47 Easy Ideas For Dinner With Ground Beef For Quick Hamburger Meat Recipes

Looking for ideas for dinner with ground beef, cheap meals recipes, or the best ways to use ground beef before it goes bad? Try these recipes with hamburger meat for super easy dinner ideas and quick recipes for dinner tonight — many are 30 minute ground beef recipes or less!

Good Ideas For Dinner With Ground Beef

There’s a lot you can do with a pound of ground round or leftover hamburger meat!

Check out these easy meal ideas for dinner with ground beef and other simple ingredients to use if you have very little ground beef for your meal prep!

Easy Ideas For Dinner With Ground Beef

• Big Mac Salad
• Ground Beef and Biscuits
• Easy Nachos
• Hamburger Lettuce Wraps
• Ground Beef Cheeseburger Soup
• Hamburger Lasagna Rolls
• Ground Beef and Potato Skillet
• Bacon Cheeseburger Pizza
• Ground Beef Chili Mac 
• Taco Soup
• Ground Beef Burrito Bowl 
• Ground Beef and Green Bean Casserole

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No matter if you’re looking for a quick and easy dinner recipe, dinner ideas for two with ground beef, or even dinner ideas with ground beef for picky eaters, we’ve got something for you!

Hamburger Recipes and Quick Ideas For Dinner With Ground Beef

Most of these are easy ground beef recipes with few ingredients, but still make insanely good recipes!

Ground Beef Tacos

Tacos are easy to make and can be customized to everyone’s liking, so there are no dinner complaints.

Simply brown the beef, add some cheap taco seasonings, add it to a tortilla with shredded cheese, lettuce, and tomatoes.

Serve with sour cream and salsa on the side.

FRUGAL COOKING TIP: I keep cheap seasonings like this as party of my pantry stock at all times. They're great in soups and casseroles, too!

Big Mac Salad

This salad is easy to make and can be on the table in no time.

I have to admit, we were all skeptical of this Big Mac salad recipe when I made it, but we all loved it! (And it really does taste like a Big Mac hamburger!)

Simply brown the beef, then add it to a salad with shredded cheddar cheese, onions, and diced dill pickles.

Serve with thousand island dressing to get that authentic Big Mac hamburger flavor.

This may sound disgusting, but our entire family loved this when we made it! It’s especially great if you’re looking for new ideas for dinner with ground beef!

Sloppy Joes

These classic sandwiches are a classic ground beef recipe.

Keep the canned Sloppy Joe sauce stored in the pantry for a quick, last minute dinner.

Brown the beef, add in the Sloppy Joe sauce and reduce to a simmer.

Serve on a bun or ladled over whatever bread you have for an open-faced sandwich.

FRUGAL COOKING TIP: If you have bread that is going a little stale, use it for open faced sloppy joes! The sloppy joe sauce soften the bread and you (or the kids!) won't even be able to tell it's stale.

Ground Beef and Biscuits

These are easy to make and can be on the table in no time!

Bake biscuits from the can according to the package directions.

Brown the ground beef.

Split the baked biscuits and then spoon ground beef with cheese, onions, or any of your favorite casserole toppings and favorite seasonings over the biscuits.

Also Try This Easy Recipe: Easy Tomatoes and Macaroni Recipe

Nachos Recipes

We always keep things in the pantry for nachos because they’re our go-to dinner when we’re doing the “I don’t know. What do you want for dinner?” cyclical conversation.

They’re a fast and easy meal and kids of all ages can make them.

You can use the taco meat for a nacho bar and let everyone make their own DIY nachos (which always seems to be a big hit with kids).

• Brown the beef.
• Add taco seasoning and cook according to package directions.
• Spread tortilla chips on a plate, top with cooked ground beef, shredded cheese, salsa, onions, shredded lettuce, and sour cream. (Or any toppings you like!)

FRUGAL COOKING TIP: Double the taco meat you're making and use leftover taco meat for taco salad the next night! 

Taco Salad

Add taco meat (from the night before!) to lettuce, tomatoes, shredded cheese, onions, crushed tortilla chips, salsa, sour cream and/or ranch dressing.

Kid-Friendly Recipe Tip: If you have a hard time getting your kids to eat lettuce, try shredding it! This was a big hit when I served taco salad with shredded lettuce instead of chunks of lettuce.

Hamburger Lettuce Wraps

These wraps are so easy to make and can be on the table in no time.

Simply brown beef, drain, and then add it to a lettuce leaf with cheese, tomatoes, and your favorite seasonings.

Serve with ranch dressing or BBQ sauce.

I love these because they’re easy dinner ideas for recipes for two with ground beef or for the entire family!

Hamburger Soy Sauce Lettuce Wraps

These wraps are one of the favorite wraps that my daughter and I make for quick and easy recipes!

To make: brown the beef with onions, drain, then add it to a lettuce leaf (like a large romaine lettuce leaf), and top with soy sauce.

Sprinkle with crunchy Chow Mein noodles and carrot slivers for a little extra crunch and serve.

If you’re looking for dinner ideas with ground beef healthy ways, this is it! It’s very tasty and one of my favorite easy ideas for dinner using ground beef!

Chili Cheese Fries

YES! Fries can be an entire meal! (Add a side salad if you’re worried!)

Brown the beef, then add it to a frozen french fries on a baking sheet.

Top with your favorite canned chili and your favorite seasonings.

Bake everything according to the fries according to package directions, adding shredded cheddar cheese just before baking is complete.

Put out a toppings bar and let kids top their chili cheese fries they way they like.

Ideas For Dinner With Ground Beef And Pasta

Hamburger Lasagna Rolls

These lasagna rolls are easy to make and can be on the table in no time.

Brown the beef, then add it to cooked lasagna noodles with ricotta cheese, tomato sauce, and your favorite Italian seasonings.

Roll up, place in a casserole dish, spoon marina sauce over each and add mozzarella cheese. Bake

MAKE MORE THAN YOU NEED: These ground beef lasagna rolls recipe freezes easily. Make extras to freeze!

Spaghetti and Meatballs

This classic dish is easy to make with ground beef.

Use ground beef, egg, and bread crumbs to make meatballs and bake or fry them.

RECIPE TIP: I like to air fry our meatballs now.

Cook the pasta according to package directions, then top with meatballs and a warmed jar sauce.

Spaghetti With Ground Beef Marina Sauce

This classic spaghetti dish is easy to make with ground beef.

Simply brown the beef, drain, then add it to a pot of spaghetti sauce (we just use jar sauce), with your favorite seasonings.

Serve over cooked spaghetti noodles.

Food Ideas For Dinner With Ground Beef

Ground Beef and Potato Casserole

This casserole is hearty and filling, and it’s easy to make ahead of time and pull out of the refrigerator to warm up at dinnertime.

• Brown and drain the beef.
• Slice the potatoes.
• Layer potatoes, beef, cheddar cheese and onions in casserole dish.
• Bake until everything is hot and bubbly.

Ground Beef Enchiladas

Enchiladas are packed with flavor, and they’re easy to make ahead of time.

• Brown and drain the beef.
• Mix beef with canned red enchilada sauce and shredded cheddar cheese.
• Roll the mixture up in corn tortillas and place in a greased casserole dish. (It’s OK if they’re touching.)
• Spoon with more red enchilada sauce and top with more cheese.
• Bake until hot and bubbly.

Ground Beef Stroganoff

Brown the beef, then add it to a creamy sauce made with sour cream, mushrooms, and onions.

Serve over egg noodles or rice.

Ground Beef Chili

Brown and drain the beef.

Then add it to a pot with canned (drained) kidney beans, crushed tomatoes, water, and chili spices.

Let it simmer until warmed through.

LEFTOVERS TIP: This is another one of those recipes that I make extras of because it's easy to make extras and freeze for another meal.

Ground Beef Burritos

Brown and drain the beef.

Add it to a flour tortilla with refried beans, cheese, sour cream and salsa (or any of your favorite Mexican Taco night toppings!).

Ground Beef Shepherd’s Pie

This classic British dish is easy to make with ground beef.

Brown the beef and then add it to a pot with vegetables and brown gravy.

Pour it into a baking dish, top with mashed potatoes, and bake.

Ground Beef and Potato Skillet

This hearty skillet is easy to make and can be on the table in no time.

Once you’ve browned and drained the beef, then add cubed or sliced potatoes and onions.

Cook until potatoes are just soft.

Top with cheese and allow to melt just before serving.

Ground Beef and Noodles

This classic comfort food is easy to make with ground beef, cheap noodles, and a can of soup.

Brown the beef and add it over egg noodles with a cheddar cheese sauce or mushroom sauce.

RECIPE TIP: Campbell Cream Of Mushroom Soup recipes with ground beef is so easy and surprisingly tasty!

Ground Beef Patties

These patties are perfect for a quick dinner and you don’t have to eat them on a bun.

Form ground beef into patties and fry.

Serve with condiments of your choice or a side salad.

RECIPE TIP: If you don't want to eat them with a bun, top them with som A-1 Sauce for a little more flavor.

Ground Beef and Rice Casserole

Brown the beef, cook the rice, and then add to a buttered casserole dish with freezer mixed vegetables.

Pour mushroom soup over all of it cook until everything is hot and bubbly.

RECIPE TIP: If you have shredded cheese stir in the cheese and then add to the top.

Ground Beef Sliders

These sliders are perfect for a fun, quick dinner for kids. (For some reason, making mini anything seems fun for kids?!?)

Make mini hamburger patties and fry in a skillet.

Add to mini buns or rolls and serve with condiments.

Fun Foods Tip: Make a condiment bar and let kids build their own slider.

Ground Beef Chili Mac

This hearty dish is easy to make and can be on the table in no time. It’s a favorite at our house!

Brown the ground beef, drain, and then add it to a pot of canned chili and macaroni noodles.

Warm and serve.

RECIPE TIP: We like to add shredded cheese to ours!

Ground Beef and Sweet Potato Stew

This stew is hearty and flavorful, and it’s easy to make ahead of time.

As usual, brown the beef, then add it to a pot with sweet potatoes, carrots, and spices of choice.

Let it simmer until everything is tender.

Ground Beef Empanadas

Brown the ground beef, then add it to empanada dough (or a tortilla in a pinch) with cheese, beans, and taco seasoning.

Fold the dough over and bake until golden brown.

RECIPE TIP: Empanadas may take a little time, so make a double or triple batch and freeze them for later! 

Ground Beef Pot Pie

Brown the beef, then add it to a refrigerated pie crust with vegetables like chopped carrots, peas, onions, and beef gravy.

Top with additional pie crust and then pierce with fork or knife to vent.

Bake until the crust is golden brown and bubbly.

Ground Beef Quesadillas

These quesadillas are easy to make and can be on the table in no time.

Once you brown the beef, add it to a tortilla with shredded cheese and your favorite salsa.

Add an additional tortilla on top.

Fry until brown on one side, flip and brown on the other.

Cut into triangles with a pizza cutter and serve with a side of salsa and sour cream.

Meatloaf

Mix uncooked ground beef with bread crumbs, chopped onions, eggs, and salt and pepper.

Press into a greased loaf pan and top with ketchup or tomato paste.

Bake until the meatloaf is cooked through.

Ground Beef Cheeseburger Soup

Brown the beef, then add it to a soup pot with cheese, beef broth, potatoes, and onion powder.

Simmer until potatoes are soft when pierced.

Ground Beef Tater Tot Casserole

Brown the beef, then add it to a greased casserole dish with tater tots, shredded cheddar cheese, and salt and pepper.

Bake until hot and cheese is bubbly.

Serve with side of ketchup.

Ground Beef Burrito Bowl

This burrito bowl is a fast and easy alternative to making burritos, but with the same great flavors

Brown the beef with taco seasoning, then add it to a bowl with rice, beans, and your favorite salsa.

Top with cheese, sour cream, and guacamole.

Ground Beef Stir-Fry

Brown the beef then add your favorite vegetables and stir-fry sauce.

RECIPE TIP: If you get the freezer stir fry veggies, they often come with the sauce included. 

Cook until everything is hot and bubbly. Serve alone or over rice.

Ground Beef Pizza

Brown the beef, then add it to a refrigerator pizza crust with sauce and your favorite pizza toppings.

Top with cheese and bake until the crust is golden brown and the cheese is melted and bubbly.

FUN TIP: This is a fun recipe to let everyone build their own individual pizzas for pizza night!

Grilled Hamburgers

Form patties with uncooked ground beef. Add salt and pepper.

Grill until the burgers are cooked through to your desired doneness.

Meatballs

Add uncooked ground beef to a bowl with bread crumbs, eggs, and dried Italian seasonings.

Mix everything together, then form into balls.

Bake until cooked through.

Serve alone or in pasta dish.

Taco Soup

Brown the beef, then add it to a pot of soup with black beans, corn, crushed tomatoes and your favorite taco seasonings.

Simmer.

Stuffed Peppers

Brown the beef, then add it to a hollowed green bell pepper with cooked rice, cheese, and your favorite seasonings.

Bake until the pepper is tender and the cheese is melted.

Goulash

Brown the beef, then add it to a pot of soup with tomatoes, macaroni noodles, and your favorite seasonings (like onion and garlic powder).

Simmer or throw it in a slow cooker for crock pot goulash!

Ground Beef and Quinoa Bowls

Brown the beef, then add it to a bowl with quinoa, beans, and your favorite seasonings or other toppings like feta cheese, lettuce, or shredded cheese.

Cheeseburger Casserole

Brown the beef, then add it to a casserole dish with macaroni noodle pasta, shredded cheddar cheese, and your favorite seasonings.

Bake until hot and bubbly.

Hamburger Helper

This classic Hamburger Helper is easy to make with ground beef.

Brown the beef and follow the package directions.

Super quick and easy ground beef recipe!

RECIPE TIP: Brown a large amount of ground beef and separate it into portions and freeze flat in freezer bags. Keep instant meals like Hamburger Helper in your pantry storage. For a quick meal, add frozen beef to Hamburger Helper!

Bacon Cheeseburger Pizza

Brown the beef, then add it to a packaged pantry or refrigerated pizza crust with bacon, shredded cheddar cheese, chopped onions, and pickle slices.

Bake according to package directions for crust.

Hamburger Potato Hash

Brown the beef, then add it to a pan with cubed potatoes, onions, and your favorite seasonings.

Fry until everything is golden brown and crispy.

Patty Melts

Patty melts are old school diner favorites and are basically hamburgers served on grilled/toasted break, usually rye (but any kind of bread can be used). This is one of my favorite hamburger recipes!

Fry a thin hamburger patty and add grilled or sauteed onion slices.

Place on bread with cheese and toast bread (like a grilled cheese) until toasted on both sides and cheese is melted.

Ground Beef and Green Bean Casserole

Love traditional green bean casserole like you see on Thanksgiving dinner tables or at cookouts?

Fry ground beef and add it to the casserole for a full one-pot meal and a different take on a classic recipe.

I hope you found some good ideas for dinner with ground beef! Enjoy!