Low-carb and keto ground beef recipes

Keto and low-carb ground beef casseroles

Most grocers or butchers will grind fresh ground beef for you if you ask, but there are also plenty of shelf-ready options available.

Labels such as ground round, ground chuck, or ground sirloin are used to indicate the source of the meat, but it’s often easiest to select ground beef using the percent fat to percent lean labels.

While different supermarkets will carry a variety of options, common choices — when it comes to percent fat to lean meat — are 73/27%, 80/20%, 85/15%, and 90/10%. Which is best? It depends on which ground beef recipe you want to make.

As a general rule, use leaner ground beef for casseroles, soups, meatloaf, meatballs, and other dishes. Leaner ground beef has less shrinkage, meaning the volume of meat will reduce less as the recipe cooks.

Use fattier blends like 80/20% or less lean for burgers, making them more tender, juicy, and flavorful.

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