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Italian Beef Stew with Zucchini, Mushrooms, and Basil will be a hit with beef stew fans, and this recipe is depression-carb, Keto, and gluten-free. You tin brand this with pesto from a jar if yous don't desire to buy fresh basil.

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Italian Beef Stew with Zucchini, Mushrooms, and Basil finished stew in serving bowls

Years agone I posted Leftover Roast Beefiness Stew, and that recipe was definitely the inspiration for this Italian Beefiness Stew with Zucchini, Mushrooms, and Basil. But allow'south face up it, now that beefiness is a lot more expensive most people don't take leftover roast beef all that oftentimes, am I right?

And so this updated Italian beef stew starts with chuck roast that's simmered with tomatoes, herbs, and beef stock to tenderize the meat. Then onions, peppers, zucchini, and mushrooms are each briefly sauteed and added to the stew. It'due south finished with chopped fresh basil, chopped basil in a tube, frozen basil, or purchased basil pesto, whichever works for yous.

This stew has all the Italian flavors I love, hope you'll give it a attempt! And this reheats very well, so don't be agape to make the full recipe even if y'all're non cooking for that many people.

What ingredients practice y'all need?

  • chuck roast
  • Olive Oil (affiliate link)
  • salt and fresh footing blackness pepper to flavour meat
  • canned beef broth (chapter link) or beef stock
  • canned petite diced tomatoes
  • Italian Herb Seasoning (affiliate link)
  • basis fennel (affiliate link) (probably optional, only recommended)
  • onion
  • light-green pepper
  • zucchini
  • mushrooms,
  • chopped fresh basil or Basil Pesto (affiliate link)
  • adept quality Balsamic Vinegar (affiliate link) to drizzle on at the tabular array, optional

What adds the Italian Flavors in this Italian Beef Stew?

This tasty Italian Beef Stew is loaded with Italian flavors from olive oil, tomatoes, Italian Herb Seasoning, footing fennel, and of grade basil! And delight don't skip the ground fennel; that's an essential flavor in this recipe.

Exercise you have to melt the vegetables separately for Italian Beefiness Stew?

Cooking the vegetables separately and adding them at the end keeps them firmer and more flavorful in the finished stew, and calculation the basil or basil pesto at the end keeps that flavor strong in the finished dish.

Want more tasty ideas for low-carb and keto stew?

You tin use Depression-Carb and Keto Stew Recipes to find more than ideas similar this one to brand for cold-weather dinners!

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How to Make Italian Beef Stew with Zucchini, Mushrooms, and Basil:

(Scroll down for complete printable recipe with nutritional information.)

  1. Trim the beef and cutting into cubes slightly over an inch square.
  2. Dark-brown beef in a petty olive oil, seasoning with common salt and pepper to gustation, and so add to stew pot.
  3. Deglaze the frying pan with the beef stock and add to stew pot with the Italian Herb Seasoning (affiliate link), basis fennel (chapter link), and canned petite dice tomatoes.
  4. Let simmer on medium low lx minutes, or slightly longer if the meat doesn't seem tender.
  5. When you're ready to stop the stew, heat another teaspoon of olive oil and saute the chopped onions and peppers and add together them to the stew.
  6. Add together a fleck more oil, brown the zucchini, and add it to the stew.
  7. Then rut the terminal teaspoon of olive oil, brown the mushrooms, and add them to the stew.
  8. Simmer about 15 minutes, so add together the basil and cook a few minutes more.
  9. Serve hot, with a little balsamic vinegar to drizzle on at the tabular array if you'd like.

Italian Beef Stew with Zucchini, Mushrooms, and Basil show in two serving bowls with spoons

More Tasty Dinners with Italian Flavors:

Italian Sausage Stew

Italian Sausage and Sugariness Mini Peppers Sheet Pan Meal

White Edible bean Soup with Italian Sausage, Zucchini, and Basil

Weekend Food Prep:

This recipe has been added to a category called Weekend Food Prep to help you find recipes you can prep or cook on the weekend and eat during the week!

Ingredients

  • two lbs. chuck roast (afterward trimming) cut into cubes slightly larger than 1 inch
  • 5  tsp. olive oil
  • salt and fresh footing black pepper to flavour meat
  • 2 fourteen oz.tin can beefiness broth (run across notes)
  • 2 14.v oz. cans petite diced tomatoes with juice
  • i T Italian Herb Blend
  • i tsp. ground fennel seed (probably optional, simply recommended)
  • 1 medium onion, chopped into 1/ii inch dice
  • i large dark-green pepper chopped into 1/2 inch dice
  • two modest zucchini, ends trimmed and and then cut into half lengthwise and sliced into thick slices
  • 1/2 lb. (or more than) mushrooms, done and cutting in thick slices or one-half slices (see notes)
  • 4 T chopped fresh basil (see notes)
  • expert quality balsamic vinegar to drizzle on at the tabular array, optional

Instructions

  1. Trim the chuck roast and cut into cubes. Oestrus the ii teaspoons of olive oil in a large non-stick pan (I used this one) and dark-brown the beef cubes over medium-high heat until the meat is browned on all sides, nigh 10-15 minutes.
  2. Flavour the meat with salt and fresh-ground black pepper as it cooks. Don't rush this step; browning the meat adds flavor.
  3. Add the browned meat to the stew pot. (I would use a bandage-iron or enamel coated dutch oven if y'all have one.)
  4. Add 1 tin of beef broth to the frying pan and cook a minute, scraping with a turner to loosen the browned $.25 of meat that stick to the pan, and so add that to the stew pot along with the other tin can of beef goop.
  5. Add together the petite die tomatoes with juice, Italian Herb Blend (affiliate link), and basis fennel and stir.
  6. Turn heat to medium-low and simmer threescore minutes, or slightly longer if the meat doesn't feel tender when yous pierce information technology with a fork.
  7. While the stew simmers, peel and chop the onion and cutting out the stem and seeds of the greenish pepper and chop. Cut ends off the zucchini, cut in half lengthwise, and cutting into thick slices.
  8. Wash mushrooms (in a salad spinner (chapter link) if you have one) or rinse in a colander in the sink and absorb dry, and cut mushrooms into thick slices or one-half slices,
  9. When you lot're ready to terminate the stew, heat i tsp. olive oil in the frying pan, add the onions and greenish peppers and melt a few minutes over medium-loftier heat, then add them to the stew.
  10. Heat the 2nd teaspoon of olive oil, add the zucchini and cook until it's slightly browned on both sides, so add together to stew. And then add together the mushroom slices, cook until they have released their liquid and are starting to brown, and then add together to stew.
  11. Simmer nigh 15 minutes, then add the chopped basil and cook a few minutes more than.
  12. Serve hot, with a expert quality balsamic vinegar to drizzle on at the table if y'all'd like.

Nutrition Information:

Yield:

8

Serving Size:

i
Corporeality Per Serving: Calories: 348 Total Fat: 14g Saturated Fat: 5g Unsaturated Fatty: 8g Cholesterol: 125mg Sodium: 1810mg Carbohydrates: 10g Cobweb: 2g Sugar: 7g Protein: 47g

Diet 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 affect those calculations.

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Low-Carb Diet / Low-Glycemic Diet / S Beach Diet Suggestions:
This tasty Italian Beef Stew is depression-carb, Keto, gluten-free and canonical for all phases of the original South Beach diet.

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Historical Notes for this Recipe:
This recipe was posted in 2017. It was last updated with more data in 2021.

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