This Low Carb Poppy Seed Caviar is absolutely to die for. So, I’m in my local library the other day and they have a section up front called “your lucky day” where they have relatively newer titled books which you can check out for three weeks but…you cannot renew them. I usually do some pretty heavy non-fiction reading so finding a picture book was kind of fun. I glanced at a book called The Art Of The Cheese Plate and silly me, I took such a small glance at the cover and I immediately thought “charcuterie” which of course it is/was not. Since I do make a lot of charcuterie for myself I checked it out. When I got home to look at my “picture” book of course it turns out to be about cheeses from around the world paired with all kinds of other foods and sauces.
This particular recipe was the only one that jumped out at me as I thought perhaps I could make it low carb. This is a picture from the book and the caviar is center left and is that tiny little dark blob under a beautiful dragon fruit chip.
I have to say that the only thing I could think to do with it was put it atop a wheel of brie cheese and that is what I did with it. Give me a little more time and maybe I can come up with something else.
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- ½ C Poppy Seeds
- 1½ C Water
- ½ C Heavy Cream
- ¼ t Orange Extract
- 3 Drops Liquid Sucralose (Or Sweetener Of Choice)
- Pinch Salt
- ½ t Vanilla Extract
- Put heat to medium-low, add water & poppy seeds to pan and simmer 15 minutes. Remove from heat, cover 15 minutes and then repeat one time. If you need to add more water after the first simmer-do so and I did.
- Drain poppy seeds into fine holed strainer and add back to pan.
- To poppy seeds add heavy cream, orange extract, sucralose, and salt and again on medium-low reduce to almost a paste. Do not try to do it quickly or your cream may separate.
- Remove from heat, mix in vanilla extract and refrigerate.
- 8 Servings
- 106 Calories, 1.6g Protein, 9.9g Fat, 2.1g Carbs, .9g Fiber, 1.2g Net Carbs
- 16 Servings
- 53 Calories, .8g Protein, 5.0g Fat, 1.1g Carbs, .5g Fiber, .6g Net Carbs
- As I said above I would put this on top of a brie wheel and of course you can eat it with any cheese. If you do decide to use it on a soft meltable cheese it should easily do 16 appetizer wedges.
- In my picture, for testing purposes, I made ½ an order and in my opinion I reduced the cream a bit too much but it does look like the book’s picture, so use your intuition on this one.
- I did taste mine with a spoon and it is good. You barely get the flavors of orange, vanilla with a hint of sweetness.