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ground beef with onions

2016-08-24 a.o.

This is the starting recipe for almost every loose-cooked ground beef recipe. Other things can be added, but the onions are almost always there. Add sauce and various condiments to get pasta sauce.

Some people start with the onions, others mix them up first and pan-fry the together.

I prefer to cook with olive oil instead of butter. You do your thing.

INGREDIENTS

This is what you need for 2 servings:

• 1 lb. ground beef
• up to 1 lb. onion, to taste
• butter / cooking oil
• S&P

Pic1: ground beef and onions

Directions

 

Pic2: onions first
Pic3: add ground meat
Pic4: almost there

• Slice or chop the onion as you prefer.
  For this basic dish, the onion is usually left fairly coarse.
• Heat 1 tbsp. olive oil. Add the onions.
• Sauté over medium-high heat until transparent.
• Stir frequently to prevent burning.
• Add the meat. (Pic2) Add S&P to taste.
• Cook the meat completely through.
  • Cook over low heat and/or add liquid to get a stew with broth. (Pic5)
  • Cook over high heat to get dark brown, dry meat with a stronger flavor. (Pic6+7)
    Some recipes require that you cook the meat completely dry. Soggy tacos are no fun.
    Even if you intend to add sauce later, this will add extra flavor.
• This can be served as is, but will often be used as the starter for more elaborate ground beef dishes.

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b. ground beef with other vegetables

2016-05-12 a.o.

So simple, so easy and so good, this one-skillet meal. Potatoes and carrots are a popular combination, but you can add any vegetables you like.

This is moist-cooking. When you use raw potatoes, you have to stew them to get tender. Dry-cooking raw potatoes only will get you scorched raw potatoes.  

INGREDIENTS

This is what you need for 4 servings:

• 1 lb. lean ground beef
• 1 onion, chopped
• 2 carrots, sliced
• 8 oz. button mushrooms
• 1 lb. small potatoes, diced
• S&P
• optional:
  • 2 tbsp. flour or oil dough
  • heavy cream or half & half
  • Dijon mustard
  • parsley, chopped

Pic3: ground beef, carrots, mushrooms, potatoes, onions, parsley

Directions

• Heat some olive oil.
• Sauté the onions until beginning to brown.
• Add the ground meat and brown over high heat. Drain the excess fat.
• Add mushrooms, S&P, mustard to taste.
• Simmer 5 minutes, stirring occasionally.
• Stir in potatoes and carrots.
  You should not have to add liquid to stew. The vegetables will produce it in abundance.
• Reduce heat to medium-low.
• Cover and simmer 20 minutes until vegetables are tender.
• Optional:
  • Stir in flour or oil dough to thicken the sauce.
  • Stir in cream just before serving.
• Garnish with parsley.
• To turn this into soup:
  •  Add a few quarts of water and adjust seasoning.

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c. ground meat recipes on the internet

 

Pic4: moist-cooked, ground beef & onions
Pic5: dry-cooked ground beef, onions, nopales
Pic6: ground beef tacos

 

Pic7: add some liquid for moist-cooking
Pic8: carrots, potatoes, bell peppers
Pic9: carrots, potatoes, zucchinis

 

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