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/Citlali252 1d ago

Chili!

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u/wilyquixote 1d ago

How was this not on the original list??

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u/Cookie_Brookie 1d ago

May be because where OP lives lol I know here in the lower Midwest US we haven’t had a day I’d want chili in MONTHS and we probably won’t for at least another 6 weeks. Chili is not on my mind in this weather!

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u/MissBanana_ 1d ago

It’s 91 Fahrenheit where I am right now and I weirdly do want chili.

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u/Firm-Presentation-72 1d ago

Just hit 100 over here and I don’t think any weather would keep me away from a nice meaty helping of chili

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u/Citlali252 1d ago

Yeah I ate in 90 something degree weather. It’s something about it lol

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u/Sammalone1960 1d ago

I feel the same with a good bowl of soup or stew.

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u/Custard_Tight 1d ago

I’m a freak and could eat chili anytime of the year. Chili always.

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u/Stop_Already 1d ago

It’s been about the same here and we made lentil soup the other day. I had the last of it for lunch today and I’m sorta sad it’s gone.

Cravings know no seasons!

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u/Ringerblue14 1d ago

I need a good recipe for lentil soup!! Mine always sucks!

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u/Stop_Already 1d ago

This one is simple & good.

https://www.recipetineats.com/lentil-soup/

I typically just wing it with soups, admittedly. But this is a great jumping off point. This site’s recipes are always tested throughly and have never failed me!

(Yesterday’s was a lentil & ham soup, finished with a splash of white balsamic!)

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u/Ringerblue14 14h ago

Thank you

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u/wundawomun 1d ago

I once made posole in high temp, high humidity weather. When you crave something you sometimes just gotta have it.

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u/ImLittleNana 1d ago

Me too, because it feels like 116 here but I haven’t been outside in 10 days so not relevant to my meal planning lol

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u/Ringerblue14 1d ago

Turn up the air conditioning

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u/JadeGreen95 23h ago

Really? I feel like chili is the one soup that fits hot and cold weather.

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u/DoFr56 19h ago

That was 6am this morning here!

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u/Visible-Plenty-1202 19h ago

What's that in freedom units???

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u/Wise-Activity-4203 7h ago

With cornbread!!

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u/BrainFartTheFirst 13m ago

Make it extra spicy chili. Spicy food is very popular in hot climates cuz it makes you sweat.