45 Ground Meat Recipes for Simple, Comforting Dinners
Ground meat can provide a ton of flavor to quick dinners and slow-cooked meals alike. Whether you're in the mood for a longer project like lasagna bolognese or just want to make some quick meatballs, these recipes for ground beef, pork, lamb, and chicken have all the bases covered.
30/45Spicy Pork Salad
Gentl & Hyers34/45Lamb Larb
Larb is hailed as the national dish of Laos. Traditionally the salad starts with extremely finely chopped lean meat or fish and is seasoned with lime juice, chiles, fish sauce, and toasted ground rice. This recipe calls for ground lamb, a fattier protein than what’s usually used, and subs ground peanuts as a nod to the texture of the rice.
Photo by Travis Rainey, Food Styling by Kaitlin Wayne, Prop Styling by Alexandra Massillon41/45Best-Ever Smash Burgers
Peden + Munk43/45Soboro Beef
In Japanese, the word for food is the same as the one for rice. Without it, a meal is not a meal. The real genius of rice is revealed when you think about it in reverse: Add just about anything to a bowl of it and, voilà! you’ve got dinner. But don’t think of it as a throwaway fill-you-up starch. Properly cooked short-grain white rice is a craveable study in subtlety and texture, to be mixed and matched at will.
