What's a quick and easy hamburger recipe? (details)

Maybe a beef-and-noodles kind of thing, with no peas? Sub corn, or asparagus?

Make it to balls the size of a golfball; brown, then simmer for half an hour in spaghetti sauce. Serve over spaghetti.

Or, take the same sized ball,then flatten between your palms into a circle, and grill over a 400 degree fire, five minutes per side. Serve on a hamburger bun. If you want to really live it up, after flipping it once, put a slice of cheese on the up (cooked) side, it’s a cheese burger!

I hate ruin good spaghetti, @zenvelo, but it’s a good thought. It’s cool and rainy – a ribsticker would be nice.
And I just fixed cheeseburgers. :(

Or, make beef tacos.

Brown the beef, mixed in with a bit of chili powder, or better yet, taco seasoning.

Serve with chopped tomatoes, chopped lettuce, grated cheese. Use taco shells or just grilled tortillas.

Oh, I know, brown the meat and add sloppy joe seasoning! Makes sloppy joes!

We eat at the Mexican joint sometimes 5–6 days in a row. But you may be onto something with the sloppy joe thing. I’ll run it by.

How about Garlic Mustard Ground Beef?

Smoky Pork Sliders with BBQ Sauce – Gordon Ramsay

Not to sound obvious, but…cheeseburgers? Mix in 1 packet of Ranch seasoning per pound of meat and grill it. Can’t get much easier than that!

Or tacos, as someone already said. I make mine with homemade taco seasoning (recipes all over the web), and tomato sauce, then put some on a taco shell or tortilla with refried beans and yellow rice. Toppings – sour cream (or Greek yogurt) shredded cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, cilantro – whatever you like! And it’s nothing like what you get at a Mexican restaurant, so that shouldn’t really matter.

As for sloppy joes, I just brown the meat, add ketchup, mustard, salt, and pepper. I don’t care for sloppy joe seasoning and that Manwhich stuff is gross.

It’s not all that quick, but cottage/shepherd’s pie might fit the bill.

Brown the beef in a pan with beef boullion crushed for flavor. After browned add a little water and some sour cream, probably a little more bouillon depending. It makes a stroganoff. Put it over noodles or rice. I don’t have exact measurements, but if you’re good with estimating to taste it will come out well. Add a little of everything at first and add as you taste.

I like it with French green beans on the side.

Looks good to me, @Pied_Pfeffer, but I doubt my picky eater would think so. Maybe I could make a batch with meat sub.

The Shepard’s pie is a great idea, @livelaughlove21. I haven’t made that for ages. I even have frozen (hey! I bought them clearanced!) mashed potatoes that need to be used up. When I was in college we had a couple of Irish transfer students and they complained about the lack of Shepard’s Pie. I made one from their description alone, and they raved over it (tho likely it was my thought that counted, lol).

No wine, or anything, @JLeslie? Seems awfully easy. I might have to give it a go.

Tonight was sloppy joes (thanks, @zenvelo).! Aldi had green peppers and fresh mushrooms cheap, so I threw hamburger, a diced green pepper and sliced mushrooms in a pan, cooked them well, and added a can of Aldi sloppy joe. Seemed very nice. Side was sliced and quartered yellow squash and halved grape tomatoes sauteed in butter and olive oil with Greek seasoning and lemon. That part was delicious.

I have 4 more pounds of hamburger that I would rather not use.
Next up? Likely @livelaughlove21‘s Shepard’s Pie. Possibly try @JLeslie‘s sour cream mess, er, Stroganoff. j/k

I make just a single portion sometimes. I usually use beefy onion soup from a packet, but since you said no onions regular bouillon should work fine.

Sloppy Joe sounds good too. I just use Manwich.

Heat grill. Shape patty. Slap on grill. Flip. Serve. (Salt and pepper optional.)

Why are there so many non hamburger recipes going on here?

When I make burgers I like to just mix my ingredients into the ground beef and then form it into patties. Generally I go with butter, cheese, worcestershire , a1, garlic, or whatever else I have laying around. Be careful not to add too many wet ingredients as this will cause the patties to fall apart while cooking. If I plan on using a lot of wet ingredients I’ll add some bread crumbs to the mix which helps hold it all together.

Hamburgers fit the question, but I think the OP means he wants to know what he can do with ground beef. I also don’t use the word hamburger for ground beef, but since he wrote the fat content of the raw meat, and didn’t correct the first few answers, I assumed he uses the word differently.

@El_Cadejo Some folks refer to ground beef as “hamburger” or “hamburger meat.” OP is one of those folks.

Because, @El_Cadejo, I stated the cheeseburgers had just been served, and I was looking for alternatives.

Correct, @JLeslie & @livelaughlove21. Around here we use ground beef and hamburger alternately. It’s the “s”...hamburger is used to make hamburgers as well as Hamburger Helper.

Ah, I wasn’t aware of that, good to know.

I wasn’t even aware @El_Cadejo. In my area, you would have had a great answer to the question, “Anyone have a quick and easy recipe for hamburgers?”

Is Hamburger Helper not ubiquitous?

the correct term is ‘minced meat’ or ‘mince’

@ragingloli In most parts of Europe.

@JLeslie If that’s what the Brits call it, then it MUST be the “correct” term.

Minced meat is a sweet pie in the US, made with meat in it.

I think of it as a sweat pie also. I don’t call it that myself, actually it’s not something I eat. Closest I get is an empanada.

I never ate another piece after I discovered, as a kid, that there was actually meat in it. That’s just wrong.

Budding vegetarian in that boy. :)

Oy, I wrote sweat instead of sweet.

Mmm, sweat meat. A bit salty, but so juicy and tender!

Not if it’s in a mince meat pie, @livelaughlove21. Gooey and sugary.

whoops! just realized this is General.

Shush! @zenvelo

@ibstubro I believe you missed what I was really saying. Perhaps it needed a ~.

Oh, sorry, @livelaughlove21! I got it now.