Zeroodle Low Carb Pasta & Our Favorite Spaghetti Sauce Recipe

Cooking some Zeroodle pasta for dinner tonight. Zeroodle makes three different kinds of pasta: Soybean, mung bean, and black bean. The mung bean pasta has only 3 net carbs! Incredibly low, and delicious. Goes great with all your favorite sauces.

My favorite spaghetti sauce recipe:

• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 1 large white onion minced
• 5 cloves garlic crushed
• 1/2 cup red wine
• 1 28 ounce can crushed tomatoes
• 1 15 oz can tomato sauce
• 1 6 ounce can tomato paste
• 1/4 cup Stevia
• 1 tablespoon fennel seeds
• 1 tablespoon ground oregano
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
• 1/2 cup chopped fresh basil
• 1/4 cup chopped fresh parsley

Simmer in slow cooker one to four hours or until desired consistency is reached.

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Summer Zucchini Pie

Summer Zucchini Pie

3 medium zucchini, shredded with water squeezed out
4 green onions, chopped
½ cup whole kernel corn
1 cup shredded mozzarella
1 tsp salt
½ tsp black pepper
1 tsp ground mustard
1 tsp garlic powder

Toss together in a bowl.



Whisk together:

3 eggs
½ cup mayonnaise
¾ cup milk

Add to zucchini mixture and stir together.

Grease 9 inch pie plate with coconut oil.

Pour mixture into pie plate. Sprinkle 1/3 cup Parmesan cheese on top.

Place on baking sheet.
Bake at 375 degrees for 40-45 minutes.

Allow to cool ten minutes before serving.

For low carb option, simply leave out the corn. Add some chopped red bell pepper instead.

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Firecracker Chili

This picture shows me in 2011 receiving First Prize in the Gold Skye Ranch Chili Cookoff for this recipe, formerly called Spicy Merlot Chili. Now renamed Firecracker Chili.

It was August in Oklahoma, and was hotter than firecrackers that day. The chili is pretty hot too.





Recipe:

3 lb. ground beef, browned
1 pound smoked sausage, diced
1 onion, roughly chopped
1 green pepper, diced
1 small can green chili’s or jalapeños
2 packets hot chili seasoning
1 small jar medium picante sauce
1 15 oz can diced tomatoes
1 large can chili beans
1/2 jar spaghetti sauce
1 cup Merlot wine (grape juice if trying to avoid alcohol)
1 tsp salt
1 can whole kernel corn

The idea of this recipe is that it should be a combination of hot and sweet. If you want it sweeter, add Stevia powder to taste. You could just add more grape juice, but that might make it too liquid, hence the Stevia, which will sweeten and also soak up some liquid.

Combine all ingredients in crock pot on high. Cook for 2 hours, stirring occasionally and adjusting seasoning to taste. 

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La Batata Chorizo Tallarin

La Batata Chorizo Tallarin

Recipe: 

1 lb roll Chorizo

1 sweet potato, peeled and chopped

2 small or one large zucchini, chopped

3 green onions, chopped

1 package Asian noodles

1/2 cup shredded sharp cheddar

Salt and pepper to taste

Steam sweet potatoes for 15 minutes. While they are cooking, fry Chorizo with green onions. Cook Asian noodles in boiling water. 

After 15 minutes, add zucchini to steamer and cook both sweet potato and zucchini for five minutes. 

Dump noodles and chorizo in large bowl. Add vegetables. Toss together. Salt and pepper to taste and top with shredded cheese.

(Hint: my husband likes this tossed with some added Frank’s Hot Sweet Chili Sauce. Add if you like).

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Our Little Onion Experiment

Remember this little onion we started sprouting on my kitchen cabinet? 

After two weeks, this little sprout is now ready for planting. 

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Crustless Quiche

This recipe is low-carb, vegetarian, keto, and delicious. The basic recipe can be spiced up with all kinds of things once you’ve got it down.

Ingredients:


3 eggs

1 cup milk

1 cup mayonnaise
2 cups shredded cheddar cheese

1/2 cup chopped spinach, broccoli, kale
, or peas
1/2 tsp garlic powder



Bake at 375 for 45 minutes. Remove from oven, turn oven off, sprinkle remaining 1 cup of cheese on top, put back in warm oven to melt. Cool 30 minutes before serving.

If making a dessert quiche, leave out the vegetables and garlic powder. Add 1/4 cup stevia and 1/2 tsp cinnamon. After baking, remove from oven and cool. Cut and plate. Top each piece with Walden Farms Zero Carb Strawberry Spread or syrup. Makes a great topping.

To make it a little spicy, add chipotle mayonnaise instead of plain.


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Can you eat beans on a low carb diet?

There are a number of reasons why you might want to eat beans. They are a cheap source of protein, are fairly high in fiber, and have varied and delicious flavors. There are also some good reasons not to eat them. They are quite high in lectins, a substance which causes a lot of inflammation in the body, and are the reason why beans cause so many digestive upsets. Also because of the perception that they are high in carbohydrates.




Which of these beans, if any, can be eaten on a low carbohydrate diet?

In order lowest to highest net carbs per half cup, this is how they rank:

Mung brand - 0.34 grams
Green beans - 0.12 grams
Yellow snap beans - 0.6 grams
Black beans -  3.27 grams
Red kidney beans - 3.56 grams
Fava beans - 6.48 grams
Lima beans - 7.5 grams
Pinto beans - 7.3 grams
Calico or red beans - 9.1 grams
Navy beans - 13.39 grams
Great Northern beans - 14.75 grams
White beans - 16.14 grams
Garbanzo beans (chickpeas) - 16.54 grams

It would appear that Navy beans, Great Northerns, White beans and Garbanzo beans have as many carbs as one slice of bread. So if you don’t bread on your diet, you should probably avoid those four varieties as well. It looks like Green beans, Black beans, and red kidney beans might have acceptable levels for a low carb diet, as long as they are kept to 1/2 cup or less. The beans in the middle of the list might be acceptable if kept to a quarter cup or less, perhaps just enough to toss them into a salad.

But definitely, I would not try to eat these as a protein substitute because the small amounts allowed on a low carb diet would provide insufficient daily protein.

If you are trying to reduce the amount of inflammatory foods you are eating, beans should probably be avoided altogether.

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