Fish Sticks Done Right–A Real Low-Carb Comfort Food Recipe
Filed under: Low-carb Recipes — jimmy @ 5:10 pm
These low-carb fish sticks ain’t coming in a frozen box!
I don’t know about what you ate in your family when you were a kid, but fish sticks were a pretty big mainstay in our household. They were conveniently packaged in a box you could shove into your freezer and then nuke ‘em for a couple of minutes in the microwave when you were ready to eat them. Of course, they tasted a little better when you baked them in the oven, but that used to take so long that my brother Kevin and I hardly ever bothered.
This “food” was about as disgusting as they come now that I look back on it through the eyes of my healthy low-carb lifestyle. Sure, the “fish” (what DID they put in those sticks?) was pretty good for you with healthy fats and protein in it, but that breading was absolutely LOADED with carbohydrates galore! And when you cooked these frozen fish sticks in the microwave, they came out all soggy and nasty. Ahhhh the memories of growing up as a fat kid totally oblivious to what I was doing to myself at the time!
The good thing is that there are better options when it comes to making fish sticks. Thanks to our friends at Low-Carb Connoisseur, there is a wonderful recipe for homemade low-carb fish sticks that is super-quick to prepare and cook that tastes a MILLION times better than that frozen junk you used to eat with a whole lot less carbs and taste that will have your tastebuds doing the Macarena! WOO HOO! ENJOY!
HOMEMADE LOW-CARB FISH STICKS
1/4 cup light olive or canola oil
1 cup Dixie Carb Counters bread crumbs
1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese
1/2 teaspoon each garlic powder, black pepper, and paprika
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup CarbQuik
2 large eggs, beaten
1 pound white fish fillets such as cod or tilapia, cut into “fish-stick-size” strips (about 3 inches by 1 inch)
Lemon wedges
Duke’s Tartar Sauce
Heinz One Carb Ketchup
Click here to find out the directions for making these amazing homemade low-carb fish sticks!
