A few of the comments yesterday kinda blew my mind about finding keto recipes that call for weird ingredients. I’ve been cooking keto for three months and I don’t recall coming across any recipes that (1) I didn’t already have the ingredients (2) I couldn’t think of something to substitute or (3) I couldn’t find in our local stores. We live where anything halfway weird is not going to be found so I’m kinda at a loss as to what recipes you are finding.
Peace, Love & Low Carb is an amazing place for recipes. Granted, I have not looked at every single recipe on her site but my feeling is this: If I truly want to do keto and I come across nine recipes that I know I cannot make, I’ll just keep looking and maybe that 10th one will work. You can choose to give up or you can check other recipe sites.
Yesterday I saw this recipe for Keto Cajun Whole Roasted Chicken with Cajun Cauliflower Rice. This is happening at our house this weekend! If you’ve been reading my blog more than a couple of weeks, you have to have cajun spices in your spice cabinet. If not, google “cajun spice mix” and make up your own. If you don’t have the stuff . . you really need to improve on your spices! 🙂 Truly, how can one live without cajun spices? My favorite right now is Cajun Red Head and, no . . I cannot get that locally but I order it by the dozen. Addie needed something “BBQ related” for a gift basket for a school raffle and I sent a container of Cajun Red Head spice mix.
Anyway, the recipe calls for chicken, cajun spices and the cajun cauliflower rice, which calls for riced cauliflower, bell pepper, parsley and chicken stock. Even Walmart has frozen riced cauliflower. If you tell me you can’t find ingredients to make this recipe . . I’m just probably not going to believe it.
This is actually the way I make my roasted chicken anyway. Season it up, stick a few onion and lemon halves in the cavity and roast it. The leftover chicken can be used for chicken salad or just cut it into chunks, add it to any leftover cauliflower rice and heat it up as a casserole the next day.
Now I wish I wasn’t having prime rib, steamed broccoli and salad for dinner. It’s prime rib that had started to thaw when the freezer door was open the other night so we’re having it today.
Karin Hebbert says
I agree, Judy. I’m finding that it’s really just a lot of whole, fresh food. I guess a few things like coconut aminos and erythritol are throwing folks for a loop. I made riced cauliflower the other day – no ricer, just a regular hand held cheese grater. Worked like a charm.
Katherine says
I think it may be that the recipes that call themselves keno tend to be trying to mimic carb containing recipes. Versus plainer things like vegetables and meat.
And yes, I’ll say I can’t find things like riced cauliflower (or often cauliflower at all), but then I’m currently living in South Korea, which is not the case for most people.
Liz says
The hardest part of adopting a “clean eating” program such as Keto, Paleo or Whole 30, is getting rid of the bad stuff in your house as well as having to review the ingredients of foods you are now buying. But, even that is getting easier once you just stop eating stuff with all the sugars and chemicals. After you are feeling better from the new way of eating, it is even easier to throw out the rest of the bad stuff. I enjoy making up my own spice combinations.
And once you adapt to the new way of eating, the next issue becomes what to eat when going to a restaurant. But, I’m finding more restaurants are indicating what items are gluten free, paleo, keto or whole 30.
Many of the cooking websites are listing which recipes follow which programs as well as giving different cooking instructions for using slow cookers or pressure cookers. That makes cooking easier!
Susan says
There’s always another recipe somewhere. Don’t faint, but I do cook without Cajun spices. =) We’re pretty bland about some things, but I have other favorites. I bought a spice rack at Target about 9 years ago. Mostly it had commons spices, but one was Herbes De Provence. I’ve never seen that in a store, so I tried it and loved it on chicken and pretty much everything else. When I started to run low, I went to the store and bought what I didn’t have of Basil, Marjoram, Thyme, Sage, Savory and Rosemary. Actually, I think Savory was the only one I had to buy. I mixed equal parts into the jar, and ha, ha, there was my favorite spice again! Now I raise my own Basil (lemon or lime), Sage (usually Pineapple) and Rosemary, so I just have to buy Marjoram and Thyme once in a while to keep it stocked up. It’s a great combination!
Nelle Coursey says
Did you see that United has their Prime Rib Roasts on sale?? Either bone in or boneless.