Keto recipes with ground beef

Is beef keto? Yes, it is. Beef belongs to animal proteins and as others in this group: chicken, eggs, seafood, pork – is also keto-friendly. Organic beef has 0 carbs.

There are plenty of keto recipes with ground beef. Here we selected the most popular and easy ones.

Keto Beef Stroganoff

• 500 grams of ground beef
• 300 grams of mushrooms
• Salt, pepper and paprika up to individual taste preferences
• Butter, 2 tablespoons
• 1 cup of sour cream
• one garlic
• 1 tablespoon of parsley

1. Mince the garlic (you can do it with a knife by cutting into really small pieces or use a special garlic squeezer kitchen utensil).
2. Melt butter in a pen and fry garlic on a low fire, mixing constantly until the garlic becomes soft.
3. Add minced beef, salt and pepper. Mix and fry on low fire until it’s all brown by mixing frequently.
4. Slice mushrooms and fry them separately on a pen with a small amount of butter. Fry for 5 minutes then add a bit of water to the mushrooms and cook for another 5 minutes on a low heat.
5. Add sour cream to the mushrooms, mix together, cook for 3 minutes on a low heat.
6. Add beef to the pen with white creamy sauce, add paprika (if you like it) and parsley and stir and cook for 5 minutes all together on a low heat.

Keto Beef Meatballs

• 500 grams of ground beef
• 1 egg
• 1 cup of double cream
• Salt, pepper to taste
• 1 teaspoon of garlic powder
• Half a cup of grated parmesan cheese
• Half a cup of tomato pasta

1. Put ground beef, egg and cheese into a bowl. Mix well together. Add salt and pepper to your taste.
2. Make small meatballs from the mass above.
3. You can use low carb keto bake spray or baking pepper to line the tray and preheat the oven. Bake meatballs for 12 minutes.
4. Put double cream, tomato pasta and garlic powder in a pen. Mix all together and cook for 5 minutes on a low heat.
5. Add meatballs to the saucepan  and cook together for 5 minutes on a medium heat.

Keto-friendly garnish for keto meatballs is zucchini noodles. See here a simple way on how to prepare them: Keto Zucchini Ideas

Keto Beef Stuffed Peppers

• 500 grams of ground beef
• 6-10 bell peppers (any color you prefer)
• 1 onion
• 1 garlic
• Salt, pepper to your taste
• Shredded cheddar cheese
• Cream cheese
• 2 medium zucchini
• 5 crushed tomatoes

1. Cut the tops of the peppers to make them look like bowls ready for filling.
2. Put the peppers into the baking tray (you can use low carb baking spray or baking paper as lining)
3. Cut zucchini into small square pieces and put them in a separate bowl. Add some salt and pepper and let them stay away for about 15 minutes.
4. Fry minced garlic and chopped onion in butter in a pen on a low heat. 
5. Add ground beef to the pen and cook on low heat till it all becomes brownish
6. Put a thin layer of cream cheese at the bottom of bell pepper bowls.
7. Dry zucchini with a pepper towel.
8. Add a thin layer of ground beef cooked into the pepper bowls.
9. The third layer is zucchini.
10. Next 4th layer is crushed tomatoes.
11. Bake bell peppers for about 30 minutes in the oven.
12. Once baked, top them up with shredded cheddar cheese and bake for the last 5 minutes with the cheese on top.

You can make your own keto ground beef recipes, such as keto bolognese sauce and keto lasagne, using keto-friendly pasta or zucchini as layers and substitute for pasta in lasagne. Have fun improvising!