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Minced meat

Also called ground meat, mince and ground round

Minced meat is ground meat. Cooks bake, braise, grill, or steam it, and use it as a stuffing.

  • Meat
  • Pork depends on the product

About the plain ingredient, not packaged products; general information, not medical advice. Details

Made from
Meat
Cooked most in
Asia, Europe, Africa
Top country
Türkiye
Minced meat, whole

Photo: Rainer Zenz · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use minced meat

Typical ways to cook or use it

  • Bake
  • Braise
  • Grill
  • Steam
  • Stuff

Cooking with it

Cook ground meat all the way through rather than only searing it. Use a food thermometer: ground meat should reach 160 °F (71 °C), and ground poultry 165 °F (74 °C). Do not rely on colour to judge whether ground beef is safely cooked.

Around the world

Where minced meat is cooked

27 dishes in the catalogue use minced meat. Here is where they come from.

Dishes by continent

Countries whose dishes use it most

Counts are catalogued dishes from each country that list minced meat among their ingredients.

On the table

Dishes made with minced meat

26 of the 27 catalogued dishes that use it, spread across the countries they come from.

  • Lula kebab

    Central Asia, Armenia, Azerbaijan

  • Saumagen

    Germany

  • Adjidjat

    Algeria

  • Sarma

    Greece

  • Tajine el bey

    Tunisia

  • Arem-Arem

    Indonesia

  • South American

    United States

  • Bobotie

    South Africa

  • Cabbage casserole

    Finland

  • Kağıt kebabı

    Türkiye

  • Navoşk

  • Chili

    Mexico

  • Forshmak

    Eastern Europe

  • Mafrum

    Libya, Tunisia

  • Bánh bao

    Vietnam

  • Frikandel

  • Sarmale

    Romania

  • Sembîsek

  • Sujuk

    Türkiye

  • Sovanî

  • Sulu köfte

    Türkiye

  • Qopo

  • Şirdan

  • Stuffed tomatoes

  • Lahmacun

  • Stuffed peppers

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include minced meat.

Good to know

Diet and allergens: minced meat in detail

These notes describe the plain ingredient. Packaged and prepared products vary, so read the label; for allergies and medical diets ask a doctor or dietitian.
Animal origin
From: meatChecked and not found: egg, fish, dairy, honey, insect, poultry, shellfish, other animal.
Caffeine
None
Pork
Depends on the product (depends on which animal the meat comes from)

Family

Related forms

Made from
meat (ground)
A kind of
meat

Cooked together

Ingredients that go into the same catalogued dishes.
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Around the world

What minced meat is called

Names in 69 languages, from Wikidata.

  • Spanish

    carne picada

  • French

    viande hachée

  • Italian

    carne macinata · carne trita · macinato · trita

  • German

    Hackfleisch · Gehacktes · Faschiertes · Gewiegtes

  • Dutch

    gehakt

  • Greek

    Κιμάς · κεϊμάς

  • Turkish

    kıyma

  • Russian

    фарш

  • Polish

    mięso mielone

  • Arabic

    لحم مفروم · لحم مهروم

  • Persian

    گوشت چرخ‌کرده

  • Hebrew

    בשר טחון

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  • Afrikaans

    Maalvleis

  • Albanian

    mish i grirë

  • Armenian

    Մսաղաց

  • Asturian

    carne picao

  • Austrian German

    Faschiertes

  • Bangla

    কিমা

  • Basque

    haragi xehetu

  • Belarusian

    мясны фарш · фарш

  • Belarusian (Taraskievica orthography)

    мясны фарш · фарш

  • Bulgarian

    Кайма

  • Cantonese

    肉崧

  • Catalan

    carn picada

  • Chinese

    绞肉 · 肉馅 · 醢

  • Cornish

    brewgik

  • Czech

    mleté maso

  • Danish

    hakket kød

  • Egyptian Arabic

    لحمه مفرومه

  • Esperanto

    viandhaketaĵo

  • Estonian

    hakkliha

  • Finnish

    jauheliha

  • Galician

    carne picada

  • Hindi

    कीमा

  • Hungarian

    darált hús · vagdalt hús · húsvagdalék · vagdalt

  • Inari Sami

    millum piärgu

  • Indonesian

    daging cincang

  • Irish

    mionfheoil · feoil mhionaithe

  • Japanese

    挽肉

  • Javanese

    daging giling

  • Korean

    다진 고기 · 간 고기 · 다짐육

  • Kurdish

    Goştê kişandî

  • Latvian

    maltā gaļa

  • Lingua Franca Nova

    Carne moleda

  • Literary Chinese

    醢

  • Lithuanian

    faršas

  • Luxembourgish

    Gehacktes

  • Macedonian

    мелено месо

  • Maithili

    कीमा

  • Malay

    Daging kisar

  • Malayalam

    കീമ

  • Manx

    myneill · feill vleiht

  • Northern Sami

    biergodáigi

  • Norwegian Bokmål

    kjøttdeig

  • Odia

    କୀମା

  • Punjabi

    ਕੀਮਾ

  • Romanian

    carne tocată

  • ruq (Cyrillic)

    мелено месо

  • Serbian

    faširano meso · mleveno meso · faširano

  • Shan

    ၼိူဝ်ႉၽၵ်ႉ

  • Simplified Chinese

    绞肉 · 肉馅

  • Skolt Sami

    maaʹlʼjumvuäʹǯǯ

  • Slovenian

    mleto meso

  • Swedish

    köttfärs

  • Traditional Chinese

    絞肉 · 肉餡

  • Ukrainian

    фарш

  • Urdu

    قیمہ

  • Uzbek

    Qiyma

  • Venetian

    carne maxenada

  • Vietnamese

    thịt băm

  • Welsh

    Briwgig · Cig Mâl · gig mâl · brigig

  • West Flemish

    Gekapt

  • Western Panjabi

    قیما

Sources and credits

Data

  • GlobeCooks editorial: descriptions, kitchen notes and classification, written by GlobeCooks from checked sources
  • Wikidata: names, classification and dishes (CC0 1.0)
  • Wikimedia Commons: photos

Wikidata item: Q13400960

Photos

Photo: Rainer Zenz · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons