Low-Carb, Keto, Gluten-Free Pizza Chicken Recipe

Everything in this recipe is available at Aldi, and all of it but the wine is available at Save-a-Lot.

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Low-Carb, Keto, Gluten-Free Pizza Chicken Recipe

• 3 chicken leg-and-thigh quarters, about 2 1/2 pounds
  1-2 tablespoons olive oil
  1 8-ounce can tomato sauce
  1 4-ounce can mushrooms, drained
  ½ cup dry red wine
  1 green pepper, chopped
  1 small onion, chopped
  1-2 cloves garlic, crushed, or 1-2 t. jarred chopped garlic in oil
  1 – 1½ teaspoons dried oregano
  5 ounces shredded mozzarella cheese

Strip the skin off the chicken, and cut the legs from the thighs. In a big, heavy skillet over medium heat, brown chicken in olive oil. Add the tomato sauce, mushrooms, wine, green pepper, the onion, garlic and oregano. Cover, turn the burner to its lowest setting, and forget about it for 45 minutes to an hour.

Now put the chicken on serving plates. Turn up the flame under the sauce to medium-high and let it boil down a little while you –
Sprinkle the shredded mozzarella over the chicken, and zap each plate in the microwave for about 20-30 seconds on 50% power, to melt the cheese. Spoon the sauce over each piece, and serve. Sprinkle a little Parmesan over your Pizza Chicken if you like.

4-5 servings. Assuming 5, each with: 409 Calories; 23g Fat; 37g Protein; 10g Carbohydrate; 2g Dietary Fiber, 8g usable carb.

Just one more point about these stores: You can save on non-food items there, too. I love Aldi’s Tandil laundry detergent, and have heard rumors that it’s actually Tide in a different bottle. I just know it gets my laundry clean, cheap. Their Shique shampoo and conditioner work fine, and I’m crazy about their Lacura anti-aging skin care line, which is terrific, and less expensive than drugstore brands. Save-a-Lot’s Glo is the best bargain dishwashing liquid I’ve tried; I think it’s as good as Dawn.

© 2009 by Dana Carpender. Used by kind permission of the cheap author. What do you think? Please send Dana your comments to Dana Carpender.