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Sheela Prakash
Sheela PrakashSenior Contributing Food Editor
Sheela is the Senior Contributing Food Editor at Kitchn and the author of Mediterranean Every Day: Simple, Inspired Recipes for Feel-Good Food. She received her master's degree from the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Italy and is also a Registered Dietitian.
updated Nov 28, 2023
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When choosing to eat low-carb, whatever the reason, it takes some planning — and we’re here to help. Whether you’re searching for low-carb breakfasts, lunches, or dinners, you can find every single recipe we have (more than 50 in all!) right here.
All of these recipes contain less than 20 grams of carbs per serving, by avoiding bread, grains, pasta, or starchy fruits and vegetables. Keep this list handy and finding something to cook will get a whole lot easier.
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- Breakfasts
- Lunches
- Snacks
- Dinners
- Sides
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Breakfasts
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3-Cheese Frittata Cups
These cups are just the thing for protein-packed lunches, satisfying after-school snacks, or wholesome suppers served with a simple green salad.
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5-Ingredient Cream Cheese Pancakes
These low-carb, Keto-friendly pancakes are made in a blender with cream cheese, eggs, and the flour of your choice.
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Ham, Egg, and Cheese Wraps
These wraps take the trifecta of breakfast foods — ham, eggs, and cheese — and turn them into portable bites that can work as breakfast or lunch.
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Sheet Pan Veggie Frittata
This cheesy, veggie-packed big-batch frittata is the best way to meal prep breakfast.
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Bacon Gruyère Egg Bites
Skip the line at Starbucks and make these protein-rich copycat sous vide egg bites instead — no sous vide required.
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Easy Cauliflower Rice Burrito Bowls
With cilantro-lime cauliflower rice at the helm, plus smoky black beans and corn, salsa and creamy avocado, this is wholesome indulgence at its finest.
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Summer Breakfast Salad
When salad for breakfast involves eggs, bacon, and avocado mixed with fresh greens and plump berries, it's hard to resist.
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Easy Paleo Breakfast Egg Muffins
These Paleo breakfast egg muffins are loaded with savory sausage, mushrooms, and spinach, and are easy to pull together in about 30 minutes.
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Hard-Boil Eggs
A perfect, foolproof way to make boiled eggs perfectly every single time, with timing and methods for both hard boiled and soft boiled eggs.
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Spinach and Feta Mug Omelet
This protein-packed meal makes a decent weekday breakfast feel manageable. It’s quick to pull together and easy enough to make in the office kitchen.
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3-Ingredient Pesto Zoodle Bowl
A simple recipe for sautéed zucchini noodles tossed with pesto, and topped with a fried egg.
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Lunches
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Baked Chicken and Veggies
A quick recipe for roasted chicken and mixed vegetables that's perfect for meal prep.
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Cauliflower Rice Lunch Bowl with Sweet Potatoes and Chickpeas
An easy, protein-packed vegetarian lunch bowl made with cauliflower rice, sweet potatoes, and a vibrant chickpea salad.
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Veggie Nori Rolls
It’s the kind of midday meal that prevents snacking.
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Zucchini Buffalo Chicken Salad
This is the salad you put together when you’re meal prepping for the week.
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Crisp Tuna-Cabbage Salad
I love a little crunch in my tuna salad. I also am not the biggest fan of mayonnaise; I like a dab, but no more. Here’s a tuna salad in that spirit — fresh, crisp, and light, with more vegetables than tuna in the mix.
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Easy Egg Roll in a Bowl
Bagged slaw makes this egg roll in the bowl a cinch to make.
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Mediterranean Cauliflower Couscous Salad
The Mediterranean flavors really shine in this simple spring salad and the roasted chickpeas add a lovely crunch. Grab a fork and dig in! Cauliflower “couscous” is a winner in our household and I hope you all enjoy it as much as we do.
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Salmon Patties
Easy, gluten-free salmon patties made with canned salmon and flavored simply with dill, lemon, and Dijon.
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Swiss Chard Slaw with Creamy Avocado Dressing
This easy slaw, dressed with a creamy blender avocado dressing, hits all the things I love about slaw; it’s crunchy, tangy, and refreshing!
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Classic Egg Salad
Delicious, versatile egg salad. Keep it plain and simple, or spice it up with an endless array of extras.
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Shrimp and Avocado Summer Salad Rolls
Roasted shrimp, chunks of avocado and crisp romaine are wrapped up and dipped in a creamy miso-tahini dressing for a cool, satisfying summer lunch or dinner.
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Soup from Any Vegetable
If you are craving soup and you have vegetables and broth in your cupboard, you’re all set. Here’s a step-by-step guide to transforming nearly any kind of vegetable into delicious, nourishing soup.
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Snacks
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Guacamole
An easy, classic guacamole recipe that only requires 5 ingredients.
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Pepperoni Chips
An easy recipe for crispy, gluten-free pepperoni chips.
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Spiced Cucumber Sticks with Chaat Masala
These spiced cucumber sticks are probably the most ubiquitous of all street food. Every vendor, whatever his specialty, will also have these around as a quick, easy to-go snack.
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Homemade Jerky
The most difficult thing about making homemade jerky is slicing the meat evenly; freezing it ahead of time helps tremendously (and if you want to try this recipe with turkey, you’ll want an even firmer freeze). Also, using a very sharp, long knife is key.
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Vegan Chocolate-Almond Chia Pudding
These tiny little seeds have the miraculous ability to thicken and turn liquids into delicious pudding-like mixtures without the use of dairy or eggs!
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Cornmeal Muffins with Roasted Red Peppers and Feta
These muffins come together quickly and are a great high-protein option for those of us who are looking for a bigger hit of protein in the morning or might be trying to avoid carbs. Plus, they’re gluten-free!
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Dinners
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Zucchini Lasagna
This low-carb lasagna swaps thin-sliced zucchini for lasagna noodles, which shifts the emphasis to the best parts of lasagna: the tomato sauce, the cheese, the veg.
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Loaded Cheesy Cauliflower Bake
A cheesy cauliflower casserole filled with crispy bacon bits and scallions.
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Gorgonzola-Stuffed Steak Roll-Ups
If you’re going to pick up a nice piece of steak to make this recipe, why subject yourself to a container of that sub-par crumbled blue cheese? Treat yourself! Instead, head over to the cheese counter where all the good stuff lies and pick out a nice wedge of Gorgonzola Dolce. The Italian blue cheese is mild and sweet, and melts perfectly inside the roll ups. It’s the little things that count, after all.
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Parmesan Chicken and Kale Sauté
A quick and easy one-skillet dinner that fits the bill on weeknights and at dinner parties alike.
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Easy Low-Carb Meatball-Stuffed Spaghetti Squash
A delicious low-carb spin on spaghetti and meatballs featuring roasted spaghetti squash.
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Cauliflower Fried "Rice"
This recipe is a pretty direct riff off of our ultimate How To Make Fried Rice from the stir-fry queen, Grace Young. The biggest difference here is that you need to cover the pan and let the cauliflower rice steam for a few minutes before the dish is ready to be served.
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Cilantro-Lime Chicken
A weeknight-friendly recipe for chicken breasts cooked in a tangy cilantro-lime sauce.
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Keto-Style Chili
What does it mean to be keto-friendly? With a ketogenic routine, you are going for a very low-carb, high-fat, and medium-protein nutrition profile. Most people on keto average around 20 grams of carbohydrates a day. Keeping that in mind, I aimed for a chili that came in at roughly 7 grams of carbs per serving, before toppings.
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Easy Balsamic Glazed Steak Tips and Mushrooms
Beefy steak tips are marinated, seared, and served with mushrooms sautéed in balsamic vinegar.
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Slow Cooker Whole Chicken Soup
The smell of classic chicken soup, fragrant with herbs and vegetables, is one of the most comforting smells that a kitchen can produce. The key to a good soup that’s intensely chicken-y is a long, slow simmer. Naturally the slow cooker is chicken soup’s best friend, as it can cook all day without any supervision from you.
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Turkey Meatballs Over Greens
Who needs spaghetti? This was surprisingly quick and easy, and you get your veggies too.
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Fish in Crazy Water
It’s hard not to be intrigued by a dish with a title like this. Leave it to the Italians to name a recipe that lends a few laughs. What the heck makes the water so crazy? Actually, not much at all, which is why you should ditch your original plans for dinner and make this simple, comforting recipe instead.
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Sides
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A quick recipe for sautéed kale flavored with lots of lemon and garlic.
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Oven-Roasted Frozen Broccoli
A fast and easy recipe for frozen broccoli, roasted until caramelized and finished with plenty of salty Parmesan cheese.
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Chilled Cucumber Noodles with Sesame Dressing
The real key to this recipe isn’t the fact that cucumbers have been made into noodles, but that the noodle are very thin. This alone has made cucumber even more enticing for me. While the size of the noodle is 100 percent a personal preference (after all, this salad can be made with ribbon-cut cucumbers as well), the smaller size twirls around the fork in such a satisfying manner that it’s hard to not to smile when you tuck into a bowl.
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Stovetop Steam-Fried Green Beans and Mushrooms
Green beans have earned their spot as the obligatory Thanksgiving vegetable for good reason — they are delicious, kid-friendly, and easy to prepare. Whether steamed, roasted, or folded into a creamy casserole, chances are they’re on your holiday menu. Try a new method this year and steam-fry your green beans with shallots and mushrooms. Simple but unexpected, it’s a vegetable dish that will please even the pickiest of eaters.
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Garlic Mushrooms
Button mushrooms are cooked in browned butter, garlic, and fresh thyme for the easiest fancy side dish.
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The Creamiest Mashed Cauliflower
Mashed cauliflower isn't just a replacement for mashed potatoes — try this hearty side with merits all its own.
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Saucy Chili-Garlic Cucumber Noodles
A quick no-cook recipe for cucumber noodles tossed in a spicy, fragrant chili-garlic vinaigrette.
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90-Second Keto Bread
Forget Atkins and Paleo — the new low-carb diet du jour is called keto, as in ketogenic. Although there are many similarities between these diets, a keto diet is all about restricting carbohydrates and increasing healthy fats. The goal is to force your body’s metabolism into ketosis, which means it burns fat instead of glucose — because without carbs, glucose isn’t readily available.
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Easy Slow-Cooker Ratatouille
Ratatouille, the classic French vegetable stew, is a perfect candidate for this hands-off cooking method.
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Radishes Braised with Shallots and Vinegar
Radishes are a quintessential spring and early summer vegetable. Bright and crunchy with a peppery bite, they are lovely in salads and on bread with butter and salt. But until this recipe I had never cooked them, and in fact it’s not very often you see them in hot cooked dishes. Which is a shame, because as they get so juicy and mellow, I think this is really the way to go for the radish-hesitant. In fact, their small size and peppery flavor makes them ideal for a quick evening braise. Unlike potatoes or turnips or other large roots, they require little to no chopping, and they’re ready so quickly.
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