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30 Low Carb Vegetables with Recipes – Keto Paleo Friendly

January 6, 2019 by Angela Roberts 7 Comments

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After ten years of writing this blog, Spinach Tiger has become known for cracking the code on biscuits and desserts, but the food group I most treasure lies right here in this garden of low carb vegetables and vegetable based recipes.

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If you like to eat as I do, and I mean eat with gusto and joy, then vegetables can be the best thing that ever happened to you. You will especially love these big fat healthy, low carb vegetables which include my many delicious recipes, as they are satisfying, filling, lean a tad toward gourmet deliciousness.

Many are low carb recipes, spanning soups, salads and sides.

Eat Low Carb Vegetables with Gusto on a Keto Diet

Many people attack a keto type diet eating only meat, cheese and eggs. This is a big mistake for multiple reasons. The bounty of low carb vegetables will not only fill you up and please your palate, your body needs them for good health.

You can read this article for more on why you need to eat a nutrient dense vegetables on a keto diet.

Below is list of all low carb vegetables in alphabetical order,  that you can eat with gusto. A rule of thumb is the lowest carb veggies grow above the ground such as greens and cruciferous veggies. The higher carb veggies grow below the ground such as carrots or beets. I’m not suggesting you abandon root vegetables, but be aware of the sugar content and plan accordingly.

What are the low carb vegetables?

This is my go to list. There are enough recipes here to take your through every season. I am listing net carbs which accounts and deducts fiber content.

Artichokes (6 net carbs per medium artichoke)

(Recipe Coming)

Arugula (one cup is less than 1 net carb)

  • Arugula Salad with Lemon Vinaigrette with Soft Boiled Eggs
  • Arugula Hash with Oven Baked Eggs
  • Arugula Salad with Strawberries and Manchego Cheese
  • MORE ARUGULA RECIPES

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Asparagus Gremolata

Asparagus (one spear is under one net carb).

  • Chicken and Asparagus Stir Fy
  • Roasted Asparagus
  • Asparagus Gremolata
  • Asparagus Detox Soup
  • MORE ASPARAGUS RECIPES

Bell Peppers (4 carbs per cup)

  • Paleo Grain Free Stuffed Bell Peppers
  • Italian Chicken with Peppers and Onions
  • Cauliflower Cheese Steak Skillet with Bell Peppers (low carb)
  • Roasted Red Pepper Soup

Broccolini (5 carbs per 8 stalks)

  • Roasted Broccolini with Prosciuttio

Broccoli (4 net carbs per 1 cup raw)

  • Broccoli Basil Mozzarella Frittata
  • Roasted Broccoli with Lemon and Olive Oil
  • Raw Broccoli Salad with Bacon (sugar free)
  • Broccoli Basil Soup

Bacon and Broccoli Salad from Spinach Tiger

Broccoli Rabe (1 carb per cup)

If you’re following a low carb diet, broccoli rabe, also known as rappini, is very low in carbs and high in flavor, if you follow my recipe. It’s closer to turnip family than the broccoli family, is somewhat bitter, but amazing when prepared Italian style.

  • How to Cook Broccoli Rabe 
  • MORE BROCCOLI RABE RECIPES

Broccoli Bacon Salad with Toasted Almonds, Honey Mustard Dressing

Brussels Sprouts (5 net carbs per cup)

  • How to Cook Brussels Sprouts Ten Ways
  • Garlic Roasted Brussels Sprouts
  • Five Minute Flash Fried Brussels Sprouts
  • MORE BRUSSELS SPROUTS RECIPES

Cabbage (less than 3 net carbs per cups)

  • Sauteéd Cabbage with Butter & Bacon
  • Red Cabbage Salad
  • Italian Sausage Cabbage Soup
  • Ribolita, Tuscan Cabbage Soup
  • Pork and Sauerkraut
  • MORE CABBAGE RECIPES

Cauliflower (1 cup is approx. 3 net carbs)

Easy to prepare and one of the most versatile low carb vegetables I’ve ever met.

  • Benefits of Cauliflower with Cauliflower Parmesan
  • Whole Butter Roasted Turmeric Cauliflower
  • Golden Cauliflower Soup
  • Cauliflower Risotto
  • Purple Cauliflower Salad with Walnut Vinaigrette
  • Cauliflower Mash
  • Cauliflower Fried Rice
  • Cauliflower Cheese Steak
  • Roasted Whole Cauliflower with Spatchcock Chicken
  • Grilled Cauliflower Steak
  • Flash Fried Cauliflower
  • Cauliflower Hash
  • Buttery Oven Baked Cauliflower with Parmesan
  • Cauliflower Pizza Crust
  • Twenty Cauliflower Low Carb Recipes HERE

Celery is a low carb vegetable. 2 stalks is under 3 net carbs.

Stuff celery with cheese or chicken salad. 

Collard Greens (1 net carb per cup)

  • Twenty Minute Melted Collard Greens with Pancetta 

Cucumber (8 ounce peeled cucumber is 3 net carbs)

Dandelion Greens (3 net carb per cup)

  • Dandelion Salad
  • MORE DANDELION RECIPES

Fennel (4 net carbs per cup)

  • Fennel Stuffed Pork Roast
  • Fennel Salad
  • Braised Fennel with Grouper en Pappillote
  • Braised Fennel with Scallops

Green Beans (4 net carbs per cup)

  • Yard Long Green Beans
  • Green Beans Casserole (low carb) with Brussels Sprouts
  • Green Beans Almondine 
  • Seared Tuna Nicoise Salad
  • MORE GREEN BEAN RECIPES

Kale (3 net carbs per raw cup)

Melted Tuscan Kale Recipe
Kale Green Smoothie
Kale Winter Salad

MORE KALE RECIPES

Lettuce (less than 1 net carb per cup)

  • The Party Wedge Salad with Homemade Blue Cheese Dressing
  • Farmhouse Salad with Homemade Ranch
  • Roasted Salad Greens with Hazelnuts & Pecorino
  • Holiday Salad of Romaine, Pear, Pomegranate
  • MORE SALAD RECIPES

Mushrooms (not a vegetable but notable for a low carb diet at less than 3 carbs per cup)

  • Burger Steaks with Sour Cream Mushroom Sauce (Low Carb)
  • Chicken Marsala with Mushrooms (Low Carb)
  • MORE MUSHROOM DRIVEN RECIPES

Roasted Okra, Eggplant

Okra (4 carbs per cup)

  • Roasted Okra

Poblano Peppers (6 net carbs per average pepper)

  • Chicken Stuffed Poblano Peppers with Avocado Sauce

Radishes (less than 1 carb per radish)

  • How to Love a Radish
  • Radish Focaccia

Radish Recipes

Shishito Peppers (2 net carbs per 7 peppers)

  • Recipe coming

Snow Peas (4 net carbs per 1 cup)

  • Recipe Coming

Spinach (1 carb per 1 cup raw)

  • Spinach Salad with Grilled Peaches
  • Low Carb Spinach Tortillas
  • Ricotta Spinach Sausage Frittata
  • Greek Spinach  Salad with Salmon
  • Joe’s Special and How to Freeze Spinach and Kale
  • Spinach Soup
  • Garlicky Sauteed Spinach with Walnuts
  • MORE SPINACH RECIPES

Spaghetti Squash (5.5. net carbs per cup)

How to Cook Spaghetti Squash

How to Cook Spaghetti Squash

Spaghetti Squash with Italian Sausage and Mushrooms Casserole

Spaghetti Squash Hash Browns

Spaghetti Squash Lasagna

Sugar Snap Peas (8 net carbs per cup)

  • Sauteèd Sugar Snap Peas

Swiss Chard /Rainbow Chard (1 carb per cup)

Swiss Chard Salad

Rainbow  Chard Chicken Roulade (low carb)

Roasted Turnips from Spinach Tiger

Turnips (6 net carbs per medium turnip)

  • Turnips are one of the few underground vegetables that is low in carbs. We love roasting them or putting them in soups and stews instead of potatoes.
  • Turnip Veal Stew
  • Beef Vegetable Soup with Turnips
  • Roasted Turnips

Watercress is a very low carb vegetable (1 carb for six cups)

  • Potato Watercress  Soup  (replace potato with cauliflower for low carb version)

Watercress Soup

Yellow Squash (5 net carb per medium squash)

  • Yellow Squash Frittata
  • Summer Chicken Soup with Squash, Kale and Avocado (skip the corn if eating low carb)
  • Yellow Squash Oven Baked with Pork Panko (keto)
  • MORE YELLOW SQUASH RECIPES

Zucchini (4 net carbs per medium)

  • Zoodles with Shrimp and Olives
  • Roasted Zucchini
  • Zucchini with Pecorino and Toasted Almonds
  • MORE ZUCCHINI RECIPES

Tested Low Carb Recipes You Will Make Over and Over

These low carb vegetable recipes are tested across many people groups and you can enjoy them all day long.  Let’s get started. I have provided links to my especially favorite low carb vegetables with recipes and will continue to add more recipes.

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Low Carb Vegetables from Spinach Tiger

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  1. jual golden dragon melaminebogor says

    February 14, 2019 at 10:11 pm

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  2. Cat | Curly's Cooking says

    January 10, 2019 at 9:14 am

    There are so many delicious looking recipes here! I am trying to eat less meat this year so I will definitely be coming back here for inspiration. The broccoli with prosciutto had my mouth watering!

    Reply
  3. Corina Blum says

    January 10, 2019 at 5:12 am

    I love all these healthy ideas for vegetables! I’m on a quest the moment to get my daughter to eat a different vegetable every day for the next 2 weeks and as she doesn’t like vegetables I’m thinking I need to just find different ways of cooking them so she might like them!

    Reply
    • Angela Roberts says

      January 10, 2019 at 7:07 am

      Corina
      Try my cauliflower recipes. Those should tickle her fancy.

      Reply
  4. Ceri Jones says

    January 9, 2019 at 1:19 pm

    Such a useful compendium of recipes for anyone looking for low carb recipes

    Reply
  5. Heidi Roberts says

    January 9, 2019 at 11:37 am

    So many beautiful looking recipes here – I especially love the broccoli!

    Reply
  6. Choclette says

    January 9, 2019 at 5:12 am

    So many delicious recipes here. I’d be lost without vegetables in my diet, especially greens. I’m glad you pointed out that you can still eat these on a keto diet.

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Taco Tuesday can be keto with my grain free tortillas. Easy enough to make and they stack one on top of the other in the freezer. #linkinprofile https://spinachtiger.com/grain-free-tortillas-keto-low-carb/
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How warped time is now. Three days ago, bombing in Nashville. FBI says solved. Life goes on. Power restored. Went to my usual Monday morning workout. HOWEVER, my brain and heart can’t catch up this fast. Taking a day to chill, process, and look at the big fat year ahead. Bakery owner, full-time food blogger. Thinking about what new doors to open, what doors I should shut. I’ll leave you with this. 2020 started off amazing! I scheduled my first bakery classes and was so gleeful to be able to make one of my dreams come true. In March they all had to be cancelled. The bakery grew during the lockdown! The blog took a major hit in ad dollars due to pandemic. The blog grew substantially in 4th quarter. The blog broke all $ records this month. The bakery closed for three weeks substantial exposure to Covid (taking care of those infected) I never got it! 34 year old sister in law (ex) died suddenly of pancreatic cancer six weeks after diagnosis in July. Her father died five months later. My step mother’s duties increased a bit due to this. She inherited $10,000 from a separate source. So like everyone else, its been up and down and up and down and I didn’t even mention politics, riots, etc. WOW! However, unlike most people, I’m going to call this the best year of my life and marriage. WHY? I started a prayer call in March, praying 4 to 5 days weekly. It has changed my life, my husband’s life and those who come to pray. It has meant EVERYTHING!  By the way this is a cake I never wrote about. Blackberry w lemon mascarpone. What is the ONE GREAT THING of 2020 you experienced?
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Can food make you feel better? Sometimes. But it’s been a rough two days. Remember when I said on Christmas Eve, “may tomorrow be as nice as this day: That didn’t age well. What a time! Great little Christmas morning and then I looked at my phone. A BOMB exploded in downtown Nashville. 😡😢Even though I live miles away, our cell service is still not working. We lost internet and TV as did thousands in five states.  Doug ran to Comcast the next morning to get us a temporary account. The scary thing aside from a BOMB, is how vulnerable we are with no cell service or internet (AT & T) as it was all housed in one building with no back up plan. Did you know our infrastructure is this vulnerable? Many of us still can’t call 911 if we needed to. 🙁We are grateful no residents were harmed from the bomb. We still don’t know the “who” in the remains. We don’t know what to believe. 🤷🏻‍♀️I highly recommend watching the Netflix show, Manhunt Deadly Games (about Richard Jewell (falsely accused) and Eric Rudolph (the actual Centennial Park Bomber). Great insight into serial bombers, lone wolfs, and the FBI. 🙏🏻 for not just Nashville but for America.
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