Keto Approved Foods For Your Keto Diet

 Keto Approved Foods For Your Keto Die

We see all these articles about the best vegetables for a keto diet and the right kind of cheese for you. However, we don't always know how to fit them into our diet and they are not always made of the ingredients that we have in our kitchens. This actually limits a lot of people from actively following the keto diet in a proper manner. Surprisingly, you do not need to know those French words to follow a keto-based diet. There is a lot of keto-approved foods that you can make at the comfort of your home without reaching for a shopping bag every other day. 

So here we have a list of Keto approved foods that do not require out of the blue ingredients and can be made from things common to an Indian kitchen:

Non-vegetarian Keto Dishes:

Meat and poultry are a great source of low carbs protein. Luckily, there are so many dishes in the non-veg buffet that will keep the fat and protein intake up while minimizing the carbs intake. 

1. Coconut Chicken Curry:

With a serving size of 234g, this Indian recipe is       320 calories,          22g of fat,         8.5g of carbs         and       protein of 25g. The iron it has to offer is also quite high.

On average, this dish takes 30-40 minutes to cook.

2. Butter Chicken:

An average serve of butter chicken is at 240g. It consists of      355 calories,       23g of fat,         14g of carbs     and     23g of protein. Vitamin A is fused within.

This buttery dish takes anything from 45 minutes to 1 hour to cook.

3. Indian style scrambled eggs:

For a serving of 61g, scrambled eggs are    91 calories,     6.7g of fat,      1g of carbs    and    6.1g of protein. 

You can also make paneer bhurji similarly.

It is easy to cook and takes only 15 to 20 minutes.

Vegetarian Keto Dishes:

There is nothing better than a vegetarian diet. Be it the environment or your body, you are helping everybody by opting green. These are some of the many keto-approved foods in vegetarian buffet that will help you-

1. Paneer Makhani:

This is the power-packed meal. With every serving, you get   456 calories,     36.1g of fat,      17.2g of carbs    and    14.9g of protein. Vitamin B1, A and Calcium, Phosphorus are loaded.

You will need about 30 to 45 minutes to get this one ready.

2. Cauliflower rice:

On one serving of 100g, cauliflower rice is only 25 calories,     0.3g fat,     5g of carbs    and   1.9g protein. 

Vitamin C skyrockets when you eat one bowl.

It will be ready in 10 to 20 minutes depending on the variation of the recipe that you decide to cook.

3. Roasted Eggplant Mash / Baingan Bharta:

With one serving of about 234g, this wonderful dish offers    117 calories,     5.6g of fat,     17g of carbs,      2.1g of protein.

It can take anywhere between 30 minutes and 40 minutes to cook.

Foods To Avoid:

While the dishes we talked about are easy to get on our plates, some things always find a way to your plate when you live in an Indian household. Potatoes in any form, Biryani, Samosas, lentils, Basmati Rice, etc are such foods. Make sure you check the nutritional values of whatever is on your plate and stay away from the high-carbs dishes.

Eat well. Eat right.