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Beef Recipes

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39 recipes

Empanadas Mendocinas (Argentine Baked Beef Empanadas) with ground beef, smoked paprika and green olives — Argentina recipe

🇦🇷ArgentinaAdvanced

Meat Dishes

Empanadas Mendocinas (Argentine Baked Beef Empanadas)

Mendocinas are Mendoza's version of the empanada — baked, never fried, and distinguished by a milk dough that bakes softer than the standard. The filling is spiced ground beef with smoked paprika, cumin, green olives, and hard-boiled egg. No raisins. The paprika turns the filling and crust an orange-red that identifies these across Argentina. Made in batches, best eaten warm, and freezable before baking.

100 min310 kcal6 serves

💪High protein🌶️Spicy

Kharcho with beef, walnuts and rice — Georgia recipe

🇬🇪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

Tefteli (Russian Meatballs with Rice) with ground beef, ground pork and white rice — Russia recipe

🇷🇺RussiaAdvanced

Meat Dishes

Tefteli (Russian Meatballs with Rice)

Tefteli are Russian meatballs mixed with rice and braised in a creamy tomato gravy. The rice worked right into the mince pokes out and keeps them soft — which earns them the nickname 'porcupine' or 'hedgehog' meatballs. A light crust from browning holds the shape, the inside stays tender, and the gravy soaks into a side of mashed potatoes or buckwheat.

70 min420 kcal4 serves

💪High protein🌾Gluten-free

Makarony po-flotski (Russian Navy-Style Pasta) with penne, ground beef and onion — Russia recipe

🇷🇺RussiaEasy

Cereal and Pasta Dishes

Makarony po-flotski (Russian Navy-Style Pasta)

Makarony po-flotski is a simple Soviet dish: boiled pasta tossed with browned ground meat and golden onions. The key is to truly fry the meat to a crust rather than stew it, or the flavor falls flat. Quick, filling, and sauce-free — a navy classic born aboard warships.

30 min480 kcal4 serves

⚡Quick💪High protein

Perlovka with Beef (Russian Pearl Barley) with pearl barley, beef and onion — Russia recipe

🇷🇺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

Egusi Soup (Nigerian Melon Seed Stew) with ground egusi seeds, palm oil and smoked fish — Nigeria recipe

🇳🇬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

Turkish Pasta (Yalanci Manti) with short pasta, ground beef and Greek yogurt — Turkey recipe

🇹🇷TurkeyMedium

Cereal and Pasta Dishes

Turkish Pasta (Yalanci Manti)

Turkish pasta is short pasta under garlic yogurt, browned ground beef and paprika butter. In Turkey it is called yalanci manti, fake manti: the two sauces of the manti dumplings without the hours of folding. Thirty minutes from pot to bowl.

30 min620 kcal4 serves

💪High protein⚡Quick🌶️Spicy

Georgian Khinkali with wheat flour, ground beef and ground pork — Georgia recipe

🇬🇪GeorgiaAdvanced

Flour and Confectionery Products

Georgian Khinkali

Khinkali are large Georgian dumplings built to hold seasoned meat and its own hot broth. The dough must be sturdy enough to pleat without tearing, yet thin enough to eat around the thick top knot. They are boiled, showered with black pepper and eaten by hand while the broth is still hot.

150 min610 kcal4 serves

💪High protein

Big Mac Smash Tacos with ground beef, flour tortillas and cheddar cheese — USA recipe

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Meat Dishes

Big Mac Smash Tacos

Mini flour tortillas pressed straight onto seasoned ground beef and seared until the meat turns deep brown and lacy at the edges, then layered with melted cheddar, shredded iceberg, dill pickles and a homemade special sauce. The whole thing takes about twenty minutes and eats like a smash burger you can fold in one hand.

20 min490 kcal4 serves

💪High protein⚡Quick

Rassolnik with beef, pearl barley and pickled cucumbers — Russia recipe

🇷🇺RussiaAdvanced

Soups

Rassolnik

A hearty Russian sour soup built on meat broth, pearl barley, and brined cucumbers, with its signature tang coming from cucumber pickle brine stirred in at the end. Potatoes and a carrot-onion sauté round it out; sour cream and dill finish each bowl. The trick is sequencing — potatoes cook before anything sour goes in, and the barley cooks apart to keep the broth clear.

90 min210 kcal6 serves

Fresh Cabbage Shchi with beef, white cabbage and potatoes — Russia recipe

🇷🇺RussiaMedium

Soups

Fresh Cabbage Shchi

A light, clean Russian cabbage soup made with fresh white cabbage rather than sauerkraut — beef broth, potatoes, a fresh tomato base, and a carrot-onion sauté, finished with sour cream and dill. It's the summer counterpart to dark, sour sauerkraut shchi: quicker, brighter, and best eaten the day it's made.

60 min180 kcal6 serves

🌾Gluten-free

Rinderrouladen (German Beef Roulades) with beef, bacon and dill pickles — Germany recipe

🇩🇪GermanyAdvanced

Meat Dishes

Rinderrouladen (German Beef Roulades)

The German Sunday roast in miniature: thin slices of beef spread with mustard, layered with bacon, onion, and a dill pickle, rolled tight and braised for two hours until they cut with a fork. The sauce is built from the browned bits in the pan, which is why searing the rolls hard matters more than anything else here.

150 min520 kcal4 serves

💪High protein

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