Cooking Blog
Chinese takeout restaurant favorites have a “westernized” menu of egg foo young, chow mein, beef and broccoli, egg drop soup and egg rolls…the typical cooked dishes are full of oil and sodium. I’ve prepared a vegetable egg foo young recipe “take – out” version at …
This filling one-pot “Chinese Three Ingredients Soup” dinner is quick and easy, prepared in 20 minutes, KETO cooked with broccoli slaw instead of Chinese mein noodles in a simple aromatic broth that is packed with flavor. In moments you’ve got a steaming hot bowl of …
What is your favorite way to eat rice? Plain white or fried with soy sauce? Chinese cooking and a side of rice! Rice is incredibly high in carbs and isn’t nutritious at all…other than to sop up all the wonderful gravy and sauces to any Asian dish. How many times have you eaten at an Asian restaurant and ordered additional sides of rice…overeaten more than one cup of measured rice (equivalent to consuming a few days worth of CARBS in one sitting). You leave feeling bloated and stodgy for hours!
The previous food blogs I’ve posted need a side dish of “RICED CAULIFLOWER” to sop up all the wonderful natural juices and flavors.
KETOGENIC RICED CAULIFLOWER is “faux rice”, or low carbohydrate cauliflower rice. One large head of cauliflower will yield 6-8 cups of cauliflower rice. When making the rice for your family, allow one cup per person as a small side dish. it is a quick and easy way to add an Asian staple on a low carbohydrate diet. Cauliflower is low in carbs, high in fiber, full of Vitamin A, B6 and C. I’ve added several fresh vegetables that add a “crispness” & “color” to the dish. For a hearty one dish meal, add additional vegetables…use your imagination!
The easiest way to chop the cauliflower is to use a food processor (pulse button) or hand grate with a food grater. For a quick alternative, buy a bag of pre-riced cauliflower in the frozen produce section.
Cauliflower has 25 calories per cup vs. 218 calories for a cup of cooked brown rice (carbs: 5 g per cup for cauliflower and 46g for a cup of brown rice).
Cauliflower 1 cup serving: 5.3g carbs, 2.5g fibre, 2.4g sugar, Vit A 0.3%, Vit B6 10%, Vit c 77%, calcium 2.2%, iron 2.4%, magnesium 4%
White rice 1 cup cooked : 53.2g carbs, 0.6g fibre, 0.7g sugar, Vit A 0%, Vit B6 15%, Vit C 0%, calcium 0.6%, iron 15%, magnesium 21%
Brown rice 1 cup cooked : 44.8g carbs, 3.5g fibre, 0.7g sugar, Vit A 0%, Vit B6 15%, Vit C 0%, calcium 2%, iron 4.5%, magnesium 21% (% of your daily requirement)
I transformed a classic stir fry dish that can be quickly prepared and cooked while on a healthy “KETO” diet. Cantonese beef tomato stir-fry is one of my favorite “comfort food recipes”. This dish is often served at Chinese restaurants as a “rice …
Sushi on a low carb diet is a challenge! Usually, low carb sushi choices are limited. Most sushi is high in carbs, because of the rice and the different “sweet” sauces. When eating at sushi restaurants, you really have one keto friendly option, which is …
I took my grandmother’s simple soy sauce chicken recipe (Cantonese home-style dish) of soy sauce, garlic, star anise, water and boiling the chicken braised in a heated bath. Simmer and it is done!
I updated this recipe with additional ingredients (organic coconut sugar (KETO DIET) or brown sugar, fresh ginger, raw honey, rice vinegar, red chili paste, & liquid smoke). After simmering the chicken, I put the whole pot of ingredients into a container and refrigerated overnight. 24 hours is enough time to add more flavor into the skin and chicken meat. I use chicken thighs because it is more moist and won’t dry out during the second step of oven roasting to make the skin crisp. Any chicken parts can be used (chicken wings and breast meat) but don’t over cook the chicken parts in the first step of simmering in the pot.
The crispy skin is my favorite part of the chicken (great in KETO diet) with the savory flavors! The chicken meat is flavorful and just melts off the bone. This recipe provides enough chicken for 8 persons (2 pieces each). This recipe would be enough liquid to cook 2 whole chickens.
I have not tried putting the chicken pieces on a BBQ grill instead of the oven. I’m sure this would taste great grilled?… you would have to watch the heat so the soy and sugars wouldn’t burn on the grill.
