This tasty crustless breakfast quiche, or you could also call it a breakfast broccoli, bacon and feta casserole, is a simple, nutritious, nutrient dense recipe that perfectly balances the taste of the broccoli, bacon, and feta cheese, but adds a freshness of lemon zest and lemon juice. The lemon is a particularly tasty ingredient that adds a refreshing flavor that perfectly completes both the broccoli and the feta cheese. This keto bacon and feta casserole can be served as a warm breakfast or lunch. To make this into a full meal for dinner, you could also add a slice of my Keto Walnut Bread, along with one of these soups: my Keto Thai Pumpkin soup, Roasted Tomato and Red Pepper Soup, Cream of Mushroom Soup, or with a tasty salad such as my Avocado Spinach Strawberry Salad with Balsamic Vinaigrette.

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.