KETO pantry

newbies
#21

I really like xanthum gum. I bought it to make ice cream (I think I used it once for that). But, I love it in sauces, soups and gravies I want to thicken (especially cream soup and pot roast gravy).

(Heather Meyer) #22

Almond Flour
Coconut Flour
Swerve sweetner for baking sugar
EZsweets for swertner for tea and coffee
Konjak flour for thickening sauces and soups
Xanthem Gum for enhancing structure in baked goods
Flavour extracts in flavours you might like: like apple or maple.
Sugar Free Chocolate like Choc Zero

(Erica) #23

Some of my favorite WEIRD things! I don’t have these things on hand all of the time, but they are some of my favorite ingredients to splurge on every now and then. Except the syrup-that one I probably do have all the time!

  1. Pork Rinds. I just buy the ones that come in a bag in the chips section of the grocery store, but I crush them up to use as “bread crumbs” would be used in other recipes. You can fry things in them, make chicken nuggets, breaded fish, etc.
  2. Walden Farms 0 cal/0carb Pancake Syrup (I get it on Amazon). Probably not the healthiest, but I used to love chicken thighs marinated in maple syrup, and this lets me use that good old recipe in a keto friendly way. I’m sure there are lots of things that ketoers could do with it. I make these: https://cookandcount.wordpress.com/2016/02/23/maple-brown-sugar-chicken-thighs/ Just sub the Walden Farm’s syrup for maple syrup and use a little stevia instead of brown sugar. So so good.
  3. Kelp noodles (1 carb per serving) and Miracle noodles (o carbs). I get these: https://www.amazon.com/Miracle-Noodle-Gluten-Shirataki-Variety/dp/B00BTMDALO/ref=sr_1_1_s_it?s=grocery&ie=UTF8&qid=1540523329&sr=1-1-spons&keywords=kelp+noodles&psc=1
(Joanna Parszyk ) #24

Heather l ordered everything on that list with the exception of sweet stuff :smiley:

(Joanna Parszyk ) #25

Erica l love Shirataki and used them for yor years now! Now l’ll experiment with Shirataki flour!

(Erica) #26

I would love to know some of your favorite recipes using Shirataki noodles! And have never even heard of the flour :open_mouth: Off to google!

(Joanna Parszyk ) #27

I just fry/drench then in most fatty silky sauces. Mascarpone sauce for my spinach mushroom chicken risotto. Alfredo for spaghetti. Asian sir fry with bak Choy, low carb fish sauce and bok choy and pork belly. I even tried them in a looser scramble eggs with sour crème and a pinch of spring onions :smiley:

(Joanna Parszyk ) #29

After few months of Keto l’m actually using for the cooking (besides natural meat, cheese and dairy):

A lot of : konjak flour, collagen powder, chia seeds, shiratake noodles, unsweetened cocoa powder.

Quite often: nutritional yeast, almond flour, pork rinds (crushed or blended).

Sometimes: psyllium husk, erythriol , crème of tartar, coconut flour

As a super quick meal or meal replacement: macadamia nuts ( but impossible to have only a few), boiled eggs with a squirt of mayo, BPC ( mine is just 1t of coconut oil and 1t of butter).

I started to make bone broth!!! Amazing stuff. I freeze it in ice trays and ready to use whenever needed.