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Cooking Low Carb: Hellzapoppin Cheese "Rice"

Here’s a killer side dish from the new 500 More! Low-Carb Recipes. I’ve adapted this from the funniest cookbook ever written, The I Hate To Cookbook, by Peg Bracken. And truly fabulous it is, too.

Hellzapoppin Cheese "Rice"

1/3 cup cooked wild rice
3 1/3 cups shredded cauliflower
4 eggs
1 cup Carb Countdown Dairy Beverage (or half-and-half, if you prefer)
1/4 cup minced onion
1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
1/2 teaspoon dried marjoram
1 pound grated sharp cheddar cheese
10-ounce box frozen chopped spinach -- thawed

You need to have your wild rice cooked before you start -- use three times as much water as wild rice, put it in a saucepan with a lid, and put it over lowest heat until all the water is absorbed – at least 40 minutes. Make more than you need for this recipe, and stash it in a snap-top container in the freezer, and next time you'll have it on hand!

Run half a head of cauliflower through the shredding blade of your food processor, and you should have between 3 and 4 cups of cauli-rice.

Beat the eggs till they're foamy, then whisk in the Carb Countdown Dairy Beverage, onion, Worcestershire, salt, thyme, and marjoram. Now, stir in the raw cauli-rice, the wild rice, the cheese, and the spinach. Stir till everything is well-combined.

Pour the whole thing into a casserole dish you've sprayed with non-stick cooking spray, and bake it at 375 for 35 -- 40 minutes.

6 servings, each with 409 Calories; 30g Fat; 27g Protein; 10g Carbohydrate; 3g Dietary Fiber; 7 grams usable carb.

Posted by HoldTheToast at October 6, 2004 09:22 PM