11-14am
Today’s amazingly simple (mainly) 4 ingredient Banting recipe originates from www.genaw.com. My friend, Riana sent me the link when I said I needed a Banting recipe for today’s blog. This recipe speaks a lot about how well Riana knows me. I need SIMPLE! It’s an American recipe, originally called Texas Sweet Onion Pie. I made it this morning, simple South African style. You will find me referring a number of times to the ‘original recipe’ because I made a number of (very successful) adjustments.
My basic ingredients:
- 3 eggs
- 300g grated cheddar cheese
- 300g finely sliced onions (2 onions)
- 150g (1 cup) heavy cream
If you want to zoot it up, add a teaspoon of chilli powder.
Method:
Start by turning the oven onto 180C. Then finely slice the onions. The original recipe called for 150g of onions. I doubled the amount to 300g which was 2 onions…
Saute the onion in 2 tablespoons of butter. The original recipe calls for ‘sweet onions’, which you want to caramelize, but I used regular onions and sauted them until they were nicely cooked…
While the onions are cooking, grate the cheese into a greased pie dish…
Spread the onions over the cheese. The recipe calls for ‘heavy cream.’ I used 2/3 of a tub of this…
Spoon the cream into a bowl and break in 3 eggs. I used a rotary hand mixer and whisked well…
The mixture is quite runny. At this point, you may want to put in 5ml chilli powder. Other options, I was thinking mushrooms would work well and a tablespoon of chopped parsley. The original recipe calls for salt, but I left it off. With all that cheese, it’s salty enough. Pour the egg/cream mixture over the cheese and onion and it’s ready for the oven…
You want to bake for about 30 minutes, until it’s nicely golden, firm to the touch and a knife comes out clean…
Leave it for 10 minutes before serving. The inside firms during this time. It is delicious! (Gratitude Pic – I CAN cook!)
Thanks Riana! You are a star. (I’ll make one for Friday morning!) I called it ‘pie’ but it is very much like a quiche.
The original recipe can be found by copying and pasting this link:
http://www.genaw.com/lowcarb/texas_sweet_onion_pie.html
Where you can also read this:
Per 1/6 Recipe: 359 Calories; 33g Fat; 14g Protein; 4g Carbohydrate; 1g Dietary Fiber; 3g Net Carbs
Per 1/8 Recipe: 269 Calories; 24g Fat; 10g Protein; 3g Carbohydrate; trace Dietary Fiber; 2.5g Net Carbs
Very useful info!
And THAT is your Saturday Banting Recipe suggestion!
Today, the Bible verse that came to my mind is ‘the joy of the Lord is my strength.’ When I looked it up, I was surprised to read the context…how’s this for a great ‘food’ Bible verse…Nehemiah 8:10
Nehemiah said, “Go and enjoy choice food and sweet drinks, and send some to those who have nothing prepared. This day is holy to our Lord. Do not grieve, for the joy of the LORD is your strength.”
Keep the smile going.
God bless you!
In His Grip.
Helga xx 🙂