Favourite low-carb recipes/dinners?

[Chocolate Lips]

I need some inspiration for this week and am trying to cut back on carbs as I am a bit of carb-junkie

Have you got any T&T fav recipes or ideas for low carb dinners?

[Skipping Girl]

We're low-carbing again here too. It's been warm/sunny here so lots of BBQ meat, grilled fish or marinaded cooked/warm meat (chicken, beef, pork) on/with salad.

We have this book (downloaded to kindle which is easier to search for ingredients but some of the formatting is off) which is completely no carb, stage 2/3 is with some carbs. Recipe examples: moussaka, chicken korma (no rice), cheesy stuffed courgettes, tuna kebabs, chilli bake.

I've just found this site which has a huge array of low-carb recipes (like bbcgoodfood but you can't search that one by low-carb ). So far I've made the zucchini and ricotta frittata which was OK, although definitely needed to add bacon/ham/sundried-toms, something savoury to lift it. Lots of the recipes look good though, so many to try!

Kat
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PS Do you have the Wagamama cookbook? The salads in it are great for low-carbing, really tasty too.

[Chocolate Lips]

Thanks for the hints and tips!

I really struggle as DH is such a vegetable-dodger and there's no way he'd eat an aubergine or things with peppers etc which is such a PITA. I eat everything so its easier for me but I don't really want me to make 3 different dinners every night

Will check out those links now, thank you

[Skipping Girl]

When DH was no-carbing in earnest and I was just low-carbing, I cooked carbs for me

ETA Actually that is another fab recipe although useless for your DH - meat-stuffed aubergine with a tomato/chilli-based sauce. DH did a cooking course day once in Istanbul and learnt that and other Turkish recipes, it's yum.

[Chocolate Lips]

That sounds yummy! (For me obviously )

[Rosa]

Nigella Feast is pretty good for low carb meals, also have a look on the paleo thread on here, there are a few of us sharing recipes and ideas there.

[*kate*]

When we've been low carbing, I've just made carbs etc for the kids and we've just had the food without the carbs. Fo example salmon with salad, I'd just make a portion of potatoes/pasta for the kids. All we did was dump the obvious carbs from regular meals (added bonus of eating less too).

Would your DH eat cheese? I found quite a lot of cheese/veg recipes easy to do fairly low carb too as you only need a small bit of cheese to make it taste good, and bump up the veg (your DH could have the less veg/more cheese bit)

HFWs everyday veg book has been a godsend while low carbing too, there's loads of good veg recipes in there and I managed to get my DH to eat veg he wouldn't have tried before (Beetroot last night!) still to get him to try a mushroom though.

[Bluebabe75]

Have you got Nigella's 'Kitchen'?

We've had the indian rubbed lamb chops with butternut squash, rocket and pine-nut salad a couple of times recently which is yummy I used lamb steaks though as less fatty.

Apart from that, I'm doing the Jamie Oliver salmon-tray bake this week (the one with green beans, cherry tomatoes, basil and anchovies).

I'm basically just trying to eat less refined carbs (not proper low-carbing) so will probably cook some potatoes for DH and give myself a bigger portion of veg.

[Jack_the_Cat]

Skipping girl, do you have a recipe or some vague instructions for that aubergine recipe? It sounds lovely.

[Skipping Girl]

Yep, will write it up later!