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.
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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.