13 Healthy Beef Recipes for a Flavorful Meal Under 500 Calories
Try one of these delicious beef recipes tonight!
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Yes, healthy beef recipes do exist! Try our revamped beef taco pie, air-fried meatballs, or classic beef tenderloin for a delicious, good-for-you dinner that will satisfy those meat cravings. Plus, each healthy meat recipe is under 500 calories, which means you can score loads of flavor and protein without using up your entire daily quota of calories.
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Sheet-Pan Beef and Sweet Potatoes with Gremolata
Meat and potatoes get a weeknight- and waistline-friendly makeover! This healthy beef recipe is lower in fat and higher in fiber than the usual steak and spud entrée. The key ingredients to make this meal magic possible: lean beef shoulder petite tenders and fiber-rich, vitamin-packed sweet potatoes. We're also fans of the mere 15 minutes of prep time, making this showy dinner totally doable any day of the week.
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Rotini with Beef and Beans
When craving flavors similar to those beloved boxed burger pasta packs, turn to this healthy beef recipe. The easy meat-and-pasta dish pairs with kidney beans in this recipe that packs protein, fiber, and flavor—all brought to you by your favorite skillet. And all with much fewer additives and a lot less sodium.
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Beef Taco Pie
Tacos meet their match (a pie plate) in this tortilla-crusted twist on a Mexican classic. Ready in under an hour, this savory pie is about to become one of your favorite healthy ground beef recipes for easy weeknight cooking.
Beef and Vegetable Biscuit Bake
Who knew pot pie could be a perfectly well-balanced addition to your diet? Thanks to this healthy ground beef casserole, with just 309 calories per serving, it can be. A boatload (OK, a baking dish) full of veggies—including Brussels sprouts, carrots, mushrooms, and onion—plus lean beef, balance out the decadence of the flaky biscuit topping.
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Beef Stroganoff Soup
Don't write off beef stew as solely a rib-sticking option for winter. Soups are the perfect way to meld tons of nutrients (and delicious flavor) into one dish. This healthy beef stroganoff, made with lean sirloin and piles of fresh mushrooms, does just that.
Southwestern Noodle Bowl
At under 300 calories and only 9 grams of fat, this is our kind of noodle bowl! How is this healthy beef recipe still the complete opposite of bland? Garlic, cumin, bell peppers, and homemade pico de gallo do the trick.
Air-Fried Meatballs and Bell Peppers
This healthy beef recipe will be on your table in just 30 minutes, thanks to your air-fryer. Cook the homemade beef meatballs with sliced bell peppers right in the air-fryer basket. Finish the dish with a sprinkle of green onions.
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Roast Beef with Beets and Chicories
Pair slow-roasted beef with a fresh chicory salad to create this colorful dinner idea. The bitterness of the chicories (think endive, escarole, and radicchio) balance the juicy, succulent roast. Finish the salad and the roast with plenty of freshly cracked black pepper.
Flank Steak with Antipasto Topper
All this dinner takes is seven ingredients and a skillet (or a grill, if the weather cooperates). Even better news? You can marinate and do much of the prep for this healthy beef meal up to 24 hours ahead of time.
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Panko-Crusted Beef Roast with Hasselback Zucchini
While it looks like a pricey and splurge-worthy spread, you might order at a chic steakhouse; this crunchy-coated roast and squash meal is only 322 calories per serving. With a nice balance of tender roast meat, buttery-textured Dutch potatoes, and stuffed zucchini, this healthy beef dinner idea needs nothing else to be a complete, party-worthy feast. Well, except for maybe a bottle of bold red wine.
Oven-Roasted Beef Tenderloin
This dish isn't short on flavor, as we call for seasoning the healthy beef tenderloin recipe with fresh parsley and coating it in just the right amount of olive oil, salt, and pepper. An herbed wild rice would make a fiber-rich accompaniment.
Fork-Tender Pot Roast
Veggies, spices, and your slow cooker make this a super-tasty, super-easy dinner. Missing one of the ingredients? We've got tons of substitutions to customize this healthy beef recipe with what you have on hand.
Chimichurri Kabobs
You'll want to start marinating the chicken and beef for these easy kabobs the morning before serving. Once you're ready to grill, skewer them with onions, mushrooms, and peppers to create this healthy beef recipe.
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