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Italian Delicacies These were handed down through the family from Chef Allan’s Italian great-grandmother’s traditional recipes. We know they’re at least 200 years old. They’re naturally low carbohydrate and sugar free. The Sauce. Most tomato sauces use sugar! Why? Unripe tomatoes! Ripe tomatoes are naturally sweet, and cook-up even sweeter. They still have carbohydrates and must be used sparingly, but they’re nothing like regular sugar laden sauce – taste-wise or carb-wise. A delicious genuine sauce of this style and region of Italy, uses large chunks of tomato, herbs, olive oil, and mild whole garlic cloves. It cooks up “chunky”, “liquidy”, and very flavorful, with none of the rancid garlic taste that can come from improper cooking. Great grandma Maria would simmer her sauce all day, beginning in the morning, for the evening meal. Amazingly, we now have a bottled sauce that is just like hers - Timpones! Super Low Carbohydrate! Not a couple of grams of carbohydrates per tablespoon, but 5 GRAMS PER HALF CUP!!! All natural real ingredients and uses RIPE tomatoes.
For a change of pace, manicotti is a nice choice, and a bit exotic. The carbohydrates in eggs are insignificant.
The carbohydrates in this and the lasagna recipe are in the tomato sauce
(10 per cup) and the Ricotta (about 2 grams per ¼ cup,
depending on the brand). The
entire lasagna pie for instance, is 50.4 grams.
Manicotti is basically the same, only mozzarella is not typically used.
So you can modify the recipe, and serving size can vary according to how
many of the crepe/noodles you make, how thick they are, and what size they are.
Just keep in mind that the total of the ingredients for the entire batch
given here, is about 50 carbohydrates, and divide accordingly. Ricotta Mixture: Same as above lasagna recipe Noodles: Same as noodles for the Lasagna. For large thin crepes, or smaller thick ones, use one egg per noodle/crepe. Or if you want smaller thinner ones, use a half egg per noodle/crepe. Preparation: |
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