Low-Carb, So Simple!

Stuffed Avocados with Creamy, Crunchy Chicken Salad

September 2, 2018 By elviira 4 Comments

Welcome to keto food at its best! This dish is the ideal light-but-incredibly-satisfying meal, and it’s a symphony of different textures: crunchy radishes, tender avocado and meaty chicken. It’s lovely to look at, too. Summer is almost over, and the last fresh crunchy radishes of the season deserve a beautiful (and tasty!) presentation.
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ABC (Avocado Bacon Cajun) Meatballs

August 26, 2018 By elviira Leave a Comment

I admit it, I’m not a genius — but this dish sure is! Making a healthy dinner is as easy as ABC — literally. You need only 5 ingredients and a few minutes to prepare this delicious, family-friendly meal.

These meatballs check all the boxes. First of all, they’re full of taste. Rich avocado provides a creamy texture and good fats; ground beef is a great source of protein; and Cajun seasoning adds a sharp kick that complements the mellow avocado and acts as an all-around flavor enhancer. And no dish would be complete without bacon, right?!

You can use other flavorful seasonings apart from Cajun (whether they start with the letter C or not!) Take a look at my experiments with different seasonings in this post and choose your favorite ones. And there are more tips for variations at the end of the post, as always.
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Easy Dairy-Free Keto Bread

August 18, 2018 By elviira 30 Comments

There just aren’t enough easy keto bread recipes out there, don’t you think? Well, I’m about to help solve that problem! This dairy-free bread recipe is going to be one of the easiest bread recipes you’ll ever try. I promise. Just stir all the ingredients together, shape into a loaf, and bake. That’s it! It literally cannot get any easier.

But this bread doesn’t sacrifice taste for simplicity. It’s delicious, and the texture is just what it should be: a crispy crust surrounding a soft interior. And it’s versatile and easy to vary. The basic version is superb for sweet and savory toppings alike, but by adding salt, stevia, herbs, or other seasonings you can easily tune the recipe to your taste. As always, you’ll find more tips for variations at the end of the post.
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4-Ingredient Baked Keto Broccoli Cheese Balls

August 3, 2018 By elviira 6 Comments

These versatile broccoli cheese balls are so simple to make—with only 4 ingredients—that they’re sure to become one of your low-carb staples. Enjoy these gems as a snack: just pop a couple into your mouth when hunger hits. Or serve them as an appetizer, side dish, or party food (they’re especially delicious alongside a sharp, flavorful dip). They’re a great way to sneak some veggies into your kids’ diet, too!
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Rich Cream Cheese Garlic Spread with Feta

July 20, 2018 By elviira 2 Comments

Rich, savory and buttery, this scrumptious 4-ingredient cream cheese- and butter-based spread is a perfect topping for your low-carb or keto bread — kind of like a homemade version of Boursin, the popular (and terribly addictive!) herbed garlic-cheese spread. (If you follow a keto lifestyle, you can use this delicious spread as a fat bomb, too.).

Garlic and feta offer lots of flavor on their own here, and you can add extra punch with fresh chives, if you like. Then the mixture is whipped till it’s smooth and fluffy, and the result is a low-carb treat you’ll want to slather on just about everything.
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Healthy Sugar-Free “Sprite”

July 9, 2018 By elviira 12 Comments

Fed up with sugar-laden sodas or diet lemonades filled with junk sweeteners? I hear you! That’s why I developed this easy Healthy Sugar-Free “Sprite” (or “7 Up”) copycat: it’s so refreshing, and in the healthiest possible way.

This recipe is so simple I’m almost ashamed to post it, but on the other hand, that’s what I’m all about, right? — simple recipes. Besides, this drink is so good that it would have been shameful to keep the recipe all to myself! Our family totally fell in love with it, and everybody swears it tastes just like Sprite! This is definitely going to be our go-to drink for the rest of this summer.

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The Very Best Sugar-Free Vanilla Frosting

June 24, 2018 By elviira 20 Comments

By now, you probably know that I’m all about the buttery frostings. That’s why I’ve posted so many recipes for them (like this butter frosting with an orangey variation, a marshmallow fluff frosting, this one with toasted pecans; and many more).

But sometimes I want to top my low-carb cakes and cupcakes with a frosting that’s slightly less buttery, but still rich and delicious. So I developed this super-velvety vanilla-flavored sugar-free frosting. It’s a tad lighter than regular buttercream frosting but still outstandingly rich. And it’s perfect for piping; just wait till you see these photos (and I’m not even a professional confectioner, I swear!)
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Schlemmerfilet Bordelaise – Herbed Almond and Parmesan Crusted Fish

June 8, 2018 By elviira 6 Comments

When I was visiting my German boyfriend (now my husband!) when he still lived in Germany over 10 years ago, I often bought him a frozen ready meal called Schlemmerfilet Bordelaise. It was so convenient; I’d just pop it in the oven and he’d gulp it down with gusto, because Schlemmerfilet Bordelaise is one of those classic German comfort foods. (Basically, it’s just Alaskan pollock crusted with a crunchy, buttery herbed crust.) And it really overdelivered: all you had to do was grab the package from the supermarket’s freezer, throw it into the oven at home, and a hearty, heavenly-tasting meal would be ready in no time.

But the commercial version is full of harmful ingredients, like wheat flour, glucose, rapeseed oil, rice starch, dehydrated glucose syrup, and sugar. They’re definitely not suitable ingredients for a keto lifestyle—or for any other type of healthy lifestyle, for that matter!

Ten years ago I was vegetarian, but nowadays I eat fish and I started missing this tasty and convenient comfort food, so I developed my own clean, keto-friendly version. Not only is it much healthier than the store-bought version, it tastes even better!

Für die deutsche Version dieses selbstgemachten Schlemmerfilet Bordelaise Rezeptes (ohne Gluten, keto-freundlich und kohlenhydratarm), bitte den Fensterinhalt nach unten verschieben.
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Easy 4-Ingredient Keto Mug Bread

May 27, 2018 By elviira 72 Comments

I’ve done lots of keto mug bread experiments. I posted one recipe, which was pretty close to this one, on Facebook a couple of years ago. But that recipe contained flaxseed, which I don’t use anymore because there are so many problems with it (see below!), so I use chia seeds in this recipe instead. They lend a delicious crunch to this easy-to-make 90-second keto bread.
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