Low carb cooking, chimichanga

NOTE: The Carb Ballance tortillas are 7 carbs net. So if you don't deduct for fiber they are higher.

Set your deep fryer to 360 degrees (I wasn't real clear about this in the video)

This video teaches you how to make a low carb chimichanga (fried burrito). The carb count is between 8 -15 net grams of carbohydrates depending on how much of the toppings you use. All the ingredients were purchased at walmart so nothing too unusual here.

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• low carb
• chimichanga
• recipe
• mexican food
• lo carb
• cooking

[9aspengold5]

Doesn't look very safe dripping the oil onto the burners around the deep fryer. Use a plate or something to cover the burners. OMG. You could burn down the house with a grease fire.

[kcfreeloader]

@9aspengold5 Thanks, glad you enjoyed the video OMG!

[KrispyFistful]

I'm really glad to find this. I'm new to low carb eating and I'm glad to see that I won't have to permanently part ways with my favorite cuisine, Mexican food! Looks tasty. Good work!

[kcfreeloader]

@KrispyFistful Good luck in your new way of eating. Hope you got to try them. Check out my new low carb channel KCcarbfree. It's kind of quite now but i plan to upload more soon.

[ZCZako]

thanks very much. 5 stars and looking forward to trying them :)

[kcfreeloader]

@ZCZako Thank you, hope you got to try them. Check out my new low carb channel KCcarbfree.  It's kind of quite now but i plan to upload more soon.

[thickgirlmegan]

really nice tips

[9aspengold5]

@kcfreeloader p.s. I did enjoy the recipe and the video

anyway.

[kcfreeloader]

I've since cooked up about 6 chicken breasts worth of porkrine breaded chicken strips and the oil still tastes fairly neutral and is not impacting the flavor of the food much. You can usually buy the peanut oil in bulk (for turkey fryers) around thanksgiving quite a bit cheaper. In fact you could probably get the left over oil and maybe some of the used only one time oil from the neighbors right after thanksgiving.

[kcfreeloader]

Thanks! The deep fryer is a GE that I got at walmart. It just has the dial that you turn. If I had it to do over again I would by one of the digital models, though this one works just fine.

That oil had cooked about 90 full chicken wing(minus the little tips) and two chimichangas prior to the ones in the demo. I had filtered it once through cheesecloth to remove some of the bits.