Carbquik Experience
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Yeah. I've used Carbalose Flour in replacement of regular flour in pretty much any of the recipes I've found online and it fits more into low carb when you also replace sugars or higher carb milk etc...with the normal replacements.
So you can try google for just normal pancake recipes and sup the flour with the Carbalose and play around with others. I'm still on the search for the perfect low carb pancake but these are pretty tasty for as low carb as they are.1 -
I wonder if adding an extra egg and some heavy cream would fluffen them up?1
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Maybe a little Baking Powder or Baking Soda as a leavening agent? Zero carbs for both.1
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Don't get me wrong. They are sort of fluffy. They are very pancake-y, like I said. But compared, they are drier and heavier. Still good tho. IMO
They seem to be a great "craving pancakes or biscuits" substitute. I felt fine after eating them and my blood sugar stayed normal.2 -
Adding Egg and Cream do make them fluffier. That's what I do to the base recipe to make them a little more pancake-y
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I usually skip breakfast as I rather have some type of bread with my eggs! Can't wait to make a turkey sausage, egg and cheese on a biscuit for breakfast
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The Biscuits are super tasty when they are warm.3
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Carbquick makes good pancakes and waffles, but I have found they are very thin and fragile. I created a new recipe that I can't even tell is different from a regular pancakes. It uses a combination of carbquick and flaxseed meal. Even my wife (who isnt doing LCHF) loves them.0
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silverfiend wrote: »Carbquick makes good pancakes and waffles, but I have found they are very thin and fragile. I created a new recipe that I can't even tell is different from a regular pancakes. It uses a combination of carbquick and flaxseed meal. Even my wife (who isnt doing LCHF) loves them.
Can you share the recipe?0 -
JessicaLCHF wrote: »silverfiend wrote: »Carbquick makes good pancakes and waffles, but I have found they are very thin and fragile. I created a new recipe that I can't even tell is different from a regular pancakes. It uses a combination of carbquick and flaxseed meal. Even my wife (who isnt doing LCHF) loves them.
Can you share the recipe?JessicaLCHF wrote: »silverfiend wrote: »Carbquick makes good pancakes and waffles, but I have found they are very thin and fragile. I created a new recipe that I can't even tell is different from a regular pancakes. It uses a combination of carbquick and flaxseed meal. Even my wife (who isnt doing LCHF) loves them.
Can you share the recipe?
Here ya go....
1/4 cup cream and 1/4 cup water - this may need extra*
2 large eggs
2 Tbsp oil
1 tsp vanilla
1/4 cup flax meal
1 tsp baking powder
2 Tbsp stevia powder (or sweetener of your choice)
1 cup carbquick++
1 oz scoop vanilla protein powder (or flavor of your choice)
Mix all ingredients together well and let stand for about 5 minutes. *adjust liquid as needed,
the ingredients will absorb some liquid and may become too thick. Measuring of the carbquick is meant to be very loose, so if you get it packed into the measuring cup, you will need to adjust the liquid to compensate.
++I have found that the plain carbalose flour makes a better result than the carbquick. I don't know why, (carbquick is carbalose with some extra ingredients) but using carbalose gives you a stronger end waffle. Carbquick can be a little fragile.
You will want the batter to be a little thicker than regular pancake/waffle batter. It should be pourable but just barely.
With my waffle maker, this recipe makes 4 waffles. That would make each waffle 249 calories, 3 grams NET carbs, 13 grams of fiber, 19 gram of fat and 15 grams of protein- I use AIsports protein powder. Other powders will change the nutritional breakdown1 -
LovelessFool wrote: »Jess I find if you cook the pancakes on lower heat they tend to get done and taste better. I've toiled around with the carbquik quite a bit and I love it. The biscuits are very yummy when warm. The key to really anything I've noticed is lower heat longer time seems to always work better as it tends to burn or have a scorched taste if you cook too quickly with it.
Thanks for all the great tips.
Is it possible there's a low-carb version of biscuits and gravy?
(I'd would just love to palm it off on my father-in-law, scoff as he does at anything with a whiff of "healthy".
He's 90 and loves to crow about having inhaled mountains of asbestos and DDT with no ill effects..... )2 -
Is it possible there's a low-carb version of biscuits and gravy?
Carbalose flour works a little better than carbquick, but we like these in my house!
Country style baking powder biscuits
Servings: 10 biscuits
2 cups CarbQuik
4 ounces Butter, cold
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 pinch salt
1/4 cup heavy cream see option
1/4 cup water
(Or as an option use ½ cup buttermilk) add .5 carbs delete other liquids
Preheat oven to 400 degrees
Cut the cold butter into the Carbquik with either a pastry cutter or food processor, till the mixture resembles coarse meal.
Add baking powder a pinch of salt and blend well.
Mix the heavy cream with water to equal 1/2 cup of liquid, pour into dry mix.
Mix till dough forms and comes together, but do not over work the dough. A loose sticky dough is preferred
Work to dough either by hand or with a rolling pin to ¾ inch thickness. Cut biscuits with either a round biscuit cutter or a drinking glass dipped in Carbquik
Bake in hot oven 8-10 minutes till biscuits are golden brown.
Per Serving 84 Calories; 9g Fat 2g Protein; 5 Carbohydrate 3g Dietary Fiber; Net Carbs 2g
Sausage Gravy
Servings: 4-6
1 pound breakfast sausage
4 tablespoons Carbquik
¾ cup cream with ¾ cup water
Salt and pepper, to taste
In large skillet, over medium-high heat, cook and crumble sausage to lightly brown. Sprinkle CarbQuik over sausage in skillet, stir to blend, add milk to pan all at once. Cook, stirring constantly, over medium-high heat, until thickened and bubbly. Season to taste with salt and pepper. If desired, serve over hot baked biscuits.
Per Serving 230 Calories; 23g Fat); 16g Protein; 7g Carbohydrate; 2g Dietary Fiber; Net Carbs 5g or 3g based on 6 servings
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Thanks Silverfiend! My husband will love that he can have biscuits and gravy again (his favorite). I'll make this next weekend! Thanks for the pancake recipe too - I have all those ingredients, so I'll try it.1
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@silverfiend Can we just all come to your house for breakfast??
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Hmm. Let's make it dinner. We can all concoct our favorite low-carb cocktails for dessert, then leave after breakfast...
Thx, @silverfiend - much appreciated!1 -
@silverfiend Can we just all come to your house for breakfast??
Yes!1 -
I've had it in my pantry for about a month, I've made the biscuits and pancakes and some breading. It all tastes like Bisquick to me, which is not a positive. I've added parmesan, onion powder, rosemary - all I can taste is Bisquick! But that is what it is supposed to be. So there you go. I have had no issues with fiber or with cravings after. I am going to try some of the Bisquick impossipie recipes - my mom used to make a taco pie which was good - but I don't expect to buy another box.1
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I have been using Carbquick for about 8 months off and on. I have made beer bread with low carb beer and it was dense and tasted like cornbread! I make a chocolate chip cookie bar recipe that is yummy. Battered fried zucchini and squash, chicken strips,chicken fried everything. Low and slow is the key. Biscuits fresh out of the oven and with butter or gravy really good. I have not had any gastric issues as a result of eating this product. This is not gluten free! and it is pricey.0
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I have read on other forums that some people are very sensitive to the particular taste of the carbalose. It does have a slightly different taste, but to me it's only slight and isn't a bad flavor. Others can only focus on that one aspect and therefore cant stand it.
I have a new recipe cooling as I type. I made a lower carb apple pie because it's my sons favorite. It can't be a real "lowcarb" item because the apples add a lot of natural sugar. We'll have to see if any tweeks are in order. It certainly smells good!
If it's cut into 8 slices each would have 415 calories, 34 fat, 17 NET carbs, and 6 protein. Compared to about 60g carbs for a regular apple pie, this is certainly an improvement.
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The results are in, and IT'S GOOD! I was most worried about the crust but it came out light and flaky just like I hoped for. Will have to try with some different apple varieties. I ended up cutting this into 12ths so now I need to reconfigure the nutrition but it's still acceptable.
So now I have a good Pumpkin pie and an Apple pie to take to the family thanksgiving this year.2 -
@silverfiend ...yes Carbalose flour does have a bitter flavor to it. When I use some (also currently working on using up my last bag of this stuff too), I just add a few drops of liquid sucralose to whatever I'm making so that it evens out that bitter flavor into a much more palatable taste.0
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It's not bitter for me. But stevia is. However it has just that slight off taste for me. Still worth it to have pancakes occasionally. It's pricy so it won't be a staple. Just an option. Options are always good.0
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Update . I had steak and cheese on carb quick biscuits and it was delicious. 1
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Drool... sounds delish. No pics?! How exactly did you make it? @MrsKila0
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I was going through my old Pinterest board deleting food that I'm no longer ever going to eat and saw this recipe for Red Lobster Cheddar Bay Buscuits. Thought of you guys and how it was mentioned the Carbquick is just like Bisquick... figured you all might enjoy making these low carb.
Just a tip, I worked at Red Lobster many moons ago and the cook liked to make the last batch of the night with extra cheese in them. Cheese would literally stretch when you broke the biscuit in half! It was amazing that way! We would all be hustling to the kitchen to get one (or more ) before they were gone.
Edited to note: the blurb about making cheese muffins instead wasn't written by me. I just repinned it with whatever was written by the previous pinner. So, I have no idea what that's about...1 -
Thanks! Cheesy biscuits yum! I'm making pancakes at the moment. I wanted to add, the recipe makes 10 pancakes, (5 servings) and as I'm the only one who eats them I was worried about how they keep.
No worries. I fridge them in a Tupperware and reheat them in the microwave. They keep fine, heat well, and taste good reheated. You will not need to add butter on top tho - mine at least are very buttery! But I fry them in butter.0 -
Sunny_Bunny_ wrote: »I was going through my old Pinterest board deleting food that I'm no longer ever going to eat and saw this recipe for Red Lobster Cheddar Bay Buscuits. Thought of you guys and how it was mentioned the Carbquick is just like Bisquick... figured you all might enjoy making these low carb.
Just a tip, I worked at Red Lobster many moons ago and the cook liked to make the last batch of the night with extra cheese in them. Cheese would literally stretch when you broke the biscuit in half! It was amazing that way! We would all be hustling to the kitchen to get one (or more ) before they were gone.
Edited to note: the blurb about making cheese muffins instead wasn't written by me. I just repinned it with whatever was written by the previous pinner. So, I have no idea what that's about...
I had this two nights in a row. Yummy!1 -
I love Carbquik, my favorites so far are cheddar biscuits and waffles.
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Wow, that looks delish!!! How do the waffles taste?0
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