Classic Smash Cheeseburger
A smash burger with lace-edged, deeply browned patties, American cheese melted to the edges and a soft toasted bun…
Slow braises, quick sears and the mince dishes that feed a household. 137 recipes on the site call for beef.
A smash burger with lace-edged, deeply browned patties, American cheese melted to the edges and a soft toasted bun…
Jalisco's chilli-braised beef, shredded into tortillas that have been dipped in the scarlet fat from the braise…
A proper lasagne alla Bolognese is a study in patience: a three-hour ragù, a nutmeg-scented besciamella and…
Chuck browned properly, then braised low with red wine, stock and root vegetables until the meat gives way under a…
Salt, pepper and twelve hours of smoke. Central Texas brisket asks for almost no ingredients and almost total…
A clear, aromatic broth simmered for four hours with charred ginger and onion and a bundle of toasted spices, poured…
Julia Child put this Burgundian beef stew on every home cook's bucket list, and it earns the effort: beef braised…
A bowl of rice topped with individually seasoned vegetables, marinated beef, a fried egg and gochujang, mixed…
The most useful stir-fry in the repertoire: velveted beef, crisp-tender broccoli and a savoury oyster sauce gravy…
Strips of seared beef in a mustard and soured cream sauce with mushrooms, done in twenty-five minutes. It is a fast…
Thinly shaved ribeye, sweated onions and melted cheese crammed into a soft hoagie roll. The debate over Cheez Whiz…
Thinly sliced beef marinated in soy, pear and sesame, then seared fast so it caramelises without stewing. Twenty…
Taiwanese braised beef noodle soup: shin and tendon cooked for hours in a broth built on soy, doubanjiang and…
A long-simmered chilli built on toasted whole spices and a hit of dark chocolate, with the beef cut into cubes…
A rib of beef roasted to a rosy centre, rested properly, and carved thick, with Yorkshire puddings risen tall in…
Beef simmered in coconut milk and spice paste for four hours until the liquid has gone entirely and the meat fries…
Small, tender meatballs in a creamy pan gravy, served with lingonberry jam and mashed potato. The bread-and-cream…
Thick steak grilled over fire and served under a green sauce of parsley, oregano, garlic and vinegar. Argentina's…
San Francisco's contribution to world food: a steamed flour tortilla wrapped around rice, beans, meat, cheese, salsa…
Minced beef in a rich gravy under a mash topping forked into ridges and browned. Cottage pie is beef; shepherd's pie…
The bistro standard done properly: a hard-seared steak rested under herb butter, with twice-fried chips that stay…
Beef shin braised in dark ale until it falls apart, under a lid of rough puff pastry baked until the top is…
Argentinian empanadas with a juicy, gently spiced beef filling, olives and egg, baked in a short pastry that stays…
Seasoned rice and a row of cooked fillings rolled in seaweed, brushed with sesame oil and cut into coins. Korea's…
A meatloaf that slices cleanly and stays moist, built on a panade and free-formed on a tray rather than steamed in a…
A true gulyás is a soup, not a stew: beef, onions and a great deal of sweet Hungarian paprika simmered with potatoes…
Corned beef, sauerkraut, Swiss cheese and Russian dressing between rye, griddled in butter until the cheese runs and…
Beef short ribs butterflied thin, marinated in soy, pear and sesame, and grilled over fire until the sugars char…
Beef cheek or chuck braised for hours with dried chillies, cloves and bay until it shreds under a fork, in juices…
Peru's great fusion dish: beef stir-fried in a wok with onion, tomato and soy sauce, served with both chips and…
Flank steak simmered until it shreds, then stewed in a sofrito of peppers, onions, olives and cumin until the sauce…
A breaded beef cutlet topped with ham, tomato sauce and melted cheese — Buenos Aires by way of Milan, and eaten with…
Griddled corn cakes made from pre-cooked maize flour, split open and stuffed. Venezuelans and Colombians both claim…
Thinly sliced beef and onion simmered for four minutes in dashi, soy and mirin, then tipped over rice. Japan's…
Beef mince cooked down in a sweet-sharp tomato sauce and spooned onto a soft bun, engineered to be eaten with both…
Beef shank stewed overnight in a spice-heavy gravy thickened with wheat flour, finished with ginger, chilli and…
The mildest and most aromatic Thai curry, carrying Persian and Indian influence in its cinnamon, cardamom and…
Fillet of beef wrapped in mushroom duxelles and prosciutto, encased in puff pastry and baked until the pastry is…
Thin beef skewers coated in yaji, a spice mix built on ground peanuts, chilli and ginger, grilled over coals and…
Wide rice noodles seared in a smoking wok with velveted beef, beansprouts and chives. Judged on wok hei and on…
Corn dough shells filled with potato and shredded beef, deep fried until the outside is crackly and deep yellow…
A flaky turmeric-yellow pastry folded around spiced beef filling, crimped and baked until the edges are crisp and…
A hot pot cooked at the table: thin beef seared in a heavy iron pan, then simmered in a sweet soy warishita with…
Beef skirt, potato, swede and onion, all raw, sealed in shortcrust and baked for nearly an hour so everything cooks…
Ground melon seeds cooked in palm oil with leafy greens, meat and stockfish until they set into rich, savoury curds…
Naples' answer to bolognese, and nothing like it: whole cuts of beef and pork simmered in tomato for four hours…
Beef braised in Belgian brown ale with onions, a spoonful of brown sugar and a slice of mustard-spread bread stirred…
Large pleated Georgian dumplings with a soupy meat filling, held by the twisted knot and eaten in one go, with the…
Greek baked pasta: tubes of bucatini standing on end under spiced lamb and a thick béchamel set with egg and cheese…
Central Vietnam's spicy beef and pork noodle soup: a lemongrass and shrimp paste broth, thick round rice noodles…
Dense rye bread, buttered to the edges, built up with one main topping and a short list of things that agree with…
Small Siberian dumplings with a thin wheat wrapper and a raw meat filling, boiled and eaten with soured cream…
Wheat, barley, lentils and meat cooked for hours and then pounded together until the whole pot becomes one smooth…
Rice, a hamburger patty, brown gravy and a fried egg, stacked in that order. Hawaii's answer to a plate lunch, and…
Greek meatballs bound with bread soaked in wine, scented with mint and oregano, and fried until dark. Eaten hot with…
Cabbage leaves rolled around pork, beef and rice, then braised in tomato until the leaves are soft enough to cut…
A stiff beef ragout chilled solid, rolled into balls, breadcrumbed and deep fried until the outside is crisp and the…
The Antioquian platter: beans, rice, chicharrón, chorizo, minced beef, a fried egg, plantain, avocado and an arepa…
Chewy buckwheat noodles in an icy beef and radish broth, with pear, cucumber, sliced beef and half a boiled egg. The…
Beef marinated in vinegar and wine for three days, then braised and served with a sweet-sour gravy thickened with…
Curried minced beef with dried fruit under a set savoury custard, baked with bay leaves standing in the top. South…
Flat Peshawari patties of coarse beef with tomato, pomegranate seed and coriander seed, shallow fried in beef fat…
The dish the French call their national plate: beef and marrow bones simmered for hours with whole winter…
Goat or beef rubbed with salt and grilled slowly over low coals for an hour or more, then chopped on a board and…
Sicilian rice balls with a molten mozzarella and ragù heart, breadcrumbed and fried until they shatter…
Beef and potatoes simmered in dashi, soy and mirin until the potatoes have soaked up the broth and started to fall…
Beef sirloin larded with bacon and pot-roasted on a bed of root vegetables, the whole lot blended into a thick cream…
Danish pork and veal meatballs, flattened into ovals and fried in butter until brown on both sides, served with…
A beef and chicken filling under a thick layer of ground fresh corn and basil, baked in earthenware and sprinkled…
Skinless grilled sausages of beef and lamb, worked with garlic, bicarbonate of soda and stock until springy, and…
Tuna steak seared rare, over green beans, egg, olives and tomato with an anchovy vinaigrette — the Niçoise without…
Seasoned beef patties browned hard and simmered in a deep onion and mushroom gravy. Diner food done properly, which…
Brisket simmered for three hours until a fork slides in without resistance, with the vegetables added in the order…
A three-hour ragù with milk in it, finished with the pasta rather than ladled over it. Not the twenty-minute version…
Baked meatballs simmered in a quick tomato sauce, loaded into a roll that has been toasted with cheese first so it…
Courgette planks salted, griddled and used in place of pasta, under a proper ragù and a béchamel. The griddling is…
Cubes of sirloin seared hard in a smoking pan, then tossed off the heat in garlic butter. Ten minutes from fridge to…
Venezuela's national plate: shredded beef, black beans, white rice and fried sweet plantain, served side by side and…
Velveted beef seared hard with peppers and onion in a sauce built on a great deal of coarsely cracked black pepper…
Three meats, an onion, some peppercorns and water, in a low oven for three and a half hours. There is nothing else…
Norwegian meat cakes: coarse beef bound with potato starch and milk, fried and then simmered in their own brown…
A shortcrust base and a puff lid over a thick, dark beef filling that has been cooked and then cooled before it goes…
Flatbread stuffed with spiced minced beef and baked hard until the bread crisps and the fat soaks into it…
Penne bound in béchamel over a layer of spiced mince, baked until the top sets into a sliceable crust. Egypt by way…
Minced beef and lamb on skewers with onion, parsley and a lot of black pepper, grilled hard over coals or under a…
Alexandrian liver: beef liver cut into strips and cooked in seconds with chilli, garlic and cumin. The whole dish…
Sausage casings filled with spiced rice and mince, boiled and then fried until they blister. Fiddly, cheap, and one…
Filo layered over spiced mince and baked in a tray, cut into squares. Nothing to do with Hungarian goulash — the…
Fatma's fingers: malsouka pastry rolled around cheese, parsley and meat and fried into crisp cigars. The same pastry…
Liver or beef stewed slowly with an aggressive quantity of cumin — kamoun — until the sauce is dark and thick. One…
Long green peppers stuffed with spiced meat and rice and braised in a red sauce until the skins blister and slip…
Braised beef minced by hand under a potato purée and baked. The French version predates the English one and is made…
Beef marinated in red wine with orange peel and cooked for three and a half hours. Provence rather than Burgundy —…
Beef braised in dark beer with a slice of mustard-spread bread laid on top, which dissolves and thickens the sauce…
Raw beef chopped by hand and seasoned at the table with capers, shallot, mustard and egg yolk. Chopped, never minced.
Raw beef beaten paper-thin under a mustard mayonnaise, rocket and parmesan. Invented at Harry's Bar in Venice for a…
Roman rice croquettes with a piece of mozzarella at the centre that pulls into a thread when you bite it. Supplì al…
The Bologna ragù, which contains almost no tomato and cooks for three hours. Served on fresh egg tagliatelle and…
Tiny filled pasta in clear capon broth, and nothing else. Emilia at Christmas, and the broth matters as much as the…
Piedmontese filled pasta pinched shut along a single strip, so a row of them comes off the sheet in one go. Plin…
Naples' onion ragù, in which four kilos of onions cook down for four hours with a piece of beef until they turn…
Little pasta rings baked with ragù, peas and cheese into something you can cut in slices. Palermo eats it at room…
Beef braised for three hours in a bottle of Barolo until the wine has gone almost black and the meat gives way to a…
Several cuts of meat boiled in the same broth and carved at the table with a green sauce. Piedmont and Emilia both…
Oxtail braised four hours with an absurd amount of celery, finished with pine nuts and raisins. The dish the Roman…
Meatballs cooked in the sauce rather than before it, so the sauce takes on the meat and the meat stays soft. The…
Thin beef rolled around cheese, parsley and garlic, then braised in tomato until it can be cut with a spoon. Sicily…
Four hours of oxtail reduced to something almost black, thickened by nothing but its own gelatine. The best use of…
Suet pastry lining a basin, filled with beef and kidney and steamed for four hours until the crust is translucent…
Beef braised three hours with suet dumplings dropped on top for the last twenty minutes, where they steam rather…
Potatoes stewed in dripping with onions and whatever meat is left from Sunday, until the bottom catches slightly…
A marrow hollowed out, filled with spiced mince and baked with cheese on top. What the allotment demands every…
Brisket and daikon braised for three hours in a chu hou and bean paste sauce until the tendon has gone to jelly. The…
A thick clear soup of minced beef and egg white with a great deal of coriander. Hangzhou, and it takes twenty…
A thick, sweet red curry finished with kaffir lime and crushed peanuts. Drier than the other Thai curries, and richer.
Grilled beef sliced across the grain and served with nam jim jaew, a roasted rice and chilli dipping sauce. The…
Beef shin stewed with lemongrass, star anise and annatto until it falls apart, with carrots cut thick. Eaten with…
Skirt steak in a lime and orange marinade, grilled fast over the fiercest heat and sliced across the grain. Twenty…
A whole chuck joint browned and cooked three and a half hours with carrots and potatoes until it falls into pieces…
Minced beef in a sweet-sharp tomato sauce, spooned onto soft buns. Thirty minutes, one pan, and no packet mix.
Minced beef and pork cooked three hours in milk, wine and a little tomato. Not the red mince sauce, and worth the…
Beef baked with orzo in a cinnamon-scented tomato sauce until the pasta has drunk the lot. One dish, ninety minutes.
Small pork and beef meatballs in an almond and saffron sauce. A tapas plate, and the sauce is thickened with bread…
Minced beef cooked with real spices rather than a sachet, in corn tortillas with whatever you have. Twenty-five…
Meatballs browned and finished in the sauce, over spaghetti. Italian-American, and none the worse for it.
Oxtail simmered three hours and finished in a thick peanut sauce, eaten with salted shrimp paste on the side.
Beef marinated in lemongrass and turmeric, threaded thin and grilled fast over charcoal, with a peanut sauce made…
Beef heart marinated in ají panca and vinegar, grilled hard over charcoal. Lima's street food, and the marinade is…
Turmeric pastry folded round spiced minced beef and baked. The colour comes from the pastry, not the filling.
Beef simmered gently in broth with root vegetables and served in it, with apple horseradish alongside. Vienna's.
Beef braised in dark Belgian ale with a slice of mustard-spread bread stirred in to thicken it. Three hours.
Potatoes mashed with kale or endive and a well of gravy in the middle, with sausage laid across. Fifty minutes.
Short rib meat taken off the bone, chopped, seasoned and shaped back onto it, then grilled with a soy and pear glaze.
A clear beef broth over hand-pulled noodles with white radish, coriander and a spoonful of chilli oil. Two and a…
Chips under beef chilli and melted cheese, eaten with a fork before the bottom layer surrenders. Forty-five minutes.
A burger patty between rye bread with caramelised onion and Swiss cheese, griddled like a toastie. Thirty-five…
Corned beef and potato pressed into a hot pan and left alone until a crust forms. Forty minutes and one flip.