Tips For Cooking Low Carb
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Author: Lee Dobbins
Here's some tips you can use to make your low carb cooking easier and
tastier:
1. Make low carb bread crumbs for breaded foods. Foods like chicken Parmesan
and stuffed peppers need to have a bread crumbs to have that full taste. While
you may be able to buy low carb bread crumbs, you can also make them by using
low carb bread. Simply toast the low carb bread in the oven on a cookie sheet.
Once it is hard, grind it up in the food processor or blender.
2. Use soy flour or bake mix. When you need to use flour for baking or
coating breaded foods, substitute soy flour or a bake mix like Atkins bake mix.
You can convert your favorite recipes that use white flour to use these.
3. Use low carb chocolate bars for cookies and muffins. Now that you've
converted your favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe using soy flour, you don't
want to put in those high carb chocolate chips. Chop up a low carb chocolate bar
into small pieces and use that instead.
4. Use Splenda instead of sugar. Recipes that call for sugar can be modified
to use Splenda instead. It is much lighter so you will have to expirement with
it and it may not work for everything but if does bake up nice for the most
part.
5. Make great smoothies with low carb yogurt. Ok, well it's not technically
cooking, but if you love smoothies you can make them with low carb yogurt and
fruit. Just make sure you use fruit that is low in carbs and the whole fruit not
the juice as the fiber will help keep down the net carbs. Check my site below
for a list of low carb fruits. Add a dash of vanilla or flavored syrup to the
smoothie for added flavor.
6. For a great low carb pasta substitute use spaghetti squash. We all know
that low carb pasta tastes horrible so why not try a food that is low in carbs
and natural too. Cut the squash in half and bake at 400 degrees F for about 40
minutes. The squash will scrape out in strings and gives the texture and feeling
of spaghetti. Trust me , it taste a lot
better than the low carb pasta and has about 7 grams carbs per 1 cup
serving.
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