Keto Dinner Recipes

Chicken is a staple on keto and makes up a third of our recipes: thighs, wings, casseroles, and skillet meals. Pork chops and roasts, ground beef, steak, meatballs, salmon and shrimp come in to fill the gaps and give variety. The cooking splits roughly between a fast pan meal, a sheet pan you can walk away from, and a braise or roast for a Sunday. Cauliflower rice and zucchini noodles stand in for rice and pasta, and sauces get their body from cream or a reduction instead of flour.

At dinner, sugar usually creeps its way in through sauce and sides. Bottled barbecue, teriyaki and jarred marinara can carry more net carbs than the meat under them. Potato, pasta, and rice bulk up the numbers too. We make the sauces from scratch (or recommend brands to purchase), use cauliflower in place of potato or rice, and zucchini to replace the noodles. Portion creep can be real too, since a second helping is a second serving. See side items for what to put next to it.