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this week on what's for keto dinner
of course we're back in the kitchen i'm going to be showing you guys how i meal
prep our keto dinners for the week this week i'm only going to be focusing on three dinners the
other nights will be filled in which is probably something easy like steak and vegetables or like
hamburger bunless burger or something like that in a side salad but i do want to prep up three
recipes to make my life easier through the week if you guys are looking for some more keto meal
prep ideas well then just click up here and watch my whole playlist on what i like to make for my
family during the week these are all keto dinners a lot of them are easy meal prep recipes i'm
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one of these videos so let's get started with what we're gonna make for the week all right here's
what's on my menu for the week i'm only making three things like i said uh we're gonna be making
an elk chili i do have this recipe on my website but i use ground beef instead but you guys know
me i have a bunch of ground elk in the freezer so we are going to use that instead and then i'm
going to do chicken crust pizza which is another recipe on my website kids really love this recipe
so they're gonna be excited that we're having pizza for dinner one night and then we're also
gonna be making egg roll in a bowl and this is um a favorite recipe of mine it tastes so good and
plus it's easy to make first up i'm going to get started on that elk chili now this recipe on my
website i do give you instructions for cooking it in instant pot which you could do you could even
try the slow cooker too it should work in the slow cooker i haven't tried that yet just the instant
pot but actually i'm gonna cook it on the stovetop today just because my husband was a little nervous
since we're using ground elk he's afraid that it might taste a little gamey or weird if we cook
it in the instant pot he really wants it to just simmer on the stove top for a couple of
hours so i'm gonna get that started first because i want that to be cooking while i'm prepping
up the rest the recipes before we get started i should just really say that i do not feel like
meal prepping today or cooking up three meals but i'm hoping that i selected three recipes that
i know that aren't gonna take very long so i hope my goal is to be done in the kitchen in an hour
um probably not cleaned up in an hour but let's get everything made in about an hour so to make
this chili i do have to dice up some vegetables i've already cut up some onions you this is
something i made from the other day it's some diced up red onion so i had some left over so you
will need about a quarter of a diced up red onion you're also going to need some bell pepper and
i like to use red bell pepper in my chili just because it adds some color but you could use green
or yellow or orange so i'm going to cut up this and then jalapeno for some spice and whenever
i dice up jalapeno i do have to use some gloves and some people wonder if bell pepper is
keto approved it is a little bit higher in carbohydrates but i think it's fine it's it's
filled with a lot of fiber it has some really good nutrients in it too so i think it's a good
vegetable to add it adds flavor to your meals if you're really really carb conscious then you could
omit it but really then you're just having kind of like meat with some tomato which tomato has carbs
in it too so i just think you have to get over it and same with onion a lot of people say like
oh i can't have onion on the keto diet like get over it like as long as like
you fit the carbs within your macros and stain under whatever your target is
um then i think it's fine so if like your target is 20 carbs a day or some people do 30
some people do 40 whatever you can tolerate and still either feel good or stay in
ketosis then have at it okay so there's our bell pepper now let's move on to the jalapeno
but i have to go find some gloves got him now if you're somebody that likes spicy food then i
highly suggest you add maybe two jalapenos or you could even go with three if you really like spice
we're just gonna do one jalapeno i do need to de-seed it so taking a spoon and just carving the
inside out will help get those seeds that's where a lot of that heat is you could leave it in if you
wanted to i'm going to take out the seeds and the ribs now the first thing we're going to do is add in
some avocado oil to our pot so you want about like three tablespoons of avocado oil to go in
there if you don't have avocado oil you could use butter if you wanted to um so we're gonna
heat that up i guess i should turn on my burner and then i'm going to add in
my elk meat so i defrosted this a couple days ago in the refrigerator and like
i said if you guys don't have elk meat which probably the majority of you guys do not you can
use ground beef instead ground turkey works ground chicken ground pork sausage whatever you want to
use in this recipe you can do found my special chopper tool if you guys want to know where to
get these um this is a pampered chef tool but um i'll have it linked down below i actually found it
on amazon and um there's other different types of brands that make it too not just pampered chef but
a friend was having a party so i had seen this and had been wanting it so i decided to pick one up
and i love it mostly because i don't really mind it but my husband doesn't like super huge chunks
of ground beef in like his chili or spaghetti sauce or enchilada sauce anything like that so
this really helps get it into a fine fine texture crumble so i'm gonna brown my ground elk in
here um and then once it's browned or probably once before it gets browned
i'm gonna add in the vegetables too and a little bit of seasoning we're going to
have salt chili powder and cumin and then oregano i think this recipe could very easily be a freezer
meal too um you could just add everything in there just even your raw ground beef and all of
your veggies your it does require a can of diced tomatoes add that into a freezer safe bag
and then freeze it and then when you want to go to make it just put it in your
slow cooker or your instant pot even you could cook it on the stove top too
some of the meat might not have the same texture but it's still going to work
it's still going to be easy and delicious now let's add in the rest of our vegetables we just need around two tablespoons of chili
powder and all of my measuring spoons are dirty so i'm just going to eyeball it and
then we're going to need some ground cumin and i need like a teaspoon and there's hardly
any left i'm just going to pour the rest of that in there and i'll have to remember to
get some more the next time i go the store and then some oregano it's
about a teaspoon of this too so we're going to cook this until the vegetables
i put in there are starting to get kind of soft and then i'll add the remaining ingredients oh
and i just realized i forgot to add garlic so i'm gonna add some garlic paste in uh i'm gonna
add three teaspoons which would be equivalent to uh three cloves of garlic i
think that's three teaspoons this is how i cook i'm sure a lot of you guys
cook like this next we're going to add in our can of diced tomatoes and i think it's wise to
always look on the back of the nutrition label with whatever you guys are purchasing just because
you never know when they might have some sugar in them so i don't know why brands they like to
hook you with the sugar so they they want to hook you on their products so they always add excess
sugars in there so um anyway so you just need a can of that and then we're gonna stir it and then
i am going to you know what this looks a little like it needs a little liquid too so i'm just
gonna add a half a can of water since i am cooking this on the stove top and not in the instant
pot in the instant pot it would be just fine um but i just i need i need a little liquid to
go in here chicken broth would be good too or beef broth if you have that i don't want it to
be too soupy but i want it to simmer for hours i think a fighter jet just went
over the house it's exciting it's very loud oh my goodness it's loud all right now i've brought it to a boil i'm
gonna cover it we're gonna turn down the heat let it simmer and for probably about an hour and
meanwhile i'm going to move on to my other recipes all right next i want to get started on the
chicken crust pizza now i love this pizza because it's high in protein so i can ensure that my kids
are getting a good amount of protein in their diet and also it's like it's basically zero carb
because there's no breading like there's no almond flour no cauliflower in it none of the nut flours
are in there it's just ground chicken a few blends of cheese and egg and then i do add some seasoning
in there so i guess there's a little bit of carbs from that but you don't have to put that in there
if you don't want to so to make this you will need a pound of ground chicken now if you don't have
ground chicken you could use ground turkey if you wanted to use that too i think you could even
use ground beef to me that doesn't really sound appetizing um i i like to go with something that
has more of a neutral flavor like the chicken turkey like i said would be good too you could
probably even do pork i think pork could be pretty good in here um so it's a pound of ground chicken
and then our binder is going to be an egg this is what's going to hold everything together so you
will need one egg and then also to hold things together we're going to add some cheeses and i
like to do a blend of cheese so i like to add in a half of a cup of mozzarella cheese and that
shredded mozzarella cheese and then a quarter cup of parmesan cheese once again you can experiment
and just add in whichever kind you want um like i mentioned i'm gonna add in some seasonings i'm
gonna add in a little bit of italian seasoning and then some garlic powder and this is just here for
some flavor so it's about like a teaspoon of each oh and you do need some salt
so about a teaspoon of salt okay once that's in there
now we're going to combine it you could use your hands if you want or you
can use a spoon since i know it grosses some of you guys out when i use my hands i'll
use a spoon this time just for you guys now i don't know how well this freezes so
if anybody has tried this recipe before or one similar and they've frozen it let me know
because i want to know if it works in theory i really feel like it would work um but you would
have to probably freeze it once it's flattened out and then just if you i would probably make a bunch
of them too so like double or triple the recipe and then press it out first and then layer it in
between sheets of parchment paper and then store it in a big freezer safe bag like that i think
that that would work if you're going to try and meal prep up a bunch of this and freeze some but
yeah if you guys have done that before let me know okay now once everything's combined then
we're gonna press it out onto a parchment lined baking tray all right so this is
just gonna go in the center of your tray and again using your hands or a spoon just
press it out into a circular formation so that it resembles a pizza and it needs to be
like maybe around like a half of an inch thick um i think that's the best way i don't think
you can be kind of hard to get it any thinner plus you do kind of want it to have some stability
so it's not going to make like the largest pizza um but you know like i said it's higher in protein
so it's going to be very filling plus with the cheese and then of course we're going to have
toppings on this too so a few more cheese and probably i'm going to do some pepperoni because
that's the kids favorite favorite type of pizza so i just need to spread it into an even layer and
then we're going to bake this in a 405 degree oven all right so that pizza is
more like an oval but it works alright so that's going to bake for
15 minutes in that 450 degree oven and while that's baking i think i'm gonna
get started on my egg roll in a bowl because i think maybe i should be able to finish
that by the time that pizza crust is ready now before i show you how to make this egg
roll in a bowl let's just say that it's a very very popular keto recipe and it's one that
i kind of had put my own little special twist on it's a delicious delicious recipe and it's easy
to make i already made it for you guys before on this channel so just click up here if you want
to watch that video and there's lots of different variations out there but this one is delicious
and to start the first thing you want to do is cut up some green onion so i have these are
actually really big whoops i actually grabbed five these are pretty big onions so i think i'm just
gonna use three my recipe does call for four um but these are pretty thick i think
it's because i didn't buy the organic ones so we're gonna cut this up you wanna
separate um the greens from the whites so these are more of the whites here because they're going to cook at separate times
so the greens don't take that long to cook so they get added at the end and the white parts
take longer because they're thicker so they get added in the beginning so that's pretty much all
the prep work i have to do for vegetables because everything else is packaged i do buy pre-sliced
mushrooms so if you didn't do that then you'll have to slice those up and then i do use a bag
of coleslaw in place of just shredding up cabbage myself now to do if you wanted to save money then
definitely buy the whole mushrooms and just buy a head of cabbage and thinly slice it up yourself we
are going to be using ground pork in this recipe but once again you don't have to use just pork
if you want to use ground chicken ground turkey you could even use ground beef you could use
ground elk i like the flavor of the pork you could use sausage if you wanted to as well so
i'm going to be using one pound of ground pork besides the um whites of the onions i'm also going
to add some garlic so you'll need three cloves of minced up garlic and oh that's hot i'm going to
use the garlic paste i looked for ginger paste at the store today because i was out of it and they
didn't have it and i just didn't really feel like getting an entire ginger root and messing with
that so i'm just using ginger powder instead so normally i would want to use two teaspoons of
freshly grated ginger um so i'm just gonna go with maybe like three quarters of a teaspoon
maybe a full teaspoon of the dried stuff still smells good okay so now that my meat looks
like it's fully cooked and everything's combined now we're moving on to the next step so next we're going to add
in our mushrooms and our cabbage now for the mushrooms i'm just going to
use a half of a package of this and i'll save the rest for later on i could probably even
add it to that chili nobody would even notice i am making a mess because once again tiny pot
large amount of food okay so while that's kind of cooking down a little bit i'm gonna move on
to my sauce so to make the sauce you just need i think it's four four ingredients you need
some liquid aminos white vinegar sesame oil and monk fruit so yeah so the liquid aminos
that's like the keto person substitute for soy sauce because soy sauce does have carbs in it so
we will need a quarter of a cup of liquid aminos now if you don't have liquid aminos you could just
use soy sauce you'll be okay you'll survive um but you do need something for some
flavor and then you need two tablespoons of white vinegar and this is
how my white vinegar comes so i'm gonna just pour it in here and eyeball
it and then a tablespoon of sesame seed oil and then just for a hint of sweetness i'm
going to add a little bit of monk fruit yeah i have like no measuring spoons right now so um it just needs to be a teaspoon of
monk fruit you don't want to go too much and then we're going to stir that if i
had a whisk clean then i would use that but i don't know what happened to my whisk it's
probably dirty okay so we're gonna pour this on and continue to let everything cook and then our last step is to add an egg to
make it more of like that egg roll consistency so i'm going to let that cook for
a little bit until it starts to get the white start to turn white and then
i'm going to cut it up and scramble it in the rest of the dish and by the looks of
things that pizza crust is almost done too there we go i'm gonna go pull that out of the
oven and let it just kind of cool a little bit this egg roll in a bowl is almost
finished and then we'll finish up that pizza so now the last step to do is just add in
the rest of our green onions so i'm just going to throw that on there and kill my burner mix these
in and what i like to do too is top it with a little bit of sriracha mayo so just a quarter
cup of mayonnaise mixed with like a teaspoon of sriracha sauce and that makes some sriracha
mayo and then just squeeze that on top or spoon it on top and it's delicious so that's it i'm
going to let it cool and i'm going to pack it away so that we can have it later on this week
all right that pizza is done actually no it's not done the crust is done so this is what chicken
crust looks like chicken chicken pizza crust looks like um so you do pre-bake it ahead of time
and then we're going to add on some toppings and then put it back in the oven just to melt
the cheese and make it all nice and bubbly on top um so i'm gonna add some low-carb marinara
sauce so i'll get my container of rayos out from yeah rios rios not roused i think i used to
call it rouse i don't know what i called it so i'm gonna get that out of the fridge because i had
some leftover from last week and put that on there some cheese some pepperoni um i think i might do
some sliced olives too and put it back in the oven all right this is going to go back into the
oven we're actually going to broil it this time because i don't really need to worry about
baking the crust because that's already baked i just want the top layer to get cooked
and have the cheese melt and be bubbly so we're gonna broil it on high and just keep
an eye out on it because it depends on your oven so it's gonna take like around a minute
two minutes three minutes something like that all right there's the pizza it's all ready so now
this is something that you could have like tonight for dinner which um we probably will because i
know the kids are going to take one look at this i want to eat it um but actually it does really well
in the refrigerator too because i've had it before as leftovers so this is really something that you
could prep up um if you didn't really want to like an idea if you're just like i don't really know
about cold pizza like this and reheating it what you could do is you could do two things you could
prep up your chicken pizza crust like the raw part flatten it out store it in the refrigerator
and then the night that you want to make it um you just finish it up it doesn't take very
long 15 20 minutes um really this recipe doesn't take that long anyway so you probably could get
it done in under 30 minutes on a week night so you could do that you could also bake up the crust
like we did and then store it in the refrigerator and then add your toppings like the night
you're going to make it add your toppings and then instead of broiling it well you could
still probably boil it i just worry if it's going to get cooked all the way through i would
probably just put it back in the oven at around like 350 or 400 and then once my toppings
are on let it cook and that should help heat the whole pizza the rest the way through so a
couple of different options there it just depends on whether you're super picky eater and you don't
like to have like cold pizza cold reheated pizza if you want it more of a fresh tasting pizza
then maybe go one of those other two routes all right the next recipe we need to
revisit is our chili and i think it's done i just had it simmering over there on the
actual stove top rather than right in front of me so let's take a look oh it smells so good though
you guys could serve this with um my cornbread recipe my cornless cornbread recipe it's on
my website i'll have it linked down below the combination of the two i like to pour my
chili on top of that cornbread it's excellent well that concludes our recipes for the week i
hope you guys got some really good ideas on how you can incorporate some family-friendly keto
meals into your everyday dinners these recipes are all delicious they're really popular ones on
my website i'll have the full recipes listed down below for you in the description box so make sure
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have an excellent week we'll see you next time bye
