Here’s my solution when I accidentally cooked my ground turkey when trying to thaw in the instant pot. I sautéed some onions and garlic and tossed it in the food processor with the turkey, seasoning, 2 tbls ground flax seed and a can of well drained black beans. Blend until a thick coarse paste. Mix in a bowl with some relish (I used sweet red pepper relish), a bit of flour and some dry oatmeal. Form into patties and cook. Yummy! Hope it helps.
Hello! Of course the person who was making this almost 4 years ago doesn't need this comment now, but working with keto foods for my son with disabilities I was looking for someone else who may have found an answer I found your site, hit nobody had a successful solution that I could see. So I tried a solution with success and I hope it will help someone else in the future: I used a food scale tared out to measure 60g of seasoned, well-drained, cooked ground beef (I had low fat ground beef-of course let the beef cool a bit so so you can work with it.) Then in a separate bowl I measured out 15-20g of brown or golden flax seed meal (whatever I had available-you can grind up whole seeds in a Bullet or blender if you have one). Then you pour the flax mixture into the ground beef, and stir well. Wait 5 minutes. Then use food service glove-laden hands to firmly press the mixture into patties. I put two patties on toasted keto bread and he ate then immediately and they stayed together pretty well. For the leftover beef I continued the process and wrapped each patty in plastic wrap in a container and put them in the fridge. I don't know how well they will stay together to cook being refrigerated, perhaps freezing and cooking the patties frozen will keep them together better. I hope this helps. Shalom!
In cooking fat is usually used as a binding agent. Here's what I tried with mixed results, but effective nonetheless. Melt cheese into thick beef stock (fattier is better) or some lard if on hand. Let cool until you're able to use it as a "clay" to mold the meat into patties. The quantity is important. Use too little and they crumble, use too much and they melt. I used about 2 tbsp of the "mixture" per patty. Freeze the ABC patties overnight. Throw on a hot skillet without thawing. Since the meat is cooked, you just want to see that it's heated to at or above 165F. If you succeed, enjoy!
I know I’m late but I have a decent solution to making a burger patty from already cooked ground beef. First i got a cirlcular Tupperware made from glass about the size of a burger, I put meat in there and put it to warm up in my oven. After I took it out once it was warm and put two cut up string cheeses and mixed it to make sure there’s some all over the meat, and put it back in the oven until the cheese fully melted. I prepared the bread I was going to use and flipped the tupperware over the bottom bread to get it on there. Some meat fell off the sides but most stayed together inside the burger. I also forgot to say I used pepper and garlic on the meat because when I cooked the meat I only used premade seasoning which isn’t good for burgers. Hope this helps someone.
I once, in my foolish youth, attempted to do something of the sort by binding it with egg- didn't work at all, but it did teach me something about the effectiveness of egg as a binder for meat.
Options...Make it into Sloppy Joes.
Use it in spaghetti sauce.
Turn it into chili.
Saute onions, peppers, eggs, and beef for an egg scramble.
You won’t be able to make a hamburger out of it but lots of other fun dishes.
BB
If it's already cooked and crumbly, I would say you don't, sorry. I would be curious if anyone else has a creative fix though, maybe I'm wrong. But it wouldn't hurt to think of another use for your ground beef.
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I sautéed some onions and garlic and tossed it in the food processor with the turkey, seasoning, 2 tbls ground flax seed and a can of well drained black beans. Blend until a thick coarse paste. Mix in a bowl with some relish (I used sweet red pepper relish), a bit of flour and some dry oatmeal. Form into patties and cook. Yummy! Hope it helps.
Of course the person who was making this almost 4 years ago doesn't need this comment now, but working with keto foods for my son with disabilities I was looking for someone else who may have found an answer I found your site, hit nobody had a successful solution that I could see. So I tried a solution with success and I hope it will help someone else in the future: I used a food scale tared out to measure 60g of seasoned, well-drained, cooked ground beef (I had low fat ground beef-of course let the beef cool a bit so so you can work with it.) Then in a separate bowl I measured out 15-20g of brown or golden flax seed meal (whatever I had available-you can grind up whole seeds in a Bullet or blender if you have one). Then you pour the flax mixture into the ground beef, and stir well. Wait 5 minutes. Then use food service glove-laden hands to firmly press the mixture into patties. I put two patties on toasted keto bread and he ate then immediately and they stayed together pretty well. For the leftover beef I continued the process and wrapped each patty in plastic wrap in a container and put them in the fridge. I don't know how well they will stay together to cook being refrigerated, perhaps freezing and cooking the patties frozen will keep them together better. I hope this helps. Shalom!
Here's what I tried with mixed results, but effective nonetheless.
Melt cheese into thick beef stock (fattier is better) or some lard if on hand.
Let cool until you're able to use it as a "clay" to mold the meat into patties. The quantity is important. Use too little and they crumble, use too much and they melt. I used about 2 tbsp of the "mixture" per patty.
Freeze the ABC patties overnight.
Throw on a hot skillet without thawing.
Since the meat is cooked, you just want to see that it's heated to at or above 165F.
If you succeed, enjoy!
Use it in spaghetti sauce.
Turn it into chili.
Saute onions, peppers, eggs, and beef for an egg scramble.
You won’t be able to make a hamburger out of it but lots of other fun dishes.
BB