But I thought I'd give it a try. I got so far as to get all the ingredients into the bowl and then ready to spoon into my muffin pan when I just had to stop and fix it. I was about to put meatball mix into my muffin pan and that's just not right. If you're going to call something a muffin you must have batter! So I added a half a cup of soya flour and 100ml of light cream (I'll have black coffee for the rest of the day, I guess). It looked much better. It felt right.
Now they're cooking and it's weird but all I can smell is cinnamon muffins. There's not a bit of cinnamon in the mixture, but I must have impregnated my silicone pan with cinnamony goodness. They've cooked really quick, and they're quite eggy so I was right, they seem more like an omelet in a muffin pan - or it would've been if I hadn't changed the recipe.
How do they taste? Well a bit too salty, but not bad at all! Next time I'll use unsalted chicken seasoning and add the cheese into the individual muffin sections. Here's recipe and pictures:
12 ounce cooked and diced chicken (2 cups)
2 eggs
1/4 cup celery, minced (1 small stalk)
1 teaspoon dry minced onion
1/4 teaspoon pepper
1/2 teaspoon chicken seasoning (or use 1/4 teaspoon poultry seasoning and 1/4 teaspoon salt)
2 tablespoons pimiento, minced (optional)
2 ounces cheddar, shredded
1/2 cup soya flour
100ml light cream
Mix all ingredients well in a medium bowl. Spoon into 6 well-greased muffin cups. Bake at 350 30-35 minutes, until set and lightly browned. Makes 3-6 servings
A quick entering of figures into Fitday tells me the recipe stats approximately:
| Total: | 895 | ||
| Fat: | 47 | 422 | 48% |
| Sat: | 21 | 187 | 21% |
| Poly: | 8 | 72 | 8% |
| Mono: | 14 | 122 | 14% |
| Carbs: | 20 | 61 | 7% |
| Fiber: | 5 | 0 | 0% |
| Protein: | 97 | 389 | 45% |
| Alcohol: | 0 | 0 | 0% |
Not bad for a low carb recipe. Quarter that for per muffin in my makings. And, piggie that I am, I ate them all, two for lunch and the others before dinner. I was really hungry after walking all over town and coast with my new camera toys (I got macro lenses!). Pictures tomorrow.
13 comments:
Mmm.. Do post the recipe! They look delicious!
Aw, you should have done just one before you added the flour. They look like muffins though, I may take a crack at that.
The top picture is pre-flour, notice the milkier colour in the muffin pan?
I followed the recipe exactly as in the link but added the 1/2 cup of soya flour and 100ml of light cream (same as half and half I believe)
They were really filling! So definitely a great carry along if I'm not sure where my next meal is coming from.
There's more pictures on flickr, if you're interested *grin*
Now that I'm back on it, I'm remembering the joy (rapid weight loss) and the agony (nothing to eat that's crunchy) of the low-carb lifestyle.
Cucumber, celery, nuts, pork rinds (foul icky things IMO) I've made meringues that were pretty nice. There's a lot to try if you poke about looking for recipes.
Well, at least there's no alcohol?!?
Seriously, did they taste at all muffiny?
The look like muffins... yum yum!
*backs out slowly*
They were more like dense omelets than fluffy cakey muffins.
Really, they look wonderful! Sort of like a popover!hughugs
How is it that all of your muffins get wee man crowns? Never to my muffins get crown. If I am lucky, sometimes they end up flat. Others... well, I will be posting the disaster that was my cupcakes later today.
Devastating. ;)
The muffins look good. I may have to try them.
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