NIGERIAN BEEF STEW
Nigerian Beef Stew is a mouthwatering West African stew made with blended tomatoes, bell peppers, habanero pepper, and herbs. This will quickly become a favorite stew in your low carb journey!
Ingredients
To boil the beef
- 1 lb beef
- 1.5 cups water
- 1 tsp black pepper
- ½ tsp salt
To make the stew
- 3 tomatoes
- 1 bell pepper
- 1 habanero pepper
- 1 onion
- ½ cup olive oil
- ½ cup beef stock/broth
- 1 tbsp bouillon powder
- ½ tsp thyme
- ½ tsp black pepper
- ½ tsp curry
- salt to taste
Instructions
To boil the beef
- Wash beef and place in a pot.
- Add water, salt, and black pepper and bring to a boil.
- After it boils, stir together and let cook for 20-25 minutes.
To make the stew
- Blend the tomatoes, bell pepper, habanero pepper, and half an onion together.
- Chop the other half of the onion.
- Pour olive oil in a pan and when heated, add the chopped onions and stir till its wilted.
- Add the blended tomato and pepper mixture and black pepper and stir.
- Add the beef and 1/2 cup of stock and mix together.
- Add a little more broth if needed, till it has enough of a stew-like consistency.
- Add the thyme, bouillon powder, and curry. Taste for salt before adding any.
- Cover and let simmer for another 5 minutes.
- Serve and enjoy!
Notes
Each serving contains 3 net carbs and serves 8.
- This recipe calls for one habanero pepper. If you think it might be too spicy for you, use half a habanero pepper. Do not omit it as the taste will be drastically different if you do.
- Better yet, if you have access to scotch bonnet peppers (commonly called ata rodo in Nigeria), you can use that. It will be a lot spicier!
- Alternatively, you can add an extra tomato or two, to tone down the heat of this beef stew.