Ground beef
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Ground beef, or, in British English beef mince, is a meat product, made of beef finely chopped by a meat grinder. Ground beef is sometimes referred to as hamburger meat or just hamburger, because one of its most popular uses is making the sandwich of that name.
Ground beef also features prominently as an ingredient in:
- meatloaf
- sloppy joe
- Tex-Mex cuisine
- Midwestern cuisine
- Italian cuisine: the Italians use it to make meat sauces for, for example, lasagna and spaghetti bolognese
- in the Middle East it is used to make spicy kofta and meatballs
In some cultures other meats are used ground, instead of beef. In South Asia both lamb (mutton) and goat meat are also minced to produce keema, though the process of mincing is manual.