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Beef Recipes

12 recipes with beef for weeknights, meal prep, and quick ingredient searches. Choose by time, cuisine, and what is in your kitchen.

12 recipes

🇭🇺HungaryAdvanced

Soups

Goulash

Beef chunks braised low and slow with sweet Hungarian paprika, onions, and caraway seeds until the meat falls apart into a thick, rust-colored broth. The paprika does all the heavy lifting — use the best you can find.

130 min375 kcal4 serves

🌾Gluten-free💪High protein

🇷🇺RussiaAdvanced

Soups

Solyanka

What makes a soup solyanka is the combination nothing else has: three or four cured meats in one pot, brined pickles with a splash of their brine, olives, capers, and a slice of lemon dropped in at the table. The result is sour, salty and smoky at once, thick enough that the spoon meets resistance. It began as a tavern soup built from whatever cured meat was on hand, which is still the honest way to make it — a lone leftover sausage end belongs in this pot. Sour cream and dill go on top, never into the pot.

170 min380 kcal4 serves

🌾Gluten-free💪High protein

🇫🇷FranceAdvanced

Meat Dishes

Beef Bourguignon

Tender pieces of beef stewed in red wine with vegetables, mushrooms and aromatic herbs. A classic of slow cooking that creates a unique taste and aroma.

165 min600 kcal4 serves

💪High protein

🇷🇺RussiaAdvanced

Meat Dishes

Beef Stroganoff

A legendary Russian dish invented by Count Stroganoff. Thin strips of beef braised with mushrooms in a rich sour cream sauce.

85 min440 kcal4 serves

💪High protein🥑Keto

🇺🇸USAAdvanced

Meat Dishes

Pot Roast

A classic American home-cooked dish — tender, juicy beef slowly braised with vegetables until softened. Cooked in its own juices with carrots, onions, potatoes and aromatic herbs for a rich, full flavor.

225 min600 kcal8 serves

💪High protein🌾Gluten-free

🇻🇳VietnamAdvanced

Soups

Pho Bo (Vietnamese Beef Noodle Soup)

Vietnam's most iconic dish — a crystal-clear, deeply aromatic beef broth simmered for hours with charred onion, ginger, and whole spices, served over rice noodles with paper-thin beef, fresh herbs, lime, and chili. The broth is everything.

210 min400 kcal4 serves

🌾Gluten-free🌶️Spicy💪High protein

🇹🇭ThailandMedium

Meat Dishes

Massaman Curry

Thailand’s mildest and most complex curry — slow-braised beef with potato and roasted peanuts in a rich coconut milk sauce spiced with cinnamon, cardamom, and cumin. Voted the world’s best dish by CNN Travel in 2011. Not spicy — deep, sweet, and profoundly satisfying.

50 min380 kcal2 serves

🌾Gluten-free🌶️Spicy💪High protein

🇮🇩IndonesiaAdvanced

Meat Dishes

Beef Rendang

Voted the world’s best food by CNN Travel readers in 2011 — slow-braised beef in a rich aromatic paste of coconut milk, garlic, ginger, galangal, lemongrass, and spices, cooked uncovered for hours until every drop of liquid evaporates and the meat is coated in a dark caramelized crust. A labor of love from West Sumatra that gets even better the next day.

150 min380 kcal5 serves

🌶️Spicy🌾Gluten-free💪High protein

🇰🇷KoreaAdvanced

Meat Dishes

Bibimbap (Korean Mixed Rice Bowl)

Korea's most celebrated rice dish: a bowl of short-grain rice topped with individually seasoned and cooked vegetables (namul), thinly sliced marinated beef, a sunny-side-up egg, and gochujang sauce — then mixed together at the table before eating. The name says it exactly: bibim means 'mixing', bap means 'cooked rice'. Each vegetable component is prepared separately to preserve its own color, texture, and flavor. The dolsot version (stone bowl bibimbap) adds one more element: the rice touching the bowl's searing hot walls forms nurungji — a golden crispy crust at the bottom, considered the best bite in the dish. Considered the national dish of Jeonju, the city in South Korea's Jeolla province regarded as bibimbap's birthplace.

60 min570 kcal4 serves

🌶️Spicy💪High protein

🇬🇪GeorgiaAdvanced

Soups

Kharcho

A rich Georgian beef soup from Mingrelia, spicy and sour. Fatty beef simmers long with rice and ground walnuts, and the signature sour note comes from tkemali (sour plum sauce) rather than tomato. Garlic and fresh cilantro are stirred in at the end.

90 min320 kcal6 serves

🌾Gluten-free🌶️Spicy

Perlovka with Beef (Russian Pearl Barley)

🇷🇺RussiaAdvanced

Cereal and Pasta Dishes

Perlovka with Beef (Russian Pearl Barley)

Perlovka with beef is a hearty Russian one-pot of pearl barley simmered with browned meat, onions, and carrots — cooked much like a plov. Soaking the barley first is the secret to plump, separate grains instead of a tough, chewy mess. It's a filling, high-protein dish that long made pearl barley a Soviet kitchen staple.

90 min420 kcal4 serves

💪High protein

🇳🇬NigeriaAdvanced

Soups

Egusi Soup (Nigerian Melon Seed Stew)

Egusi soup is Nigeria's most widely eaten soup and one of West Africa's most recognisable dishes — a thick, richly savoury stew built on ground egusi, the dried seeds of a West African melon. The seeds are fried in red palm oil until nutty and set into soft lumps, then simmered with beef, smoked fish, ground crayfish, and fermented locust beans for deep umami, finished with leafy greens. It's hearty, nutty, and satisfying, eaten with pounded yam, eba, or rice.

90 min540 kcal6 serves

💪High protein🌶️Spicy🌾Gluten-free

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