What to cook with beef

339 recipes in the Saucepan catalog use beef. 187 of them are built around it. It turns up most in American, Greek and Turkish recipes.

recipes use it: 339
are built around it: 187
median total time: 1 hr 20 min
ready in 30 minutes or less: 50

Recipes built around beef

With beef, in 30 minutes or less

What goes with beef

Ingredients that most often share a recipe with beef, out of 339 recipes.

Onion74% of recipes
Garlic63% of recipes
Olive oil36% of recipes
Parsley25% of recipes
Tomato paste19% of recipes
Eggs29% of recipes
Tomato24% of recipes
Cumin21% of recipes

How much recipes use

Across 182 recipes that give an amount, the median is 1 lb. Half of them fall between 1 to 1½ lb.

Where beef shows up

Cuisines

American30
Greek18
Turkish16
Italian14

Courses

Dinner200
Appetizer44
Main36

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Counted from 5,756 public recipes, updated 2026-11-04. A recipe is built around an ingredient when it is in the title or among the first two lines of the ingredient list.