Keto Goulash
A Keto beef stew
Keto Goulash is my low carb take on a Hungarian classic. This is something I’ve been wanting to make for a while and I’m finally here with the recipe. I love a good beef stew and I’ve even made a Beef Bourguignon on my show previously. I love how easy this dish is to make and it’s perfect for meal prep. The best part is the longer you keep this dish, the tastier it gets. Enjoy this stew with some cauliflower rice, perhaps a slice of my Keto bread or even some delicious bacon cabbage slaw. Enjoy!
The Beef
For this recipe I would recommend any slow cooking cut of beef. It’s always best to have a chat with your local butcher when buying the meat. Chuck roast is the preferred cut or a basic stewing meat will work as well. Now in India our beef is to be quite honest, of terrible quality. We get 3 kinds basically. Ground beef, body meat and tenderloin. Now the body meat is just cut up and it’s never separated by part and at the end of the day it’s lean, tough and chewy. So when you cook it unlike say a pork shoulder it won’t break down and be delicious and juicy. It gets dry and thread like. So I actually used tenderloin in my video.
I also dry aged my beef for 2 days in the fridge. Which means I just put it on a wire rack on a shelf in the fridge and let it air dry. This dries out the outside and intensifies the beefy flavour.
The Carbs
My recipe has a good number of carbs per serving. I chose to be generous with the tomato puree, onions and celery. If you want to keep the carbs down I would say use only about 100 grams of onion, 100 grams of tomato and skip the celery. Honestly I don’t really stress about the carbs from veggies. If you are eating low carb you can even throw in some carrots and other veggies.
Nutrition Info (Per serving)
Nutrition Info (Per serving)- Calories: 253
- Net Carbs: 7g
- Carbs: 8g
- Fat: 12g
- Protein: 28g
- Fiber: 1g
This recipe makes 6 servings. Get this recipe on myfitnesspal.
Keto Goulash
Ingredients
- 750 grams Beef (Chuck or any slow cooking cut)
- 150 grams Onion
- 50 grams Celery Stalk
- 200 grams Green Bell Pepper
- 10 grams garlic
- 1 Tbsp Goose Fat You can also use any other cooking fat you like
- 1 Tbsp Butter
- 200 grams Tomato Puree You can also use tin tomatoes or fresh tomatoes
- 500 ml Water
- 1 Beef Stock Pot
- 2 Bay leaves
- 1/2 Tsp Caraway Seeds Buy Online
- 1/2 Tsp Black Pepper
- 2 Tsp Hungarian Paprika Try this
- Salt to Taste
- Celery Leaves for garnish
Instructions
- Start by cutting the beef into chunks and seasoning with salt. Cut them however big or small you like them. I suggest cutting them to bite size pieces for quicker cooking and easier eating.
- Heat the goose fat in a dutch oven till smoking hot and then seal the beef in batches. So add in a few pieces as a time and let it brown on one side, turn it over and brown on the other and then remove from the pan. Do not crowd the pan otherwise the beef will stew in it's own juices.
- Once that's done add a tablespoon of butter to the pan along with the onions and sautee them till the onions start to turn translucent. Then add in the celery and continue cooking.
- Cook the onions low and slow till they start browning and then add in the garlic, caraway seeds and paprika and give it all a good mix. Tip: Throw in an extra tablespoon of butter for more fatty goodness.
- After cooking for about 2 minutes add in the tomato puree, beef stock pot and water and bring up to a boil.
- Add the beef back in along with the bay leaves, pepper and some salt. Now cover and let the beef cook till it's nice and tender.
- The cooking time will now vary depending on the cut of beef you are using. Normally you cook this low and slow for about 1-2 hours. Check the pot every 20 minutes. If you need to add more water then do that. You want to make sure nothing is sticking or burning. You can also just stick the pot in the oven at 180C for 3 hours approx.
- Use your cooking intuition and taste as you go. You want to cook it till the beef is fork tender and the stew is reduced down to a nice thick consistency. If you prefer it soupy you can just add more water or leave as it is. If you want there to be too much water even after cooking it for so long you can cook it without a lid on the stove til it reduces.
- Now you want to add the bell peppers somewhere towards the end depending on how firm you like them. Bell peppers can turn to mush and if you don't mind that you can add them in earlier otherwise add them more towards the end and cook for about 5 min. Once done garnish with the celery greens.
- Once done serve with your favourite Keto side dish.
Love this Sahil! Will definitely be making it! 😀 Just wondering, as I printed a number of your recipes so I can have the copy to use in the kitchen, the print version on your web site looks great, layout and all etc – yet the photo of the dish in the top left corner don’t come through for me when I actually print. The box for it is there, but no photo….? I don’t have this experience with other things I print, so I don’t understand why it happens that way here. At any rate, FYI. Thanks so very much for all you do for the keto community, making these great recipes and all the online content as well! Kind regards, Sue in London
I will look into it Sue. Thanks for letting me know.
Hi, can this prepared using a slowcooker, do you any advice if anything else needs to be done if a slowcooker would be used
yes it can.
Hey SahIl,
i’m eating this right now, it’s fantastic, thanks!
Tomato Puree?
Beef Stock Pot?
Those two items should be clickable so we can see what those items are and how they’re made. Sorry, I’m slow…
nibs
tomato puree is just a blitzed tomato and beef stock pot is like a stock cube.
Sahil, I’ve tried countless goulash recipes and was always left disappointed. Last night, I tried your recipe and cooking it on low heat for almost 3 hours, the beef was soooo tender and perfect and the sauce was thick and rich. My whole family loved it (especially with sour cream)! Thank you so much for this recipe!
I’m so glad to hear that! <3
I have made this exactly as written for the 3rd time. Excellent!
Hi!
Have read through the ingredients list, then read the instructions and watched the video. Question: where are the green bell peppers in the instructions and in the video? Were they added by mistake to the ingredient list? Cooking the dish right now and feel a bit confused…
Also, I wanna cook the beef in the pressure cooker for better and faster result. Would you recommend cooking it separately, after searing it in the fat, with just stock and then combine with the rest? Or cook everything together as per the instructions and then cook the whole meal in the pressure cooker?
Thanks!
Hey thank you for pointing that out. I had missed adding the green bell peppers in the instructions but it’s at about 5:52 in the video. Basically add them towards the end depending on how crunchy you like them. If you don’t mind soggy peppers then you can add it earlier. Cook everything together in the pressure cooker. So you can do all the sauteeing in the cooker, sear the beef in it as well and then instead of slowly cooking for 3 hours in the oven or on the stove top till fork tender just pressure cook it. What you can do is after pressure cooking you can add the green bell peppers and cook with the lid off on sautee for about 5 min till they are tender but still have bite and then finish with the celery greens. Hope this helps.