This healthy keto version of a Roasted Butternut Squash Salad with mixed greens, topped with pecans, fresh raspberries and a perfect apple cider and Balsamic vinaigrette can be served as a side dish or as a light meal.

This keto recipe, New Orleans Stuffed Mirlitons, also called Stuffed Chayote, is an easy keto recipe that uses chayote squash, shrimp and ham. This keto stuffed chayote recipe has been adapted from Charlie Andrews’ version (link below), to be a keto, grain and gluten free version of one of New Orleans’ most popular recipes, especially made during the holidays. However, the chayote squash, which is a fruit native to Mexico, is also very popular in the southern states such as Louisiana where it is called a mirliton. Other names for chayote squash are christophene or christophine, cho-cho, mirliton or merleton, chuchu, cidra, guatila, centinarja, pipinola, pear squash, vegetable pear, chouchoute, choko, güisquil, labu siam, ishkus or chowchow, pataste, or tayota. WOW, so many names! But a chayote by any other name is great to cook with, because of its light taste, and that it takes on the flavour of the other ingredients you are using in your keto recipe. Chayote is versatile and sautéed chayote is a great side dish that complements just about any main protein.
Nutritionally, chayote squash is a wonderful, low carb, keto, diabetic diet, Banting diet ingredient because it is low calorie, low carb and high in fiber. Chayote is also high in vitamins C, B9 (folate) & B6, vitamin K, and high in minerals such as manganese, copper, zinc, potassium and magnesium.

An exceptionally easy fish recipe that incorporates fresh ingredients such as lemons, fresh basil, parmesan cheese and creamy butter. This whole food based, simple recipe is perfectly paired with my French green beans with almond butter – a shortcut version of French green beans almondine. The complete meal is perfect for low carb, keto, paleo diets and also for people on a diabetes diet, PECOS and gluten free diets. If you prefer, you could substitute the cod fillets with mahi mahi, catfish, whiting, tilapia or any white fish of your choice.

A tasty wings recipe for hot spicy keto gochujang BBQ wings, that are low carb, paleo, sugar free and gluten free. The Korean gochujang BBQ sauce is a hot, sweet and spicy medley of flavors that has a more complex taste then sriracha or Buffalo BBQ sauces.

A tasty, simplified version of the classic Korean gochujang BBQ sauce – perfect for indoor grilling your meats or fish in the oven or outdoors on your BBQ grill. This version is modified to be quick and easy to make and to be usable on keto, low carb, gluten free, sugar free and paleo diets.

Tasty Italian Ragu, also called a keto meat sauce or keto Bolognese, can be made in a slow cooker or on the stove top, using mild or hot Italian sausage instead of ground beef. This recipe uses very inexpensive ingredients, making it a budget-friendly part of an easy comfort meal. Serve over zoodles, with my easy keto buns and rolls and, for a treat, one or two of my Chocolate Truffles. This is an easy budget-friendly keto, low carb, sugar free, grain and gluten free recipe.

Tasty Chicken Piccata is a quick and easy weeknight dinner that only takes about 30 minutes to make. This keto dinner recipe is also low carb, gluten free and grain fee and combines these diets’ health and nutritional benefit with those of a classic Mediterranean diet. There are just a few simple prep steps and put the casserole into the oven for a no-fuss keto comfort meal.

This tasty easy Mediterranean sole and vegetables in a pouch recipe takes only about 20 minutes to bake in your oven. The sole is a light tasting white fish that is perfectly complemented by the zucchini and red bell pepper/capsicum cut into thin Julienne strips, topped with grated Monterey Jack cheese and black olives for a wonderful whole food, nutrient dense keto fish recipe. This sole in a pouch recipe is also perfect for low carb, diabetic, gluten free, paleo and whole 30 meal plans.

Zucchini is a versatile and nutrient-dense, low carb summer squash used in many tasty recipes. This quick and easy grilled zucchini side dish only uses 4 ingredients and takes less than 15 minutes to make. Grilled zucchini is a common side dish in Croatian, Italian and Mediterranean recipes which are an excellent part of keto, low carb, paleo, whole 30, diabetic diets, and gluten free recipes.