21 Easy And Healthy Ground Beef Recipes With Few Ingredients

From burgers to shepherd's pie, ground beef is perfect for quick and easy comfort food dinners that everyone loves. Here are family favorite easy ground beef recipes with few ingredients for you to try.

When you're looking for a simple and tasty way to add protein to your paleo, Whole30, or keto meal plan, you'll want to check out this collection of easy and healthy ground beef recipes for inspiration.

You can make tasty meals with just a few ingredients added to ground beef to infuse it with flavor. From meatballs to tacos and from casseroles to soups, you'll find a variety of ways to enhance ground beef for breakfast, lunch and weeknight dinner ideas.

Easy Ground Beef Recipes

These easy ground beef recipes provide great meal prepping options as well as methods of cooking. From stove top to Instant Pot and from slow cooker to the oven, you'll find various ways to make delicious meals with ground beef.

Best Taco Meat Recipe

Meal plan with this easy 3-ingredient taco meat recipe that you can make in as little as 15 minutes. Ground beef, taco seasoning and salsa are all you need. I suggest using grass-fed beef, homemade taco seasoning and either homemade salsa or your go-to sugar-free jarred version.

Brown the beef in a frying pan and add the seasoning and salsa. Mix until heated through and serve these ground beef tacos in lettuce wraps, a taco salad, or grain-free tortillas or taco shells. Or load up some cassava tortilla chips with taco meat, guacamole and salsa for nachos. It's easy, flavorful and quick!
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Easy Meatloaf

Mix this easy meatloaf mixture in about 5 minutes before adding it to a loaf pan and baking this comfort food entrée that's a healthy take on a classic. Whisk together your favorite healthy jarred salsa, an egg, spices and almond flour, which will act as the binder. Add in the ground beef and mix to combine.

Spread it in the loaf pan and bake for 45-50 minutes. For additional flavor, about halfway through the cooking time, garnish the top of the meatloaf with a little more salsa. Zesty and delicious!
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Crock Pot Bolognese Sauce

This recipe calls for ground turkey, but you can easily swap it and use ground beef for this savory slow cooker spaghetti sauce served over zoodles. Just be sure to use very lean ground beef (less than 10% fat) or brown the meat and drain the excess fat before adding it to the crock pot.

Slow cook along with canned tomato puree, chicken stock and a host of herbs, spices and aromatic and flavorful chopped vegetables. Make a double batch so you can freeze leftovers for easy meal planning later.
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Meatballs Without Breadcrumbs

Ground beef is mixed with Italian herbs and spices as well as an egg. For a binder, replace the bread crumbs with almond flour to keep it gluten-free. Form the mixture into meatballs and add them to a lightly oiled baking dish or a cast iron skillet for their session in the oven.

During the last 15 minutes of baking, pour your favorite keto marinara sauce over them and bake until the sauce is simmering and the meatballs are done. Serve over your favorite low-carb pasta.
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Honey Chipotle Meatballs

These meatballs use a combination of ground beef and ground pork to make a simple and savory meatball. Brown them on the st