Chicken Quiche Muffins

My kids love chicken quiche, so I decided to change up a muffin recipe and see if I could make it taste the same, but be more portable.  They turned out amazing!  The kids love them!

Here's my recipe:

8 eggs
the white meat off a rotisserie chicken
4 oz cream cheese
8 oz swiss cheese
1/2 sweet yellow onion, diced.
1 tspn nutmeg
1 tspn salt

Preheat oven to 350.  Whisk the eggs together.  Then mix in the softened cream cheese and swiss cheese.    Add all the other ingredients and mix until blended.  Pour into a muffin pan and bake for 25 minutes.

Cheesecake "Muffins"

I found a new recipe that everyone raved about online.  They've made a million tweaks to them, so I thought I'd give the original recipe a shot.  They are called cheesecake muffins.  I made them exactly like the original recipe.  Here it is:

2 8oz. pks. philadelphia cream cheese
1/2 cup sweetener (I use Ideal)
2 eggs
1/2 tsp. vanilla

Soften cream cheese about 40 seconds in microwave. Add other ingredients. Beat with mixer till smooth. Pour into 12 muffin pans lined with the papers. Bake at 350 for 20 min.

They turned out really good, but I did not llike the cinnamon on the top.  I used my fall silicone muffin pan, which was cute and they came out easily.  I'm going to do a different variation next without the cinnamon and try some DaVinci syrup and see how it goes.

Low Carb Cheesecake

I found a really good cheesecake recipe and made it.  Next time I'll put chocolate chips in it, because with the nut crust, it tastes like a turtle cheesecake which is my favorite!  Here is the link:  Low Carb Cheesecake

Low Carb Margarita

Check out this yummy low carb strawberry margarita!  Made a quick limeaid with lime concentrate and Fiji water, added some sugar free Strawberry syrup, a shot of tequila and ice...YUM!

Favorite Nugget So Far

I decided last night to try a mixture of my two recipes and came up with this one and it was delicisous!  So here you go!

1.5 lbs of Chicken Breasts, cut into small chunks
1 Egg
1 C Heavy Cream or for dairy free - coconut milk or almond milk
1 1/4 C Splendid Gluten Free Bake Mix
2 TBS Powdered Ideal
2 TBS Garlic Salt
1/2 TBS Garlic Powder
1/2 TBS Black Pepper
1/2 tspn Chili Powder
Coconut Oil

Put coconut oil in a skillet and turn it on medium high heat and let melt.  Beat the egg lightly in a bowl, then add the heavy cream.  Put the chicken peices in the bowl (may be done in smaller batches).  In another bowl mix the dry ingredients.  Using a fork, pull the chicken peices out one at a time and put into the dry mixture to coat.  Once the oil is hot enough (but not too hot that the oil starts smoking), put the coated chicken peices in.  Cook until brown on the bottom, then flip them.  Ready to eat!!

Yet Another Chicken Nugget

OK...so I'll admit it, I've got a chicken nugget obsession going on.  These are little chunks of protein heaven which I've had for breakfast lunch and dinner!  I liked the faux Chick Fil A ones I made the other day, but thought I'd try something a little more savory.  Here is what I did tonight:

1.5 lbs of chicken tenderloins, cut into chunks
2 eggs
1/2 C cream
1 1/4 C Splendid Gluten Free bake mix
1.5 T of garlic salt
1 T black pepper
1/2 tspn chili powder
coconut oil

I mixed the eggs and cream.  Mixed all the dry ingredients and then tossed the nuggets in the dry mixture, then dunked them in the egg/cream wash and then back in the dry mixture and into the coconut oil.

YUM!

Faux Chick Fil A Nuggets

So I found a recipe on Pinterest that I wanted to check out from www.mynameissnickerdoodle.com, where she made a faux chick fil a chicken nugget. I low carbed it up though, and they turned out really great!!  Here is how I made it:

4 small skinless and boneless chicken breasts, cut into nugget size chunks
1/2 cup heavy cream
1 egg
1 1/4 cups Splendid Gluten-Free Bake Mix
2 TBSP powdered Ideal
2 tsp salt
1 tsp pepper
1 tsp garlic powder
coconut oil

I didn't have time to marinate my chicken first, so just cut it up as is.  Mixed the egg up and added the cream.  Dip the chicken nuggets in the egg/cream wash.  Then put them in a plastic bag that had all the dry ingredients in it.  Then fried them in a pan of coconut oil.  They came out so good. My kids loved them, and I've eaten several meals of this, cold even!!  So good!  :-)