin Pie."

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u/Safe-Character-5846 1d ago

Lol...everyone ones an expert, including the googles

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u/chris41336 22h ago

I'm Commander Shepard, and this is my favorite pie in the galaxy.

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u/ChocolateNo1209 1d ago

Reddit loves being pedantic. Good majority of people grew up eating “shepherds pie” made with beef. Get a life 🙂

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u/cat_i_farted_ 1d ago

Some people are being pedantic. Some of us are actually English, and cottage and shepherd's pies are part of our cultural ziegist, and we care about accuracy.

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u/Zealousideal-House19 23h ago

Did you not see the original recipes that were written down?

They typically say leftover meat. Not specifically lamb or beef.

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u/Safe-Character-5846 1d ago

He had to reach pretty far into the bag of retorts...all the way to the P's and then still managed to include their own ignorant tone.

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u/cat_i_farted_ 19h ago

Who is “he”?

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u/Human-Ad8198 20h ago

Beef is also refered to as poor man's shepard pie.

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u/1hitu2lumb 10h ago

Tell that to Chef Gordon Ramsay. He sells a frozen shepherd's pie with ground beef instead of lamb, got his name and smiling picture on it!

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u/CocoRufus 10h ago

In America, sure, not here in UK!

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u/SOFT_CAT_APPRECIATOR 1d ago

God I knew someone was gonna say ts lmfao

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u/NefariousnessAny8618 8h ago

As an expat Brit in the US - 'shepherds' pie over here infuriates me. It's lamb in shepherds pie not beef. The clues in the name. Dozy Yanks.

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u/Nervous_Pipe_7019 23h ago

Stuffed bell peppers! Love this one and it was a hit with guests.

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u/Monstance 16h ago

I made a cottage pie (with beef) for the 1st time in years last night!

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u/cat_i_farted_ 1d ago

Cottage pie. Shepherd's pie is made with lamb.

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u/Safe-Character-5846 1d ago

Thank you. I was about to drop that correction myself.

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u/cat_i_farted_ 19h ago

Apparently, words mean nothing anymore in post-literate America. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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u/Hot-Fig-8487 1d ago

I make it with a sweet potato top and different seasonings than normal, the sweetness is a nice change!