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What goes well with ground meat?

We analyzed over 500,000 recipes to figure out which ingredients makes ground meat better. On average, recipes with ground meat received a 4.36⭐ review scores. However, in some combinations, review scores improved significantly.
These are the most important combinations we found:


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Remember this is how people score them online. A bad combination might not be a bad combination. It might be hard to cook or people make poor substitutions. If you think it makes sense to use something, just pay extra attention.

Here are some great recipes we found with ground meat:

Meatballs With Any Meat

Meatballs With Any Meat
cooking.nytimes.com
Review: 5/5 Dish Dragon Score: 6.7/10

Toasted Barley With Minced Meat

Toasted Barley With Minced Meat
cooking.nytimes.com
Review: 4/5 Dish Dragon Score: 6.6/10

Vegan Turkish Kebabs With Sumac Onions and Garlic-Dill Mayonnaise

Vegan Turkish Kebabs With Sumac Onions and Garlic-Dill Mayonnaise
cooking.nytimes.com
Review: 5/5 Dish Dragon Score: 6.6/10

Gnocchi With Light Bolognese Sauce

Gnocchi With Light Bolognese Sauce
cooking.nytimes.com
Review: 4/5 Dish Dragon Score: 6.6/10

Tex Mex Salad Bowls

Tex Mex Salad Bowls
cleanfoodcrush.com
Review: 4.36/5 Dish Dragon Score: 6.6/10

Alligator Chili

Alligator Chili
cooking.nytimes.com
Review: 4/5 Dish Dragon Score: 6.5/10

Crispy Burrito Baskets

Crispy Burrito Baskets
chefalli.com
Review: 4.36/5 Dish Dragon Score: 6.5/10

Spiced Ground Meat Skewers

Spiced Ground Meat Skewers
cooking.nytimes.com
Review: 4/5 Dish Dragon Score: 6.5/10

Healthy Enchilada Dip

Healthy Enchilada Dip
fitfoodiefinds.com
Review: 5/5 Dish Dragon Score: 6.5/10

The Best Ever Vegetarian Meatballs

The Best Ever Vegetarian Meatballs
bromabakery.com
Review: 4.36/5 Dish Dragon Score: 6.4/10

Supreme Pizza Zucchini Boats Perfect Weekend Food!

Supreme Pizza Zucchini Boats Perfect Weekend Food!
cleanfoodcrush.com
Review: 4.36/5 Dish Dragon Score: 6.4/10

Sloppy Joes Recipe

Sloppy Joes Recipe
copykat.com
Review: 5/5 Dish Dragon Score: 6.3/10

Taco Stuffed Avocados aka “Avo-Tacos”

Taco Stuffed Avocados aka “Avo-Tacos”
cleanfoodcrush.com
Review: 4.36/5 Dish Dragon Score: 6.3/10

Burger Plate

Burger Plate
cooking.nytimes.com
Review: 4/5 Dish Dragon Score: 6.3/10

Naked Ravioli

Naked Ravioli
cooking.nytimes.com
Review: 3/5 Dish Dragon Score: 6.2/10

White Sweet Potato Sloppy Joe’s!

White Sweet Potato Sloppy Joe’s!
cleanfoodcrush.com
Review: 4.36/5 Dish Dragon Score: 6.2/10

Eggplant Moussaka

Eggplant Moussaka
cooking.nytimes.com
Review: 4/5 Dish Dragon Score: 6.2/10

Pilaf With Meat

Pilaf With Meat
cooking.nytimes.com
Review: 5/5 Dish Dragon Score: 6.1/10

Best Easy Chili Recipe

Best Easy Chili Recipe
fitfoodiefinds.com
Review: 4.36/5 Dish Dragon Score: 6.1/10

Just Good Chili

Just Good Chili
food52.com
Review: 4.44444/5 Dish Dragon Score: 6.1/10

Asian Beef Bowls

Asian Beef Bowls
chefalli.com
Review: 5/5 Dish Dragon Score: 6/10

Pizza Monkey Bread

Pizza Monkey Bread
copykat.com
Review: 5/5 Dish Dragon Score: 5.9/10

Puerto Rico Meatloaf

Puerto Rico Meatloaf
copykat.com
Review: 4/5 Dish Dragon Score: 5.8/10

Homemade Breakfast Sausage

Homemade Breakfast Sausage
dontwastethecrumbs.com
Review: 5/5 Dish Dragon Score: 5.8/10

Vegan Chili

Vegan Chili
cooking.nytimes.com
Review: 4/5 Dish Dragon Score: 5.7/10

Easy Chili Pasta Bake

Easy Chili Pasta Bake
lovefoodies.com
Review: 4.36/5 Dish Dragon Score: 5.2/10

Italian Stuffed Zucchini

Italian Stuffed Zucchini
cleanfoodcrush.com
Review: 4.36/5 Dish Dragon Score: 4.1/10

Mary Nichols’ Shepherd Pie

Mary Nichols’ Shepherd Pie
copykat.com
Review: 5/5 Dish Dragon Score: 3.2/10

Stuffed Zucchini – Italian Style Recipe

Stuffed Zucchini – Italian Style Recipe
cleanfoodcrush.com
Review: 4.36/5 Dish Dragon Score: 3.2/10

Vegan Cheeseburgers

Vegan Cheeseburgers
cooking.nytimes.com
Review: 4/5 Dish Dragon Score: 3.1/10




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