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Ground beef fried with onion

Ground meat added to the fried onion and browned while breaking it up.

⏱ 19 min🧩 2 parts

👨‍🍳 Method

For the Fried onion

  1. 1
    Heat the olive oil in a wide pan over medium heat.
    ⚙ Pan-fryingStoveFrying pan
  2. 2
    Add the onion and fry 5–8 minutes, stirring now and then, until the onion is soft and translucent and starts to turn golden at the edges. If it browns too fast, lower the heat.
    ⚙ Adding to the hot fat and fryingStove
    💡Add by cooking time: what needs long (onion, carrot, meat) goes in first, and what burns fast (garlic, dry spices) goes in last, only until fragrant.

To assemble

  1. 3
    Raise the heat to medium-high and add the meat. Press it flat over the bottom and leave it for 2–3 minutes without stirring, until a brown crust forms.
    Stove
    💡Brown ground beef in the pot without pressing it: leave it as one 'cake' for a few minutes until a brown crust forms, then break it into chunks. Deep browning = deep flavor.
  2. 4
    Break it up with a wooden spoon and fry for 5–7 more minutes, stirring, until no pink is left and the meat browns.
    StoveWooden spoon
380calories
22 gprotein
2 gcarbs
31 gfat
● protein 24%● carbs 2%● fat 74%

Per serving (161 g), of 4 servings

For the Fried onion · To assemble ·

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⚖ About the ingredients

🔧 Tools needed (3) · 🍳 One cooking vessel

  • Stove · 💡 Workaround, changes the dish: Portable hot plate (one weaker burner) · Camping gas stove (One burner, outdoors) · Electric pressure cooker (multicooker) (One pot, no real shallow frying)
  • Frying pan · Also works: Wok (None) · 💡 Workaround, changes the dish: Pot (High sides, slow evaporation and weak browning)
  • Wooden spoon · Also works: Silicone spatula (None) · Spoon / teaspoon (regular) (a regular spoon gets hot)

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🧩 Parts

⚙️ What you can change

  • Possible additions: Sausage · Cumin · Baharat · Cinnamon · Hot paprika · Salt and pepper · Toasted pine nuts · Nutmeg · Almonds · Nuts fried (time) (1 minute) · Parsley · Serving (with rice) · Harissa · Paprika · Turmeric · Tomatoes cooked in the meat · Lemon juice at the end
  • Breaking-up and frying time (minutes): 5–7
  • Cooking with the spices (minutes): 5
  • Cooking the tomatoes in the meat (minutes): 5

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