CORN PIE, LC, GF

I began wanting to make a low carb corn bread to have with my homemade chicken soup tonight.  I've gotten the first cold of the cold and flu season this week, hoping against hope that somehow this year I would make it through scott free. Almost, but not quite.  So I made my chicken soup for it tonight.  Chicken soup was what my mother gave me when I was sick. Being sick always seems to bring us back to childhood. And going back to childhood in my food memories also brought memories of "Johnny Cake" or cornbread.  But I ended up with something quite different actually, and we really liked it. We ended up with Corn Pie.

So you may be thinking, but Ginny, corn has lots of carbs!  Ah, but baby corn does not.  Baby corn has less carbs than many low carb veggies actually.  In fact this baby corn as 2g carbs and 1g fiber per serving, and only 10 calories.  In this recipe I drained a can of baby corn nuggets and placed them in a food processor and processed until it was ground.  Then added it to the recipe.  It reminded me of a corn casserole I have made before on holidays.  It's good hot or cold.  I think you'll find it a great side dish with any meal. 

                     

Corn Pie

Recipe By     :Ginny Larsen

Serving Size  : 8     

2  large  eggs

1/4  cup  sour cream

2  tablespoons  soft butter

4  ounces  diced green chiles -- canned (drained)

1  cup  almond flour - Honeyville

2  tablespoons  Pyure sweetener -- (equal to 1/4 cup sugar)

3/4 teaspoon  baking powder

1/2 teaspoon  salt

1/2 teaspoon  xanthan gum

15 ounces  baby corn nuggets, polar -- (1 can) drained

1/2 cup  finely shredded sharp cheddar cheese, happy farms 

1. Preheat oven to 350F.  Generously grease a 9-inch cake pan. I also sprinkled a little corn starch on the bottom.

2. In mixing bowl, add eggs, sour cream, butter. amd greem chiles.  Mix together with electric mixer.

3. Add flour, sweetener, baking powder, salt and xanthan gum.  Mix together well.  

4. In food processor, add baby corn nuggets.  Process until ground up. 

5. Add this to batter and mix together. 

6. Pour into cake pan and bake 30 minutes.  

Sprinkle with 1/2 cup shredded cheddar cheese and bake 5 minutes more.

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Per Serving: 174 Calories; 14g Fat (69.3% calories from fat); 7g Protein; 6g Carbohydrate; 2g Dietary Fiber

4g net carbs per serving

NOTES : *can bake this in a cast iron skillet instead of a cake pan as well. 

ALMOND FLOUR OAT FIBER PANCAKES WITH QUARK CHEESE AND STRAWBERRY SYRUP

This is a spin-off from my Oat Fiber pancakes which have been incredibly popular on my blog that I posted here.  I decided to try making them with almond flour today.  Sometimes I want the blander flavor of the almond flour, and a little less fiber. I topped it with quark cheese which you can learn about here. There's a video demonstrating how very easy it is to make quark cheese.  I love it!  It's like a cream cheese but with a flavor all its own, which I think is even better than cream cheese or yogurt cheese and is a yummy way to get your probiotics.

Once you make the quark just add your favorite sweetener and some vanilla flavoring and whip it up for a very nice creamy topping to pancakes or other desserts, or to eat with some berries all by itself. You can even make a really nice cheesecake with it.

So for these pancakes, I have to say I think I still prefer the previous flaxmeal and oat fiber pancakes I made in 2010.  But having said that, these were good.  They were very light and cake-like, I think if I made them again, however, I would add some xanthan gum for a little better stick-togetherness. Flaxmeal sort of does that by itself so if you use almond flour instead it needs a little something to do that. Just the same, without that, they were wonderful.  Very filling and satisfying for my lunch today!  If you try them I hope you like them.

The syrup I used was Walden Farms zero carb and zero calorie strawberry syrup.

ALMOND OAT FIBER PANCAKES

2 tablespoons  almond flour - Honeyville
2 tablespoons  oat fiber -- (gluten free)
1 tablespoon  Pyure -- OR sweetener of choice equal to 2 tbsp sugar
1/4 teaspoon  baking soda
1/4 teaspoon  baking powder
1 egg
1 tablespoon  avocado oil -- (or oil of choice)
1 teaspoon  Vanilla flavored Torani sugar free syrup
   water -- according to need

Preheat pancake griddle or non-stick pan lightly greased.

In small bowl add almond flour, oat fiber, Pyure sweetener, baking soda, baking powder, and whisk until blended.  Add egg, avocado oil, vanilla syrup, and whisk together, adding enough water to make it pancake batter consistency.

I pour the entire batter into the pan for one large pancake.  If you prefer to make smaller ones, that's fine.  Fry on both sides until lightly browned and done through.

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  "4/3/2017, Ginny Larsen"
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1 serving: 275 Calories; 26g Fat (59.0% calories from fat); 9g Protein; 31g Carbohydrate; 29g Dietary Fiber

NOTES : 2g useable carbs.  Oat fiber carbs are not even counted as they are pure fiber.