Low Carb Tips

Try these tips to help you make satisfying, low-carb meals. With the delicious flavor of carbohydrate-free Kikkoman Soy Sauce, you'll never feel deprived of great taste!

MEATS

When dining out at a restaurant that doesn't offer specific low-carb options, ask for grilled lean meat, poultry or seafood.

• Request a bottle or small dish of Kikkoman Soy Sauce to use for drizzling or dipping.

Steaks are delicious and can be easily prepared on the grill but they can be boring to eat over and over again.

• Vary the flavor by making a low-carb brush-on sauce of oil, vinegar, garlic and onion powders, and Kikkoman Soy Sauce.
• Slice steak and serve with salad greens for a main dish salad.

Slow-cook pot roast with shiitake mushrooms and green onions.

• Season the broth with Kikkoman Soy Sauce.
• Turn leftover slices of pot roast into hand-held sandwiches by wrapping pot roast slices and cilantro sprigs in lettuce leaves.

For a Hawaiian-style luau roast, sprinkle pork butt with Kikkoman Soy Sauce and a touch of liquid smoke.

• Cover meat in foil, put in a pan and roast until meat is tender and falls apart easily.
• Shred meat and serve with sliced tomatoes and thinly sliced onion.

For a change of pace from meat, try tofu.

• Cut firm tofu into 1/2-inch slices and gently press out excess moisture with paper towels.
• Fry tofu in oil and serve with Kikkoman Lite Soy Sauce, grated ginger and chopped green onion.

Before grilling or broiling fish or shellfish, brush with Kikkoman Soy Sauce to add flavor. As the Japanese have long known, seafood tastes especially delightful with soy sauce.

VEGETABLES

Vegetables low in carbohydrates include leafy greens such as spinach, kale or chard.

• To prepare them more flavorfully, cut them up and stir-fry them in a little oil, adding a splash of Kikkoman Soy Sauce.

CONDIMENTS

Customize your own low-carb condiments by infusing Kikkoman Soy Sauce with herbs or spices.

• Add sliced garlic and chopped hot red chili to Kikkoman Soy Sauce, let stand several hours or overnight, and strain. Now you have a new condiment to sprinkle over steaks or chops or to use as a marinade.
• Other kinds of infusions can be made with such ingredients as red pepper flakes, grated fresh ginger or chopped shallots.
• Refrigerate leftover infused soy sauce mixtures.

Combine Kikkoman Soy Sauce with hot pepper sauce and use as a dipping sauce for grilled or broiled chicken.

Combine mayonnaise with Kikkoman Soy Sauce and serve as a dip for broiled shrimp or scallops.

Combine Kikkoman Soy Sauce, rice vinegar, sesame oil and hot chili oil or red pepper flakes. Serve as a dip for grilled and sliced steak.

SNACKS

Chewy and flavorful beef jerky is a satisfying low-carb snack.

• You can make your own beef jerky with flank steak marinated in a mixture of Kikkoman Soy Sauce, garlic powder and black pepper.

Make a spread of mashed avocado, minced jalapeno pepper, lemon juice and Kikkoman Soy Sauce. Spread on low-carb crackers.