15 Quick & Easy Ground Beef Recipes
15 Quick & Easy Ground Beef Recipes
From burgers to tacos to shepherd’s pie, some of the most delicious recipes feature one key ingredient—ground beef. While the protein is a versatile ingredient that goes well in plenty of recipes, some recipes may be a bit tricky to navigate. Thankfully, there’s a lot you can do with ground beef.
15 Quick & Easy Ground Beef Recipes
With a quick cook time, ground beef is an ideal protein to feature in these fast recipes, none of which take more than 30 minutes to put together. Here we’ve gathered a list of some of the most simple recipes that are still bursting with delicious flavor, that take 30 minutes or less to make.
15 Quick & Easy Ground Beef Recipes
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15 Quick & Easy Ground Beef Recipes
Sure, you can always drive to Olive Garden and order a bowl of the Italian chain’s pasta fagioli soup, or you could make your own nearly-identical batch in just about 15 minutes. This soup recipe, which contains ditalini pasta, kidney beans, and cannellini beans, also has a whole pound of ground beef cooked into it.
15 Quick & Easy Ground Beef Recipes
Get our recipe for Copycat Olive Garden Pasta Fagioli.
15 Quick & Easy Ground Beef Recipes
Mitch Mandel and Thomas MacDonald
15 Quick & Easy Ground Beef Recipes
Don’t be fooled by the name—even though this meatball recipe has turkey in it, it also still contains an equal amount of ground beef, making each bite of the tasty Swedish dish a sort of two-for-one. By using turkey, as well as ground chuck, this recipe also saves on calories and fat, making it a delicious and healthy option.
Get our recipe for Lean Turkey Swedish Meatballs.
Kiersten Hickman/Eat This, Not That!
Beyond heating up the hard taco shell, the only other thing that needs any preparation in this recipe is the ground beef itself, which takes less than 15 minutes to cook and season. For such a simple recipe, it perfectly captures the classic flavors of Americanized Mexican food, and makes for a great Taco Tuesday or any other day meal.
Get our recipe for Classic Beef Taco.
Mitch Mandel and Thomas MacDonald
Yes, McDonald’s is technically fast food, but we’re pretty sure that you could make this homemade burger for even less time than it would take to drive to the fast-food chain and order it. Not only does this copycat Big Mac recipe come together relatively quickly, but because this…