Dishes made with minced meat
19 dishes from around the world that list minced meat as a main ingredient.
Moussakaμουσακάς
🇬🇷 Greece and 5 moreBaked casserole of eggplant or potato, often layered with meat and sauce
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
Pelmeniпельмени
🇷🇺 RussiaRussian dumplings filled with seasoned meat and wrapped in thin dough
Dumpling, Lunch, Dinner
Kibbehكبة
🇸🇾 Syria and 5 moreSpiced ground meat and bulgur shaped, stuffed, and fried, baked or served raw
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
LahmacunMeat
🇸🇾 Syria and 3 moreThin flatbread baked with a topping of minced meat, vegetables and herbs
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
Cepelinai
🇱🇹 Lithuania and 1 moreLithuanian potato dumplings filled with meat, cheese or mushrooms
Dumpling, Lunch, Dinner
Mapo tofu麻婆豆腐
🇨🇳 China and 1 moreSichuan tofu in a spicy, numbing sauce with fermented beans and minced meat
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
Shepherd's pieMeatcottage pie
🇬🇧 United Kingdom and 5 moreBaked dish of minced meat under a layer of mashed potato
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
BobotieMeat
🇿🇦 South Africa and 5 moreSpiced minced meat baked with an egg topping, often with dried fruit
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
BoereworsMeat
🇿🇦 South Africa and 4 moreSouthern African sausage made from coarsely ground meat and spices
Sausage or cured food, Lunch, Dinner
Sarma
🇹🇷 Turkey and 5 moreLeaves wrapped around a filling of rice, minced meat and spices
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
Stuffed peppers
🇧🇬 Bulgaria and 5 moreBell peppers filled with seasoned mixtures and cooked until tender
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
Uszka
🇵🇱 Poland and 2 moreSmall twisted dumplings filled with mushrooms or meat, often served in borscht
Dumpling, Dinner
PastitsioMeatπαστίτσιο
🇬🇷 Greece and 2 moreGreek baked pasta layered with meat and creamy sauce
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
MurtabakMeatمُطَبَّق
🇾🇪 Yemen and 5 moreA stuffed, folded pancake or flatbread with savoury or sweet fillings
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
Chiles en nogadaMeat
🇲🇽 MexicoPoblano chiles stuffed with fruit and meat, topped with walnut sauce and pomegranate
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
Stuffed squash
🇹🇷 Turkey and 5 moreSquash or zucchini filled with rice and sometimes meat, simmered or baked
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
Bolani
🇦🇫 AfghanistanAfghan flatbread filled with vegetables or meat and fried until crisp
Bread, Lunch, Dinner
HawawshiMeatحواوشى
🇪🇬 Egypt and 1 moreEgyptian bread stuffed with spiced minced meat and baked until crisp
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
KoftaMeat
🇪🇬 Egypt and 5 moreMinced meat shaped into balls or patties, cooked with spices in many regions
Main dish
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Kofta: Tarihi Sultanahmet Köftecisi, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Chiles en nogada: Ahleli, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Moussaka: Fotograf: Dieter Mueller ( dino1948 ) Kamera: de:Nikon 885, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Bobotie: Olga Ernst, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Uszka: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Vegalabs, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Pelmeni: Eugene Kim @ Flickr, CC BY 2.0, source
- Boerewors: Conrad88 at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Kibbeh: Bazel, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Hawawshi: Mkevy, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Cepelinai: Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Sarma: Garrett Ziegler, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Shepherd's pie: Abhinaba Basu, CC BY 2.0, source
- Murtabak: Mojackjutaily, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Pastitsio: Sam Bailey, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Lahmacun: No machine-readable author provided. Rainer Zenz assumed (based on cop, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Stuffed squash: Bazel, Public domain, source
- Mapo tofu: ZhengZhou, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Stuffed peppers: Alice Wiegand, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Bolani: arnold | inuyaki, CC BY 2.0, source