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This tasty Leftover Roast Beef Stew doesn't apply potatoes or carrots, so it'south an piece of cake depression-carb dinner when you take leftover roast beef! This recipe calls for a pound of cooked roast beef, but come across suggestions for other things to substitute or a like recipe to brand with uncooked beefiness.

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This Leftover Roast Beefiness Stew is a recipe from the early days of my site that suddenly got popular once again recently, and I wondered why. Then I realized that now beef is and so much more expensive that when people splurge on a prissy beef roast, they're probably searching for another dinner idea to make with the leftovers! And this recipe is the perfect way to apply leftover roast beef to make a tasty stew!

This beef stew recipe likewise a perfect example of something that's tasty no matter what kind of diet you lot're following, and with all the season from green pepper, mushrooms, roasted tomatoes, oregano, and basil, you won't miss the potatoes or carrots a bit. This is a flexible recipe, and you tin can adjust amounts and ingredients to what you take hanging out in the refrigerator.

The one thing I recollect is essential is the dried herbs that are simmered in the stock, with the improver of some fresh basil or frozen basil at the end. For me it was a skilful reason to buy 1 of those basil plants that you see in the grocery store, then far I am keeping information technology alive in my window! But even if you don't have fresh basil this is delicious and I promise you'll try it if you lot get some leftover roast beef!

What ingredients do you need?

  • onion
  • light-green pepper
  • olive oil
  • leftover roast beef or steak
  • canned beef broth (or use homemade beef stock if you accept some)
  • canned diced tomatoes
  • stale oregano
  • dried basil
  • mushrooms
  • fresh basil or frozen basil (probably optional, but good)
  • salt and fresh-ground blackness pepper to gustation

What if you don't have fresh or frozen basil?

If you don't take fresh basil or frozen basil you can utilise the chopped basil that's sold in a tube, merely another easy option if y'all don't need the recipe to be dairy-complimentary would exist to employ my favorite purchased basil pesto to add together that basil flavor.

What makes this leftover beef stew actress flavorful?

Of class starting with roast beef adds flavor to this Italian beefiness stew. But the stew is likewise extra flavorful from the green pepper, tomatoes, mushrooms, dried oregano, and dried basil. And if you stop it off with some fresh basil that makes it even improve.

What if you accept less than a pound of leftover roast beef?

If yous have a whole pound of leftover roast beef, I urge you to apply the full corporeality (or fifty-fifty more). But if you don't have a full pound of beefiness cubes you can withal make a tasty stew. You could apply more green pepper or  more mushrooms, or add together zucchini, add ruby-red bell pepper, add artichoke hearts, or add another vegetable you savor in stew. Yous could also add some salary or sausage to the stew.

What if you don't accept leftover roast beefiness?

Cheque out Italian Beef Stew with Zucchini, Mushrooms, and Basil if you'd like to make a similar stew recipe that starts with uncooked chuck roast.

Want more tasty low-carb stew recipes?

Cheque out Low-Carb and Keto Stew Recipes for lots more tasty ideas for stew, with stews made from beef, fish, sausage, craven, and vegetables.

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How to Make Leftover Roast Beef Stew:

(This is just a summary of the steps shown in the photos. Scroll down for complete recipe including nutritional information.

  1. Cut up onion and bell pepper.
  2. Cut up leftover roast beef into large bite-sized pieces.
  3. Wash mushrooms if needed and thickly slice.
  4. Heat olive oil over medium-loftier heat, add onions and green peppers, and melt almost 3 minutes.
  5. Add dried oregano and basil and cook about 3 minutes more.
  6. Add mushrooms and cook 2-3 minutes more than.
  7. Add the cubes of leftover roast beef, beefiness broth, and canned tomatoes with liquid.
  8. Reduce heat to very low and let stew simmer about 45 minutes.
  9. If y'all have fresh basil, apply a knife or Herb Scissors (chapter link) to cut the basil into thin strips.
  10. (You lot tin can besides use frozen basil if yous take some. Or use my favorite purchased basil pesto.)
  11. Add basil to the stew and simmer about 5-10 minutes more.
  12. Season with salt and fresh ground black pepper to taste.
  13. Serve hot.

Leftover Roast Beef Italian Stew in two serving bowls with spoons

Make it a low-carb repast:

This stew fabricated with leftover roast beefiness could definitely be a ane-dish meal. But if you want to add something else, this would taste great with toasted Olive Breadstuff or Savory Almond Flour Bread and Spring Mix Salad with Mary's Perfect Dressing.

More Low-Carb Dinners with Beef:

Ground Beef Gyro Meatball Lettuce Wraps

Balsamic and Onion Pot Roast

Pan-Grilled Steak with Olive Sauce

Ingredients

  • one small-scale onion, chopped
  • 1 green pepper, chopped
  • ane T olive oil
  • 1 lb. leftover roast beef (see notes)
  • two 14 oz. cans beef broth (see notes)
  • 1 14.5 oz. can diced tomatoes
  • ii tsp. dried oregano
  • 2 tsp. dried basil
  • eight oz. mushrooms, cut in thick slices
  • 3-iv T chopped fresh basil (run into notes)
  • salt and fresh-basis black pepper to gustation

Instructions

  1. Cut up onion and bong pepper into 3/four inch pieces.
  2. Cut up leftover roast beefiness into large bite-sized pieces, about one 1/ii inches square.
  3. Wash mushrooms if needed and thickly slice. (Or you can employ pre-sliced mushrooms like I did, which makes it easy.)
  4. Heat olive oil in dutch oven or large frying pan with high sides over medium-high oestrus, add onions and dark-green peppers, and cook almost iii minutes.
  5. Add the dried oregano and dried basil and cook nearly iii minutes more.
  6. Add together mushrooms and melt ii-three minutes more.
  7. Add the cubes of leftover roast beef, beef broth, and canned tomatoes with liquid.
  8. Reduce heat to very depression and let the stew simmer almost 45 minutes, or until it has thickened.
  9. If you have fresh basil, use a pocketknife or Herb Pair of scissors (chapter link) to cut the basil into thin strips. (You tin as well use frozen basil if you're lucky enough to take some. Or use my favorite purchased basil pesto.)
  10. Add together the basil to the stew and simmer about 5-x minutes more than.
  11. Taste and add together salt and fresh ground black pepper to taste.
  12. Serve hot.

Notes

Use at or to the lowest degree 2 cups diced beef cubes for this recipe if you lot don't accept a total pound of leftover roast beef. Yous can besides use leftover steak.

Y'all can utilise 3 1/two cups bootleg beefiness stock instead of canned beefiness broth if you have some.

This recipe is a perfect use for frozen chopped basil. You lot can too use the chopped basil that'due south sold in a tube if you prefer or use my favorite purchased basil pesto to add together the basil flavor.

Recipe created by Kalyn with inspiration from a magazine she saw years ago at Rand'southward house, but she can't think what it was.

Nutrition Information:

Yield:

four

Serving Size:

1
Amount Per Serving: Calories: 229 Total Fatty: 9g Saturated Fatty: 2g Trans Fat: 0g Unsaturated Fatty: 5g Cholesterol: 58mg Sodium: 1980mg Carbohydrates: 12g Cobweb: 5g Sugar: 6g Protein: 26g

Nutrition information is automatically calculated by the Recipe Plug-In I am using. I am not a nutritionist and cannot guarantee 100% accurateness, since many variables bear upon those calculations.

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Low-Carb Nutrition / Low-Glycemic Diet / Due south Beach Diet Suggestions:
This leftover roast beefiness stew would be suitable for  depression-carb and low-glycemic diets, and as long equally you use lean roast beefiness (less than ten% fatty), this recipe would exist canonical for all phases of the original South Beach Diet.  The recipe is also Gluten-Costless and Paleo.

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