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Cook Frozen Ground Beef in 20 Minutes - Easy Recipe Tip

Quickly cook frozen ground beef without thawing or extra dishes! Get dinner on the table faster with this simple skillet method and tips.

Cook Frozen Ground Beef in 20 Minutes - Easy Recipe Tip
Cooking ground beef from frozen is a great dinner time hack!

It happens all too often: it’s 4pm and I don’t know what’s for dinner.

Now, having my pantry stocked correctly and my plan possibilities already lined out (in Simplified Dinners) does help tremendously in these situations. Actually, it enables me to have such situations, because I know I have meal-makings on hand that I can quickly pull together.

However, sometimes the meat is frozen, rock solid, at 4pm — or even later.

I found a solution to this dilemma, so I can be further enabled in my dinner-preparation-procrastination! And now you can be, as well. I found out that I can cook frozen ground beef quickly, without thawing in the microwave or using extra dishes.

Thaw Ground Beef Quickly Without the Microwave

Same dish, no extra mess, fast! The beef I am using is local, from the whole cow we purchased last summer. Our ground beef is packaged in 2-pound blocks.

cook ground beef from frozen
cook ground beef from frozen
cook ground beef from frozen
cook ground beef from frozen

And now you have dinner extra fast, and no evidence that you went all day without a plan for whatever marvelous dinner you were now able to pull off. You can cook frozen ground beef, right in the pan.

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