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Minced Beef and Onions

Updated: 4th February 2025 · Published: 3rd April 2012 

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Minced Beef & Onions served in a jacket potato with carrots, courgettes & broccoli Pinterest. Image.
Minced Beef & Onions served in a jacket potato with carrots, courgettes & broccoli Pinterest. Image.
Minced Beef & Onions in a jacket potato on a plate with vegetable. Pinterest image.

Minced Beef and Onions is a traditional British dish. It’s comfort food that’s quick and simple to make and perfect for a midweek family meal.

Minced Beef & Onions on s jacket potato, carrots, courgette & broccoli.

With the unseasonably warm weather coming to an abrupt end this week my husband requested Minced Beef & Onions. It’s a delicious dish that his mother used to make.

Her version involved a ring of cooked marrow with potatoes and vegetables. 

This is my take on Minced Beef and Onions which I served in a jacket potato with courgettes (in a nod to the marrow), carrots and broccoli.

In Scotland, I believe it’s known as Minced Beef and Tatties!

Minced Beef & Onions with jacket potato, carrots, courgette & broccoli.

Minced Beef and Onions won’t win any beauty pageants, but it’s a comforting, budget-friendly family meal.

It’s also a great dish to make a double portion of and freeze for another day.

Make it on chilly evenings as an alternative to Spaghetti Bolognese or Chilli con Carne!

Minced beef & onions in a non-stick pan.

More recipes using minced or ground beef:

  • One Pot Minced Beef Hotpot
  • Italian Minced Beef Plait
  • BBQ Chilli Burgers with Spicy Guacamole
  • Simply Delicious Spaghetti Bolognese
  • Easy Cheesy Cheat’s Cottage Pie
  • Chocolate & Chorizo Chilli con Carne
  • Scottish Minced Beef Pie

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Minced Beef and Onions

Minced Beef and Onions is traditional British comfort food, simple and delicious!
Course Main
Cuisine British
Prep Time 5 minutes minutes
Cook Time 25 minutes minutes
Total Time 30 minutes minutes
Servings 4
Author Camilla Hawkins

Equipment

  • cook’s knife
  • Chopping Board
  • Measuring spoons
  • Measuring jug
  • Non-stick frying pan
  • Wooden spoon

Ingredients

  • 500 g Minced Beef/Steak
  • 1 Large onion chopped
  • 1 tbsp Plain flour
  • 1 tbsp Olive oil
  • 300 ml / ½ pt Beef stock
  • 3 dashes Worcestershire Sauce
  • Salt and Pepper

Instructions

  • Heat the oil in a deep non-stick pan over a medium heat.
  • Once hot, sweat the onions over low to medium heat for 10 minutes under a lid, stirring occasionally until softened (not browned).
  • Next add the minced beef and fry until browned.
  • Sprinkle on the flour and cook for a minute stirring continuously.
  • Add the stock, Worcestershire Sauce and seasoning and bring to the boil stirring until thickened.
  • Simmer for ten minutes on a low heat.
  • Serve with jacket potatoes or mash and vegetables.

Notes

Add more stock if the mixture becomes too thick.

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  1. Jamie

    05/08/2024 at 5:59 pm

    This was delicious! However I didn’t have beef stock and used a chicken bouillon cube.
    This is going to be a weekly regular (with beef stock next time). Thank you for sharing.

    Reply
    • Camilla

      06/08/2024 at 3:51 pm

      Thank you Jamie, so glad you like the recipe. Lost count of how many times we’ve had this over the years:-)

      Reply
  2. Phillip Siviter

    28/02/2023 at 12:11 pm

    Pure comfort food on both sides of the border, shall be making this, thank you for sharing.

    Reply
    • Camilla

      28/02/2023 at 12:17 pm

      Excellent, enjoy:-)

      Reply
  3. Colin

    06/12/2022 at 12:05 pm

    Mince ‘n tatties, though it wouldn’t be a baked potato, usually mashed.

    Reply
    • Camilla

      06/12/2022 at 5:06 pm

      This isn’t Mince & Tatties, I was trying to recreate the Mince and Marrow (it was actually stuffed) that my MIL used to make for my husband as a kid and paid lip service to that with the courgette when marrow wasn’t available. I’m sure people will serve this with mash too:-) Having a Danish mother this dish was not something I’d ever had in my childhood.

      Reply
  4. Paul R

    13/10/2022 at 4:16 pm

    Great recipe. Just update the instructions to show the oil (for the onions?) and it’s bang on!

    Reply
    • Camilla

      14/10/2022 at 10:33 pm

      Thank you so much for pointing out my omission Paul! In 9 years no-one has ever brought it up and yet it’s one of my most popular recipes:-) All fixed now.

      Reply
  5. Julia Jessica Downing

    24/01/2022 at 1:34 pm

    Just about to make this. Sounds delicious xxxxxxx

    Reply
    • Camilla

      25/01/2022 at 12:23 am

      Excellent and you’ve reminded me I really need to re-shoot this recipe:-)

      Reply
  6. Joolz

    22/12/2021 at 6:16 pm

    Brought up on it, I always add sliced mushrooms, sometimes chilli flakes for a bit of heat.

    Reply
    • Camilla

      22/12/2021 at 10:48 pm

      Great ideas:-)

      Reply
  7. Chelsea

    09/12/2020 at 5:53 pm

    Great recipe have made it umpteen times now and always goes down a treat

    Reply
    • Camilla

      09/12/2020 at 11:56 pm

      Excellent, so glad you like it:-)

      Reply
  8. Johnson Johnsonson

    16/10/2020 at 7:31 pm

    Bangin’ recipe duck.

    Reply
  9. Jim Winzer

    29/04/2020 at 3:53 pm

    So glad I found this recipe, reminds me of my Mother’s cooking, thank you so much for sharing it

    Reply
    • Camilla

      29/04/2020 at 4:44 pm

      LOL, I just read your comment out loud to my husband and he said “is that for Minced Beef and Onions”:-) It was a recipe his mother made and served in a marrow that I re-created:-)

      Reply
  10. Christine Rollinson

    01/03/2020 at 11:39 am

    This is a firm favourite now! Quick easy and nutritious

    Reply
    • Camilla

      01/03/2020 at 3:06 pm

      Thank you Christine, so glad you like it:-)

      Reply
  11. Charlie

    04/05/2019 at 1:55 pm

    This was one of my husband’s favourites!
    I adapted a stuffed pepper recipe to use onions, over 30 years ago to make these.

    Reply
    • Camilla

      04/05/2019 at 1:57 pm

      Fab, was my hubby’s favourite from childhood:-)

      Reply
  12. lii

    23/05/2017 at 6:12 am

    Love doing it

    Reply
  13. Martina Evans

    28/11/2015 at 9:41 pm

    This looks so tasty! Would love make this for dinner tomorrow night. Thanks for the recipe!

    Reply
    • Camilla

      28/11/2015 at 10:11 pm

      Thanks Martina, a favourite of my hubby’s:-)

      Reply
  14. Danielle

    12/11/2015 at 9:54 pm

    Delicious! Firmly established into our weekly family menu. Though I forgot to replenish my Worcestershire sauce and splodged a bit of HP brown sauce in instead, which went well with the roasted sweet potato and butternut squash I served it with.

    Reply
    • Camilla

      12/11/2015 at 10:16 pm

      Great Danielle, so glad you like it:-)

      Reply
  15. Paul Wilson

    07/07/2015 at 12:32 am

    I used to like this at school.

    Reply
    • Camilla

      07/07/2015 at 7:47 am

      It’s amazing how popular this dish is:-)

      Reply
  16. Ursula Hunt

    16/05/2015 at 11:05 am

    This meal always reminds me of growing up, a staple mid week meal in my childhood home

    Reply
    • Camilla

      17/05/2015 at 12:09 am

      My hubby had this as a child but having a Danish mum he introduced me to the idea as I’d not had it before;-)

      Reply
      • H. C. Andersen

        25/09/2016 at 10:40 am

        Oh yeah, Millionbøf, a nice danish dish.
        Remember to eat it with mashed potatoes, lots of it!

        Reply
        • Camilla

          25/09/2016 at 11:55 pm

          Not one my mum ever made but she did do Minced Beefs (kind of chubby burgers without the bun) topped with fried onions:-)

          Reply
  17. William Gould

    18/10/2014 at 8:51 am

    I fondly remember having “Minced Beef and Tatties” regularly as a kid made by my Scottish mother. Wife doesn’t like food with liquid in it though, so the closest I get these days is a Chilli!

    Reply
    • Camilla

      18/10/2014 at 3:15 pm

      Aaw, you need to put your foot down LOL:-)

      Reply
  18. Herbert Appleby

    13/07/2014 at 11:24 pm

    I like to fat reduce minced beef by frying it first then separating the meat from the hot fat then frying it together with the onions. Its quite shocking how much fat comes out. Have you ever put a recipe together with this method?

    Reply
    • Camilla

      15/07/2014 at 9:30 am

      I used to do that when I used fatty minced beef but these days I’m using more lean minced beef or minced steak with hardly any fat from a farm shop (in bulk so cheap) and therefore there’s no need.

      Reply
  19. glenn hutton

    16/06/2014 at 11:29 am

    So warming & comforting… Looks delicious!

    Reply
  20. Maya Russell

    23/12/2013 at 5:48 am

    My mother-in-law would serve minced beef like this in a ring of a large cooked marrow.Thank you for this really simple but tasty recipe.

    Reply
    • Camilla

      23/12/2013 at 10:38 am

      Ditto except I never had it but my husband grew up on this dish:-)

      Reply
  21. Paul Wilson

    23/12/2013 at 1:24 am

    This looks really hearty on a cold day like this.

    Reply
    • Camilla

      23/12/2013 at 10:39 am

      It is simple, tasty comfort food indeed:)

      Reply
  22. Lisa Williams

    17/10/2013 at 10:33 am

    looks great I never would of thought of putting it in a jacket 🙂 Thank you for the inspiration !

    Reply
  23. Heather Haigh

    07/10/2013 at 10:27 am

    Comfort food at its best 🙂

    Reply

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