Carbalose contest recipes

[Yummy's_Girl]

There are quiche recipes in the forums and in the recipe room. Most of them are crustless though

[vickigabri]

thats it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i'm nameing my next cat linda-sue! you rock my low carb world!

[Panda120]

I'd like to get updates on how people are using Carbalose flour. The holidays are coming and new ideas or methods are always appreciated.

[helens]

I've just put together a new recipe for Pumpkin Muffins that are to die for! I know...I'm not supposed to be eating these right now, but had to bake the last of our garden's sugar pumpkins and prep for the freezer. I had a small amount left and just had to use it. I did post this a few minutes ago in the recipe room, but here's the recipe if anyone is interested:

Pumpkin Melt-Away Muffins
Makes 12 muffins at 10.89 carbs and 99.45 calories each

Spray 12 muffin tins with non-stick spray and set aside.
Pre-heat oven to 350º.

1/4 cup Butter-softened
2/3 cup fresh or canned Pumpkin
1/4 cup Half and Half
1/4 cup Water
2 Eggs
1 1/2 tsp Orange Zest

1/2 cup Xylitol
2 TBSP Splenda
2 TBSP Brown Sugar Twin

Measure and mix together:

1 1/4 cups Carbalose (I measured by gently scooping & leveling)
1/4 cup Wheat Protein Isolate 5000 (I measured by gently scooping & leveling)
2 TBSP Almond Flour
1/2 tsp Not/Sugar
2 tsp Baking Powder
1 tsp Baking Soda
1 1/2 tsp Ground Cinnamon
1/2 tsp Ground Cloves
1/4 tsp Ground Nutmeg
1/4 tsp Ground Allspice
1/4 cup Chopped Walnuts

Mix together first six ingredients in a large bowl.
Stir in Xylitol, Splenda and Brown Sugar Twin.
Mix remaining ingredients together, then stir into the web mixture just until completely mixed.
Spoon evenly into the 12 muffin tins and bake about 15 to 18 minutes.
Don't over bake! Muffins are done when pick inserted into center comes out clean. Let sit 10 minutes in pan before removing to wire rack to finish cooling.

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Before Baking

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Baked, still in pan

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Baked and split...light and fluffy...they nearly melt in your mouth!


If you try this recipe, I'd love to hear your thoughts on it!

[Taylorman]

Ok- Howdy all- I"m new to the forum- I bumped into it when I was searching for Carbalose recipes. Thanks for all your input and words of wisdom and tips.
So far I have tried 3 recipes - 2 with Carbquik and 1 with Carbalose.....

Oh my- as I write this- I realized I made all 3 with CarbQuik- oops.

First recipe- I made Bialy's with Carbquik from the Tovaindustries website colleciton of recipes.
These did not rise very much at all, were way too salty (I would not add any additional salt if I ever do it next time) and they bakes much faster than indicated in the recipe. I probably won't try those again.

The second recipe I tried were the Apple Fritters. I replaced the apples with Blueberries and the cinnamon with Lemon extract. These fried up beautifully- but were way too oily for my taste. I saved the batter and the next morning - after a little stirring- I was able to make a really nice batch of blueberry pancakes with what was left- and these tasted really good.

Finally- tonight I tried the wont ton recipe. I love wontons- (I worked as a cook in chinese restaurant for 2 summers as a teenager)- but regular wonton skins are very high in carbs. I followed the recipe to the letter (except used carbquik instead of carbalose by accident)- and ended up having to add quite a bit of extra carbquik to get the dough to the right consistency. I was able to roll it out very thin- and make wontons- that fried up to a gold brown- but the texture just wasn't crispy enough for me. Given that I didn't use the right Carb flour- I may try them again with Carbalose and see if that makes any difference.

Thanks again for all your participation in helping figure what is worth making with these new products.

[Charski]

Taylorman, sounds like you're having fun experimenting! Good for you, looking forward to more of your results.

Helens, if you're still around - I don't know HOW I missed your muffin recipe when you posted it - those look SCRUMPTIOUS! They're on my "must try" list! Thank you.

[nagymom]

It looks like there haven't been any posts for a while but I wanted to post this anyway. (I'm a new user and found this site while searching for Carbalose recipes). I "invented" this recipe after seeing a commercial for a "diet" bar. I thought, "Why can't I make my own and save a bundle while being sure it tastes good?".

I admit that I didn't measure much, but it's easy to make so here goes:

Cream 1/2 stick butter with 1/4 cup olive oil (or all of the stick of butter) with 1 cup Splenda. Add 2 eggs and mix well. Mix in 1 tsp. salt, 3/4 tsp baking soda, 1 tsp vanilla and approximately 1 cup oatmeal. I then added Carbalose, probably up to 2 cups, stopping when I had a thick cookie dough consistency. I then creamed a block of cream cheese with an egg.

Press half of the dough mixture into a square baking dish, then spread the cream cheese mixture over top. Spread some sugar free all fruit spread (I used Pollaner's) then flatten the remaining dough and place on top. Bake at 350 degrees for approximately 25 minutes (watch to keep from over baking, stop when golden).

I plan to eat a square 30 minutes before meals with a glass of water, as in the commercial.

Jayne

[mac24312]

Subbing!!

[nagymom]

I ate one of the bars that I made last night before dinner (with a full glass of water) and was only able to eat half my usual dinner! I rarely leave anything on my plate. I am hooked on these now (so is my oldest daughter who tried one) and can honestly say there is no "aftertaste" or weirdness to them. I used raspberry spread and may try another flavor next batch, though I love raspberry.

Jayne

[CindyCRNA]

Hey, I'm new too and have my first order of Carbalous flour coming tomorrow. I'm looking forward to trying a lot of these recipes but I may have to order a few more items from Netrition such as Polyd and one of the sugar alcohols. Is one of the alcohols better in terms of not causeing a stall during induction?

[StyngerIsAScorpio]

This is gonna be a silly post, considering all the wonderful things all of you have done with Carbalose....but I used it tonite for the first time! Now, all I did was dredge a flattened chicken breast in it to fry in olive oil to make Chicken Picatta, but MAN! It was good!
I am such a nut when it comes to "off" tasting stuff and I was a bit leery but it really did brown nicely and there was no funny taste.
I have to try baking a bit with it......
I did have one question..I see all the posts for making gravies and sauces with the gums, why not just use the Carbalose?

[CindyCRNA]

Stynger, My thought is that a lot of the earlier posts were before carbalose flour came out. I have read about 50% of this thread (I'm exhausted!! haha) and a lot of the early posts are from people that that's all they had. I'm thinking now, if your not a huge baker, it's just easier to have one multipurpose product. I have just started to use Carbquik and just received my Carbalose flour yesterday so I haven't used it. There are a ton of fabulous looking recipes on this thread that utilize both. I just sent off a big Netrition order to round out my low carb kitchen. I don't know if that answered your question as I am just speculating.

[Whitedov1208]

Originally Posted by nagymom

It looks like there haven't been any posts for a while but I wanted to post this anyway. (I'm a new user and found this site while searching for Carbalose recipes). I "invented" this recipe after seeing a commercial for a "diet" bar. I thought, "Why can't I make my own and save a bundle while being sure it tastes good?".

I admit that I didn't measure much, but it's easy to make so here goes:

Cream 1/2 stick butter with 1/4 cup olive oil (or all of the stick of butter) with 1 cup Splenda. Add 2 eggs and mix well. Mix in 1 tsp. salt, 3/4 tsp baking soda, 1 tsp vanilla and approximately 1 cup oatmeal. I then added Carbalose, probably up to 2 cups, stopping when I had a thick cookie dough consistency. I then creamed a block of cream cheese with an egg.

Press half of the dough mixture into a square baking dish, then spread the cream cheese mixture over top. Spread some sugar free all fruit spread (I used Pollaner's) then flatten the remaining dough and place on top. Bake at 350 degrees for approximately 25 minutes (watch to keep from over baking, stop when golden).

I plan to eat a square 30 minutes before meals with a glass of water, as in the commercial.

Jayne

[COLOR="Blue"]Just wondering about the carb count in oatmeal [/COLOR]

[Kevinpa]

Originally Posted by Whitedov1208

[COLOR="Blue"]Just wondering about the carb count in oatmeal [/COLOR]

1 cup of dry Old Fashion Quaker Oats is 46 net carbs.

[Whitedov1208]

Originally Posted by Kevinpa

1 cup of dry Old Fashion Quaker Oats is 46 net carbs.

Thanks Kevin, yeah, I thought it was high - with 20g carbs to work with in a day now during induction, I'd rather go with veggies for carbs.

[sbwertz]

Multigrain yeast bread




"Multigrain" Yeast bread
2 tbsp active dry yeast
1 ½ cups carbalose flour -- 27 g carbs
¾ cup WPI 8000 -- 0 g carbs
¼ cup pecan meal 6 g carbs
¼ cup almond meal or flour 3 g carbs
1/2 tsp salt
1 tbsp wheat germ 1 g carbs
¼ cup ground flax seed 3 g carbs
2 tsp sugar to feed the yeast -- 0 g carbs (the yeast eats it)
1 ½ tbsp melted butter or oil
1 cup very warm water

I put all ingredients in my old Wellbuilt glasstop breadmaker in
the order listed and set it on the manual cycle.

I put it in a loaf pan . I raised it for an
hour and I baked it at 375 for 45 minutes.

It came out really nice. I got 16 slices at about 2.5
grams per slice. Nice texture and flavor, rich golden brown color.

You could use all carbasose, but it would add 15 more grams to the
whole recipe, or one gram per slice.


16 slices, 2.5 grams per slice.

I have also made this as dinner rolls (12) and hamburger buns (8).

[sbwertz]

RE Pumpkin Melt-Away Muffins

I just made these for breakfast. They were great. I made some substitutions for ingredients I had on hand. I used malitol instead of xylitol, diabetisweet brown for the sugar twin, cream for the half and half, pecans for the walnuts, and wpi 8000 for the 5000. I also added 1/4 cup flax meal. My muffin tins are "sticky" so I baked them in paper liners.

They turned out light and delicious.
Thanks for the great recipe

Sharon
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I've just put together a new recipe for Pumpkin Muffins that are to die for! I know...I'm not supposed to be eating these right now, but had to bake the last of our garden's sugar pumpkins and prep for the freezer. I had a small amount left and just had to use it. I did post this a few minutes ago in the recipe room, but here's the recipe if anyone is interested:

Pumpkin Melt-Away Muffins
Makes 12 muffins at 10.89 carbs and 99.45 calories each

Spray 12 muffin tins with non-stick spray and set aside.
Pre-heat oven to 350º.

1/4 cup Butter-softened
2/3 cup fresh or canned Pumpkin
1/4 cup Half and Half
1/4 cup Water
2 Eggs
1 1/2 tsp Orange Zest

1/2 cup Xylitol
2 TBSP Splenda
2 TBSP Brown Sugar Twin

Measure and mix together:

1 1/4 cups Carbalose (I measured by gently scooping & leveling)
1/4 cup Wheat Protein Isolate 5000 (I measured by gently scooping & leveling)
2 TBSP Almond Flour
1/2 tsp Not/Sugar
2 tsp Baking Powder
1 tsp Baking Soda
1 1/2 tsp Ground Cinnamon
1/2 tsp Ground Cloves
1/4 tsp Ground Nutmeg
1/4 tsp Ground Allspice
1/4 cup Chopped Walnuts

Mix together first six ingredients in a large bowl.
Stir in Xylitol, Splenda and Brown Sugar Twin.
Mix remaining ingredients together, then stir into the web mixture just until completely mixed.
Spoon evenly into the 12 muffin tins and bake about 15 to 18 minutes.
Don't over bake! Muffins are done when pick inserted into center comes out clean. Let sit 10 minutes in pan before removing to wire rack to finish cooling.

[Jennifer Eloff]

Sharon, the muffins sound nice. I was looking at your bread. Is it possible to use WPI 5000 in place of the 8000 (or should I use maybe 1/2 vital wheat gluten)? I'm very curious to try your bread. Sounds super!

[Jennifer Eloff]

P.S. I'm guessing 1 1/2 tbsp (4 tsp) of yeast and 1 tsp baking powder might work similarly to my wholegrain bread?

[sbwertz]

The original recipe was Helens. I just adapted it to what I had in my pantry.

I don't know on the wpi. I have had the 8000 for a couple of years in the freezer. At the time I bought it, that was the only kind available. I also like the fact that it has a lot fewer carbs than the 5000. But it does make the bread chewy. But we like the thick-crusted chewy european style breads. I have a favorite french bread recipe I am going to try to convert using carbalose and wpi.

[Jennifer Eloff]

Oh my, I forgot that Carbalose flour is so high in gluten as well. It must truly be a very chewy bread. Replacing 1 cup of Carbalose flour with oat flour and using WPI 5000 would reduce the chewiness. I know you said you like it (however, I changed the recipe on paper (so far) for my sake), but all I can remember is my first low-carb bread that was made almost entirely out of gluten. It grew and grew like a big ball in the oven and I could practically bounce that loaf on the floor! My husband chewed and chewed on a toasted piece and then I broke up the rest of the loaf into pieces and threw them in the big bird feeder we had. A little racoon moved in. He apparently liked the bread and we could not dislodge him for days!

Here is what Kevin said about the WPI 5000 vs WI 8000: "The WPI 5000 is definitely better for breads as it creates sticky doughs that rise better. The WPI 8000 creates chewiness/structure in baked goods."

With my changes and for 16 slices: 60 calories a slice and 5 g carbs.

[retroworx]

Originally Posted by Jennifer Eloff

Sharon, the muffins sound nice. I was looking at your bread. Is it possible to use WPI 5000 in place of the 8000 (or should I use maybe 1/2 vital wheat gluten)? I'm very curious to try your bread. Sounds super!

I haven't tried this specific recipe, but the 5000 and 8000 are generally NOT interchangeable (8000 is CHEWY!). Subbing VWG for the 8000 in recipes generally works, tho higher in carbs

[Julievan]

can someone tell me what ACE_K is got one of my days i know i must know

[Kevinpa]

Originally Posted by Julievan

can someone tell me what ACE_K is got one of my days i know i must know

acesulfame potassium (also known as acesulfame-K or ace-K), an intense sweetener that is 200 times sweeter than sugar.


Its the main ingredient in Sweet One.

[sistertzu]

subscribing such good recipes

Sis

[Bissonnettemi]

is there a good sub for Not Sugar? thinking I should know this but... mind is blank. Isn't it a thickener, like the gums?

[Kevinpa]

Originally Posted by Bissonnettemi

is there a good sub for Not Sugar? thinking I should know this but... mind is blank. Isn't it a thickener, like the gums?

not/Sugar is mixture of several kinds of gums. Not/starch is almost the same thing and can be used measure for measure as a sub.....

[Bissonnettemi]

thanks Kevin... (BTW you're little cutie pie is such a happy baby in those pics)