34 Ground Beef Dinners to Make When You’re Totally Exhausted

Craving a hearty and delicious meal that’s quick and easy to make? Check out these ground beef recipes! Whether you’re in the mood for classic comfort food like John Wayne Casserole or BBQ Meatloaf, or something a bit more exciting like Walking Taco Bake or Bacon Cheeseburger Pie, you’ll find plenty of easy and tasty options. Perfect for a busy weeknight dinner, a lazy weekend, or when you’re just exhausted.

Old Fashioned Salisbury Steak With Onion Gravy

Salisbury Steak with onion gravy is classic comfort food. This homemade Salisbury Steak recipe with onion and mushroom gravy is a winner!
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Meaty Zucchini Casserole With Ground Beef

This Meaty Zucchini Casserole recipe, also called a zucchini bake recipe, is the best zucchini base for zucchini casserole with ground beef.
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Cheeseburger Meatball Stuffed Crescent Rolls

Cheeseburger Crescent Rolls or meatball crescent rolls are so addictive and our favorite crescent roll recipe with ground beef or without!
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John Wayne Casserole

You are going to love this John Wayne Casserole. It’s packed full of savory beef and veggies, with a golden brown biscuit crust.
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Easy Hobo Casserole

Hobo casserole is a rich, hearty, beefy dish full of ground beef, a creamy sauce, cheese, and potatoes. It’s delicious, easy, and filling.
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Double Cheeseburger Pizza

Double Cheeseburger Pizza is a crispy crust topped with the best cheeseburger toppings. This cheeseburger pizza recipe makes for a delicious lunch or dinner!
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Beanless Chili

This beanless chili is rich, meaty and really full of flavor. You don’t need beans to make a wonderful chili and this recipe is a winner!
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American Chop Suey (American Goulash)

American chop suey is a delicious dish that’s popular in the New England region. Also known as American goulash, this dish is meaty and tasty.
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Swedish Meatballs

Try making these delicious copycat Ikea Swedish meatballs at home and enjoy the same great taste as the ones you find in the store.
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Meatball Marinara Subs

Savor the juicy homemade meatballs, tangy marinara sauce, and fluffy brioche buns in Italian meatball marinara subs – a satisfying comfort food that’s perfect for lunch or busy weeknights. These sandwiches are far tastier than the fast-food version and are sure to please anyone, regardless of their Italian heritage.
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One Pot Taco Macaroni and Cheese

Try this taco macaroni and cheese, which combines the best of both worlds with Mexican and Italian flavors in every bite. With a cooking time of just 30 minutes in a single Dutch oven, this dish is perfect for those cooler months when you’re in the mood for something hearty and warming.
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Taco Stuffed Zucchini Boats

Taco stuffed zucchini boats offer a little of everything – nutrition, meat, veggies, a pop of Mexican seasoning, and of course a tasty meal!
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French Onion Beef Casserole

French onion beef casserole makes a hearty and delicious weeknight dinner. It’s easy to make with flavorful, creamy noodles and a crunchy onion topping.
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How To Cook Hamburgers In Air Fryer

How to Cook Hamburgers in Air Fryer recipe shows how easy cooking hamburger patties in your air fryer is. Air Fryer Hamburgers are delicious!
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Jalapeno Cheeseburger Sliders With Spicy Mayo

Delicious mini cheeseburger sliders with a kick. This cheeseburger sliders recipe uses jalapeno peppers and cheddar cheese served on rolls.
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Easy Hamburger Pinwheels

This Easy Hamburger Pinwheels or Cheeseburger Roll Ups recipe with ground beef or other meat shows you how to cook pinwheels with bacon, cheese and more.
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Smothered Hamburger Steaks With Onion Gravy

This smothered hamburger steak with onion gravy recipe is a classic. Juicy fried hamburger steaks seasoned with onion soup mix are cooked to perfection.
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Pesto Fettuccini with Bolognese Sauce

Indulge in a delicious homemade Italian pasta dinner with pesto fettuccini and Bolognese sauce, bursting with fresh veggies in every bite. This hearty dish, featuring a homemade beef Bolognese meat sauce and fettuccine pasta, will satisfy your cravings for a flavorful Italian meal.
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Cheeseburger Hot Pockets

Cheeseburger hot pockets make fabulous comfort food! These cheeseburger hand pies with French fry topping aren’t hard to make, and they boast so much flavor plus a charming homemade look.
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Roasted Tomato and Meatball Polenta

Meatballs and polenta with garlic roasted tomatoes is a simple-to-make, hearty meal. Easy, comforting weeknight meals like this are perfect for the colder months when you crave something tasty and satisfying.
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Crunchy Beef Tortilla Folded Wrap

Discover how to fold a tortilla for this special Tik Tok wrap hack. It’s one of the most delicious recipes you can make with ground beef and a tortilla wrap. Use a large flour tortilla if you’re ravenously hungry or smaller tortillas if you prefer. This is a genius way to enclose ground meat, shredded cheese, fresh tomatoes and more in wraps.
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One Pot Cheesy Taco Pasta

This easy taco pasta is wonderful for dinner and it’s one of the best skill pasta dinner ideas I’ve found. Beef, onion and garlic are dominating flavours in this creamy taco pasta with macaroni noodles.
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Air Fryer Unsloppy Joes Biscuit Pockets

This air fryer version of manwich biscuits seals the tasty beef mixture inside a biscuit for a delicious meal. Manwich biscuits are the readymade sloppy joe sauce and you just need to cook them while these Pillsbury biscuit sloppy joes are homemade. It is just like a hearty hot pocket that the whole family will love!
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The Best Old Fashioned Burger

Our go-to hamburger recipe for years and the best old fashioned burger recipe. My husband skips the breadcrumbs and egg. I include them. Both are delicious!
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Grandma’s Bacon Cheeseburger Pie

Grandma’s Bacon Cheeseburger Pie is exactly like a bacon cheeseburger in a pie crust! Ketchup, mustard, relish, bacon, ground meat and lots of cheese!
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Easy Air Fryer Mini Meatloaf Recipe

This air fryer mini meatloaf recipe takes the classic family dinner and serves it up in a fun, single-serve form. And it’s so easy to make!
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How To Make Smoked Burgers

How to make smoked burgers shows how easy it is to make the juiciest smoked hamburgers. It will be your go-to grilling recipe this summer.
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Quick And Easy Walking Taco Bake (Taco Casserole)

This walking taco bake recipe with Fritos is an easy walking taco casserole full of Fritos, ground beef, Mexican seasonings, cheese, and more
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Old Fashioned Sloppy Joes Recipe

This old fashioned sloppy joes recipe combines the sweet and savory flavors of sloppy joes with rich, buttery biscuits for an easy 20 minute dinner.
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Olive Garden Spaghetti And Meatballs

This Olive Garden spaghetti and meatballs recipe is loaded with all the flavor we love in the original. Big meatballs and rich sauce? Yum!
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Olive Garden Meatballs

This copycat Olive Garden meatballs recipe has all the flavor of our favorite meatballs inside tender, juicy, perfectly cooked meatballs.
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Smoked Bacon Wrapped Meatloaf

This smoked bacon wrapped meatloaf is tender, juicy, and loaded with the flavors of smokey bacon, Italian seasoning, and more.
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Smoked Meatballs

Smoking meatballs is easy, and it adds so much flavor. These smoked meatballs are cooked to perfection then smothered in a spicy red sauce.
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Slow Cooker Cowboy Beans

Slow cooker cowboy beans are a great option for a tailgate party, cookout or cozy family dinner. Slow cooking coaxes out all the flavor of the meat and the beans come out so tasty.
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