Favorite Low Carb Veggie Dishes

sassafrass52

I've been looking at different veggies dishes that replace high carb foods (potatoes, rice, corn, etc.) with low carb veggies. I've seen food recipes like mashed cauliflower with Parmesan and sour cream, or roasted radishes. What are your favorite raw, baked, cooked veggie dishes?

NaturalNancy

- Fresh green beans baked with olive oil or oil spray and baked on 400 for 15-20 min.
Season with salt and pepper and add roasted crushed nuts like almonds before eating.

VegAna22

Why would you want to replace carbs with lower carbs? Carbs are energy and fuel for the body and brain, eat as much pasta rice and grain you want, that's what we're designed to eat (:

Purplebunnysarah

Sautéed mushrooms, onions, and spiralized zucchini, to be served with a cheeseburger patty. So good...

Purplebunnysarah

VegAna22 wrote: »

Why would you want to replace carbs with lower carbs? Carbs are energy and fuel for the body and brain, eat as much pasta rice and grain you want, that's what we're designed to eat (:

Eating low carb/high fat can help some people learn to manage cravings and hunger by reducing them. This also makes it easier to maintain a caloric deficit. Fat is also an adequate fuel for the body .

lemurcat12

Wouldn't pretty much any non starchy veg dish be reasonably low carb (just because vegetables have few calories, although percentage-wise high carb)?

Anyway, summer squash and zucchini sauteed in butter. Asparagus, same. Green beans sauteed with pine nuts, dill added at the end is nice. Roasted broccoli and cauliflower. (Not my thing, but my mom used to put a cheese sauce on those.) Roasted brussels (add bacon, you are LCHF, and bacon goes great with brussels). Collard greens boiled with some source of pork fat.

cocates

Roasted veggie anything. We love roasted asparagus, roasted broccoli, roasted brussel sprouts with bacon, roasted carrots (add in parsnips if you like). Season with s/p, garlic powder, crushed red pepper flakes and olive oil. YUM!
Twice-baked cauliflower (same flavor profile as twice-baked potatoes)
Cauliflower rice (browned butter, Mexican-style, 'fried' rice). You can buy it frozen from Trader Joes. Just have to microwave and then follow a recipe - super simple. I do not like using my food processor, so this is perfect.
Zucchini boats ("de-seed" the zucchini, chop it, add sour cream, bacon, cheese. then stuff back into zucchini and bake). I've also done sloppy joe zucchini boats (just cook meat and add sloppy joe sauce or an enchilada sauce) as well.
"Fried" cabbage. Cut up cabbage and season with s/p/garlic powder. Pour olive oil in pot and then cook cabbage. Add onion and right before it's done, add some apple cider vinegar and crumble cooked bacon on top.
Squash casserole (just leave off the cracker topping)
Squash bake (cut up zucchini and squash, add cheese and bake)
Broccoli slaw (buy from the produce section in grocery store). Cut up an onion and mix. Season with s/p/garlic powder. Cook in skillet with olive oil.

There are lots of things you can make. Do you have a Pinterest account? If not, I'd highly recommend it. Good luck!

I hope I didn't go overboard.

billglitch

steamed vegetables...still crisp, not limp

Jams009

VegAna22 wrote: »

Why would you want to replace carbs with lower carbs? Carbs are energy and fuel for the body and brain, eat as much pasta rice and grain you want, that's what we're designed to eat (:

I do it so I can eat more volume for the same amount of calories. The overall amount of carbs I eat stays the same, but the meals are much bigger and more satisfying.