From ground beef - 47 cooking recipes

It is not always the case that store-bought ready-made ground beef will be of satisfactory quality. Often unscrupulous manufacturers add to it something that shouldn’t be there. As for laws, in Russia, unfortunately, there is no such quality control as, say, in the USA. Where there are rules specifically for minced beef. Ground beef recipes include local favorite hamburgers. And there should be no fat in the minced meat for them, although it may be included in the sandwich itself. In France, up to 20 percent fat is allowed, in Germany - up to 15. In Russian stores you can come across minced meat, which may contain barely half of the meat; the rest is by-products and fats.

It is for this reason that many housewives prefer to make minced beef themselves. Fortunately, this is easy to do with a regular manual meat grinder. You can prepare many delicious and satisfying dishes from ground beef: cutlets, dumplings, meatballs, meatballs, rolls, pies, cabbage rolls.

By itself, it is used less often than with the addition of minced pork, but it is still used. For example, in Eastern, Asian cuisines that do not recognize pork.

Ground beef may taste slightly dry. This happens due to the special properties of the meat itself.

To make ground beef juicy, you need to add one of these to it:

You can also beat the minced meat well by simply lifting it higher and hitting it forcefully on the table surface. If you do this twenty times, even tough meat will soften.

If the minced meat turns out watery, you can mix in a handful of breadcrumbs or dried and mashed boiled potatoes with a fork.

The calorie content of ground beef is 254 kcal per 100 grams. Protein and fat account for 17.2 and 20 grams, respectively. Minced beef contains vitamins A, B, K, E. Like the meat itself, it is an excellent source of animal proteins. Being leaner than pork, minced beef (more precisely, food made from it) is recommended for people suffering from anemia and excess weight.