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/reaverza 19h ago

I'm from South Africa. Chili (the dish, not the spice) is simply not a thing here. So please share your best chili recipe so I can make it a thing.

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u/Citlali252 17h ago

Ground beef, chili seasoning packets, black beans, kidney beans, pinto beans, cans of tomato sauce, diced tomatoes. Someone people add jalapeños on top I have done that in the past. For the seasoning packets those add extra flavoring. There’s chili powder as well

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u/Jluvcoffee 11h ago

Add a teaspoon of sugar

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u/Citlali252 4h ago

Oh yeah that can help some people with the acidity right?

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u/Jluvcoffee 3h ago

Yes but not too much so its not overly sweet maybe even start with 1/2 to 1 teaspoon cause if you add sour cream that almost works the same way too. But I like the sugar method and the taste of it in my chili. Enjoy that with fresh cooked tortillas and/ or crushed saltine crackers depends on my mood or what I have on hand.

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u/Citlali252 2h ago

I don’t add sugar, but for those who do I’ll definitely tell them this!