What To Make With Ground Beef and Rice
When it comes to cooking ground beef and rice together, there are so many dishes you can make, and this collection has a little something for everyone. Hearty casseroles for when everyone is starving, dishes spanning the globe with Mexican, Cajun, Korean and Thai flavors, plus recipes using everyone’s favorite kitchen appliances: the Crock Pot, Air Fryer and Instant Pot! Ground beef and rice are two of the best ingredients you can have on hand to get the most bang for your buck. Combining them into tasty dishes lets each go further and stretches your grocery haul a little more at the same time.
Best Ground Beef and Rice Recipes
One of our favorite casseroles of all time is Cabbage Roll Casserole. It has all the same flavors as the classic dish, but saves a ton of time and work. Stuffed Peppers with ground beef are another retro dish, but great to make in the summer time when bell peppers go on sale—or are coming fresh from your own garden.If you’ve never had Porcupine Meatballs, you have to try them! They are like the inside of a stuffed pepper, cooked in a tomato-based sauce and perfect served with mashed potatoes.Ground beef and rice recipes can be the star of your next Taco Tuesday, but in a whole new way with one of these dishes: Taco Rice with Queso, Fiesta Taco Rice Bake and One Pan Taco Rice.And there’s plenty of Asian take-out fake-out meals using these same two base ingredients with my Korean Beef and Rice, Korean Beef and Cabbage, and Easy Thai Beef.The Hamburger Zucchini Skillet will be so handy when summer gardens are overflowing with zucchini and you don’t know what to do with all of it!I even found two amazing appetizers using ground beef and rice just in time for summer entertaining: Nacho Rice Dip and Enchilada Dipping Rice.
With prices going up on everything these days, it’s comforting to know we can still get tasty, filling meals on the table our families will love using basic, everyday ingredients like ground beef and rice. Up next: 23 Crazy-Good Ground Beef Casserole Recipes