EASY SEASONED GROUND BEEF
THIS SEASONED GROUND BEEF RECIPE IS: GLUTEN FREE, PALEO, PRIMAL AND WHEAT BELLY FRIENDLY.
Beef. It’s just so good. This is a base recipe that you can use to build a ton of different dishes. You can use seasoned ground beef in tacos (including those made in romaine lettuce leaves), on nachos, in marinara sauce, as a salad topper, in chili, in stuffed peppers, in soup… the list goes on from here. The key is the seasoning. It has to taste good in all these different things. For that reason, we’re going to keep it simple. Garlic. Onion. Cumin. Cayenne. A match made in heaven.
Seasoned ground beef can be made ahead and stored for at least a week in the refrigerator. If you are planning on keeping some in the fridge, my suggestion is to keep all the fat with the beef. When I was growing up, we put the beef on paper towels to soak up the fat. That’s all fine and good, but when you go to reheat your delicious seasoned ground beef, it will be dry and crumbly. Nobody wants dry, crumbly beef.
One of my favorite things about this dish is that it is inexpensive. Ground beef is always going on sale at the grocery store. Today I picked up 2 Lbs of local ground beef for about two bucks a pound. I was double thrilled because not only was in inexpensive, it was 80/20 as well. That means 80% lean and 20% fat. The lowest to go is 85/15. When you get into the 90/10 and 93/7 your beef will be dry and lacking in body. In this dish, the fat definitely makes the flavor.
QUICK COOKING TIP: It is a really good idea to use a cast iron or other heavy-duty pan when cooking ground beef, pork, chicken or turkey. When you put 2 or 3 pounds of ground meat into the pan, it is going to pull a lot of the heat out of the pan very quickly. If your pan isn’t heavy duty, it will get too cold and then you will end up steaming the meat rather than sauteing it. Steamed beef turns gray rather than brown and doesn’t develop the depth of flavor.
Enough with the talky-talky. Let’s get to the recipe.
Seasoned ground beef is great to keep on hand for last minute meals. Making flavorful ground beef is the foundation to incredible dishes like tacos, stuffed peppers and more!SEASONED GROUND BEEF RECIPE
Ingredients
Instructions
Nutrition Information
Yield
8
Amount Per Serving
Calories 327
PLEASE NOTE: The nutritional data is provided by NutriFox and may not be 100% accurate.
Final Thoughts on the Seasoned Ground Beef Recipe:
After finishing my workout today, I came home and knocked this recipe out in about 15 minutes. The cool part is when my wife came home and saw the seasoned ground beef she went into the fridge, grabbed a ripe avocado and some Chipotle Tabasco sauce and her lunch was ready. I’ve never thought to put these flavors together, but they were absolutely delicious. Tomorrow for lunch I’m going to put down a nice base of chopped romaine, some seasoned ground beef, make a quick tomato salsa, add some diced avocado with the Chipotle Tabasco. I can’t wait for lunch tomorrow.
If you made this Seasoned Ground Beef Recipe or have other favorite ways to use it, tell us about it!
Love just how easy this is. Never made this before, but it was perfect in my tacos. So much better than taco bell.
Hi Renee:
Thank you for trying it and for sharing your thoughts. It’s absolutely delicious!
Have a fantastic day in the kitchen!
Scott
That looks really good! Love the serving spoon, looks like something from Kenya.
Hi Vanessa:
The spoon is made in Kenya indeed. But the good news is that you don’t need to go there to buy it. I bought it from Amazon:
https://amzn.to/2Hv58rq
Hope this helps. Have a great day!
Scott
I used this on pizza, it was great! No more bland beef for me!