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.
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 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!
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
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.
Jamie
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.
Camilla
Thank you Jamie, so glad you like the recipe. Lost count of how many times we’ve had this over the years:-)
Phillip Siviter
Pure comfort food on both sides of the border, shall be making this, thank you for sharing.
Camilla
Excellent, enjoy:-)
Colin
Mince ‘n tatties, though it wouldn’t be a baked potato, usually mashed.
Camilla
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.
Paul R
Great recipe. Just update the instructions to show the oil (for the onions?) and it’s bang on!
Camilla
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.
Julia Jessica Downing
Just about to make this. Sounds delicious xxxxxxx
Camilla
Excellent and you’ve reminded me I really need to re-shoot this recipe:-)
Joolz
Brought up on it, I always add sliced mushrooms, sometimes chilli flakes for a bit of heat.
Camilla
Great ideas:-)
Chelsea
Great recipe have made it umpteen times now and always goes down a treat
Camilla
Excellent, so glad you like it:-)
Johnson Johnsonson
Bangin’ recipe duck.
Jim Winzer
So glad I found this recipe, reminds me of my Mother’s cooking, thank you so much for sharing it
Camilla
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:-)
Christine Rollinson
This is a firm favourite now! Quick easy and nutritious
Camilla
Thank you Christine, so glad you like it:-)
Charlie
This was one of my husband’s favourites!
I adapted a stuffed pepper recipe to use onions, over 30 years ago to make these.
Camilla
Fab, was my hubby’s favourite from childhood:-)
lii
Love doing it
Martina Evans
This looks so tasty! Would love make this for dinner tomorrow night. Thanks for the recipe!
Camilla
Thanks Martina, a favourite of my hubby’s:-)
Danielle
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.
Camilla
Great Danielle, so glad you like it:-)
Paul Wilson
I used to like this at school.
Camilla
It’s amazing how popular this dish is:-)
Ursula Hunt
This meal always reminds me of growing up, a staple mid week meal in my childhood home
Camilla
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;-)
H. C. Andersen
Oh yeah, Millionbøf, a nice danish dish.
Remember to eat it with mashed potatoes, lots of it!
Camilla
Not one my mum ever made but she did do Minced Beefs (kind of chubby burgers without the bun) topped with fried onions:-)
William Gould
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!
Camilla
Aaw, you need to put your foot down LOL:-)
Herbert Appleby
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?
Camilla
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.
glenn hutton
So warming & comforting… Looks delicious!
Maya Russell
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.
Camilla
Ditto except I never had it but my husband grew up on this dish:-)
Paul Wilson
This looks really hearty on a cold day like this.
Camilla
It is simple, tasty comfort food indeed:)
Lisa Williams
looks great I never would of thought of putting it in a jacket 🙂 Thank you for the inspiration !
Heather Haigh
Comfort food at its best 🙂