Recipe: Paleo Eggs Benedict

Only two more days until I start my 8-9 hour trek back to NC to visit with family for the holidays. As I mentioned two blog posts ago, I spent my weekend trying to prep a few recipes to share with them. One of my favorite things about going home other than the obvious (warm weather..jk) is when we do family breakfasts. At least one morning per time I visit we make time to do one! Lately, between my sisters better half JP and myself -- our obsession with Eggs Benedict has totally dictated what we have been having on these mornings. Except we don't do it the traditional way. Typically we substitute the usual canadian bacon with extra crispy regular bacon and a nice buttery country style biscuit. Okay, stop drooling, keep reading!

My challenge this weekend was not how to poach the egg, or how to make the bacon extra crispy, or even to make a super amazing savory hollandaise sauce...but to perfect a biscuit that will compliment these layers of flavor...that is paleo. I'm no baking expert so I began searching around different paleo blogs to see if there was a recipe that popped out at me. I found it. I have to give credit to "Simply Living Healthy" blog for the recipe I used for these biscuits. 

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The Perfect Paleo Biscuit

Makes 9 biscuits
6 egg whites
3/4 cup blanched almond flour
1/4 cup coconut flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 tablespoons coconut oil, chilled

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Mix almond flour, coconut flour, baking powder and salt together in a large mixing bowl. Cut in cold coconut oil with a fork until the mixture is crumbly. Place the bowl in the refrigerator for 10 minutes. In a medium bowl whisk egg whites until they are very frothy. Fold the egg whites into the chilled flour mixture until well combined. Scoop about 1/4 cup of dough onto the baking sheet and smooth the top to form each biscuits, an ice cream scoop works well in this step. Bake for 15-18 minutes, or until the tops are golden brown. Serve warm or store in an airtight container in the refrigerator.

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Above is the recipe (and link) to where I got this recipe. I actually totally screwed up a few of the steps which only proves how important it is to follow them! My first mistake on my first mini batch is I combined all the ingredients together without pre-whisking the egg whites. MISTAKE! (which is why i bolded it above) I realized I misread the recipe and decided why not make another and compare the difference (since naturally I was curious to see if it really mattered) IT DEFINITELY DID. The 'mistake batch' was totally flat and not fluffy where as the other batch as fluffier and better textures. I think when I make it for the family I'll use grassfed butter to take away from the coconutty flavor. I also bought some coconut flour that was more finely ground that I feel will give it even better texture. 

Hollandaise Sauce (blender)

6 Egg Yolks

3-4 Tbsp Lemon Juice

dash of Cayenne Pepper

dash of salt

1c Grassfed butter (warm and melted)

I put egg yolks, lemon juice and cayenne in a blender and turn it on high. Slowly stream the warm butter into the mix. This will allow for a thick and savory hollandaise sauce. 

With the bold flavor of the egg bacon and hollandaise it came together great. With the leftover biscuit I made a almond butter and banana sandwich..ughhhh so good.

Can't wait to share this with the family!!

Kim

Perfect Paleo Chilli

Kim's Chili Recipe:
1.5 -2 lb Ground Beef (85/15)
.75 - 1lb Ground Italian Sausage (hot) - You can get in the links if its cheaper and then remove the casing and "squeeze it" out
1 Chili packet
2 (small) cans of organic tomato sauce or 1 can of crushed tomatoes
2 Green or Red or mix bell pepper (you can make it 3 if you like)
1-2 yellow/sweet onions (1 if large..2 if small)
1-2 tbsp of minced garlic (me like garlic)
1 habanero pepper (WARNING - wear gloves, mince mince mince .. and don't touch your eyes..wash all utensils that touch this pepper right away..can be very painful)

Put beef and italian sausage into pan and cook until cooked through (browned) ...Remove excess fat..leave some though..cause fat is flavor..Add to crockpot. Meanwhile chop onion (No crying!!) and peppers and put into crockpot. For the Habenaro -- Cut off stem, remove all seeds and as much of the "white membrane" of the pepper..that is the most spicy part..if you want your chili more spicy leave it..beware!!!..Mince it finely..very very finely..Add to crockpot

Once beef/sausage is put into crockpot add chili packet, garlic, and canned tomato to crockpot Mix it around. Put crockpot on High for 3-4 hours or Low 6-8 hours

Nom Nom NOM..let me know how it turns out!

Recipe: Ultimate Paleo Whopper

Paleo Whopper...

Ultimate Paleo Whopper (2 burgers)

16 oz ground beef 85-15 Grassfed

Almond flour

Sweet Onion

garlic

garlic powder

salt/pepper

Boston leaf lettuce (4)

Bacon

Apple cider vinegar

Just as a preface, i'm horrible with measurements so bare with me!! Also a second note is that I love garlic in large amounts..and I realize not everyone is in love with it like I am, so just remember if you decide to recreate it choose your garlic amount wisely :)

Started off by mincing 1/4 of a small-medium sized sweet yellow onion. I also minced about 2-3..okay maybe 4 cloves of garlic (I know.. I know.. but I'll never have problems with vampires) Add both the minced onion and garlic to the beef and incorporate well. I added maybe a cap full of apple cider vinegar, some almond flour (just enough to hold everything together) ..I'll take a wild guess and say about 1/8 - 1/4 cup almond flour. Don't for get some salt and pepper to taste! Then I split the meat in half and shape my patties. These come out pretty thick!! You could easily make 3 burgers out of this amount..so either huge portion for two people or some good leftovers. Before sticking them on the grill I added some garlic powder and a little salt/pepper on top so that when you put them on the grill they will have a great crust and lock in all the juices!

Once  at a perfect rare-medium-rare they were pulled off the grill and ready for building!! You can get creative for what you like on your burgers. I put bacon, zesty paleo ranch, paleo onion rings, and tomato! I used Boston leaf lettuce in place of buns which were perfect to hold up to this juicy mess of a master piece!! And with a side of paleo coleslaw this meal was nothing less than epic. Enjoy!!