Low Carb Shrimp Toast. So, I have been watching this series on NetFlix called The Chef’s Show and one of the many recipes that has been done was simply called Shrimp Toast. I’m thinking that not only did it seem easy, but something very, very tasty so…I thought I’d give it a try. I already had all the ingredients that were called for and this is my result. If you ever do watch it, you’ll see that mine is not too much different except for gochujang. Koreans use gochujang for just about everything and I don’t have any, let alone would I use it. It is very sugary and hot so if you want a spicier or sweeter keto shrimp toast then you could use a hot sauce and a bit of sugarfree sweetener of some kind. Now, if you do not make Carbalose Bread, or some version of low carb bread you will have to punt on that ingredient and perhaps serve it in a bowl but I did use it and the low carb shrimp toast that resulted was divine. The idea of the bread is to soak up all those heavenly juices and yes, it does do that. I think using Cauliflower Grits, which I used the following night, would be the best food option under your shrimp. I make and freeze cauliflower grits so I can use them when wanted.
The original recipe used head-on prawns and I’m thinking you may not be interested in that so yes, I did use peeled shrimp. It of course looked kinda messy and if you like that messy stuff then by all means get head-on shrimp.
Keto Caramelized Mustard Cream. I have pretty much always said that a sauce can make the meat, and this keto caramelized mustard cream is one of those sauces. I have shown it with a beautiful black peppercorned pork rib chop and it is equally as comfortable with a steak, fish, and chicken. It’s really is an all-bases-covered sauce. I put it under the chop so you could see the gorgeous cracked peppercorn crust (which not only tastes incredible but also keeps the meat moist) but it’s easily comfortable smothering a piece of meat so, top or bottom, your choice.
In case anyone is wondering what that beautiful stuff with macadamia nuts on it is, well, it’s a Keto Bacon Broccoli Salad with everything but the kitchen sink in it and…it’s super easy to make.
As I am a Type II diabetic, all recipes on this website are keto-low carb and diabetic friendly.
Caramelized Mustard Cream
2020-03-07 04:39:41
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Ingredients
1 T Butter
1 T Olive Oil
1 Medium Onion
1½ t Dried Thyme
¼ C White Wine
¼ C Brandy
2 T Sherry
½ C Heavy Cream
2 t Dijon Mustard
1 t Chicken Base***
Instructions
Slice onion very thinly.
Add butter and olive oil to medium sauce pan on medium-low and caramelize the onions stirring every so often so they don't burn. (this should take 35-40 minutes).
Add thyme, wine, brandy, sherry, and chicken base, and reduce until it is all incorporated and liquid is nearly gone.
Add mustard and heavy cream and reduce slightly. The cream will thicken very quickly from the onions so if needed, add a little water.
Keto Stuffed Mini Peppers. I am unable to see how large your mini peppers are, as they come in different sizes so, I am going to use kind of an average in telling you how many you may need. These keto stuffed mini peppers are very easy to make, can be table ready in 10-15 minutes, and if you have a bit of help, even less time than that. I happened to pick up a bag of mixed colored peppers and the next thing ya know, in another store, there are seedless red minis which I would have purchased…If only I had known. These little puppies can be used as an appetizer or a replacement for a salad and no matter your choice they are good, good, good and…if you have kids & don’t make them too spicy, they will love them too.
Keto Bacon Broccoli Salad. I am here to tell you that this salad in a keto winner. It is very easy to make, piquant beyond belief, and because of its high fat content, is a perfect adjunct to any keto dinner. Really, do not have any long diatribe about this keto bacon broccoli salad recipe…the proof is in the eating.
As you look at the pic I hope you are noticing that I cut my broccoli pieces very small and there is a reason for this. If your pieces are too large, they are difficult to get into your mouth without smearing it about your face. As a kid I probably didn’t care about it and as an adult, I don’t like it. The peppers are also cut into smaller pieces. With that said, you may cut them any way you like cause this salad is going to be yours-not mine.
As I am a Type II diabetic, all recipes on this website are keto-low carb and diabetic friendly.
Bacon Broccoli Salad
2020-02-29 06:23:50
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Ingredients
1 Lb Small Cut Broccoli
½ Lb Bacon
1 C Small Cut Diced Red Peppers
1 C Shredded Cheddar Cheese
½ C Sliced Green Onion Tops
½ C Toasted Chopped Macadamia Nuts
⅓ C Small Chopped Pickled Jalapeno Peppers
½ C Mayonnaise
2 T Apple Cider Vinegar
3 Drops Liquid Sucralose***
Instructions
Cut broccoli to your own personal size, blanch for 30-45 seconds, immediately run them under cold water, drain well, and put into large mixing bowl.
Cook and crumble bacon. Add to bowl.
Toast nuts & add to bowl.
Add green onions, jalapenos, and cheese to bowl and toss all.
In small bowl add mayo, cider vinegar, & sucralose mixing well. This may or may not be enough depending on how much mayo you want but it’s a start and you can always add more as needed/wanted.
Blend mayo mixture into bowl, making sure everything is well coated.
Do toast your nuts as it makes all the difference not only is texture but in taste as well. Sliced toasted almonds will also work but macadamia absolutely do make the salad shine.
Please don't cut off the broccoli stems as they are as usable as the crowns. Just be sure to cut them small enough.
The day I ate this I had fixed myself three chicken tenders flash fried in browned butter with a little salt and pepper and even at the time I realized it would have been so easy to have chopped up the chicken, topped the salad and called dinner good to go. Well, there is always a next time and...you can see, I fixed this as a luncheon with a friend a week later and...this time I had the chicken for it.
Keto Crab Dip. Was lucky enough to get my hands on some raw chicken skins and I was off to the races with this keto crab dip recipe. It’s the first time I have gotten skins in any number and I kinda wanted to pig out with them. Now of course this can be scooped with any low carb vegetable but the fried chicken skins?…To die for. Keto crab dip by itself is very easy to make and shouldn’t take more than 30-40 minutes or so and most of that time is just letting the veggies, herbs and spices cook. I used Parmesan cheese as my topping but pork rind dust could just as easily be used too and surprise, I purchased my crab meat at Safeway. Yes, there a few things I get there and crab is only one of them plus, it comes in handy ½ lb. containers.
As I am a Type II diabetic, all recipes on this website are keto-low carb and diabetic friendly.
Crab Dip
2020-02-24 16:22:25
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Ingredients
½ Lb Crab Meat
1 C Shredded Mozzarella Cheese
2 T Butter
¼ C Green Onions Finely Cut Tops Only
¼ C Minced Onion (Or Shallot)
¼ C Minced Celery
2 Bay Leaves
½ t Dried Thyme
¼ t Celery Seed
¼ t Black Pepper
¼ t Cayenne Pepper (Or Chipotle Powder Might Be Good)
2 t Chicken Base*** (+ More To Taste)
1¼ C Heavy Cream
2 T White Wine
Topping
⅓ C Parmesan Cheese
1 t Paprika
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350°.
Heat butter in a saucepan until it bubbles. Add all ingredients except cream, wine, crab, & cheeses and simmer until vegetables are well cooked and a little brownish.
Add heavy cream & wine and reduce very slightly.
Remove bay leaves & fold in crab meat.
Fold in mozzarella cheese.
Put into one or individual casserole dishes.
Mix Parmesan cheese & paprika and sprinkle on top of casserole.
Bake until the cheese just starts to brown and the sides of the dish begin to bubble or about 10-15 minutes.
Keto Cajun Shrimp & Grits. This is such a fabulously easy recipe that it’s a shame you have to wait to go to New Orleans to get it. Well, you don’t and here’s a good recipe to start with. Keto Cajun shrimp & grits is spicy, piquant, and every bit as good as what you can get elsewhere and a bit of good news: It is not nearly as expensive as eating it in a restaurant. Yes, the Grits are made with cauliflower but by the time you are finished with them you are not going to know. You can use any cheese of your choosing in the grits and I chose Mozzarella because It is what I happened to have on hand but cheddar, white cheddar, or any cheese of your choice works.
As I am a Type II diabetic, all recipes on this website are keto-low carb and diabetic friendly.
Cajun Shrimp & Grits
2020-01-29 03:48:52
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Ingredients
1 Head Cauliflower Grits (4-5 Servings) Or 4 Servings Mashed Cauliflower
1-1¼ Lbs. Shrimp
Favorite Cajun Spice To Taste (Don't Be Shy) And I Have Used Cajun's Choice forever
1⅓ C Heavy Cream
1 T Chicken Base***
½ t Thyme
1 C Shredded Cheese
4 T Butter
¼ C Green Onion Tops
Instructions
Liberally sprinkle both sides shrimp with Cajun spices.
Add heavy cream, chicken base, thyme, and additional ½ t thyme to medium sauce pan, bring to low and simmer until thickened. Add grits to heat-add cheese to melt and smear grits on bottom and sides of bowls.
Heat 2 T butter to brown, add ½ shrimp and sear on both sides. Repeat. This will not take long.
Place shrimp on grits, sprinkle with green onions and serve.
For an absolute added taste treat add 2-3 T butter to hot pan after finished with shrimp and brown the in with the left-over pan spices, then drizzle it over the shrimp.
Keto Eggplant Mushroom Lasagna. It would be customary to think of lasagna with a red sauce but no, this keto eggplant mushroom lasagna is made with a white wine cream sauce. I know it is not much to look at but boy oh boy is it good, assuming you like eggplant, cheese, mushrooms and oozy gooey food. If you have looked at many of my dinner plates you have seen lots of eggplant as a side dish but this takes center stage on the plate. Your portion will be larger than mine as I only made ⅓ the recipe and because I always eat many other things with dinner. Despite the picture, there is no basil in the recipe…I ate it with my tomatoes…with abandon.
As I am a Type II diabetic, all recipes on this website are keto-low carb and diabetic friendly.
Eggplant Mushroom Lasagna
2020-01-17 04:14:07
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Ingredients
3 Medium Eggplant
½ C Olive Oil
½-¾ Lb Mushrooms
3 T Butter
½ Medium Onion
¼ C White Wine
2 C Mozzarella Cheese
¾ C Heavy Cream
4 Oz Cream Cheese Room Temperature
⅓ C Parmesan Cheese
2 t Dried Marjoram
1 t Salt
½ t Pepper
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350°.
Beat cream cheese until smooth, add heavy cream, salt, pepper, and marjoram and mix well.
Peel eggplant (or not) and slice into 1" rounds.
Drizzle oil on rounds and cook on medium low until nicely browned and beginning to collapse. You will probably need to do this in 2-3 repeats and if you need more olive oil for pete's sake add it.
Slice mushrooms, sauté in 2 T butter and set aside.
Mince onion, sweat in 1 T butter until translucent and soft, add back mushrooms, add white wine and simmer until very little wine remains.
Smear a little heavy cream sauce in 8x8" glass baking pan, put down as many eggplant rounds as you can manage and smear ½ of what's left on top. Next put ½ of mushroom onion mixture, sprinkle half the mozzarella and then sprinkle with ½ Parmesan cheese.
Repeat.
Put into oven about 20-25 minutes or until bubbly around the edges and the cheese is oozy goozy throughout.
Keto Italian Parmesan Tomatoes. I have to say that it seems a bit silly for me to post this recipe and then again, sometimes we just need a little reminder of things long past. Keto Italian Parmesan tomatoes are delicious, ridiculously easy, were all the rage served in some high-end restaurants in the 60’s and 70’s and then fell out of favor (and for good reason) as chef’s began to present newer and much spiffier vegetable side dishes. This really has actually been considered more of a plate garnish but I have always considered them as a side dish. You may wish to use my sugarfree Italian Herb Mix which is many times less expensive or, if you have a favorite, then go for it and I have listed them below. Yes, you can use tiny little tomatoes too. As “they” say, and whoever “they” are; size does not matter.
Keto Lemon Garlic Aioli as shown with padron peppers. An aioli, as I know it, pretty much always has garlic in it and by garlic I mean GARLIC and served as an appetizer with padron peppers? Yikes, so good. Not too long ago chef Taffiny Elrod from NY, a twitter friend, became a real-life friend when she came to visit Portland for a food conference.
We ate at the spectacular restaurant OX and one of the appetizers we had was padron peppers in some to-die-for sauce. I have always loved padrons just blistered and drenched in olive oil and lots of salt but as you can see and may find out that the addition of the keto lemon garlic aioli with the padrons are simply to die for. Blistered padron peppers have what I consider a very mild heat but…every once in a while you might get a zinger.
All ingredients can be adjusted to your own likes and tastes-this is just the way I like it.
Now here is where you can get creative. Sub lime juice for lemon, sub chipotle powder with chili powder and you can dunk nearly any lowcarb vegetable into it you may like. Like red peppers, jicama sticks, cucumbers, celery, and the list could go on.
Keto Orange Sauce. Whew an orange sauce with no orange juice? Yes, here it is, and if you weren’t told, you’d never know. It is orangeyness at its best…with NO ORANGE JUICE. I do use a good quality extract diluted with alcohol and not a seed oil. The alcohol will gas off and the seed oil?-You will end up eating it as it will not.
There are so many ways to use this keto orange sauce. With Crepes Suzette, on Pulled Pork, chicken, scallops, most any fish, and my personal favorite, duck breast, which I have shown above. I happen to have access to a farm that raises and sells their ducks to a market in the area where I live so I am lucky in that respect, but you can always find whole duck in any Asian market, spatchcock it and use this keto orange sauce with it. Peking Duck has always been a special meal for me and with the advent of my Low Carb Hoisin Sauce I can pretty much have it any time I want to-and I do.
I don’t-but if you eat ice cream, this would probably make a pretty tasty topping and since it has butter in it, I think it would crackle before you got it served? I know the last pic looks a little like ice cream but…it’s grated daikon radish and the pic to the left is with blistered shishito peppers. On raspberries? Don’t even ask. Keto orange sauce is probably pretty tasty on a brick.
As I am a Type II diabetic, all recipes on this website are keto-low carb and diabetic friendly.
Orange Sauce
2019-12-28 05:54:36
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Ingredients
1½ T Orange Extract
¼ C Water
¼ C White Wine
2 T Brandy
2 T Grand Marnier
2 T Orange Zest (About 1 Medium Orange)
1 T Apple Cider Vinegar
8 Drops Liquid Sucralose***
4 T Butter
Smidgeon Xanthan Gum
Instructions
Mix first 8 ingredients in a small sauce pan and bring to simmer. Turn off heat, beat in xanthan gum, and add butter 1 T at a time until smooth and creamy.
No problem with refrigeration, as it really will not get hard and will last more than a week or two but who are we kidding. It simply won’t last as you will want to have it again and…again…and…again.
If you do get it into a refrigerator, just let in sit on the counter for an hour or two and stir to get that beautiful sauce ready to use again. Any butter bits will melt immediately upon hitting any warm food.
Keto Brown Sugar Cookies. Yep, and they are so easy too. Tons of butter to sooth any savage beast and They. Are. Huge. To be more exacting they are over 4″ huge so one is plenty enough after a good low carb dinner. A while ago I did a recipe for Giant Ginger Cookies and this is just kind of a sister-cookie. When baked, and after sitting, these keto brown sugar cookies have kind of a soft-crunchy texture but, that’s if you get people to leave alone long enough to actually sit.
As I am a Type II diabetic, all recipes on this website are keto-low carb and diabetic friendly.
Brown Sugar Cookies
2019-12-27 05:37:53
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Ingredients
2¼ C Carbalose Flour***
3 Sticks Butter
1 C Allulose***
30 Drops Liquid Sucralose***
2 Eggs
1 T Vanilla Extract
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350° .
Mix eggs, vanilla extract and Sucralose.
In large bowl cream butter, then add and beat in egg mixture.
Slowly beat in 1 C Allulose.
Slowly add in flour. Mixture should be a very thick dough.
With a ¼ C scoop place 8 balls onto a parchment lined baking sheet and with your fingers, press each ball to flatten a bit.
Generously sprinkle on more sugar and press with a flat surface to about 4" and it's the sugar that keeps them from sticking to whatever you use for the final flattening. I use, of all things, my meat pounder but whatever trips your trigger.
Bake 18-20 minutes or until just beginning to brown at the edges.
I have a very large baking sheet that fits all the cookies at once but since you may not, it's why you either need 2 sheet pans or to repeat the process for all your cookies.
Yes, they freeze very well, I wrap mine individually, and thawing is a snap.
The dough will be fine if you are doing the cookies in two batches and they do not have leavening in them except for the eggs.
All Things Carbalose Flour. When I started posting recipes I thought I would just post the recipe for Bread up and then realized I use the flour and bread for so many things that I would just make the whole category All Things Carbalose and that use Carbalose in one way or another. I hadn’t realized there were so many until I started posting recipes. The flour may be purchased at Netrition.com There are 14 cups per 3 lb. bag so order accordingly. All recipes listed below.
I have found this flour to be a godsend for low carbers and diabetics like myself. The problems with the flour as I see them are: 1.) that there have not been many recipes for it and you cannot get them from Tova Industries, 2.) for many people including myself, it tastes very bitter, (this bitterness is corrected for in the bread-hence for all its uses) and lastly 3.) it is relatively expensive. There are tons of recipes for CarbQuik but not for the flour itself and because of its cost, a legitimate low carb bakery would have a tough time selling bread at around 10.00 a loaf.
IDO NOT use Carbquik for any of these recipes, so please do not confuse the two products.
So, the recipes listed below are still in the various and appropriate sections of all the low carb recipes but for convenience sake they are all listed here too. All nutritionals are listed below the bread recipe as well as with all respective recipes.
Low Carb Shrimp Toast. So, I have been watching this series on NetFlix called The Chef’s Show and one of the many recipes that has been done was simply called Shrimp Toast. I’m thinking that not only did it seem easy, but something very, very tasty so…I thought I’d give it a try. I already had all the ingredients that were called for and this is my result. If you ever do watch it, you’ll see that mine is not too much different except for gochujang. Koreans use gochujang for just about everything and I don’t have any, let alone would I use it. It is very sugary and hot so if you want a spicier or sweeter keto shrimp toast then you could use a hot sauce and a bit of sugarfree sweetener of some kind. Now, if you do not make Carbalose Bread, or some version of low carb bread you will have to punt on that ingredient and perhaps serve it in a bowl but I did use it and the low carb shrimp toast that resulted was divine. The idea of the bread is to soak up all those heavenly juices and yes, it does do that. I think using Cauliflower Grits, which I used the following night, would be the best food option under your shrimp. I make and freeze cauliflower grits so I can use them when wanted.
