Easy Ground Beef Dinner Recipes (2024)

Easy Ground Beef Dinner Recipes are perfect for easy weeknight meals. I don’t know about your house, but dinner is the last thing I want to think about most nights! With busy after-school schedules, sports, work, and just life, weeknight dinnertime can be chaos!

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Ground beef recipes are normally ones all three of my kids will eat without much complaint or issues! I love to watch for meat markdowns to pair with sales to stock up on ground beef for cheap! One tool over the years I have fallen in love with is my Pampered Chef meat chopper; it makes ground meat so much easier to cook!

Take a lot of prep work out of weeknight dinners and precook and freeze your cooked ground beef! Pull and defrost the ground beef from the freezer to put in this recipe for an easy weeknight dinner! (If you aren’t sure how to best do this, check out Freezing Cooked Ground Beef)

My Go-To Ground Beef Dinner Recipes:

Ground Beef Crockpot Recipes

Ground beef is one of those proteins that most kids will eat and it can be picked up on sale often! Even better if they are ground beef crockpot dinners.

Crockpot Hamburger Stew– Easy to make and an economical option to beef stew since ground beef often goes on sale for less money than before stew meat! Get the recipe -> here!

Crockpot Loaded Baked Beans– Use ground beef to make a beef appetizer or eat this as a meal. These beans are perfect for tailgating or as an appetizer at a potluck! Get the recipe -> here!

Crockpot Beef Chili– Let your house smell warm and inviting by having your crockpot slow-cook this beef chili! Then, spice it up or make it for the kids!Get the recipe -> here!

Sloppy Joes– Making sloppy joes in the crockpot is so much tastier than what you get in the can! Throw this in the crockpot to have ready after soccer, and what’s great is you can keep it on low and the family can serve themselves as they get home from different activities. Get the recipe -> here!

Crockpot Goulash– Use ground beef with fresh veggies, sauces, and pasta to make this easy comfort food the family will love!! Get the recipe -> here!

Easy Ground Beef Casserole Recipes

Casseroles are fast and easy to throw together for dinner time, especially with kids after school activities. Move over meatloaf. These dishes beat out the classics that we grew up with. Be sure to check out all my comforting casserole recipes.

Tater Tot Casserole– This is easy to throw together for a quick weeknight dinner on a busy night, plus you can throw in green beans to get the kids to eat more vegetables! Get the recipe -> here!

Shepards Pie– The ultimate comfort food! You can’t go wrong with beef and cheese topped with mashed potato baked to make this Shepherd’s pie! Beef and potatoes go together so well.Get the recipe -> here!

Taco Twist– Leftover beef taco meat is amazing in this! Add pasta, sauce, cheese, and Doritos for this amazing dinner! Get the recipe -> here!

Friendship Casserole– Easy casserole that can be made ahead and frozen or a large batch to feed a crowd in no time! Get the recipe -> here!

Baked Ziti– Easy to make with penne pasta and lots of cheese! Ziti is the perfect last-minute weeknight dinner to throw together and easy comfort food as well! Get the recipe -> here!

Instant Pot Ground Beef Recipes

Use your instant pot with precooked browned hamburger to make an easy weeknight dinner! I love you can throw everything in it and allow it to cooker!

Instant Pot Beef Chili– No time to slow-cook beef chili? Throw everything in your instant pot for a quick dinner! Get the recipe -> here!

Instant Pot Taco Pasta– No time to cook? Throw everything in the instant pot for an easy weeknight dinner, the perfect twist on a Taco Tuesday! Get the recipe -> here!

Other Ground Beef Recipes

Hamburger Soup-Make, this on the stove for a quick soup, plus the pasta noodles, can be changed to help younger kids want to eat. This recipe is mostly pantry items, so easy to throw together last minute! Get the recipe -> here!

Dutch Oven Beef Chili– Serve this up with cornbread for the ultimate fall dinner, but also the house will smell so amazing! Get the recipe -> here!

Homemade Meatballs In Spaghetti Sauce– Meatballs are perfect for spaghetti but making them from scratch allows for more flavor than store-bought ones. Get the recipe -> here!

DIY Nacho Bar– Make up some ground beef with taco seasoning in a skillet for this easy nacho bar! A nacho bar is perfect for a party or a tailgating get-together!Get the recipe -> here!

Which of these ground beef dinner ideas would you try?

Easy Ground Beef Recipe Swaps

These are extra ingredients and pantry staples you can add into any of these dishes or swap out

• Onion
• Rice
• Garlic
• Bell Pepper
• Tomatoes
• Black Beans
• Soy Sauce

• Cream of Mushroom Soup
• Worcestershire Sauce
• Tomato Sauce
• Corn
• Egg Noodles
• Green Chiles
• Ground Turkey

Crockpot Recipes To Check Out

Crockpots are versatile and perfect for making meals without much work or effort. I use mine constantly! Below are some of my favorite collections of recipes I’ve made in my kitchen. Slow Cooker recipes are an easy way to get dinner on the table.

• Chicken Crockpot Recipes
• Crockpot Soup Recipes
• Weeknight Dinner Recipes
• Ground Beef Crockpot Dinners
• Crockpot Cinnamon Rolls