What can I make with ground beef and cream of mushroom soup?

Only those two ingredients?

@JilltheTooth No, I have a normal pantry of stuff like pasta, rice, flour, milk, onions, etc.

For really simple stuff I’ve browned the ground meat and sauteed it w/ onions and garlic, added the soup and poured it over whole wheat pasta. For a little fancier, I then bake it with breadcrumbs mixed w/ parmesan on top, casserole style.

You can find a nearly endless list of recipes at All recipes ingredients page. Just type the ingredients in the search and feast.

I’d make a ‘poor man’s’ beef stroganoff. Brown beef and onions, stir in the soup, serve over cooked rice or noodles (preferably egg noodles).

Cook the ground beef. Put it into the cream of mushroom soup. Thicken it up if necessary with whatever cooks thicken things with. Pour it onto some biscuits. I’m Hungry!

Do a google search for “recipes with found ingredients” and you’ll get tons of sites like this one where you can list what you do have / want, and sometimes (like this one) things you want to not have. I haven’t gone through the choices, but I’m sure you’ll find something suitable.

Here is what you get from “cream of mushroom soup” and “ground beef” only.

I’m thinking some thing like this Shepherd’s Pie

Or this Beef Macaroni and Cheese

Or this Ground Beef and Rice Casserole

Or Swedish Meatballs

Or Beef Enchiladas

Or Baked Hamburger Patties with Mushroom Soup

Or Baked Potatoes stuffed with Ground Beef

Or Burger and Cheese Stuffed French Bread

And last, but not least Beef Curry

What can’t you make with ground beef and cream of mushroom soup? Two of the four basic food groups!

Dinner at @marinelife‘s!!!

Why not just make Hamburgers with soup on the side? lol

I love cream of mushroom supo, sometimes I even have it for breakfast. haha

Hey, who made the food rules anyway, eat out of the box.

deep casserole dish
Browned meat
Carmelized onions
Julienned carrots
Minced fresh dill fern
Cup of rice (any kind)
Push a bulb of garlic into the rice
Add the soup mix on top

Cover the dish and bake it in the oven for an hour then serve it turned upside down on a platter.

I’d go simple: dilute the condensed soup with ½ can of milk instead of 1 can and heat up as a sauce. Just cook the ground beef as patties and cook some egg noodles. Serve the soup as sauce over both patties and noodles. If you can find some frozen green beans in the freezer, they make a good complement. This is an occasional quick-and-easy supper for us.

Thank you all. I was stumped because my husband and I have recently inherited someone’s canned food pantry, and I usually make sauces from scratch, but I can’t see throwing away all of this canned food.

I ended up browning the ground beef with onions, adding pasta, the canned soup and a drained can of cut up asparagus. It was OK.

OK, I hafta ask… you “recently inherited someone’s canned food pantry”…????? That just sounds odd to me…

I too inherited a lot of weird canned goods when a family member passed away some years ago. haha

I actually just used the last of some trashbags that I have had for 7 years from the cleaning out of the estate. lol

I inherited some canned stuff too, when my friend and her husband moved across the country.

@JilltheTooth My MIL recently had to move to assisted living. My husband and I went down and cleaned out her house for her (she had lived there 16 years) and got her moved. We got the family antiques and whatever else we wanted that she wasn’t taking, and we could not bear to just throw out the canned food.

Well, @marinelife , that’s certainly makes sense! I know some of the canned stuff in my mom’s house is antique…that’s probably what I’ll get… ;-)