How can this be 15 carbs?

[Somer05]

I was thinking of making this for lunch today, but on the nutritional info I saw that this recipe was 15 carbs a serving! Why is that? Everything here looks legal to me...can anyone help me so that I can make this recipe more low carb? It looks so good. Oh...and I'm leaving out the flour of course. But can it make that big of difference? I don't want to blow my diet.

lbs chicken legs with thigh
3/4 cup milk
3 canned chipotle chiles
6 cloves garlic, minced
1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
1/2 teaspoon onion powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons butter or margarine
1 1/2 tablespoons flour
1/2 cup heavy cream
1/4 cup sour cream
8 ounces queso cheese, grated(monterrey jack ok)
<LI>minced chipotle chiles(to garnish) Directions

1. 1
   
   Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
2. 2
   
   Place chicken in an ovenproof baking dish, and place in preheated oven, and bake for 25 minutes.
3. 3
   
   Meanwhile, combine milk, canned chipotles, garlic, cumin, onion powder, and salt in a blender or food processor and puree until smooth.
4. 4
   
   Heat butter and flour in a large skillet and blend until smooth; add heavy cream and sour cream, whisking until smooth.
5. 5
   
   Stir in chipotle puree, and stir constantly until mixture comes to a boil and thickens; remove from heat.
6. 6
   
   After chicken has baked 25 minutes, remove from oven and drain any fat.
7. 7
   
   Pour chipotle cream over chicken and top with grated queso cheese.
8. 8
   
   Replace chicken in oven and bake for about 20 minutes more, or until cheese just starts to brown.
9. 9
   
   Remove from oven and serve with extra sauce spooned over chicken and garnished with minced chipotle chiles, if desired.

[jimmie 48]

Re: How can this be 15 carbs?

1 cup of flour shows to have Total Carbohydrate 95.4g
16 tablespoons per cup would equal 6 carbs.
the milk shows to have Total Carbohydrate 12.2g for 1 cup

both of these are not allowed on induction but you can see how the flour does make a huge difference.

the heavy cream has Total Carbohydrate 6.6g for 1 cup

[sorry i keep editing. apology to megs, i'll stay outta your forum]

[liv]

Re: How can this be 15 carbs?

You could mix water and heavy cream to use instead of the milk at the top. You would have to leave out the flour. That would help some. It would still be creamy and cheesy and somewhat carby.

Are you familiar with this lowcarb recipe site. I have found some really good recipes there.

http://genaw.com/lowcarb/

And you could look through the recipe section here. Good suggestions there as well.

[Elizellen]

Re: How can this be 15 carbs?

you need to use one of the websites like www.fitday.com to enter all the ingredients and work out how many carbs they add up to.

I tried it in my fitday pc and substituted the milk for 1/2 cream & 1/2 water and removed the flour and it came to a total of 30 net carbs

How many servings is the recipe supposed to make? If it is 4 servings then the net carbs would be 7.5 per serving

Apart from the carb count, we have daily limits of how much cheese and cream we are allowed so you need to decide how much of this you can eat to not overdo the allowances, including any other cheese & cream you eat in the day.

[Somer05]

Re: How can this be 15 carbs?

Thanks for the responses! I am planning on making this tonight and all these suggestions really help.

[MrsBrittney]

Re: How can this be 15 carbs?

As mentioned above, flour and milk are not allowed for quite some time and definately not on Induction, plus your sour cream or heavy cream use is volume-restricted daily. I would try checking out Linda's recipe site and checking the Induction-friendly ideas (marked with *) -- I found so many incredibely DELICIOUS things there - like the Taco Bake sitting in my fridge downstairs lol.