Question about recipes/ingredients

#1

Many soups, sauces, braising liquids contain mirepoix (onion, carrot, and celery).

Anyway, I made braised short ribs last night and the process was:

Brown the ribs,
add chunks of onion, carrot, and celery,
deglaze with a couple cups of wine,
add stock,
reduce,
braise for a few hours, etc.
blah blah blah…

At any rate I am curious of how much of the carbs I might be ingesting if I don’t actually eat the carrots/onion and just have some of the liquid with the beef?

I am aware of the carbs in the wine, but that can be calculated.

The mirepoix definitely adds flavor to the liquid, but do the carbs leach out into the liquid and by what factor?

Thanks to anyone that might have input on my odd question.

(MelissaH) #2

Sounds delicious!! Don’t worry about the mirepoix or the food in your dish your not eating. A few carrots are fine too though

(Mike W.) #4

Aren’t you basically just extracting the sugars from them then and not getting any of the fiber? I wouldn’t worry a lot, but…

#5

Thanks for the replies.

That is the question, I suppose.

(Bob M) #6

It’s really the wine to be concerned about.

I usually ignore this stuff and just eat it, including the liquid (which I assume you made into a sauce?). if you go over carb content for one day, it’s not a big deal (for me). And since I rarely make this type of food, it’s more like once every few weeks at most.

(Robert C) #7

Unfortunately I cannot answer your question directly - I don’t know if/how much the carbs would leak out.

But, from my perspective, this would never be an issue. I simply do not have carrots (very carby), onions (carby), celery (tastes like water) or wine in my kitchen. Short ribs would end up with chicken broth and spices in a crock pot or sou vide followed by some time under the broiler - to get fatty spicy ribs (vs. rib soup).

I haven’t met a soup, sauce or braising liquid I like since going keto.

(Mike W.) #8

I make all kinds of Keto soups. Very low carb.

(John) #9

I have made chicken soup starting with mirepoix sautéed in butter, cooked down, then add chicken stock and shredded or cubed cooked chicken. I ate it celery, carrots, onions, and all. Considering the liquid to veggies ratio the small amount of carrot and onion in a serving likely did not contribute significant carb content to my daily intake.

(KCKO, KCFO 🥥) #10

If short ribs, Brenda’s recipe is a good one no carrots, onions, celery, etc. Just mushrooms for depth of flavor:

(8 year Ketogenic Veteran) #11

I actually didn’t cook the mushrooms with the short ribs. I just ate them with the short ribs.:slight_smile:

(KCKO, KCFO 🥥) #12

Well I tried them with the ribs and mushrooms together and it was pretty awesome. I never follow a recipe strictly.