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Ground beef Recipes

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

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🇺🇸USAMedium

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Smash Burger

The smash burger is the most significant development in American burger cookery in decades — a technique that inverts everything traditional burger advice tells you to do. Instead of forming a shaped patty and handling it gently, you place a loose ball of cold 80/20 ground beef on a screaming-hot cast-iron griddle or skillet, then press it flat instantly with maximum force. The entire physics of the burger changes: the thin patty achieves near-total surface contact with the hot metal, triggering the Maillard reaction across the full face of the burger rather than just the edges. The result is a hamburger that is almost entirely crust — dark, crispy, lacey-edged, deeply savory — with a thin, juicy interior. American cheese, with its uniquely high moisture content and engineered melt point, is not optional. No other cheese melts completely in the 30 to 45 seconds available between flip and serve.

25 min720 kcal4 serves

⚡Quick💪High protein

★4.6

Empanadas Mendocinas (Argentine Baked Beef Empanadas)

🇦🇷ArgentinaAdvanced

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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

★4.6

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