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This one brings its unique flavors from bacon and diet cola. Make sure you use a "splenda" sweetened diet soda, as the aspartame version don't hold up to heat at all.
Though the recipe calls for generic diet cola, you can get very good results with a wide variety of soda flavors: Grape, Dr. Pepper (or generic "doctor" brands), Cherry cola, rootbeer, etc., will all create wonderful sauces, though rather different in flavor. Don't expect this to taste like you're drinking a Coke though - the soda flavor is "background" and can bring surprising complexities and "hidden" flavors.
This recipe has approx 3.5G of carbs per 1/4 Cup serving. There are 4 Tablespoons per 1/4 Cup, so it is less than 1G carbs per 1 TBS service (to compare to the prior recipe).
Ingredients:
•2 strips of thick bacon, chopped fine (or see note)
•1 small onion, minced
•1 clove garlic, minced or 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
•1 small can (6 oz) tomato paste
•1 can (12 oz) diet (sugar-free) cola - Splenda-sweetened preferred
•1/4 cup low carb (sugar-free) catsup, (or see note)
•3 T mustard
•1 Tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
•1 pinch ground cloves
•Hot sauce to taste
Directions:
Note: If you can't find low carb ketchup, like Hienz-1 Carb, there is a link to a "make your own better than store-bought" low carb recipe in the posting before this one.
1) Fry the bacon in a saucepan - a 2 qt pan works well.
2) Add the onion and cook over medium until soft - 3-5 minutes. Add garlic at this point if you're using fresh and stir it for half a minute or so.
3) Add the rest of the ingredients, plus about half a cup of water. Stir well.
4) Simmer for 20-30 minutes. It will cook down a bit and flavors will combine.
5) Adjust the seasonings so you have the balance you want -you can add vinegar, artificial sweetener (liquid preferred), or hot sauce.
The recipe makes approximately 10 servings of 1/4 cup each. Each serving has about 3.5 grams of carbohydrate plus 1 gram of fiber.
Last edited on Mon May 5th, 2014 01:45 pm by Vargr
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