Using minced beef in pasta sauce is a staple dish for many of us – but there’s no need to limit yourself making minced beef dishes with packs of ready minced beef.
I had two cooked flash fry steaks left over plus one cold lonely beef burger off the barbecue.
Come supper time I chucked the lot into the Magimix and blitz blitz had cooked ground beef ready the throw into the dinner.
It’s fairly pointless blogging a bolognaise sauce – this post is really about using up cold cooked beef so I won’t go into huge detail.
Just soften an onion in olive oil, add some tomatoes and garlic.
If I’m making minced beef in a large enough quantity I tend to keep the first batch for pasta (or a cottage pie if using stock rather than tomato) then spice up the second half in a chilli. Since this was just using up left overs I was a little sad not to have enough to do this!
With a sprinkle of cheese and few torn bits off the long suffering basil plant it was another speedy supper.
How do you use left over beef?
This dish using left over ingredients is also being submitted to:
Credit Crunch Munch organised by Helen and Camilla, this month hosted by Elizabeth
No Waste Food Challenge, organised by Kate, this month hosted also by Elizabeth
We often use leftover beef and lamb to make up bolognaise. It works well – we use it as a meaty pizza topping (in place of tomato sauce) as well as with pasta!
Ooh I like your thinking! Definitely trying that!!
What a great idea to put your beef in a blender, never thought to do that and have recently wished I had a meat grinder but know I don’t need one thanks to you:-) Thank you for your great frugal idea using leftovers for #creditcrunchmunch.
I have blitzed chicken breasts to make minced chicken for steamed dumplings, the key is not to blitz for too long.
What a clever use for leftover steaks! I tend to freeze leftover beef burgers and then chop them up into mini meatballs for use in spaghetti & meatballs at a later date. Thank you for sharing your frugal food tips with Credit Crunch Munch and the No Waste Food Challenge!
Thank you. Not made meatballs or ages but I suspect some will be appearing here soon!