Take Ground Beef From Dry To Creamy With One Key Ingredient

Ground beef is a staple in many dishes across America. It's added to all kinds of soups, stews, pastas, wraps, and more. However, ground beef varies in quality, and some of it might be a little too dry for whatever recipe you want to incorporate it into. If this is the case, never fear; you can make your ground beef deliciously creamy using nothing but cottage cheese.

Since cottage cheese is a dairy product with a lot of moisture, it's a great way to make beef less dry and more deliciously creamy. Simply stir a generous helping of cottage cheese into a bowl of ground beef. While it might look a bit strange, it makes the dish much more appetizing in terms of both taste and texture. 

This is a common combination for creating a beef bowl, with many people posting recipes for bowls with seasoned beef, cottage cheese, and vegetables on sites like Reddit. This can be a great way to fix the dry quality and flavor of overcooked meat, and the cottage cheese's mild and creamy taste is also the perfect accompaniment to spices like taco seasoning, making it great for a burrito or wrap. This hack can be done with any cottage cheese brand, including whichever one you already have in your fridge.

There are lots of ways you can further improve beef and cottage cheese; for instance, try mixing in hot honey with the cottage cheese, adding both sweet and spicy flavor alongside the creamy texture. This would be perfect to put in a wrap or a bowl alongside fresh vegetables like lettuce, avocado, and tomato; the varied flavors and textures all come together into something greater than the sum of its parts, leaving you with a tasty and satisfying dish free of dry beef. Another great option is a sweet potato beef bowl, which you can find tons of recipes for online. It would also go great in a cheesy pasta recipe, such as beef stroganoff.

Another suggestion would be to add tomato or pasta sauce, creating essentially a lasagna bowl without the noodles. This is a great way to get in a simple yet delicious high-protein meal or post-exercise snack, with the cottage cheese improving both the texture and flavor by giving it a cheesy boost. It can also be used in actual pasta dishes: cottage cheese pasta is an obvious choice. For a different tomato-based treat, mix in homemade salsa and use it as a dip for chips (or even pour it on top of them like nachos). No matter what you choose, you can rest assured your beef will have a much more satisfying texture.