1001 Low-Carb Recipes: Hundreds of Delicious Recipes From Dinner to Dessert That Let You Live Your Low-Carb Lifestyle and Never Look Back (10 page)

In a blender, blend eggs, chocolate syrup, vanilla, coffee powder, and water until well mixed. Stir in whipping cream mixture and whiskey (don’t blend). Pour into container with a tight-fitting lid. Refrigerate up to 3 weeks. Enjoy!

Yield:
About 20 1½-ounce (40 ml) “shots”

Each with 2 g protein; 1 g carbohydrate; 0 g dietary fiber; 1 g usable carb. Carb count does not include the polyol in the syrup.

Dana’s note: Feel free to use a combined 5 tablespoons of any polyol sweetener in place of the erythritol and DiabetiSweet.

My sister, a longtime Kahlua fan, says this is addictive. And my husband demanded to know, “How did you do that?” You can make this with decaf if caffeine bothers you. This recipe makes quite a lot, but don’t worry about that; 100-proof vodka’s a darned good preservative. Your Mockahlua will keep indefinitely.

2½ cups (570 ml) water

3 cups (75 g) Splenda

3 tablespoons (9 g) instant coffee granules

1 teaspoon vanilla

1 bottle (750 ml) 100-proof vodka (Use the cheap stuff.)

In a large pitcher or measuring cup, combine the water, Splenda, coffee crystals, and vanilla. Stir until the coffee and Splenda are completely dissolved.

Pour the mixture through a funnel into a 1.5- or 2-liter bottle. (A clean 1.5-liter wine bottle works fine, so long as you’ve saved the cork.) Pour in the vodka. Cork and shake well.

Yield:
32 servings of 1½ ounces (42 ml)—a standard “shot.”

Each will have 2 grams of carbohydrates, no fiber, and the merest trace of protein.

Variation: Mochahlua. Try this one if you like a little chocolate with your coffee. Just cut the water back to 1½ cups (360 ml) and substitute a 12-ounce (355 ml) bottle of sugar-free chocolate coffee flavoring syrup for the Splenda and vanilla. This has only a trace of carbohydrates per shot, because the liquid Splenda used to sweeten the chocolate coffee flavoring syrup doesn’t have the maltodextrin used to bulk the granular Splenda.

Variation: Mockahlua and Cream. This makes a nice “little something” to serve at the end of a dinner party, in lieu of a heavier dessert. For each serving you’ll need a shot of Mockahlua (or Mochahlua) and 2 shots of heavy cream. Simply mix and sip! Each serving has 4 grams of carbohydrates, no fiber, and 2 grams of protein.

1 shot (1½ ounces, or 42 ml) vodka

½ shot (¾ ounce, or 20 ml) Mockahlua

Just pour both liquors over ice in a rocks glass. That’s it!

Yield:
1 serving

2 grams of carbohydrate, no fiber, no protein.

1 shot (1½ ounces, or 42 ml) vodka

½ shot (¾ ounce, or 20 ml) Mockahlua

1 shot (1½ ounces, or 42 ml) heavy cream

Combine and pour over ice if desired.

Yield:
1 serving

3 grams of carbohydrate, 0 grams fiber, 1 gram protein.

This is seriously decadent and not as low carb as some of our other beverages—I’d recommend stopping at one! Still, this makes a great dessert for an adults-only cookout.

1 shot (1½ ounces, or 42 ml) Mockahlua

1 shot (1½ ounces, or 42 ml) vodka

½ cup (65 g) sugar-free vanilla ice cream

Put everything in a blender and run the blender until well combined. Pour into a smallish glass—a rocks glass or a wineglass will work nicely.

Yield:
1 serving

The carb count on this will depend on the brand of sugar-free vanilla ice cream you use. If you use one of the lowest-carb—Atkins Endulge or Breyer’s Carb Smart—your drink will have 6 grams of carbohydrate, 0 grams fiber, 3 grams protein. And it will be unbelievably, decadently delicious.

This old-fashioned cocktail is one of my new favorites!

1 tablespoon lime juice

1 shot (1½ ounces, or 42 ml) gin

Club soda to fill

Put the lime juice and gin in the bottom of a tall glass. Fill with ice and then add club soda to the top.

Yield:
1 serving

1 gram of carbohydrate, a trace of fiber, and a trace of protein.

Forget all those strawberry daiquiris and banana daiquiris—this is the original, and it’s remarkably refreshing.

1 shot (1½ ounces, or 42 ml) lime juice

2 shots (3 ounces, or 85 ml) white rum

1 tablespoon (1.5 g) Splenda

You can make this two ways: on the rocks or frozen. For a daiquiri on the rocks, simply mix all the ingredients well and pour over ice. For a frozen daiquiri, plunk all the ingredients plus 3 to 4 ice cubes in your blender and blend until the ice is pulverized.

Yield:
1 serving

4 grams of carbohydrate, no fiber, no protein (hah!).

This is a sweet indulgence, so have fun!

3 to 4 cups (330 to 440 g) fresh or frozen unsweetened strawberries, thawed if using frozen

½ to ¾ cup (120 to 180 ml) light rum

¼ cup (60 ml) lime juice (Don’t use Rose’s bottled lime juice—it has sugar added.)

¼ to
cup (6 to 8 g) Splenda (you may use a different sugar substitute; adjust measurements accordingly)

Crushed ice

Place strawberries, rum, lime juice, and sugar substitute in a blender. Blend until smooth. Add ice; continue to blend until well combined.

Yield:
4 to 6 servings

Assuming 4, each will have 1 g protein; 11 g carbohydrate; 3 g dietary fiber; 8 g usable carbs.

To make Low-Carb Strawberry Margaritas, replace the rum with tequila.

Dana Massey’s note: We use erythritol in this recipe.

Dana Carpender’s note: I’d probably use Splenda, myself.

1 shot (1½ ounces, or 42 ml) tequila

1 shot (1½ ounces, or 42 ml) lime juice

1½ teaspoons Splenda

8 ounces (240 ml) unsweetened orange-flavored sparkling water

Put the tequila, lime juice, and Splenda in the bottom of a tall glass and stir. Fill with ice and pour in orange-flavored sparkling water to fill.

Yield:
1 serving

4 grams of carbohydrate, a trace of fiber, and a trace of protein.

If you like fruity drinks, try this!

1 shot (1½ ounces, or 42 ml) tequila

1 shot (1½ ounces, or 42 ml) low-sugar cranberry juice cocktail (Ocean Spray makes one.)

8 ounces (240 ml) pink grapefruit–flavored Crystal Light (or any no-sugar grapefruit-flavored drink mix), prepared

Combine the tequila and cranberry juice cocktail in a tall glass, fill with ice, and pour in the grapefruit-flavored drink.

Yield:
1 serving

3 grams of carbohydrate, 0 grams fiber, and 0 grams protein.

Commercially made hard lemonade is actually a malt beverage—in the same class as beer. That makes it high carb right there, plus it has sugar. But how hard can it be to make your own?

1 shot (1½ ounces, or 42 ml) vodka

Sugar-free lemonade (Both Country Time and Wyler’s make a sugar-free lemonade mix.)

Just fill a tall glass with ice, pour in the vodka, and fill with sugar-free lemonade. Garnish with a lemon slice, if you like!

Yield:
1 serving

1 gram carbohydrate, 0 grams fiber, and 0 grams protein.

I’m tragically unhip. I discovered the Mojito while writing this book and fell in love with it—only to learn it had been the hot drink for at least a year!

If you haven’t tried this classic Cuban drink, you must. (Don’t have fresh mint? There’s nothing easier to grow—indeed, plant mint and it will threaten to take over your yard!)

1 shot (1½ ounces, or 42 ml) white rum

1 tablespoon (15 ml) lime juice

1 sprig fresh mint

1 teaspoon Splenda

Club soda to fill

Combine the rum, lime juice, mint, and Splenda in the bottom of a tall glass. Using the back of a spoon, press the mint well to release the flavor and stir everything together. Now fill the glass with ice, then with club soda.

Yield:
1 serving

2 grams carbohydrate, a trace of fiber, and a trace of protein.

This is a great drink if you want something mild that you can sip on for a while without getting incapacitated. (A good thing to bear in mind if you have to play around with the grill rack and manipulate hot coals!)

3 ounces (90 ml) dry red wine

Unsweetened berry-flavored sparkling water to fill.

Pour the wine over ice in a tall glass and pour in berry-flavored sparkling water to fill

Yield:
1 serving

1 gram carbohydrate, 0 grams fiber, a trace of protein.

You have a lot of leeway here! Basically, you’re combining wine and diet soda. Experiment to find your favorite combinations.

3 to 5 ounces (90 to 150 ml) dry wine—red or white, whichever you prefer

Diet soda—consider trying lemon-lime, red raspberry, tangerine or orange, or grapefruit (Fresca)

Pour the wine over ice in a tall glass and fill with the soda of your choice.

Yield:
1 serving

Assuming you use 3 ounces (90 ml) of wine, this will have about 1 gram of carbohydrate, 0 grams fiber, and a trace of protein.

This old summer favorite is usually made with grapefruit juice—at 22 grams of carbohydrate per cup. We’d better use the pink grapefruit–flavored Crystal Light!

Coarse salt

1 shot (1½ ounces, or 42 ml) gin

Crystal Light pink grapefruit–flavored sugar-free drink mix (or any no-sugar grapefruit-flavored drink mix), prepared

Rim a tall glass with salt. Fill it with ice and add the gin and Crystal Light grapefruit-flavored drink.

Yield:
1 serving

1 gram carbohydrate, 0 grams fiber, 0 grams protein.

A classic Dark and Stormy is made with ginger beer, not ginger ale, but there is no such thing as low-carb ginger beer, at least that I know of. So, I tried it with diet ginger ale and got a very tasty drink!

1 shot (1½ ounces, or 42 ml) dark rum

1 shot (1½ ounces, or 42 ml) lime juice

Vernor’s Diet Ginger Ale (I like to use Vernor’s because it’s particularly crisp, but if you can’t find it, use any diet ginger ale you can get.)

Put the rum and lime juice in a tall glass, add ice, and fill with ginger ale.

Yield:
1 serving