Hoping for some great personal recipes after hearing a scant few great ones. 
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Anything from @MarieB. Not all her recipes here are rock-bottom carbs, but most are low to modest carbs, and all the ones Iāve tried are tasty!
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Truenorth - Thank You so much! Iāll look into that.
Iād googled low carb but some are really high calorie.
thanks @truenorth! I encourage everyone to add their favorites recipes to our collection here
I also read a lot of recipes, follow a lot of foodies on Twitter, subscribe to several magazines and cook every day of the week. Let me know if thereās anything special youāre looking for.
(I have a corned beef in the crock pot for tonight)
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Well, I mostly enjoy low-carb eating, although Iām not really low carb anymore (as in, I eat between 70-120 grams of carbs per day, about 30-40g of which is fiber). Iāve found plenty of good recipes, although my all time favorites are Fathead Pizza and Jambonneau a la moutarde lāancienne. The former is a low-carb pizza crust recipe that is remarkably good, although it is ridiculously high calorie (mostly being cheese and almond flour). The second is a smoked ham shank in mustard sauce, which is classic food from Brussels. Two reasonable recipes (although the second is in French):
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Fathead Pizza ā this is weekend or post-workout food for me, I usually make a pizza and eat half for supper and a quarter for breakfast the following two days. Important to watch the carbs in your tomato sauce, since many people add sugar to those. I hunt for no-sugar added sauce in the store and then doctor it with olive oil and spices on the stovetop while making my crust. This isnāt just a passable āfakeā pizza crust, itās better than 90% of real pizzas Iāve had from restaurants over the years. You can even doctor the hell out of the recipe to get it even more pizza-like: I use about 1/2 almond flour, 1/4 wheat bran, and 1/4 vital wheat gluten as the dry flour component, and it works out beautifully. Adding the bran (largely fiber) and gluten (all protein) tends to lower the calorie density as well.
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Jambonneau a la moutarde ā In Belgium, this mostly is served with salad and potatoes (either frites, fried rounds, or puree), but you can always leave off the potatoes
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Iām torn between my rich adaptations of cheesecakeāwith a crust of ground pecans and butter (thanks to Gerri for the crust) and my Walnut Cake that I adapted from a combo of recipeās from my mom and a friend of my Momās. Also my stuffing made with WASA flatbreads. Iāll look to see if Iāve already posted them in the place MarieB pulled upā¦
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Cheesecake really translates well. I think the pecan crust is superior to others, low carb or not.
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Iām a vegetarian, so most of my recipes arenāt super low carb, but most are 25g per serving or less:
Not my recipe but hubby and I really enjoy this margarita frittata - it tastes like pizza, without the lows and highs : http://primalhappyplace.com/margarita-frittata
We also like this salad, only we donāt add the mango and we only use 1/2 cup of grated carrots: EPIC Chopped Thai Salad With Coconut Curry Dressing
Carbs with changes = 19 grans
My own recipes:
I have this smoothie for breakfast that taste like pumpkin pie almost everyday with two hard boiled or fried eggs:
-1/2 cup unsweetened coconut milk or whole cowās milk
-1/4 cup unsweetened canned pumpkin purƩe
-1/4 cup plain Greek or Balkan style yogurt
-1 tsp of pumpkin pie spice mix
-1 packet of stevia or other sweetener, to taste
-3 - 4 ice cubes
Blend all ingredients together. Total carbohydrate = 10 grams
A variation of my Ukrainian grandmothers borscht, but made vegetarian and with no potatoes
Ingredients:
1 small beet, whole
1 tbsp oil (sunflower or olive tastes best)
1 small white onion, diced
1 medium carrot, grated
1 large tomato, cut into small cubes
2 cups shredded green cabbage
1/2 cup canned white or red kidney beans, rinsed
1 tbsp tomato paste
4 cups of vegetable broth (or beef broth if you eat meat) + 2 cups of water
1/2 of a fresh lemon
Pepper and salt to taste
Full fat sour cream and fresh dill for serving
Serves 5
Directions:
- Wash the beet and remove the greens, place in large pot and boil it for around 40 minutes, until you can easily inset a knife
- Drain the water and put the beet aside to cool
- in a frying pan over medium-high heat, heat the oil. Once the oil hot, caramelise the onion and carrot. This takes around 3-5 minutes. Once cooked, remove from heat and cover with tomato paste. Mix thoroughly.
- Bring the vegetable broth and the 2 cups of water to a boil. While this is heating, take he beet and peal it (you might want to wear gloves to avoid staining your skin). Next, grate the beet and add it t the pot.
- Once the beet and broth are boiling, add the carrot mixture, the beans and th tomato, and cook for around 5 minutes. At this point, add the juice of 1 half of a lemon and stir. Taste the broth and add any salt and pepper according to your taste.
- Serve in boil with large dollop of sour cream and generous sprinkling of sour cream
carbs = 14 grams per serving
Black Bean and Corn Taco Salad
Serves 4
1 cup canned black beans, rinsed
1/2 cup frozen corn
1/4 of a small red onion, diced
2 Roma tomatoes, diced
2 ounces grated cheddar cheese
2 tbsp taco seasoning (old El Paso works well)
1/4 cup finely chopped cilantro/fresh corriander
4 cups of shredded romaine or iceberg lettuce
- About 30 minutes before dinner time, all ingredients except the lettuce in a bowl, and stir throughly to ensure even distribution of taco seasoning.
- Let sit for around half an hour
- Divide into 4 servings, and serve over a bed of lettuce (around 1 cup of lettuce)
Carbs = 20g per serving
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Badmoon -
on Thanksgiving all I usually have is 2.5 oz turkey.
No taters, veg, beansā¦sux!
I agree 100%, Sir Moon. Have you tried it with pie adaptations? Iāve been thinking it would go well with an adapted pumpkin pieāoh and for a quiche, Iāll bet!
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Not much of a baker myself, but my daughter has made low carb cheese cake for holiday meals. Pecan crust sounds like a winner for pumpkin pie and quiche too.
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There are ways! Last Thanksgiving, I had a full meal with Turkey, mashed cauliflower bake (my wifeās amazing low-carb concoction), asparagus with bacon and almonds, and low/no-carb NY cheesecake for dessert. Was it pumpkin pie? No it was not. Was it absolutely necessary on Thanksgiving? Yes it was. I think the total meal came in under 20g of carbs, and my BG was just fine
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Iād like to see the recipe! any chance she will share it?
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Hereās a cauliflower casserole my daughter showed me. I have it made as a side when I smoke meat at work. My coworkers all love it. I generally put in more cheese and bacon than the recipe calls for.
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Wow! Alot of GREAT ideas! Hope to hear even more! Thanks so much for your responses!
Hereās a great low carb website, Ditch the Carbs. Its out of New Zealand and most recipes have both metric and traditional measurements, for those of us who are metrically chalanged.
I follow them on Twitter (@ditchthe_carbs) so interesting recipes pop up on my twitter feed from time to time.
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Personally, I love vanilla coconut almond milk. 1 carb, 40-45 cals/8 oz!
Blue Diamond Almond Breeze is the brand.
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See recipe(ish) below. It is similar to one from allrecipes.com. Like fancy mashed potatoes, but with cauliflower instead. Here are the steps:
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Steam a head of cauliflower til halfway done (i.e., not mush).
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Squeeze the water out of it.
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Mix Cauliflower with 4 oz. cream cheese, 1/4 cup cheddar cheese, salt, pepper, and garlic powder to taste.
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Put in casserole dish, top with 1/4 cup shredded parmesan cheese.
I found my MFP info for the above general recipe. If 8 servings from the above, here is the nutrition info:
Also, we almost always add bacon to it (like 4 slices of Kirkland thin slice bacon, crumbled) in reality, which adds a bit more fat and calories but no carbs.
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6" Low carb (6 carb) tortilla shell.
Brush lightly w/butter on both sides. Warm till crisp in oven @350.
Take out of oven. Top w/2 Tbs salsa, fresh mushrooms, onions, red & green pepper, cheddar/mozarella, oregano and basil.
Return to oven for 15 mins. Yummy!
Alternative topping - pesto, chicken, broccoli, red pepper, onion and cheeses.
Super Low Carb - melt thin layer of cheddar as tortilla.