Cooking Method: Meals in 60 Minutes

Quinoa and Beef-stuffed Peppers

With all the flavours of lasagna, kids love these colourful peppers. You will too, knowing that protein-rich lean beef and quinoa pack in a powerful nutrient punch.

Vietnamese Beef Soup

This fragrant, delicious and healthful beef soup recipe makes a meal in a bowl that cooks in minutes. Boiling stock is poured over paper-thin slices of raw beef in each serving bowl, instantly cooking the beef in this delicious Vietnamese Beef Soup.

Rustic Italian Beef and Tomato Soup

This simple beef based meal-soup recipe has two unlikely ingredients: tomato juice and day-old bread. The bread is an old-fashioned no-fat trick for thickening. A half cup (125 mL) of tomato juice represents one Food Guide Serving of vegetables.

Italian-Style Beef Hamburger Soup

This simple version of minestrone can be made with just about whatever vegetables you have in the fridge or freezer and Lean Ground Beef Sirloin.

Beef Chili Enchilada

For a twist on how to serve chili, try this baked enchilada recipe that starts off with a fabulous Beef and Black Bean Chili, made from pantry basics.

Sirloin Beef Gratin

Savour the flavour of lean sirloin beef in this easy bistro classic – the perfect end to a busy day. It’s a family-friendly recipe that’s still fancy enough for friends on a Friday night. Big Bonus: It doesn’t take a lot of pots and pans to prepare Sirloin Beef Gratin.

Hearty Beef Minestrone Soup

This stew-like minestrone is hearty enough to be a main course. It’s a beefy soup that both kids and parents will love.

Sunny Day Shepherd’s Pie

Shepherd's pie is comfort food at its finest. With just 241 calories per serving and a beta carotene-rich sweet potato topping, this version is a healthy twist on the old standby!

Skillet Ground Beef Stroganoff

So tasty and so simple. All the flavours and satisfaction of a traditional beef stroganoff recipe without all the work. Serve over broad egg noodles.

Corn and Black Bean Beef Chili

This recipe for Corn and Black Bean Beef Chili is a snap to pull together with simple pantry ingredients. Use it to fill tortillas and bake as a casserole (see Chili Enchiladas recipe below) or just serve from the pot with wedges of baked tortilla. If you prefer a fiery version, add a teaspoon or so chopped canned chipotle peppers.

Beef and Pasta Florentine

This crowd pleasing dinner-in-one casserole recipe is perfect when you have many at the table — a snap to make, easy to serve and faster to cook than a frozen lasagna. PLUS – you get all four food groups in this one dish, so good nutrition just takes care of itself. Lean Ground Round delivers BIG BEEF flavour as well as 14 essential nutrients including all five B-complex vitamins.

Thai Beef Soup

Don’t overlook ground beef for healthful easy recipe ideas — even when entertaining.This sophisticated but simple soup is fabulous not fussy.

Minestrone with Mucho Meatballs

This hearty minestrone comes with a multitude of meatballs! To avoid toughening meatballs, use your hands for mixing meatball ingredients and SHAPE GENTLY when forming the meatballs.

Argentinean Beef Meatball Soup

Who says low-fat cooking has to be bland – this delicious meal-soup recipe is packed-full of lively flavours and the goodness of beef.

Tagine-Style Beef and Rice

Transport yourself to sunny Morocco tonight with the bright flavours and exotic scents of this dish. For a simple next-day salad, just add a splash of berry or balsamic vinaigrette salad dressing and a handful of diced fresh veggies to any leftovers. If you use long grain rice, cooking time can be reduced to 20 minutes. Each serving is an excellent source of iron and vitamin C.

Ratatouille Veggie and Roast Beef Wrap

Leftover cooked roast beef makes life simpler and stretches your grocery dollars further — cook once, eat twice!

Beef Curry Stir-Fry

You can slice your own beef stir-fry strips from a Grilling or Fast-fry steak for this recipe or better yet, get the staff at the meat counter to do it for you.

Beef Steak with Smoked Salmon Roulade

Smoked salmon has long been a favourite in the Eastern provinces. Resourceful Easterners find unique ways to use this delicacy as here in this beef roulade.

Thai Beef Satay

Pretty on picks, this recipe for Thai Beef Satay is a favourite and is great as an appetizer or as a light dinner. Serve with peanut, plum or Thai chili sauce for dipping. For a short-cut, ask the meat counter staff to cut the beef steak into strips for you. Try this wonderful blend of flavours on beef kabobs, too.

Moroccan-Style Beef Brochettes

With these Moroccan-Style Beef Brochettes, you get a delicious all-in-one dinner recipe, packed with the powerful protein that lean Canadian beef provides along with the goodness of grains and grilled veggies.