30 Ground Lamb Recipes That Will Help You Break Out of a Dinner Rut

This recipe doesn’t ask more of you than spaghetti and meatballs, besides a bit of patience. The sauce is gently simmered for about three hours to deepen its flavor.

Thanks to canned beans and quick-cooking veggies, this soul-soother only takes 45 minutes to come together.

A Syrian-inspired dish that’s just the starter for your next dinner party. Serve them with buttery pita and toasted pine nuts.

Chicken makes for a lighter dish, but the Middle Eastern staple is traditionally made from ground lamb or beef. Go ahead and deviate from the recipe—or create a sampler. (All three pair beautifully with the lemon-garlic aioli.)

These handhelds are sort of like Ethiopia’s answer to Indian samosas. They’re flaky, expertly spiced and packed with your favorite hummus.

Opt for baking the meatballs instead of pan-frying them. Not only will the oven help them hold their shape and moisture, but you’ll also save yourself from standing at the stove all night.

Pile ’em high with briny feta cheese, juicy tomatoes, crisp lettuce, sharp red onion and alllll the creamy tzatziki. (Fries couldn’t hurt either.)

Decadent ricotta and mascarpone cheeses are just the cooling foils for smoky ground lamb. Pop the naan pizzas on the grill for a barbecue main that your guests won’t see coming.

Instead of rolling seasoned lamb meat into balls, mold them into flat, patty-like pieces on bamboo skewers. (This makes them a cinch to grill.)

Complete with gluten-free corn tortillas, black olives and fresh produce. You can finish them with Greek yogurt, but we’re betting the usual Taco Tuesday condiments (like sour cream and guac) would still do the trick.

Aka spiced lamb-filled filo pastry. The beyond-flaky swirled masterpiece is studded with pine nuts and currants, but the best part is that it’s served with lemon yogurt sauce for dipping.

Substitute cauliflower rice for orzo to make this meal low-carb and keto-friendly. (It’s already packed with protein.)

You may think shepherd’s pie is filled with beef because that’s how your fave local pub makes it, but the O.G. actually starred minced lamb meat.

Catch us slathering the basil-infused cheese on grilled cheese sandwiches, stirring it into mac and cheese, stuffing it into chicken breasts and so much more.

They’re low-carb, satiating and ready to devour in 30 minutes—what more can you ask for in a weeknight dinner?

Ground lamb is the most natural pairing for couscous, hummus, feta and cukes, but you could always use beef or chicken instead.

The quick-pickled red cabbage slaw adds a refreshing, zingy je ne sais quoi to the handheld.

Meaty baby bella mushrooms, Roma tomatoes and red wine get a distinctly Mediterranean makeover, courtesy of ground lamb, feta cheese and fresh mint.

These beauties are finished with labneh, a type of strained yogurt that’s extra creamy and thick (yup, even more so than Greek yogurt).

Tell ground beef and cheddar cheese to make way for this Greek-inspired twist on a weeknight classic.

This aromatic appetizer is a guaranteed home run. Save time by starting with store-bought hummus—just don’t skip the toasted pine nuts on top.

The meatballs 1) are served atop a bed of egg noodles, 2) get doused in buttery gravy and 3) freeze like a charm. Need we say more?

Because you can only stay excited about your daily salmon bowl for so long. Did we mention it’s gluten free, dairy free and Whole30- and Paleo-friendly?

Think of this uber-rich baked dish as Greece’s equivalent to lasagna. We’re talking pasta mixed with red wine- and tomato-kissed lamb, coated in a thick layer of cheesy béchamel.

This recipe for stuffed Turkish flatbread starts with the easiest pastry dough of all time. (Seriously—no yeast required.)

Also called warak enab, these popular appetizers taste just as (if not more) delicious when they’re packed to the brim with ground lamb instead of ground beef.

This delightfully simple recipe screams spring. Might we suggest making it the main event of your casual Easter dinner?

Make this drool-worthy starter even easier to whip up: Trade top round lamb for ground lamb, so you won’t have to for the meat to marinate.

You’re only a few pantry staples (roasted red peppers! sun-dried tomatoes! Marcona almonds!) and a blitz in the food processor away from the lightning-fast sauce.

This dreamy eggplant casserole is bursting at the seams with ground lamb meat sauce and nutmeg-laced béchamel.

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