Made some mushroom "cheesesteak" with a cauliflower "cheese" sauce for 178 calories a sandwich.
Made "cheesesteak" out of mushrooms, peppers, and onion with a "cheese" sauce made from cauliflower.
I'm still pretty new to volume eating so I didn't get really scientific with this one. It's a large Vidalia onion with three bell peppers, sauteed in a pan with just a small spray of oil. Once that cooked it down a bit I added 3 lb of sliced white mushrooms, 2 teaspoons of reduced sodium better than bouillon, one teaspoon of Worcestershire sauce, a heaping tablespoon of black pepper, and a little bit of kinder's blend. Next time though I'll take the peppers and onions out before I try cooking down the mushrooms. They ended up a bit mushy by the time the mushrooms boiled off most of their water.
Next I made some cauliflower cheese sauce by steaming a bag of cauliflower florets, putting them in a bowl and blending them with an immersion blender, mixing in about four tablespoons of light sour cream, a half a small can of reduced sodium chicken broth, one tablespoon of Hellman's light mayonnaise, a teaspoon of badia sazon seasoning, some more black pepper and some parsley. That one turned out okay. The Sazon added most of the flavor and color. I added chicken broth until it had the consistency I wanted and then bottled it.
The bread is Lewis keto sourdough. The pita bread is Joseph's
All the filling plus the sauce is 800 calories and would make like 10 sandwiches. The bread 35 calories a slice though and the pita is 60 for both though
.It's pretty good. Is it cheese steak? Fuck no. Does the cheese sauce resemble cheese? Kind of. Is it really fucking low in calories because it's all vegetables? Absolutely.
The sandwich was 178 calories total
I had to cook all of this in the back of a semi truck so apologies if it's not very pretty.