Low carbs recipes

Grilled Chicken Burgers
Original Recipe Yield 8 servings

Ingredients
• 1 onion, chopped
• 2 teaspoons minced garlic
• 1 red bell pepper, chopped
• 1 cup fresh sliced mushrooms
• 1 tomato, seeded and chopped
• 2 carrots, chopped
• 2 pounds ground chicken
• 1 egg
• 1/2 cup fresh bread crumbs
• 1 tablespoon Seasoning
• salt to taste
• black pepper to taste
Directions
1. Preheat an outdoor grill for medium heat and lightly oil grate.
2. Lightly spray a saute pan with cooking or oil spray over medium heat. Saute the onion with the garlic first, then the bell pepper, then the mushrooms, tomatoes and carrots, all to desired tenderness. Set aside and allow all vegetables to cool completely.
3. In a large bowl, combine the chicken and vegetables. Add the egg, bread crumbs and seasonings to taste. Mix all together well and form into 8 patties.
4. Grill over medium heat for 5 to 6 minutes per side, or to desired doneness.

This recipe sounds like it would be very yummy, but it is NOT low carb! A 1/2 C breadcrumbs has 40 grams of carbs and 2 large carrots have nearly 25 grams of carbs. Sorry.

superstankazz - You're kidding right?!! :noway: Because what you shared would only be true if you ate all 8 of the burgers in one sitting.

Pretty sure that's not what most of us would do... I find this thread to be more about sharing healthy ways to eat and cook with healthier foods and ways to create new meals to try out. Plus you can always opt out of a particular ingredient and substitute with what you prefer. :flowerforyou:

1 1/2 cups flax seed meal
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
4 teaspoons sugar substitute (or less)
2-3 egg whites, beaten until soft peaks form
1/2 cup water
4 teaspoons olive oil
Spices optional (I've added garlic, fennel seed, pepper, onion powder in the past)

Directions:

1
Preheat oven to 425.
2
Combine dry ingredients and mix with fork or whisk.
3
Make a well in the center and add wet ingredients ( except egg whites) and mix well.
4
Using your clean hands, gently fold in egg whites 1/3 at a time, making sure eggs integrate well.
5
Let sit for five minutes.
6
Spread on greased cookie sheet on parchment paper to desired thickness, I like it to be about 9 x 10 inches.
7
Bake 15-20 minutes.

Remove to wire rack to let cool. Once I left it in the pan and the bottom was a bit moist. Depending on how you cut it, your macros will look different. I've doubled the recipe and had 18 squares for 101 cal, 8 F, 5P, ZERO CARBS! 5g of fiber.

Perfect for a sammich, great for any low carb diet. It's just plain better for you than any whole wheat bread, period. I've heard that using golden flax seed meal will give a more subtle taste of the flax, but I haven't tried that yet.

If you don't feel like beating the eggs, I'm sure you can get away with just dumping it all in at once. The idea is to give the bread a bit of fluff/air pockets.

Can't wait to try out this bread, it does sound yum! Regarding the sweetener, is it better to use dry or is wet sweetener OK with this particular recipe? Thanks!

I used Truvia, will try Stevia (but I'm still not sure about the taste). I'm not sure what you mean by wet, agave? That will increase the carb and calorie count. I'm sure you can try it. The recipe will yield about 8-9 squares (rather small) so I'd add 1/8 cup of agave or honey if wet. I didn't use the entire 1/4 cup because I didn't want it so sweet. Let me know how it turns out. Last one I made was 18 squares (doubled recipe with 5 egg whites).

but you are counting the entire 8 burgers for your portion....divide that by 8 and its great!

Not exactly, each burger is 8-10 carbs depending on the size of each veggie. It's ok if your goal is less than 100, not ok if your goal is less than 10. You can cut the carbs by using almond meal, which has fewer carbs, or flax meal which has zero instead of crumbs. Sub a green pepper for the red (use half). Half of the onion. Absolutely no carrots or tomatoes. Then you're looking at 1 or 2 (here I'm guessing, it may be less).