Ground beef is a super versatile ingredient with which you can create different Mexican dishes with ground beef and it will also get you out of trouble due to the ease of its preparation.
Today we present some Mexican recipes for ground or minced meat that will help you change and offer a new recipe to your family every day.
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3 Mexican recipes with ground beef
There are many Mexican dishes with ground beef that exist and that we could prepare, but we have chosen 3 Mexican recipes with ground beef so that you can choose the one you like the most.
Mexican hash
This is a very traditional Mexican dish and there is also no single version. You can find minced meat with vegetables, special minced meat with nuts, minced meat from the coast with fresh fruit and other versions.
Ingredients:
- 500 grams of ground beef
- 1 clove garlic
- ½ white onion
- 1 serrano chili
- 2 medium tomatoes
- 1 potato
- 1 zucchini
- 1 carrot
- 2 sprigs of coriander
- salt, cumin and pepper to taste
- vegetable oil
Preparation:
- Finely chop the garlic, onion, serrano pepper and coriander. Each of the ingredients separately. Booking.
- Dice the tomatoes, potato, zucchini and carrot
- In a skillet over medium heat, add the oil and fry the onion and garlic.
- Continue adding the tomato, potato, carrot, zucchini, and serrano pepper. Stir everything very well and cook until the potato and carrot are soft.
- Lastly, add the ground beef, salt, cumin and pepper to taste. Stir everything very well, cook over medium heat with a lid to preserve the juices of all the ingredients.
- When the meat is cooked, turn off the heat, serve and sprinkle the chopped coriander on top.
- Your Mexican picadillo with meat and vegetables is ready that you can enjoy at any time.
Additional tips:
- If you do not want the spicy touch in this recipe, you can change the serrano pepper for the jalapeño pepper or bell pepper.
- Also, if you want more flavor in this preparation, you can add a bay leaf along with the meat.
- If you want a more liquid picadillo, you can cook and blend the tomatoes and add them to the preparation.
Meatloaf
This rich preparation is too versatile and delicious in any of its forms and variants.
This is a dish widely used on special occasions since it requires preparation in the oven, however it is very easy to prepare.
This recipe can be prepared mixed with beef and pork, with a single meat, with beef and mushrooms, with ham or bacon or with tuna.
Ingredients:
- 500 grams of ground beef
- 500 grams of ground pork
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon of oil
- 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
- ½ cup oatmeal
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ½ cup tomato sauce or paste
- ¾ cup chopped onion
Preparation:
- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees centigrade.
- In a frying pan, add the oil and fry the previously chopped onion.
- In a deep bowl add ground beef, English sauce, egg, oatmeal, salt, sauce or tomato paste. Knead all the ingredients very well so that they are well mixed.
- Add the fried onion to the dough and mix again.
- In a previously greased (preferably rectangular) mold, spread the dough evenly and bake for approximately 40 minutes.
Additional tips:
- If you want a juicy preparation, we recommend covering your mold with aluminum foil for the first 30 minutes so that the meat does not dry out.
- If you made a lot and you have some of this preparation left over, you can freeze it for a while and heat it again when you are going to consume it. You can also dice it to make a stew or slice it to make some sandwiches, or add it to soup in cubes as well.
Baked peppers, stuffed with ground beef
This is a rich and healthy Mexican recipe with ground beef that you can accompany with a salad and a portion of rice, ideal for dinner.
Ingredients:
- 4 peppers or bell peppers of different colors
- 400 grams of ground beef
- 1 pumpkin
- 2 carrots
- 1 potato
- 1 clove garlic
- ½ white onion
- 100 grams of Parmesan cheese
- 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
- salt and pepper to taste
Preparation:
- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius
- Finely chop the onion and garlic
- Dice the carrot, potato and pumpkin
- Cut the peppers in half and remove the seeds
- grate the parmesan cheese
- In a skillet over medium heat, add the oil and fry the onion and garlic.
- Add the ground beef and chopped vegetables, mix everything very well and cook until the meat and vegetables are soft.
- Fill the peppers with the prepared stew and sprinkle a good amount of grated Parmesan cheese on top, which will melt deliciously in the oven.
- Bake 10 minutes or until bell pepper is tender and cheese is melted.C
Additional tips:
- If you don’t have an oven, you could prepare this recipe in the same way, but use a pan with a lid and over low heat, so that the steam cooks the pepper and melts the cheese.
If you want to know other Mexican recipes that we have for you, we invite you to visit our blog, where you will find information about representative Mexican dishes, Mexican chorizo recipe or Mexican tortilla.
Since you know a few other recipes for Mexican dishes with ground beef, we invite you to prepare them at home and enjoy these delicious Mexican cuisine.