Lemon & Garlic Beef In Foil Packet (An Easy Low Carb Dinner)

For an easy and tasty low carb dinner, try this lemon & garlic beef in foil packets. Only a few minutes to prepare, you can cook it in the oven and without any pans to clean! Each serving is only 0.9g net carbs.

 

This is one of those dishes that remind me of my grandmother.When she made roasts she would load up on the garlic and cook her meat until it was tender and falling apart. I always loved her cooking. So today I was trying to find something easy to make with a bunch of stewing meat I had in the freezer. So armed with some lemons, garlic and parsley, I made this lemon & garlic beef in a foil packet. It’s low carb, clean eating and requires little clean up so it was perfect for a weekday meal. 

Garlic & Roasts

I love the flavor of meat with garlic. Many times when I make a roast I like to stud it with garlic just like my grandma would. You just cut little slits in the meat and push in a sliver of garlic all throughout the roast. It gives the meat so much flavor like in this slow cooker pork roast and my herb garlic lamb roast. In this recipe since I was using meat that was already cut up into pieces, I decided to crush the garlic and mix it into the pieces. It gave the meat a more mellow garlic flavor that was still delicious.

 

Above you can see what the beef cubes looked like before cooking and below what it looks like coming out of the oven.

 Lemon & Garlic Beef Recipe

This is one of those recipes that takes only a few minutes to prepare and then you set it in the oven for 3 hours. You start with stew meat that is already cut so you just have to mix it with the garlic, lemon zest, juice of half of a lemon, salt and pepper. Spray a piece of aluminum foil and place the meat in the center. Loosely wrap up the meat in the foil and set in the oven for 3 hours. When it’s finished, squeeze the other half of lemon and sprinkle fresh minced parsley on top. That’s all there is to it!

 

 The result is tender, flavorful meat that the whole family will love. The lemon and parsley give it a bit of brightness too. I hope you enjoy this simple but tasty low carb dinner. The nutrition for 1 serving is:

 421 cals / 27g fat / 0.9g carbs / 30.2g protein = 0.9g net carbs.