Leftover beef

[barkingdog]

Hi

Does anyone have any good recipes for using leftover beef?

Thanks,
barkingdog

[barkingdog]

[Mrs Ava]

I grind it down and make cottage pie with it just by cooking some onions until soft, then making a gravy with stock, stir in the gound cooked beef until well combines, into a dish and cover with lashings of creamy mash.

[artichoke]

I've often made ?"rissoles" (I don't give them a name) by chopping or mincing the meat and any handy veg and herbs and onion/garlic mixing with scrunched up leftover bread or some flour, and an egg, make little balls and fry or bake them. Maybe tomato sauce. Children used to gulp them down eagerly.

[Still do - I've been making and freezing portions of  baby food for 18 mnth old, and his mother eats at least half of it].

[tim]

Just Beef-in-Gravy?

[Hippychick]

Hi

What about beef casserole?  We usually put in whatever veggies are to hand.  Celery or fennel really make a difference.  Mix a tablespoon of flour with a stock cube abd some red wine and add to the beef and veggies.  Add whatever herbs you like and a splosh of worcestershire sauce.

If there isn't enough meat for a decent casserole I use pre-soaked pinto and aduki beans to bulk it out a bit.  Cook for aslong as you like, but at least 2 hours on a low setting.  Keep an eye on it to stop it drying out and add more fluid as required, mine's normally more red wine!!

Will be having this tomorrow as have got roast brisket for dinner tonight.  With fresh home grown veggies of course :)

[Emagggie]

Cold unadulterated sliced beef and mustard with salad and a big jacket potato. Ambrosia. ;D

[manicscousers]

we use it as it is in a wrap shredded with lettuce, peppers and onion..yummmm  :)

[tim]

Of course, if it's nicely pink, a Chinese stir fry?

[Doris_Pinks]

Baked Beef Curry for us! ;D

[Tin Shed]

Cottage pie with a topping  potato and celeriac mash is on the menu for tonight.

[Blue Bird]

Sliced thinnly add black beans sauce and makes a brill deli bar style filling for jackets or wrapps

Also like it with mustard mayonnaise the sameway  ;D

[barkingdog]

Thanks for the suggestions, I'm feeling hungry now!

barkingdog

[cambourne7]

fryed red onion, sliced beef and very light mayo with garlic   :D

in a sandwich ( bread or roll )

[Jeannine]

Beef in a French Bread roll,warmed up with gravy in a pot for dipping. XX Jeannine

[tim]

Should have added that, if really rare, Beef Olives!

[Jellycakesforme]

Cold meat and salad, or sliced in a sandwich with homemade plum sauce. 

[Barnowl]

Assuming it's cooked beef I wouldn't go for a casserole - boiling beef that has been roasted usually makes it pretty tough. The only thing I remember from Michel Roux  (everything else was too complicated - how many of us have a duck press for heaven's sake?) is that he says boiling any meat that has previously been roasted is a complete no-no.

How about mincing it with some other goodies (e.g. softened onion, chillies) and use it to stuff a pasta like cannelloni or pancakes, with soem tomato or cheese sauce on top?

[Curryandchips]

One of my favourite ways of using leftover beef is to make half inch cubes and stir fry with onions and mushrooms, tomatoes if available, and spice to taste, for me this is normally chillies, then serve with a vegetable rice ...

[Jellycakesforme]

The salad in "cold meat and salad" is usually things just arranged on the plate.  For example, hard boiled eggs, halved, slices of tinned beetroot, maybe canned asparagus spears, even slices of orange, lettuce and tomato and mayonnaise and canned pineapple rings.  The meat is served with pickles or relish. 

[tim]

If it's still there after 40 days- bin it!!