Our Favorite Family-Friendly Keto Recipes

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I can’t recommend the app My Cookbook enough for both storing recipes and for meal-planning. You can use it through their app or through the website. It has been a lifesaver!!

If you don’t have a chest freezer, consider investing in one--even a small one!! I bulk prep and freeze my most commonly-used chopped vegetables (zoodles, broccoli, cauliflower, peppers, onions, and even peeled garlic) and very often, having those veggies already chopped and ready to use makes the difference between me having the energy to make dinner versus giving up and getting pizza. I even bulk cook and freeze bacon (and bacon fat!) and keto cheddar bay biscuits!

ROAST ALL YOUR VEGGIES, INCLUDING ZOODLES. This is my favorite way to eat veggies! If you don’t like them, add a bit of bacon fat and/or balsamic vinegar or lemon juice. I even roast zoodles, cauliflower rice, and green beans!!

Main Dish	Keto Side	Non-Keto Side	Notes
Baby-back ribs (use sugar-free BBQ sauce)	Roasted broccoli, cauliflower, brussels sprouts, or green beans	Potatoes, baked beans	Instant Pot, easy
Baked pesto chicken	Zoodles, roasted broccoli	Pasta	Easy
Beef enchilada pie	Cauliflower rice with Fiesta pinto bean seasoning	Mexican rice	Easy
Buttermilk roast chicken	Roasted broccoli, cauliflower, brussels sprouts, or green beans	Roasted potatoes, sweet potatoes, or squash	VERY easy prep, but takes a bit over an hour to cook. But you can prep it ahead, and it is SO WORTH IT. Seriously a show-stopper!
Chicken al forno	Zoodles, roasted broccoli	Pasta	Easy
Chicken and savoy cabbage	None	None	Easy
Chicken taco soup	Cauliflower rice with Fiesta pinto bean seasoning and lemon juice	Mexican rice, tortilla chips	Easy
Pan-roasted chicken	Roasted broccoli, cauliflower, brussels sprouts, or green beans	Roasted potatoes, sweet potatoes, or squash	Easy
Crawfish bread bites (you can use shrimp instead of crawfish)	Keto cheddar bay biscuits	French bread	I make a double batch at a time of the keto cheddar bay biscuits and freeze them. SO GOOD.
Creamy garlic chicken soup	None/Keto cheddar bay biscuits	None/bread
Tuscan garlic chicken	Zoodles/roasted broccoli	Pasta	Easy--one of our favorites!!
Crispy mojo pork	Low-carb tortillas, cauliflower rice	Tortillas, rice
Curried chicken salad	Lettuce wraps	Pita	Probably our favorite anytime recipe, and great in large batches--we have seriously eaten this three days in a row and still wanted it again! Put grapes in separately to make it even more keto-friendly.
Garlic-chicken zoodles	Zoodles	Pasta	Really easy!!
Sheet pan fajitas	Low-carb tortillas, cauliflower rice	Tortillas, Mexican rice
Sheet pan roast chicken	Roast cauliflower/broccoli with the other veggies	In recipe
Sheet pan salmon and delicata squash	Roasted broccoli/cauliflower	In recipe	Some people fit delicata squash into their macros
Cauliflower shepherd’s pie	None	None	A lot of work, but total comfort food
Shrimp and chorizo spaghetti squash bowls	None	None	Here’s how to cook spaghetti squash
Shrimp and zoodles	None	Garlic toast
Skillet chicken fajitas	Cauliflower rice, low-carb tortillas	Mexican rice, tortillas
Sun-dried tomato basil zoodles	None	Pasta
Taco casserole	None/cauliflower rice	Mexican rice, tortillas
Tuscan butter shrimp	Zoodles	Pasta	Buy shrimp already peeled, or precooked shrimp!
Indian butter chicken	Cauliflower rice	Basmati rice	Instant Pot
Lamb rogan josh	Cauliflower rice	Basmati rice	Instant Pot
Bacon cheeseburger soup	None	None	I was not a fan of this, but my family LOVED it!
Lemon garlic shrimp	Zoodles	Pasta	SO EASY
Mojo grilled chicken	Cauliflower rice	Cilantro rice, tortillas	Great for a George Foreman grill or in a frying pan
Mozzarella pesto chicken	Zoodles	Pasta