Yahoo Sports 45 Delicious Beef Dinner Ideas That Everyone Will Love
Whether you love steak, brisket, or burgers, you'll find something tasty to shake up your dinner routine.
Caitlin Bensel
While steak and potatoes is a time-honored dinner favorite, you're probably looking for a way to shake up your weekly meal planning. You're in luck: These beef dinner ideas feature the classic main dish with fresh flavors and recipes that'll up your game.
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Whether your family is all-in on burgers, tacos, stews, or stir fries, you'll find something simple (and simply delicious) to try this week.
Hanger Steak With Roasted Red Pepper Sauce
A bright and bold roasted red pepper sauce is the perfect accompaniment for hanger steak. (P.S. If you're not feeling like steak, this sauce works well with other cuts of beef, or chicken or fish as well.)
Hanger Steak With Roasted Red Pepper Sauce
Grilled Skirt Steak With Squash Ratatouille
This fresh take on the standard ratatouille includes two types of squash and eggplant, and it all cooks up beautifully on the grill. (You chop the vegetables after cooking so it's easy to grill.)
Grilled Skirt Steak With Squash Ratatouille
Easy Pot Roast
This simply delicious recipe simmers away for hours in the oven for the tenderest beef, topped with a flavorful array of veggies. It's the perfect cozy comfort food dish for a Sunday dinner.
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Slow-Cooker Birria Bowls
This flavorful Mexican beef stew is a cinch to make in the slow cooker. You can always swap out the beef for other meat if you don't have chuck roast on hand.
Thai Beef Salad
A brown-sugar rub gives the skirt steak in this tasty Thai salad a caramelized, crispy exterior and a punch of flavor. Mint adds a touch of freshness that balances out the rich steak.
Grilled Chipotle Steak with Okra and Corn
Fred Hardy
This cook-on-the-grill dinner is perfect for the hottest days of summer, when you don't want to working away over a cooktop. Okra, summer corn, and skirt steak are accompanied by zesty lime and adobo, with a sprinkling of cilantro over the top for extra flavor.
Grilled Chipotle Steak with Okra and Corn
Steak and Potato Skewers With Orange Salsa
Skewers make it so easy to grill smaller items, like mini potatoes—and allow you to customize skewers for fussier eaters. Orange salsa adds a touch of brightness to traditional meat and potatoes.
Steak-and-Potato Skewers With Orange Salsa
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Fajita Steak Salad
Take the fajita beyond the tortilla, by serving your favorite fixings as part of a salad. A creamy sour cream and lime dressing is the perfect accompaniment.
Hanger Steak With Buttery Mashed Carrots
Tweak the traditional steak and potatoes by swapping out the mashed potatoes for sweet (yet still creamy) mashed carrots. Herby chimichurri sauce adds a bold dash of flavor for both the steak and the carrots.
Hanger Steak With Buttery Mashed Carrots
Gochujang Beef Brisket
The secret ingredient for this sweet-and-savory brisket recipe is gochujang, a fermented soybean and chile paste from Korea. It gives your brisket a slightly sweet and spicy flavor profile.
Bulgogi With Cucumber Kimchi Salad
Joanna Gaines shared this stellar family recipe, which is a bit sweeter (but just as delicious) as traditional bulgogi. Kimchi spices up a cooling cucumber salad on the side.
Joanna Gaines' Bulgogi With Cucumber Kimchi Salad
Balsamic Steak With Radicchio and Pears
A tasty balsamic dressing is the perfect balance for the sweet pears, bitter radicchio, and hearty steak. The whole meal is cooked on the grill (or your grill pan), making it perfect for those scorching hot summer days.
Balsamic Steak With Radicchio and Pears
Slow-Cooker Coffee-Braised Brisket With Potatoes and Carrots
Beef brisket is a cozy beef dinner idea, perfect for a chilly winter day. It takes just 10 minutes of prep and a slow cooker to keep it going all day long, and you have a full meal—tender beef, a rich sauce, and delicious veggies—ready to enjoy.
Slow-Cooker Coffee-Braised Brisket With Potatoes and Carrots
Ginger Stir-Fry Beef With Green Beans
In just a half-hour, you can get this spicy yet simple-to-make stir fry on the table. The sauce combines staples like soy sauce, sesame oil, and chili garlic sauce with a spike of ginger for a punch of flavor.
Ginger Stir-Fry Beef With Green Beans
Red Wine Braised Brisket
Cooking brisket and veggies low and slow in a red wine and honey sauce produces a tender and flavorful meal. It's perfect for holidays like Rosh Hashanah—but doesn't have to be saved for a special occasion.
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Steak House Bibimbap Bowls
Bibimbap is a great weeknight dinner idea—and a perfect way to avoid food waste by using up leftovers. Go ahead and sauté up that half a pepper, chop up those extra scallions, and toss in a little crispy tofu. (And bonus: It's surprisingly good for picky eaters, as everyone can make up their own bowl with their favorite fixings.)
Hanger Steak With Warm Kale and Crispy Cheese Salad
Skip the standard croutons and add crispy chunks of cheese to top the warm kale salad. (Hint: the secret to a decadent and flavorful kale salad? A quick braise with tomatoes and chopped anchovy.)
Hanger Steak With Warm Kale and Crispy Cheese Salad
Spiced Mini Burgers With Couscous Salad
When you think burgers, you probably think of big buns and loads of toppings. But these spicy, mini Mediterranean-style burgers come with a fresh couscous salad on the side.
Spiced Mini Burgers With Couscous Salad
Steak Salad With Herby Dressing
Fred Hardy
Herby dressing brightens up this steak salad packed with an array of flavorful veggies. It's the perfect light dinner for a summer night.
Steak Salad With Herby Dressing
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Beef Bok Choy Stir Fry
Bok choy is a classic stir fry ingredient that's packed with vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants—and a perfect foil to the thin strips of beef.
Turkish-Style Beef and Eggplant Stew
This tasty beef stew can be cooked in the slow cooker or the instant pot. Cumin, oregano, and Aleppo pepper give the stew plenty of flavor.
Turkish-Style Beef and Eggplant Stew
Horseradish Beef Tenderloin
Horseradish brings the heat to this take on beef tenderloin. With only 10 minutes of prep time, it's a great choice for a dinner party (but also perfect for a busy weeknight, too).
Horseradish-Crusted Beef Tenderloin
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Sloppy Joe Biscuits With Roasted Broccolini
Sloppy Joes are an easy dinner classic. Serving it on biscuits gives it a Southern-style vibe.
Sloppy Joe Biscuits With Roasted Broccolini
Slow-Cooker Shepherd's Pie
The classic British dish can be made just as easily in the slow cooker. The potatoes cook until tender in the slow cooker, then are mashed on the side to top off the dish.
Steak and Blackberry Salad
This easy beef dinner idea is summer in a dish, with arugula, blackberries, goat cheese and pistachios adding sweet, peppery, and creamy notes.
Speedy Steak and Blackberry Salad
Udon With Seared Beef and Zucchini
Greg DuPree
Serve your beef Japanese style with this recipe, which features zucchini, mushrooms, chilis, and a tasty soy ginger sauce. The best part? You can have it ready in just 30 minutes.
Udon with Seared Beef & Zucchini
Parm-Butter Steak and Sweet Potato Fries
Compounded butters are a great way to infuse flavors into steak. Here, parmesan and butter combine for a flavorful topper for your steak—and sweet potato fries are the perfect side.
Parm-Butter Steak and Sweet Potato Fries
Sheet Pan Cheesesteak Sandwiches
Make Philly cheesesteaks in a flash with this one-pan recipe. A tasty steak marinade and a few sliced and diced peppers and onions make this an easy (and well-loved) weeknight meal.
Sheet Pan Cheesesteak Sandwiches
Five-Spice Steak With Couscous
Five spice powder is a Chinese-style flavor blend, featuring star anise, cloves, cinnamon, Sichuan peppercorns and fennel seeds. It imbues steak with a pop of flavor.
Five-Spice Steak With Couscous
Roasted Petite Filet of Beef
This petite filet of beef requires just 10 minutes of prep. Pair it with your favorite side dishes for a delicious beef dinner.
Smoky-Sweet Steak Supper
CAITLIN BENSEL
A brown sugar-paprika rub helps the steak caramelize on the grill, and a tasty vinaigrette adds plenty of flavor to the green bean and tomato salad.
Pan-Roasted Steak With Creamed Kale
Creamy kale and cannellini beans are the perfect side dish for strip steak that's browned on the stovetop and finished in the oven. It's something that's impressive enough for a dinner party, but fast and easy to make.
Pan-Roasted Steak With Creamed Kale
Kimchi Beef Wontons
If you're looking for a lighter beef dinner idea, try these dumpling-like goodies, which feature beef and kimchi wrapped in wontons.
Garlic Skirt Steak Tacos
A quick rub with garlic adds flavor to the skirt steak before you pop it in the skillet. This one-pan meal is a fast—yet impressive—option for your taco night.
Slow-Cooker Beef and Noodle Curry
Fred Hardy
Okay, we admit it: We're kind of in love with the slow cooker for beef, as it gives it that very tender texture. Try it here in a flavorful curry that cooks all day, with a few last-minute additions to the slow cooker (and a quick cook for the rice noodles) to finish it off when you're ready to eat.
Comforting and Delicious Slow-Cooker Beef and Noodle Curry
Beef and Cabbage Skillet Supper
Love beef cabbage rolls, but don't have the time to do all that wrapping? This recipe features all the flavors, but comes together in under a half hour.
Beef and Cabbage Skillet Supper
Roast Beef and Onions
The secret to getting that perfect crust on your roast beef? Season and wrap up your roast and let it sit overnight, then let it sit uncovered for an hour before cooking to give the exterior a little dryness.
Spice-Braised Short Ribs
Don't be freaked out by the long cooking time for this tasty dish. Most of that is hands-off while the marinade works its magic, and a three-hour time in the oven that leads to the perfect tender short ribs.
Korean Soy-Sesame Beef
The marinade is the star of this main-course dish, with pear nectar, soy sauce, ginger, brown sugar, sesame oil, and chili-garlic sauce combining for a sweet-spicy-umami flavor profile. Consider starting this in the morning, so the steak can sit in the marinade all day long for plenty of flavor.
Slow-Cooker Classic Beef Stew
The slow cooker is the ultimate hack for creating the perfect stews. This make-ahead meal takes 30 minutes of prep in the morning, then you simply set-it-and-forget it—yet it's special enough for a cozy dinner party with friends.
Garlicky Hoisin Beef
If you want to freshen up your stir fry game, this easy sauce features hoisin's signature sweetness, but offset by scallions and savory soy sauce. You'll get this on the table faster than your favorite Chinese takeout can deliver.
Beef Beer Pot Pie
If you're looking for a hearty beef dinner idea for winter, this easy pot pie will become a family favorite. Stout beer adds flavor to the root vegetable and beef filling, and an easy puff pastry crust tops it all off.
Steak With Gnocchi and Green Beans
Think meat and potatoes, Italian style. Potato gnocchi and green beans pair beautifully with hanger steak.
Steak With Gnocchi and Green Beans
Bulgogi Inspired Beef Tacos
Try a little bit of Mexican-Asian fusion with these East-meets-West tacos. The best part? You can whip these up in 15 minutes flat.
Smash Burger With Wedge Fries and a Secret Sauce
Skip the drive through and make your own burgers and fries with this fast-and-easy beef dinner idea. The secret sauce? It's ketchup, mayo, and diced pickles. (Feel free to add cheese and other toppings to create your ultimate burger.
Smash Burger With Wedge Fries and a Secret Sauce
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