What to do with Minced Beef

greenpixey

I got a package of 500g minced beef in the fridge that needs to be eaten with in the next two days and I don't know what to make out of it.
My family is fed up with bolognese, chili con carne, burgers and cottage pie and dont want it again (we have hade it quite often latley)

I only got 40 pound left to last us for food till the end of this month so I cant go out and buy extras...:o
Any suggestions of something different and tasty.
I also got this at home that I can add to the mince:
egg
bacon
mushrooms
onion
cheese
potatoes
kidneybeans
bakedbeans
chickpeas
flour
pasta
rice
and spices
Edit: I also just found
Red split lentils
sunflower seeds
sesame seeds
black eyed beens
a tin of spring veg soup
sweetcorn

Please help....:)

thriftlady_2

One of my family's favourites is keema - curried mince.

Fry a chopped onion and some garlic in a little oil. Add curry spices and fry for a few mins.
Add your mince and brown.
Add a large diced potato.
Next add about half a carton of passata or chopped tomatoes from a tin.
Cook gently until the potato is soft.
I usually add a squirt of mango chutney plus some yogurt, and sometimes creamed coconut (none of which is authentic).
Add a couple of handfuls of frozen peas a few mins before serving and some salt.

My lot love it with naan bread or rice.

oakdale_minx

Keema - do you have any curry powder?

Chop and fry onion, add mince, then curry powder. Tin of tomatoes if you have one. Bulk out with boiled chopped potatoes and cook for about 20 minutes. Serve with rice.

Meatloaf. Chop and fry bacon and onion. Add in to the raw mince and add a couple of eggs to bind. Press into a tin and bake for about 50 minutes.

Pasties. Make some shortcrust pastry with the flour. Fry off the onion and mince and anything else youfancy putting in it (kidney beans and a bit of chilli powder, cubed cooked potatoes?) Pop on to the pastry, fold , brush with beaten egg yolk and bake the pasties for about 25 minutes.

Some kind of pizza? I did pizza dough on friday with flour, water, oil and yeast. Made a sauce from tin of tomatoes and a splash of chilli powder, reduced it right down on the cooker. Youcould top it with cooked mince and grated cheese. Pop into the oven for about 15 minutes.

Meatballs with pasta and top with a tomato sauce made from onion, garlic and a tin of 9p value tomatoes. Ad a few dried herbs if you have them. Pour it all in a dish when cooked, top with cheese and pop under the grill.

There's lots of ingredients there also to make other meals over the coming days - lentil curry, vegetable curry, mixed bean chilli, lentil and bacon bake, chickpea curry, chickpea and kidney bean burgers etc

oakdale_minx

thriftlady, we must be telepathic!!

lynzpower

OOh

I would do al-bondingas - mexican meatballs

Make meatballs as you would burgers & cook in the same way

Make rice

MAke a spicy sauce - passata or whizzed tinned toms , chopped onions, bit of chili powder peppers/ mushrooms if you have any lurking. Otherwise kidney beans could be OK too in the sauce I guess

How can they be sick of burgers??? thats what we are having to day & I cant wait :j

cowboy

You can make omellete with minced meat:
- Fry chopped onions until slightly brown, add minced meat and fry till brown
- Break egg into bowl, stir/mixed, and add into meat+onion and cook until brown
- Done!

Or normally I cook stir fry vege with minced pork, you might wanna try that. Any vege will do (though I normally use white cabbage)
- Break white cabbage with hand into reasonable size
- Boil white cabbage for about 10 mins and remove (put aside)
- Fry chopped onions/shallots until slightly brown, add minced meat and fry until brown with medium heat
- Add a bit of water and add in the vege.
- Add a bit of salt, light soya sauce and dark soya sauce and done!

You can skip the last step and use cooking sauce instead. Instead of putting the whole jar, put a few tablespoons will do, as long as you don't add too much water.

Not really a great cook but hope that helps!

kethry

you could always try a variation on cottage pie that my MIL taught me (she's dutch) called "the Sauerkraut Dish" (at least, that's the english translation):

(if i've gone a bit OTT in explaining stuff: this was originally written out for my mother. trust me, for her, its needed. lol. i also use green lentils to bulk out mince - feel free to ignore that part and use 100% mince!)

keth
xx

1 smoked sausage, the type you get in a U shape - the cold counter at the
supermarket should have one..
2 onions, chopped
portion minced beef
4 oz green lentils
jar sauerkraut (look next to pickled onions)
mixed herbs
1 pepper - red or yellow, chopped
marigold's boullion powder (just the powder, not made up into stock)
leek - quartered lengthwise then chopped and rinsed
mushrooms, handful, chopped
worcestershire sauce
garlic cloves - 2 or 3, chopped, or couple tsp garlic puree
potatoes for mash

1. boil 4 oz lentils for 10 minutes then drain
2. put sauerkraut in saucepan with liquid thats in the jar/packet, and boil
(if you think its gonna boil dry put in a LITTLE bit of water) for 5 minutes.
then peel and chop potatoes and put them on to boil for mash
3. brown off chopped onions, add leek/pepper/garlic put in beef, brown that
off, then add green lentils
4. add chopped mushrooms, tsp or so of boullion (thats the powder btw, not the
stock), worcestershire sauce, maybe a bitta beer
5. slice the smoked sausage and layer the base of the casserole dish with
that, then drain sauerkraut, squeeze as much liquid out as possible and then put ontop of the sausage
6. if your beef mix is very watery, drain some water out, and make a thicker
gravy with some cornflour put into COLD water, stirred and then the paste put into the gravy, heat to thicken, then put ontop of the sauerkraut. make up your mash and put that ontop of the beef mix, like a basic cottage pie.
7. bake in the oven at a standard temperature - 180*C for an hour or so.

thriftmonster

How about steak and onion pie - Cook the mince with onion and some stock, thicken and then stick into a shortcrust top and bottom

greenpixey

oakdale_minx wrote:

There's lots of ingredients there also to make other meals over the coming days - lentil curry, vegetable curry, mixed bean chilli, lentil and bacon bake, chickpea curry, chickpea and kidney bean burgers etc

Do you have a recepie for chickpea and kidne bean burger and perhaps the mixed bean chilli, lentil and bacon bake. Sounds really nice and different.

Might have a go at the meatloaf or thriftladys curried mince. Will have a chat with the rest of the family
Thanks everyone for your suggestions, more are welcome if you can think of anything....got another two packet of mince lurking in the freezer :rotfl:

oakdale_minx

I mash together the chick peas and/or kidney beans. Fry off some onion and add to the mix. Bind with an egg, add the sweetcorn if you want. Add any herbs and spices you have around. Bulk it out further with some mashed potato. Shape into burgers and grill/ shallow fry.

Just seen you have some mushroom. If you chop them small and fry with the onion, add them in to the mix as well. To be honest, its about mashing together whatever takes your fancy - cooked lentils would also work, and as long as you have egg or potato to bind them together you can make any type of burger you fancy.

Top with a poached egg if you are feeling a bit artistic!


I make cheat thai fishcakes with mashed potato, tin of tuna, chopped coriander, a chill and a squirt of lime. I shape them and then pop them in the oven for 15 minutes.

Mixed bean chilli - fry off the onion, add the drained cans of beans (kidney, baked beans, black eye ones), can of cheapy tomatoes, chilli powder. Cook for about 20 minutes and serve with rice.

Lentil and bacon bake. Fry chopped onion and bacon. Cook the lentils as per the packet and drain well. Mix it all together with dried herbs, seasoning and a squirt of tomato sauce if you have some. Add an egg to bind it all together and some grated cheese if you fancy it. Pack it tightly into a loaf tin (or anything similar) and bake for about 35 minutes.

I also make an odd sounding mixture but it reminds me of school cheese souffle. Cook some rice and some lentils. Add them together with a load of grated cheese and three eggs. Mix well and bake for about 35 minutes. Comes out like a kind of souffle bake type thing!! (well, I like it anyway!!)

Becles

Brown the mince with an onion, and put it in a casserole dish. Add some mushrooms and a pint of beef stock, then cook at 170°C for about 1½-2 hours.

Spoon it into plate sized Yorkshire puddings with some other veg, and pour gravy over the top.

My boys love this!