Keto Friendly, Gluten Free Sausage Casserole

 

Here is a low carb, gluten free and keto friendly casserole that works for breakfast, lunch or dinner.

 

 

 

Ingredients:

  • 1 lb bulk pork sausage (Gluten Free sausage)
  • 1 whole cauliflower chopped into an inch or 1/2 inch cubes
  • 1 - 8 ounce package of cream cheese or neufchatel cheese
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 Tbsp dried onion, minced
  • 1 tsp garlic powder
  • 1 tsp parsley flakes
  • 1 ½ cup shredded cheese (monterey jack or something like that)


Instruction:

  1. Cook the sausage and add it to a large mixing bowl and add the cauliflower to the mixing bowl .
  2. Soften the cream cheese and then mix it with the eggs, seasonings, and the cream into a mixing bowl and whisk them with a wire wisk until they are smooth.
  3. Pour the mixture into the large bowl and mix it well. Add the contents of the large bowl into a 9x13 pan and sprinkle cheese on the top.
  4. Bake at 350 degrees for about 30 minutes.



If you want to make this gluten free, you need to make sure that the sausage is Gluten Free, and that the spices are also. The McCormick Red Top spices are all gluten free (for the single item spice). McCormick does a good job at listing what products contain gluten.

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Keto Friendly Pork Rind Pizza Crust

                                                   

 

Ingredients:



Directions:
Cut a circle of parchment paper to fit a 12-inch round pizza pan and slightly going up the sides of the pan. Spray the pizza pan with cooking spray to help the parchment stay put. Place the parchment paper in the pan.For the crust, whisk the cream cheese and eggs until smooth. Add the remaining ingredients except mozzarella until well combined. Stir in the mozzarella. Drop the dough by large spoonfuls all over parchment-lined pan. Cover with two sheets of plastic wrap that have been crossed so that the entire surface is covered. With a rolling pin, roll dough to the edges of the pan making it an even thickness. Remove the plastic wrap. With a rubber spatula, push the dough away from the edges of the pan by 1/4-1/2". If the dough goes all the way to the edges, it can bubble over in the oven or go under the parchment paper. Bake at 425º 20 minutes. Let stand 10 minutes or chill several hours.

 

I have found that the best type of pizza sauce for this crust has been ranch dressing

 

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Gluten Free, Keto Friendly Fake Hashbrown Casserole

2lbs cauliflower cut up like hashbrowns
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup chopped onion
1/4 tsp black pepper
1 pint of sour cream (16 ounces) - Daisy Sour Cream is Gluten Free
16 oz grated sharp cheddar
1/2 cup of bacon bits
1-3 Tbsp low carb chicken base (you can also make your own by reducing chicken stock down into a soup like consistency, to about ½ a cup) how to make your own chicken broth

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350
Mix all ingredients together in a mixing bowl (save 1/2 cup of cheese)
and pour in a 9x13 pan
top with 1/2 cup of reserved cheddar cheese
bake for 45-60 minutes




I will be posting pictures and or videos on this later.




Gluten Free, Keto friendly cream cheese pizza crust

2 (8 oz) package of full fat cream cheese, room temperature
4 eggs
1/2 tsp ground black pepper
4 - 8 tsp garlic powder
1/2 cup grated Parmesan Cheese
1 tsp Italian seasoning


Preheat oven to 350.
Spray a pizza pizza pan with cooking spray or line it with parchment paper. With a handheld mixer, mix cream cheese, eggs, pepper, garlic powder and Parmesan cheese until combined. Spread into pizza pan. Bake for 12-15 minutes, or until golden brown.

One thing that I will do, is use parchment paper on top of the pizza pan. Once the pizza crust has cooked the first time, I will slide the parchment paper off of the pan and put that onto a large pizza peel .

From there I will take the pizza pan that this cooked in, and turn it upside down and put it to top of the pizza crust (so the top of the pizza crust now becomes the bottom). I will then use the Pizza peel to flip it so that the pizza is now back in the pan. I will then cook it for about 5-10 minutes longer to give it a nice crispy crust for the pizza.

Allow crust to cool for 10 minutes. I usually double the recipe to make a "hand tossed" like crust, which needs to bake for about 30 minutes or so. I also put the pizza crust on the broiler for about 7 minutes to crisp up the bottom. I also use Neufchâtel cheese instead of cream cheese.

I have tried red sauce on this pizza crust and honestly, it tastes like eating spaghetti-o's, not all that great. What I have found out to be the best is to use ranch dressing as the sauce instead.

Here is a video of the whole operation:




Low Carb Ranch Dressing

This is a low carb, gluten free, keto friendly ranch dressing

Ranch Dressing


1.5 cups of Hellmans REAL Mayo(full fat)
.5 cups of Heavy Whipping cream
1 packet of Hidden Valley ranch dressing dry mix
Mix all together in a mixing bowl using a wire wisk

Here is a video of this:


Nutrition Facts
Servings 2.0
Amount Per Serving
calories 1057
Total Fat 112 g
Saturated Fat 27 g
Monounsaturated Fat 29 g
Polyunsaturated Fat 55 g
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 127 mg
Sodium 1913 mg
Potassium 45 mg
Total Carbohydrate 10 g
Dietary Fiber 0 g
Sugars 2 g
Protein 2 g

 

 

I created an update to this that has a lot less carbs - Ranch Dressing 2




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