Low FODMAP Friendly Beef Stew - Adapted From The Flexible Chef

I am SO excited to share this recipe with you I can hardly contain myself! When Nealy Fischer of The Flexible Chef reached out to me and asked if I would recreate one of her most popular dishes, Simply Succulent Beef Stew, from her cookbook Food You Want: For The Life You Crave, to be low FODMAP friendly Beef Stew, I instantly jumped at the opportunity.

Beef Stew is one of my all time favorite chilly weather cozy meals, and it's a bonus love of mine not only due to how easy it is to prepare, but it's hearty enough to feed my very hungry husband for dinner and satisfy him to boot!

I snagged myself a copy of her cookbook after remixing this recipe and I have to say each and every single one of her recipes look to be SO simple and easy to flip into low FODMAP friendly options, I cannot wait to cook my way through it.

Nealy's recipes are designed to be flexible in the first place which is one of the reasons why I love her recipes so much. She starts out with lots of clean, whole foods as the stars of each dish which allow for really simple low FODMAP swaps to flex their way into your meals. In this recipe, instead of using garlic + onion as traditionally used in Beef Stew, I created a low FODMAP Beef Stew by swapping in garlic infused olive oil and scallions. You still get that depth of flavor you'd expect from onion + garlic without the digestive discomfort. I also swapped out soy sauce for coconut aminos, a soy-free low FODMAP substitute for soy sauce. If you haven't tried coconut aminos yet, I dare you to do a blind taste test with some soy sauce. You will NOT know the difference! I don't tolerate much soy at all, so this was a winning swap for me. If you're not someone who tolerates tomato, I didn't try this but as I was cooking I thought "hmmmm, canned pumpkin might be a really tasty swap here!" You could even try using 1 cup pumpkin puree and 1 cup tomato sauce just to reduce that a bit if the acidity doesn't mesh well with you. Again, I didn't personally try that but something tells me it would be so delicious! Now, you might be wondering, pineapple juice. This sounds different. Is this low FODMAP friendly? First, PLEASE do not omit this if you tolerate pineapple! It gives the dish this uber subtle sweetness that just kicks up the yum ten fold. Pineapple is low FODMAP friendly in 1 cup servings, and there is exactly 1 cup of pineapple juice in this 10 serving recipe, so if fructans are not an issue for you do not leave this out!

With Nealy's permission, I have added the recipe below with each of the ingredients I used in creating my version of low FODMAP Beef Stew.

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