Low carb toad-in-the-hole/yorkshire pudding/popovers

[Subtle_badger]

The recipe has been going around the internet, it's simple and delicious.

1 egg

60 g/ml of double cream.

8 g/1 tbsp arrowroot flour

Mix them together, and use as you would use a flour based batter. In this case, I put the sausages in a 200C oven with ghee (you want hot fat) to until cooked, then pour in the batter and return to the oven until it is brown and risen.

9 net carbs and about 34g of fat.

Picture is a bit terrible. I decided to return it to the oven and cook for a few more minutes after, then took it out and ate it without another photo. Soz! I used 8 sausages and doubled the batter recipe.

Please note, no toads (awful or otherwise) were harmed in the preparation of this dish. 🤭

[Nettekin]

Hi SB. Just wondered what sausages you used. As a vegetarian I have used Quorn cocktail sausages cooked in the oven. Guess they would work? Looks yummy, nostalgic food!

[Subtle_badger in reply to Nettekin]

Absolutely. You can just use this mix to replace the batter in any existing recipe. Eg bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/veg...

Quorn sausages are much higher in carbs than the pork sausages I used, but this recipe will save you a lot of total carbs on the finished dish.

The BBC has better food stylists than me!

[TheAwfulToad Ambassador]

I'm pleased to hear you didn't make it with real toads

[Professor-Yaffle]

Thanks Subtle_badger. These kind of posts are very useful for me as I'm not all over the internet/social media and don't really see these ideas unless someone posts them here.

I usually just eat meat/dairy with vegetables but it's nice to think that I can still cook some of these tradition dishes whilst not completely compromising on nutrition. I'm adding this to my list recipes to try.

P.S. I think the key to cooking with actual toads is to remove the skin first but several also have poisonous glands throughout the body apparently. The back legs of some (non-poisonous) species are quite tasty apparently.

[MTCee]

Thanks for posting this. I’ll definitely give it a try. I usually have sausages with either salad or stir fried veg and sometimes with celeriac chips, but this sounds like a good alternative. I use gluten free sausages which are all pretty low carb.

[Bong1968]

Hope it wasn’t low carb Awful Toad in the hole?😂