Are you in the mood for comfort food? One of the great advantages of the Atkins Diet is that you can eat great food like this. On most other diets, the kind of food that really ’sticks to your ribs’ is exactly what they’re trying to *keep* you from eating.

But you need food like this. And that’s why, after not too much time, people tend to fall off other diets.

This recipe was originally posted by Jeannine on October 5, 2004. I dare you not to try this one.

Here’s what Jeannine wrote:  

Made it last night & had some of the leftovers for lunch today. It is wonderful!

Low Carb Mushroom Chicken & Sausage Casserole

Ingredients

• 3-4 cups diced cooked chicken
• 1 pound pork sausage
• 1 stalk celery, chopped fine
• 1 tablespoon onion, chopped
• 1/2 pound mushrooms, sliced
• 8 ounces cream cheese, softened
• 16 ounce bag frozen cauliflower, cooked well and drained
• 8 ounces cheddar cheese, shredded
• Salt
• 1/2 teaspoon pepper
• Paprika (optional)

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This Low Carb Chicken Asado recipe was posted by someone by the name of “Chef Allmax”. He posted quite a few recipes on the original Atkins Diet Help message board, and his recipes became quite popular. This was one of his first, posted in June 1999.

It’s a winner, full of flavor.

CHICKEN ASADO

Ingredients

• 1 ea Chicken, whole 3-4 lb average
• 1 pk Red Chilis, dried whole peppers, cut into larger pieces, about 4 ounces*
• 1 ea Onion, cut into large chunks
• 6 ea Garlic, cloves
• 1 cn Tomato Sauce, 12 ounces
• 1 T Cumin, ground

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Okay, it’s Saturday afternoon, and you’re probably looking for something delicious to make for dinner tonight. Thai food is on eof my wife’s and my favorite foods, but when you’re eating low carb, Pad Thai and Mee Krob just aren’t on the Low-Carb menu.

We love Thai soup, too, so this recipe, originally posted on June 15, 1999 is a great treat.

So, if you like Thai Food, and are eating Low Carb on the Atkins Diet, this may be exactly what you’re looking for.

Thai Ginger Chicken Soup

2.3g carbs per serving

Makes 4 servings

• 2 cloves of garlic, crushed
• 1/8 tsp. cayenne pepper, optional
• 2 tsp. lemon grass, ground
• 2 tsp. chives, chopped
• 1 Tbs. ground coriander
• 2 inches fresh ginger, grated
• 1 whole roasted chicken
• 1/2 lime, juiced
• 3 cups water
• 1-14oz can of coconut milk, unsweetened
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 Tbs. ghee (or butter)
• 1 pkg Sweet N Low
• cup cilantro, fresh and chopped

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Originally posted Sunday, March 21 2004, this recipe sounds amazingly delicious. “Ren” posted this and got a ton of comments on it. Here’s what Ren wrote:

Chewy, salty, and deliciously fatty. They are addictive therefore they are the Heroin chicken wings.

I clipped this recipe on the plane coming back from Orlando. Absolutely delicious. Let me know how you like them.

I used whole chicken wings, but the drumettes are the best part so if you can get those, do so.

24 chicken wing drumettes (2-2.5 lbs)
1 cup grated parmesan (The grated supermarket variety… don’t use the fresh stuff)
2 tbsp dried parsley
1 tbsp dried leaf oregano
2 tsp paprika
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp pepper
about 1/3 cup of melted butter.

Preparation:

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This dressing sounds fantastic. Originally posted by “Susan” on Wednesday, February 11, 2004. It got rave reviews as one of the best Atkins Diet Salad Dressings ever.

This is the kind of “diet food” that you get to eat on a low-carb diet that doesn’t at all seem like diet salad dressing. And one of the fun things you get to do with this recipe in particular is go shopping for the most aromatic blue cheese you can find.

(By the way, do you like to call it blue cheese dressing or bleu cheese dressing. . . or roquefort? –M)

Give it a try and post what you think about it here.

–Mark

From Susan:

My favorite was Bob’s fresh bleu cheese dressing which is not available where I live. I make it with my homemade mayo with extra virgin olive oil & splenda:

INGREDIENTS:

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This recipe was originally posted by “Bonnie” on the original Atkins Diet Help Recipe board. Sounds delicious! Give it a try, then post your comments here.

I like putting ribs, or chicken (boneless, skinless breasts) in the crockpot with Atkins BBQ sauce… let it cook all day the ribs are so tender the meat falls off the bone…. the chicken is tasty… I put it in my ceasar salads…

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I love this Cafe Chicken Recipe, too. . .

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