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in Recipes, Breakfast, Lunch, Meal Keto Croque Madame
Madame Crunch goes keto. The result? Ham+Cheese+Egg=TASTY. We've just swapped out the bread with cottage cheese and egg pancakes, and the result is an even tastier keto classic. All of the flavor, none of the carbs.
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servingservings
Ingredients
- 1 cup (7½ oz.) 240 ml (210 g) cottage cheese
- 4 4 eggeggs
- 1 tbsp 1 tbsp ground psyllium husk powder
- 1 tbsp 1 tbsp butter
- 4 oz. 110 g smoked deli ham
- 1½ oz. (6 tbsp) 45 g (95 ml) sliced cheddar cheese or other cheese of your liking
- ½ (2 oz.) ½ (55 g) finely chopped red onionfinely chopped red onions and fresh chives (optional)
Serving
- 2 2 eggeggs
- salt and pepper
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Making low carb simple
Instructions
- Whisk the eggs in a bowl. Mix in the cottage cheese. Add ground psyllium husk powder while stirring to incorporate it smoothly, without lumps. Let the mixture rest for five minutes until the batter has thickened.
- Place a frying pan over medium heat. Add the butter and fry the batter like small pancakes for a couple of minutes on each side until they are golden. Make two pancakes per serving.
- Assemble a sandwich with sliced ham and cheese between two warm pancakes. Add finely chopped onion on top.
- Fry an egg in the same pan as your linking.
- Serve the Croque Madame warm with the fried eggs on top.
Tip
Remove the crowning fried egg and you'll have a Keto Croque Monsieur instead. Still keto. Still delicious.
Gently mix egg with cottages cheese. Add 2 table spoons of p.husk to achieve good consistent mix. Add salt and pepper , otherwise it’s very bland. Enjoy.
Calculate your macros in grams not in %, as otherwise it’s confusing.
Focus on carbs intake , I would suggest to read about it first, and understand where are hidden carbs and which product contain minimum carbs, as this helps a lot. Yes, you would focus on the grams in total as this is the easiest way. There are plenty of recipes online. I suggest to pick those ones which are familiar to you and those ones which contain products which you already eat , as it makes it easy to adjust the recipie and you hardly notice a change. Let me know if you need more help , I have plenty of advise as I have been doing it for 6 months and the diet works but could be tricky.
You can try ricotta cheese but we have not tested this recipe with that sub.
The batter for ricotta was much better than the cottage cheese.
You may try ground flax or chia seeds per our psyllium husk guide https://www.dietdoctor.com/low-carb/guides/psyllium-husk
When making the cake on a griddle, I covered it with a lid after the first minute or so to help the egg set. After that flipping it was a breeze. Thank you for this great recipe!
Those substitutes sound great, thank you for sharing your tips.