These recipes will convince you to keep your freezer stocked with ground beef.
To start,ground beefis inexpensive, cooks up fast, and can be used in endless delicious ways.
Million Dollar Baked Beans
This batch of beans is unlike any your tailgate has seen!
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Hamburger Soup
Beef up vegetable soup with rich ground beef.
This soup is highly flexible to your tastes; you might adjust the seasonings and vegetables.
Serve them with potato chips or homemade French fries if you have the time to make them.
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This means it also makes enough beef mixture to make our Easy Chile Con Carne later in the week.
Red onion rings that have been caramelized in bacon grease make for a delicious burger topping.
Our Test Kitchen Pros even said this is “the burger to end all burgers.”
Don’t skip the special sauceyou’ll soon be keeping jars of it in the fridge.
Since your Instant Pot can truly do it all, this is a one-dish meal with little cleanup.
Let your little ones help form the meatballs for some fun time in the kitchen.
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This beef chili comes together in just one pot in under an hour and delivers plenty of flavor.
The thing that sets these ground beef sliders apart from other recipes?
Two words: Bacon Jam.
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You’ll want to serve this sweet-and-savory condiment on just about everything once you try it.
If you’re on dish duty, this is the perfect dinner for you.
One of the best things about our ground beef nachos is that they’re totally customizable.
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Beefy Nacho Casserole
How can we make ground beef nachos even better?
By turning them into a cheesy, rich, one-dish dinner, that’s how!
Tomato paste adds richness to this casserole.
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since it’s all baked together on a single pan, clean up is a breeze.
you might toss the leftovers in the freezer or make another meal of meatball pitas with cucumber-yogurt sauce.
Just a little bit of stirring and simmering are required to pull this soup together.
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Luckily, this soup delivers the same great flavors in soup form in just 25 minutes.
First, we added pimientos to the meatloaf mixture.
Homestyle Ground Beef Casserole
This hearty bake is a dinnertime hero.
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So we’ve sped up the process and introduced some high-flavor secrets to make this meat sauce taste incredible.
Cheeseburger Casserole
Skip the drive-thru and don’t fuss with sweating by the grill to flip burgers.
Instead, make this easy, one-dish casserole with all the flavor of your favorite cheeseburger.
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Our Test Kitchen says don’t count on leftovers with this delicious dish, though!
Million Dollar Spaghetti
Upgrade spaghetti night by serving this baked version.
This recipe proves you shouldn’t ruin a good thing by overcomplicating it.
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“Made this so we could enjoy watching an afternoon of football,” wrote one reviewer.
“So easy and was delicious would highly recommend.
Good one to have in my repertoire of recipes for a gathering or for during the week.”
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Both kids and adults will love this delicious dinner.
Then the sliders are piled high with tender onions, tangy sauce, and tart pickles.
Our Test Kitchen included plenty of tips to see to it they come out perfectly.
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These easy ground beef chili needs just a few ingredients and your slow cooker to come together.
Doritos Casserole
Talk about a dinner the kids will love!
This Doritos Casserole is basically like a nacho casserole with Doritos instead of tortilla chips.
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If you have picky eaters at your table, this is a ground beef casserole you have to make.
Our test kitchen recommends warming the tortillas before you begin the rolling process to help them roll more easily.
Ready in just 30 minutes, this Sloppy Joe Casserole comes together in one skillet.
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Mushrooms make this burger even richer, and sop up that gravy to make your burger even better.
We love ground round for this burger.
So get your skillet ready to brown this burger and cover it in sweet onion-mushroom gravy.
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You’ll love how good this burger tastes.
Cajun-Style Meatloaf
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Spice up meatloaf night with this new spin on the classic weeknight dish.
Plus, plenty of Creole seasoning adds a nice kick.
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Extra-Easy Lasagna
This recipe may be speedy, but it does anything but skimp on flavor.
Avoid a dinnertime disaster with this ground beef superhero.
The secret is in the pantry-staple ingredient list, but they never have to know that.
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This sheet pan meatloaf recipe makes for easy cleanup and serving is a breeze.
Just check that to take the time to grate your own mozzarella and Parmesan cheeses for the recipe.
Sloppy Joe Casserole
Your beloved cafeteria favorite gets an upgrade in this simple ground beef supper.
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This oh-so-comforting soup starts with ground chuck and includes store-bought staples like frozen veggies and canned tomatoes.
West Texas Chili
With this much ground beef and heat, who even needs the beans?
For an easy weeknight dinner, you might even make this ahead and freeze it.
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The combination of ground beef and store-bought gnocchi make this vegetable soup innately filing.
Mac and cheese and chili meet in a recipe mashup that will make you feel like a kid again.
Meatloaf Casserole
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Bypass the typical loaf.
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This Meatloaf Casserole takes your mom’s go-to recipe up a notch.
It’s flavored with Worcestershire and tomato, so you’ll still get your classic meatloaf flavors.
The true game changer here?
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The mashed potato topping.
This creamy addition builds your side dish right into the bake.
Serve it hot, and enjoy!
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Sign us up any night of the week.
Sauteed with onions and mushrooms, this dish helps you get the homemade pasta taste without all the fuss!
The tasty juices are soaked up by the rice to ensure there’s not a single bland bite.
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This ground beef and broccoli makes it easy to get the kids to eat their veggies.
Cheeseburger Soup
This 30-minute ground beef soup is easy and kid friendly.
“Leave the grill off when you crave a cheeseburger in cold months and whip up this soup!”
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said one Test Kitchen Pro.
Sesame Seed Bun Croutons are the cutest and tastiest topping for this creamy, satisfying soup.
A topping of jalapeno slices adds color, pizazz, and a little spice to this already-flavorful dish.
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This will be a repeat supper in your house.
While the soup is simmering, you could make easy cheese quesadillas to serve on the side for dipping.
This version of the timeless comfort food recipe was inspired by culinary legend Julia Child’s take on it.
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