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70+ Easy Low Carb Keto Dinner Recipes
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For those of you venturing into the world of low carb eating or the ketogenic diet, I want you to know that weeknight meals can be easy breezy and super simple. I’ve got you covered with a long list of easy low carb / keto dinner recipes perfect for your busy weeknights. So, grab your favorite low carb side dish like cauliflower rice, roasted veggies, greens, zucchini noodles or a big f*cking salad with your favorite homemade salad dressing. If you don’t eat low carb or keto, I can guarantee you’ll find something here, too. These recipes are simple to make, fuss-free, real food focused meals, perfect for everyone!
Need some quick keto dinner recipes for easy weeknight meals? This amazing round up of low carb / keto recipes for weeknight meals will have you covered for many weeks to come, so you can spend less time cooking and more time enjoying your evenings. Bonus: everything is paleo-friendly, gluten-free and dairy-free friendly and most are Whole30.
No matter how you approach your diet and eating, I think we can all agree the best meals are the ones that we actually enjoy to make and continue to come back to, time and time again. Truly some of my favorite dinner recipes, keto or not, are the simplest ones. One pot, or one pan, sheet pans, crock pots and instant pots, 5 ingredients or less, ready in under 30 minutes. I find easy weeknight meals to be fun to develop and create, but even more I love sharing these with all of you, especially because I love knowing that you are actually going to make them.
Since I started the ketogenic diet in January 2017, I have been enjoying getting creative with my meals and discovering simpler ways to make delicious weeknight eats without all the fuss. I have also personally been seeing wonderful results, both in my health and my athletic performance and the cognitive effects have also been amazing. While I know the keto diet isn’t necessarily the catch-all answer or the proper dietary approach for ALL, I don’t believe there is ANY one diet is the perfect one-size-fits-all hat that will work for all – I do know that I have been contacted by so many of you who you’ve found great success in this style of eating looking for more recipe ideas. So, I wanted to support those of you following a ketogenic diet and offer a robust resource for easy keto recipes for weeknight meals, for those that are eating a low carb diet.
With a list of keto-friendly recipes from here on Tasty Yummies plus a bunch from some of my favorite bloggers around the web, we’ve got you covered.
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Lamb Ragù {Paleo and Gluten-free}
The comforts of food and it’s universal ability to connect us, has constantly come up as of recent, reminding me that this is one of the core reasons that I have found such a true and passionate love for cooking, food and more importantly serving the people I love.
This winter in particular I have noticed my cravings and my desires for food have changed quite drastically from previous seasons. I know, in part, some of that comes from the distinct and more winter-like season we have actually been experiencing here in Southern California, complete with rain storms and lots of cool, grey days. But it also occurred to me very suddenly as I was writing this, that in a time when there is so much uncertainty and unrest, so much aggression and fear, we are finding the need and desire for comfort and love wherever we can find it.
I was watching Michael Pollan’s Netflix series, Cooked, the other night, and while I can’t recall which episode in particular, of the four, that I heard this in, he so brilliantly and matter-of-factly said at some point “It’s no longer a given that people will cook.” I had never really thought about that, given the way that I grew up and the lifestyle choices I have made for myself. But, for centuries cooking was a given, it was absolutely obligatory to our survival. We had to cook in order to eat and we need to eat in order to live! I realized as these words touched my ears that this unknowingly is probably the largest part of what I enjoy so much about cooking every day. About cooking for the people I love. It feels like a gift! As a woman that has no children, cooking for other people is my moment to feel as if I am giving the gift of life. Because food IS life. It IS love.
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Skillet Roasted Chicken Thighs with Balsamic Fig Compote
Our massive fig tree is doing it’s due diligence and providing an ungodly amount of fruit for us, once again this year. So, it’s time to get creative and bring my best fig game. I’ve made plenty of sweet dessert things with figs over the years, but at my core I am a savory girl. I really love a good savory dish that highlights the rich, sweet flavor of this beautiful fruit.
These Skillet Roasted Chicken Thighs with Balsamic Fig Compote may seem like a fancy, fussy meal, but ready in just about 30 minutes means you could make this on a weeknight, even. Oooh, you fancy!
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Moroccan Mint Rice with Spiced Chicken Skewers
I am always looking for fun, inspired and unique ways to up my culinary creativity game, without too much extra fuss. Enter tea. I find tea-infusing to take the flavor profiles of recipes to new heights, with little to no extra work and the flavor combinations truly are endless.
This Moroccan Mint Tea infused rice is the perfect example. Beyond boiling some water and infusing the tea for 3-5 minutes, that’s about it for extra work. The rice cooks as usual and you are left with an incredibly flavorful dish, that will knock your socks off.
After sipping on a steamy mug of this flavorful Moroccan Mint Tea from Stash Tea, a beautiful blend of both mint and green teas with a hint of lemongrass flavor, I found I was inspired to create a meal focused on the very essence of the tea. Morocco. The rice is fluffy and fully of subtle Moroccan flavors from the mint to the spices and the flecks of sweet raisins and the crunchy toasted pine nuts. All of this pairs perfectly with the Moroccan Spiced Grilled Chicken Skewers which elevate this to a meal. If you want to go deep into the Moroccan flavors, I recommend adding some preserved lemons when serving.
