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Zucchini and Ground Beef

Makes dinner for two, with leftovers for lunch.

Approximate cooking time: 30 minutes

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Ingredients

  • 1 Tbs coconut oil
  • 1/2 yellow onion, diced
  • 1 lb lean ground beef
  • 1-2 cloves garlic, minced
  • 2 Tbs dried oregano
  • 2 medium (6"-8") zucchini, diced
  • 2 medium tomatoes, diced
  • 1/2 tsp sea salt (optional)

Instructions

  1. Wash and prepare vegetables.
  2. Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat.  Add coconut oil when hot.
  3. Add onions to skillet and sauté until slightly translucent.
  4. Quickly roll the ground beef into balls and add them to the pan next, along with the garlic and oregano. Cook 5 minutes, stirring occasionally.
  5. Add zucchini and tomatoes and cook until tender.
  6. Season with sea salt if desired.
Photo courtesy: Daniel Drake

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13 Comments

  1. I don’t have any clue what beef-mince is so I just used 1 lb. of very lean ground beef, and cooked that with the onion and garlic. It ended up being an easy, quick, and yummy dinner.

    Kelly

  2. Do you need any oil when cooking this dish? If so, how much?

    tkorenek

  3. If you prefer a little oil for the veggies, that’s fine, but you shouldn’t need any for the meat.

    Jason G.

  4. What does it mean “roll your mince and just add them to the pan as you’re going along”? Is it like patties? Or meatballs?

    chastain0911

  5. It can be either, but I went with meatball style.

    Jason G.

  6. Go for the meatball style it is the best way. Also minced beef is just another term for hamburger meat or ground beef.

    cerlandson

  7. I wonder if I could throw like a sirloin in my ninja food processor to use this meat. When shopping I couldn’t figure out what this was asking for.

    cmeflibi

  8. Sorry about the confusion. I changed the recipe to reflect more American dialect. It’s just ground beef that’s rolled into little meatball-like balls. Enjoy!

    Neely

  9. I added tomato sauce and hot sauce… Very good

    JudyrNorman

  10. I mixed the oregano and garlic into the meat before cooking then added it all to the pan at once and cooked it “picadillo” style, breaking up the meat instead.

    My 1st attempt at Paleo Picadillo was a success!

    dayanis

  11. I added s few sliced mushrooms in with the zucchini, it was absolutely delish and easy, thanks for all the great recipes! Makes it so much easier when you change things a bit and even though there is plenty of vairety in the paleo diet, mixing things differently means you never get bored or in a rut. Thanks again.

    Teresa

  12. This was terrible and bland. Recipe rework please? It probably could have been saved by using the julienne slicer to make zucchini noodles, and then added marinara sauce to ground beef. Or maybe add some chipotle Tabasco sauce to the original recipe. SOMETHING! there is no flavor in ground beef, tomatoes or zucchini, so putting them together was just a bunch of blah.

    carmenh

  13. This is a great and simple recipe! We always mix the garlic and spices along with some pepper into the meat before we cook it and it comes out with so much flavor. Adding a bit of tomato sauce at the end is a great touch as well. And as with all Paleo recipes, add whatever you need to make it more or less “bland”. LOL

    donnyriz

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