Beef Main Dish Recipes

Looking for easy beef dinner ideas? These beef main dish recipes include everything from comforting casseroles and hearty pasta dishes to skillet meals, slow cooker favorites, burgers, and more. Whether you need a quick weeknight dinner or a satisfying meal for the whole family, you’ll find plenty of delicious ways to cook with beef here.

Close-up of a bite of meatball and rice with tomato sauce on a fork

Easy Baked Porcupine Meatballs

1 hour 15 minutes
Crockpot cola meatballs coated in a sweet and tangy barbecue sauce

Easy Crockpot Cola Meatballs

4 hours 5 minutes
Easy Loaded Taco Pizza with ground beef, refried beans, cheese, lettuce, sour cream, and salsa

Easy Loaded Taco Pizza

30 minutes
Ground beef sloppy joe filling topped with golden baked batter

Sloppy Joe Pot Pie

50 minutes

One-Pan Beef Enchilada Rice Skillet

20 minutes
One pot creamy beef and shells with ground beef, cheddar, and Parmesan cheese

One Pot Creamy Beef and Shells

30 minutes
Close-up of a juicy glazed cola burger with a sweet and tangy cola glaze

Glazed Cola Burgers

30 minutes
Close-up of healthy cowboy pasta salad with beef, bacon, beans, and corn

Healthier Cowboy Pasta Salad

45 minutes
Overhead view of Italian grinder pasta salad in a bowl

Italian Grinder Pasta Salad

30 minutes
Close-up of a homemade corn dog with golden cornbread coating

Homemade Corn Dogs

35 minutes
Loaded sloppy joe bowls with roasted potatoes, pickled red onions, pickles, cheese, and sour cream

Loaded Sloppy Joe Bowls with Roasted Potatoes

40 minutes
Friendship spaghetti pie baked with meat sauce, ricotta, and melted mozzarella cheese

Friendship Spaghetti Pie (Freezer Friendly)

50 minutes
Close-up of Mom’s sloppy joes on a bun with saucy ground beef filling

Mom’s Easy 4 Ingedient Sloppy Joes

20 minutes
Slow cooker creamy meatballs with tortellini in a creamy sauce

Slow Cooker Creamy Meatballs with Tortellini

3 hours 5 minutes
Cheesy cheeseburger pasta bake with ground beef, pasta, tomato soup, and melted cheese

Cheesy Cheeseburger Pasta Bake

45 minutes
Better than takeout Mongolian beef with tender beef and green onions served over rice

Better Than Takeout Mongolian Beef

1 hour 40 minutes
Easy Creamy Beef Skillet Spaghetti topped with melted mozzarella and Parmesan

Easy Creamy Beef Skillet Spaghetti

30 minutes
Bowl of homemade cheesy Italian shells with melted cheese and pasta shells

Homemade Cheesy Italian Shells (Better Than the Box!)

50 minutes
Slow cooker Hawaiian meatballs with pineapple in sweet barbecue sauce

Slow Cooker Hawaiian Meatballs

4 hours 5 minutes
Cowboy soup with ground beef, beans, potatoes, and vegetables in a bowl.

Easy Cowboy Soup (One-Pot Dinner)

35 minutes
Loaded cheeseburger bowl with roasted potatoes, ground beef, cheese, lettuce, and special sauce.

Loaded Cheeseburger Bowls

45 minutes
Instant Pot Frito Pie layered with seasoned beef, rice, chili beans, and crunchy corn chips.

Instant Pot Frito Pie (Easy 30-Minute Dinner!)

32 minutes
bowl of slow cooker vegeable beef noodle soup next to the slow cooker and plate of French bread

Slow Cooker Beef Vegetable Noodle Soup

9 hours 25 minutes
smoked bbq meatballs in a white dish

Easy Smoked BBQ Meatballs

2 hours 5 minutes
bowl of egg noodles tops with mushroom beef stroganoff sauce, a dollop of sour cream, and chopped green onion

Instant Pot Beef Stroganoff

35 minutes
bowl with roasted potato, taco meat, cheese, guacamole and sour cream with a bite of the bowl on a fork

Loaded Potato Taco Bowls

40 minutes
easy crock pot beef stew

Easy Crock Pot Beef Stew

8 hours 15 minutes
spaghetti and meatballs

Spaghetti and Meatballs

50 minutes
Easy Frozen Meatball Pot Roast

Easy Frozen Meatball Pot Roast

3 hours 10 minutes
easy hobo casserole

Easy Hobo Casserole

1 hour 15 minutes