One of the best parts of having a barbeque is all the sides you get to eat. Now, if you're on keto, that does change what you can eat, but you can still make and eat some delicious keto side dishes! Remember, when on keto, you're aiming for a high protein, high fat, and low carbs. This will help your body enter into ketosis. Ketosis is a metabolic state that helps you burn fat for energy instead of burning glucose. This helps many people lose weight quicker as well as increase energy. If you're looking for a cheat sheet to ensure you follow all the keto rules, check out this guide.
When cooking a barbeque, make sure the sauces you are using are also keto-friendly. This is where many people accidentally fall off their diet without even knowing it. You could be eating keto-friendly foods, but if your condiments and sauces aren't keto, it will ruin your chances of getting your body into ketosis. Now that we've covered that, let's check out these delicious keto side dishes.
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Keto-Friendly Sausage and Sage Stuffing
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Sausage is one of the most flavorful meats and helps add protein and spices to keto side dishes. Using it in stuffing (made with almond flour) helps keep the flavor with none of the carbs.
Broccoli Cheese Bake
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Broccoli has two grams of net carbs per half cup, making it a great option for keto dishes that need to be low in carbs. This cheese bake will make your broccoli delicious, savory, and creamy.
Greek Salad
Greek salad is a great option because the dressing usually consists of herbs, spices, oil, and vinegar, all of which are low-calorie and keto. The body of the salad, veggies, cheese, and olives are also keto. Together, the salad is easy to toss together and super tasty.
Cauliflower Potato Salad
Cauliflower potato salad's name is a bit deceiving since it doesn't technically have any potatoes. Instead, replace them with cauliflower florets and have a crunchy, zesty potato salad as a perfect keto side dish.
Keto Mac And Cheese
How is mac and cheese keto? Easy! It uses cauliflower instead. It's not lacking in flavor, either, since it uses bacon, cheese, and all the other goodies that make things taste better.
Lemon Shredded Brussels Sprouts Salad
Brussels sprouts are a very high-fiber, healthy food. Adding in the lemon juice and zest ensures this dish is bright, and using a simple-to-make dressing with Dijon mustard and oil guarantees it stays low-calorie and keto. Make sure to substitute the maple syrup with a keto option!
Cauliflower Mashed Potatoes
Cauliflower is one of the best keto-substitutions around. This dish looks and feels just like mashed potatoes but cuts calories and carbs by subbing out the starches. Adding the cheese and bacon makes sure it's tasty but still keto.
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Keto Zucchini Au Gratin
Another way to sub out potatoes in a dish, zucchini au gratin is a low-calorie take on a steakhouse classic. You won't miss the potatoes since the melted cheese makes up for them with plenty of richness.
Loaded Radishes
When you roast a root vegetable, you often get a deep and meaty flavor. This keto side dish does just that. Think loaded fries, but instead of high-carb fries, you use low-carb radishes.
Fried Cabbage
Cabbage is a southern staple. Frying it and adding some bacon and seasonings gives you a dish loaded with flavor without all the carbs. It's the best of both worlds.
Avocado Kale Salad
Kale is a superfood for a reason. Leafy greens make up the body of this dish, and the creaminess of the avocado really helps to make this a salad that feels like a whole meal, not just a side. Plus, you get a touch of protein with the added egg.
Bacon Wrapped Green Beans
Bacon and green beans are both keto and together, they are better than alone! The trick is to wrap more than one green bean with bacon, ensuring that the entire bunch gets to soak in the bacon fat and all the flavor along with it.
Asparagus With Brown Butter Hollandaise
Another asparagus dish, only this time, with a delicious brown butter hollandaise sauce. Hollandaise sauce is super rich and creamy and the perfect addition to a usually plain veggie, like asparagus.
Keto Coleslaw
Many types of coleslaw are naturally keto. This recipe helps to guarantee that's the case. It's crunchy, slightly sweet, and creamy but also super easy to make in large batches as a side dish for gatherings.
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Keto Street Style Cauliflower
Keto doesn't have to be flavorless, and this dish proves it! Taking inspiration from Mexican flavors and cuisines, this street-style cauliflower uses charred veggies, bright cilantro, and cheese. Plus, the sauce is fantastic and adds a ton of depth.
Rainbow Slaw With Peanut Dressing
Another coleslaw, this one is Asian-inspired and uses a peanut sauce instead of a mayonnaise base. Since peanut butter only has 3.5 grams of net carbs per two tablespoons, this dish is a great option that is also low-carb.
Air Fryer Jicama Fries
Jicama is a magical little vegetable that has a very similiar makeup to a turnip. It can be fried, however, and used to make all sorts of things. Jicama is extremely low-calorie and low-carb, making it the perfect option to recreate a classic like french fries.
Keto Potato Salad
Here's another potato salad recipe, only this time it doesn't have potatoes or cauliflower. Instead, this recipe uses rutabaga, which is a root vegetable that is somewhat similar to a turnip. This version also adds gherkins and dill to the dressing for added flavor.
Tajin Cucumber Salad
Tajin is a staple Hispanic seasoning that is used on everything from candy to veggies. This recipe uses cucumbers and seasons with Tajin, making it subtly spicy and full of flavor without adding extra carbs or calories.
Keto Collard Greens
Collard greens are dark leafy greens, but they are far from flavorless. In this easy instant pot or stovetop version, you can add bacon or other meat to deepen the flavor without adding carbs. Collards are a Southern classic and perfect for all sorts of gatherings, BBQ included.
Keto Onion Rings
Generally, breading isn't keto-friendly, but this version uses almond flour to get the crispy exterior without the carbs that come with standard flour. Since onions are naturally keto, this keto side dish is very low carb and, with the added dip, just as good as anything you get at a restaurant.
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Avocado Fries
Another fried-yet-still-crispy option, these keto avocado fries are made by breading slices of avocado with low-carb flour, in this case, almond flour. It also uses parmesan cheese for some added depth of flavor and crispiness.
Fresh Grilled Vegetables
Grilled vegetables are a grill-out staple and great for BBQ dishes. This version uses zucchini, onions, peppers, and mushrooms. All of these veggies are low calorie and low carb. The marinade that they are soaked in adds a lot of flavor without adding carbs.
Keto Cornbread
Cornbread is another Southern staple, and this version uses almond flour to make up the body of the bread. It also uses eggs for added protein and to help provide structure since there isn't any gluten, as there normally would be in standard flour.
Keto Stuffed Peppers
Stuffed peppers always look great when displayed, but they taste great, too. This version is filled with hamburger meat (keto-friendly) and topped with cheese and scallions. Plus, since it uses peppers as the cups, they are dish and cleanup-friendly, too!
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