When you are on a low carb diet, there are herbs and sauces to keep and condiments to toss. Dieters should avoid barbeque sauces, steak sauce, and ketchup. There are 0.2 grams of fiber and 4.1 grams of carbs in 1 tablespoon of ketchup. Half a cup of chowchow contains no fiber and 4.9 grams of carbohydrate. Other condiments to toss include Teriyaki sauce, Tartar sauce, and dressings with added sugar.
If you use fresh herbs and vegetables, you don’t need to add excess oil or sugar. You can use herbs such as horseradish, tarragon, oregano, mint, and basil. Keepers include dried bark, seed, and root. Dieters can use ginger, coriander, cumin, and black pepper. The spices you can use depend on the diet of choice. Dieters who follow the South Beach diet can use sugar-free peanut sauce, pesto, clam sauces, and other condiments. Lemon and lime juice are keepers. Dieters can have tomato-based sauces, including sugar-free marinara, pasta sauce, and pizza sauce. Sauces with added sugar should be avoided.
You can make low-carb dressings and dips such as cheese dips, homemade vinaigrette, and guacamole. Avoid sauces such as Alfred, Béchamel, and Bearnaise. If you want to prepare a cheese dip, use full-fat cheese such as blue cheese or cheddar. You can add onion, cream, cream cheese, or spinach. Guacamole is a delicious and easy to make low-carb dip. You will need ripe avocado and tomato, red onion, lemon juice, and seasonings such as cilantro, serrano chiles, salt and pepper.
You can use capers, olive oil, almond and vanilla extract, and pesto. If you want to use healthy oils for salad dressings, you can choose from olive oil, canola oil, and soybean oil. There are many delicious recipes for homemade salad dressings. You can make vinegar and oil dressing, blue cheese dressing, or lemon and garlic dressing. To make vinegar and oil dressing, you will need shallot, garlic, olive oil, and red wine vinegar. Another option is to make strawberry vinaigrette, which is very easy to prepare. You will need red wine vinegar, strawberries, olive oil, and mustard. If you like cranberries, you can prepare cranberry dressing from frozen or fresh fruit. This is a healthy and tasty salad dressing for a green salad. You can prepare green salad from celery, tomatoes, nuts, and blue cheese. You will need cranberries, cider vinegar, olive oil, and salt and pepper for the dressing. The dressing is very easy to make – just blend all ingredients in the blender. This is a good low-carb salad dressing, which contains 2 grams of healthy fiber and 4 grams of carbs.
Dieters can use salsas, mustard, wine vinegar, and hot sauces. Salsa is on the list of allowed foods during the first phase of the Atkins Diet. Low carb groceries also sell salsa. If you want to make salsa, you can mix lime juice, fresh cilantro, chopped tomatoes, chopped chiles, and diced onion.
