Low carbohydrate recipe ideas
If you are following a low carbohydrate diet it is useful to have some quick and easy to make low carbohydrate recipe ideas. What Diet has collected a few free recipe ideas for our readers to use.
Stuffed Peppers
Stuffed peppers are tasty, popular and easy to make. Use as a main meal, low carb snack or as a main dish accompaniment. This is a great one of our low carbohydrate recipe ideas.
Cut the top off a large pepper or cut in half and scoop out the inner and seeds. Take some minced beef and whiz in a blender, add chopped onion, thyme, garlic, salt and pepper and stuff into the pepper. You can use whatever other spices you fancy. For a vegetarian version use minced Quorn or Quorn chicken pieces or soya /tofu cubes.
Bake upright until the filling is cooked and the pepper is tender. This will take about an hour at gas mark 4 / 109 C / 375 F. After about 50 minutes tkae the peppers out and top with layer o grated cheese then finish off in the oven.
Total time – 1 hour 10 mins
Stuffed Mushrooms with Rocket
Take some large mushrooms and place cap down on a baking tray. Spray with light spray oil and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Sprinkle the underside of the mushroom caps with grated cheese mixed with some chopped onion and/or garlic and bake at gas 5 / 204 C / 400 F for 20 minutes.
Serve with rocket leaves and a little low fat dressing. This is another of our low carbohydrate recipe ideas.
Total time – 30 mins
Smoked Salmon with Scrambled Eggs
Melt a knob of butter in a frying pan. Break some eggs (2 for each person) into a bowl with black pepper. Heat in the pan while stirring. Add chopped onion and chives while the eggs are still slighlty liquid and continue to cook.
Tkae the smoked salmon-either cold or warmed if you prefer and cut into small pieces and scatter over the eggs as they start to thicken.
Total time – 15 mins
We hope you enjoy these low carbohydrate recipe ideas and keep checking back for more ideas.
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