Keto Beef Stroganoff

This is a great Beef Stroganoff recipe - a rich, creamy, beefy gravy with tons of mushrooms!

So I found this recipe on another blog and it had so much story to it I had to write my own. I prefer recipe blogs with the ingredients at the top, to make it easier to view on mobile for shopping and reading while cooking. So bear with me, I'll write after.. maybe! As you can see I'm not much of a writer ;) Short on words, big on flavor!

INGREDIENTS

• 800g ground beef (lean or regular)
• 1 yellow onion, thinly sliced
• 1 large clove garlic, finely sliced
• ½ tsp Himalayan or fine sea salt
• ½ tsp freshly cracked black pepper
• 2 cups Water
• 3 cups beef broth
• 2 tbsp Dijon mustard
• 1 tbsp fresh rosemary, finely chopped 
• 1 tsp fresh sage, finely chopped
• 450g crimini mushrooms, sliced (approximately 8 medium mushrooms)
• 1 tbsp fresh parsley, finely chopped
• 1 cup sour cream
• 1 tbsp amaranth flour in 1 cup of water
• 8 yellow and green zucchinis in ribbons or spirals* 

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Preheat a large pan coated with sunflower oil over high heat and brown and sear the beef so it's well cooked and if you enjoy crunch, to form a nice golden crust on all sides.
2. Add onions, garlic, salt, pepper, lower heat to medium and continue cooking until the onions are softened.
3. Add 2 cups of beef broth, Dijon mustard and fresh rosemary and sage and stir until the mustard is mixed in.
4. Lower heat and simmer until the liquid is almost completely evaporated then add 2 cups of water and repeat the process.
5. At this point, you want to add your mushrooms, beef broth and Amaranth flour in water. Bring back to a simmer and continue cooking until you're left with a nice, thick sauce; Turn off the heat.
6. In a mixing bowl, add sour cream, and about a cup of your cooking liquid. Mix with a whisk until fully combined and add that to the pan.
7. Add fresh parsley and stir delicately until all is well combined.
8. Serve over zucchini noodles, or on it's own! 

This is such a delicious recipe, makes for 6 with the nutritional facts (without zoodles) as:
484 calories
37 g fat (0 trans)
8.3 g net carbs
27.7 g protein

You can reduce the calories by using a leaner ground beef and greek yogurt or halving the sour cream. If you want you can use inside round steak cut into cubes or strips and pop it in the crock pot so it's melt in your mouth beefy deliciousness, but I'm a ground beef kinda gal.

Enjoy!

Turkey Apple Butternuts

Hahah, I wrote nuts.

So this is a take on a stuffed/rolled flank steak recipe I have that I did with a Rouladen steak (and abysmally forgot string and overcooked the meat... typical blonde), but has some twists...

1-2 butternut squashes (or acorn)
500g (or a package) of ground turkey (or use ground beef, or use flank steak)
1 granny smith apple(1/4 to 1/2 per squash half)

Slice the apple into thin slices, keep in shape to stuff the squash cavity.
Marinade the meat with worchestershire, thyme, rosemary, garlic, chopped onion and S+P. Turkey does not need to be marinated.

Marinade/cooking sauce:
2 tbsp honey
1/2cup apple juice or pineapple juice
1 tsp nutmeg
1 tsp cinnamon
2 tbsp melted margerine or butter

Stuffing:
1/2cup finely chopped onion
1/3cup crushed/chopped pecans
1/4cup finely chopped mushrooms
1/8cup green onion
1tsp rosemary
1tsp thyme
1/2cup shredded cheddar
2 cloves crushed garlic
S+P
(in the future I may add chopped granny smith..)

Place the squash cavity side up in a glass baking dish with apple/pineapple juice in the pan. 
Place some cooking sauce in the cavity of the squashes, and then place the quarter or half sliced apple, then press some ground meat into a very thin patty and place on top of the cavity and press to seal. Add some stuffing and cover with another thin piece of ground meat, try to seal as best you can.  Pour remaining sauce all over meat and squash. Once both halves are done seal with tinfoil above the pan.

OR pound the flank steak flat and spread the stuffing on top, roll and tie with string.
Bake at 375-400 until cooked.

Dukan Pizza

I made a pizza! 

Now bear with me while I make a Pizza dough. To MY standards it was good. It was my first ever crust by hand so yeaaaaaah...

1/4 ground oatbran
some Surghum flour
1/4 cup WARM water
1/2tbsp olive oil
pinch of salt
Package of Instant/quick rise yeast

Mix the yeast with the WARM water I guess, I stirred it, make sure you don't do this in the measuring cup - use a larger holding device hahaha.
I guess let it activate a bit (10mins?) then add it to the flour, oil and salt.  Mix over simmering water (double boiler, or something. I put my mixing bowl on top of a small pot of simmering water... hahah ghettooooo) until it forms a ball. Cover with a towel somewhere warm and let rise (?).  Then put some flour down on a smooth cutting board and flatten it out with a rolling pin I guess. I put the flour flour not the oat bran, both sides, and on the pin and then rolled

Side note - OMG MARBLE PINS ARE THE BEST! HAH.

Then put on a baking sheet and bake it at 400 for 10 mins or 375 for longer.  What i did was instead of time it (typical me...) checked it until it didn't push in/depress and was browning the edges.

Sauce:
0% MF greek yogurt
oregano & garlic powder to taste. Spread on the crust.

Pizza:
Grate fresh parmesan cheese on top of the sauce. 
Fresh chopped basil and oregano
Chopped yellow peppers
Cooked mini shrimp
Sliced cherry tomatoes
Mozza & Parm on top
Bake til goldening.

REALLY good amazingly enough!

Homemade NF Tzatziki

So... I really like Garlic, so be aware!  AND I really like Tzatziki!

Get some fresh lemon zest into a bowl
Salt and pepper (lighter on the salt personally)
Grate (fine grating) some cucumber - you want a good portion. **
about 1tsp powdered garlic
1 clove garlic crushed
small bit of lemon juice
Non-Fat Plain Greek Yogurt

Mix all up, adding in more seasoning if you wish.  Now the Greek yogurt I use is fairly thick, and depending on how much cucumber you grate you can have a thick Tzatziki or a runny one.  If you DISLIKE runny, put the grated cuke in a strainer and press and press and press the water out - cheesecloth also works well. 

Like I said, I enjoy garlic so I may have used more for the portion size I made as mine was garlic spicy. 
Enjoy :)