What can you do with ground meat? The ingredient will provide you with many, or in our article’s case, five perfect dinners that will delight you and your family. Don’t be bored with traditional minced chops. Explore recipes that are simple and less classic yet still perfect for dinner!
Bobotie
A Bobotie is a casserole that originated in South Africa. If you’d like to have ground meat for lunch or dinner in a slightly more unusual version, this is the perfect dish for you. But how to make it? You will need a few ingredients. Get 500 grams of ground meat, two eggs, 150 milliliters of milk, breadcrumbs, onion, garlic clove, 30 grams of raisins, mango chutney, apricot jam, Worcester sauce, white wine vinegar, curry powder, turmeric, salt and bay leaves.
Begin by soaking the bread crumbs in milk. In butter, sauté diced garlic and onion. Then add a tablespoon of curry powder, a half teaspoon of turmeric, a spoon of chutney, an equal amount of Worcester sauce and wine vinegar and a pinch of salt. Stir it all together, strain the breadcrumbs and toss them in the pan with the meat and raisins.
Grind the ground meat and fry it until it is brown. Take it out of the pan into a bowl, in which you should combine it with the beaten egg. Now you need to put the meat into an ovenproof dish. Even out the meat thoroughly.
Stir the second egg with milk, turmeric, and salt. Spread the mixture on the meat and put bay leaves on it. Roast the whole thing in a preheated oven at 180 degrees for 50 minutes. The egg must curdle. The best way to serve Bobotie is with rice.
Bolognese soup
You’ve undoubtedly heard of Bolognese sauce. Do you know about Bolognese soup? Well, if you don’t, make sure you check out this recipe for ground meat for dinner. It is easy to prepare, an authentic dish that the whole family can enjoy. So what do you need?
You need about 700 grams of ground meat (preferably beef), 2 onions, 3 cloves of garlic, 2 carrots, celery and 2 cans of canned tomatoes or fresh tomatoes (but they have to be juicy). In addition, 50 grams of rice, a little sweet paprika powder, salt, pepper, oregano and sweet cream.
Finely dice the onion and garlic. Brown them in a pot in olive oil. Then add ground meat, which needs to be minced in the same way as when making Bolognese sauce. Chop the carrots and celery into smaller pieces (cubes or strips) and add them to the pot. Throw in a tablespoon of paprika powder, the rest of the spices and the tomatoes. Turn down the heat and simmer covered for half an hour.
If the soup is too thick, add a little water. Keep in mind that this is a soup and not a sauce. Add 50 grams of rice after 15 minutes. In the end, whiten the soup with cream. Bolognese soup is now ready. Enjoy!
Karminadle
Karminadle may remind you of minced cutlets. However, that Silesian recipe differs from the traditional Sunday cutlets. What is it about? They should be made from pork and beef, but the Silesians add rabbit meat if they can.
To make ground meat for dinner in such a form, you need to first soak a stale wheat roll in a glass of milk. Then, mix it or mash it with a fork. Finely chop the onion and fry it in lard – let it brown.
Mix the bread crumbs with 500 grams of meat, whisk an egg, salt and, pepper and onion. Stir the mixture and wait a while for it to set. Then, shape balls, which should be slightly flattened with the palm of your hand before they land on the pan. Cook on both sides until browned.
False hare
The false hare is a dish that you certainly know by another name. It is, of course, a Roman roast, which is very simple to prepare. It often appears on our tables during Easter, but nothing stands in the way of preparing ground meat for dinner.
So what do you need to prepare this dish? You need a kilogram of ground meat, onions, bread crumbs, pepper and salt and five hard-boiled eggs. That is all. False hare is a dish that is very easy to prepare. Begin with the ground meat mixture. You should add spices, sautéed onions and a few tablespoons of breadcrumbs to bind the mixture together. Meanwhile, hard-boil the eggs as well, and then peel them.
Make the false hare in a fruitcake mold. Place baking paper in the center, and lay some of the meat on it. Put the eggs in the middle, one by one. Then cover them tightly with the rest of the meat to form a roulade.
Cover it with paper and put it in the oven preheated to 180 degrees. Roast the whole thing for 45 minutes. After this time, unroll the paper and brush the top of the roulade with olive oil. This will give it a light browning. Remove the meat from the oven after 10 minutes. You may serve it for lunch or for, breakfast or dinner.
Kofta
Kofta is a ground meat skewer that adds variety to any dinner. You can serve them as a snack during a party, as well. So how to prepare Kofta? Begin by choosing the right meat. The meat should be lamb or mutton, or beef. You’ll also need onions, garlic, ginger, parsley and lots of spices – coriander, sweet and hot peppers, cinnamon, cumin and salt and pepper.
Begin by placing the ground meat in a bowl. Remember that it should be lean. Next, peel the ginger, garlic and onion and dice them into small pieces. You can mince the garlic. Finely chop the parsley as well, so the pieces are nicely distributed throughout the meat.
To the bowl with the meat, combine all the spices. Depending on how much you like them, you can throw in the powdered ones. If you are not a fan of cumin, you can skip it, but it really gives the meat an interesting flavour.
Keep kneading for a few minutes until the meat is uniform. All you need is wooden skewer sticks and a grill or a grill pan. Thread the mixture onto the sticks so that the skewers have an oblong shape, just like a cepelin. The sticks can be thicker or thinner, but remember that the cooking time will depend on this.
Get all your skewers ready, and then move on to grilling. If you do not have a grill or a grill pan, you can make them in the oven as well. Simply preheat it to 200 degrees and bake the skewers for 20 minutes. What do you like about this idea for ground meat for dinner?
Lunch or dinner doesn’t have to be boring. When you have ground meat at home, you can make some exciting, unusual dishes with it. What do you think about these five ground meat recipes? Let us know in the comments section below.
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