In a composed salad, ingredients are usually laid out on a platter or individual plate to highlight colors and textures. In a tossed salad, they are tossed together in a bowl with dressing. For this keto friendly salmon salad, we blended the tossed and composed salad styles into an edible still life. First, we tossed […]
Greek gyros are classic sandwiches of seasoned, marinated lamb, tomato, lettuce, and cucumber-yogurt tzatziki sauce in soft pita bread. The traditional method for cooking the meat employs an electric vertical rotisserie on which layers of sliced and marinated leg of lamb are stacked. After cooking for hours, the meat is shaved with a long slicing
Lamb is tender, juicy, fatty, and flavorful—the perfect keto protein. Given the right cut, it can cook quickly, too, so we chose rib or loin chops. Unlike leg of lamb, chops are smaller and take less time tocook so they can be made on a weeknight and you won’t have to worry about left-overs. For
Involtini is an Italian dish of eggplant planks rolled around a creamy seasoned cheese filling. We wanted to develop a version that was impressive enough to serve a crowd, yet fit within the keto diet guidelines. Traditional recipes require a multistep process of salting the eggplant, breading and frying it, and rolling it around a
Based on the traditional Vietnamese street food, bun cha, these pork and noodle bowls consist of flavorful pork patties atop soft noodles, eaten with fragrant herbs, crisp lettuce, cucumber, and a rich, tangy sauce. Happily, we discovered shirataki noodles—a Japanese noodle made from the roots of the konjac plant. They have a pleasant chew and
For a restaurant-worthy dinner you can make on a weeknight, we turned to quick-cooking pork tenderloin. We rubbed a mixture of lemon zest and thyme all over the pork to add bright flavor and thenstarted the cooking on the stovetop, searing the pork in the skillet to give it rich color before roasting. We tossed
Thin-cut pork chops are widely available and perfect for a quick, tasty dinner but we wanted to make a grilled summer meal out of them with a crunchy, tart slaw. To make our work easier, we used the grill for both parts of this dish. Grilling the cabbage added a nice char to a vegetable
Description : To “smother” meat is to cook it low and slow in rich gravy until the meat, usually pork chops, is ridiculously tender and mouthwateringly juicy. Recipes that use this method can take hours, which doesn’t lend itself easily to weeknight cooking. To achieve the same results quickly, we turned to country-style pork ribs,
Description : A crunchy bread-crumb coating is a great way to add flavor and texture to mild, juicy pork chops—unless you’re on the keto diet. So we set out to create a crunchy keto coating with nuts, which are high in both protein and fat. Nut coatings can be dense and leaden, however, with the
We wanted to develop a keto spaghetti and meatballs recipe because this comfort food favorite is usually packed with high-carb ingredients like pasta and tomato sauce. To make it keto-friendly, we needed tender meatballs topped with a delicious low-carb sauce and served on a wheat pasta replacement. Of all the vegetable noodles we tested, tasters
