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Beef Recipes, Cuts, Cooking Methods and Nutrition |
- Our favorite consumer link for complete cooking instructions, recipes and nutritional facts for beef is the Beef It's What's For Dinner website.
- Please peruse this page for detailed charts and award winning recipes below.
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National Beef Cook-Off Winning Recipe:
With her recipe for Nuevo Chipotle Beef in Butternut Squash Boats amateur home cook Christine Riccitelli of Incline Village, NV won the 27th National Beef Cook-Off and the $50,000 "Best of Beef" grand prize. |
Nuevo Chipotle Beef in Butternut Squash Boats features a delicious blend of Latino flavor influences, including chipotle chile pepper, ripe avocado and butternut squash. In addition, the dish is an excellent source of essential nutrients like fiber, protein, niacin, vitamins B6 and B12, iron, selenium and zinc.
Christine Riccitelli was a resident of Danville, CA when she submitted her recipe. |
To view this year's winning recipes log on to www.beefcookoff.org. |
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| Funded by The Beef Checkoff, the Cook-Off continues to showcase Americans' love of beef. The influence the Checkoff has had on how consumers buy and perceive beef has been significant. The National Beef Cook-Off is now a biennial contest, presented back in 1974 by the Beef Checkoff Program. The contest was held annually until 1993. The Cook-Off is coordinated by the American National CattleWomen, Inc. |
| New USDA data show 29 beef cuts are lean: |
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced Release 18 of its Nutrient Database for Standard Reference and the new data show 29 cuts of beef meet government guidelines for lean. USDA's definition of lean means cuts containing less than 10 grams of total fat, 4.5 grams or less of saturated fat and less than 95 milligrams of cholesterol per 3-ounce serving. The list of lean beef cuts includes many traditional favorites like tenderloin and T-bone plus new cuts available as a result of the check-off-funded muscle-profiling project, including the Western Griller and Ranch Steaks.
The beef check-off program partners with USDA to fund the analysis of beef cuts to be sure the beef nutrient data remains up-to-date and accurate. This update is important because USDA's nutrient database of nearly 500,000 food products serves as the nutrient data source for government nutrition programs and many epidemiological studies analyzing associations between food consumption patterns and health. |
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