Quick ! -How can I make a sauce with these ingredients.......?

[Mum1369]

Ok so I am trying do do no carbs for a bit
Have haddock, prawns planned for tea and wanted to put it in a nice sauce that needs to be made up of either or or all ;
fromage frais
cottage cheese
eggs

I put fromage frais in the pan at the end of cooking the haddock and it just curdled last time ?
Anyone know how to do this ??
Thanks !

maybe if you let the fish cool down a bit first it will help?

You could put the cottage cheese on top of the fish with pepper mixed in and maybe herbs and i would grill it to melt and slightly brown the cottage cheese.

Ooh I didn't know you could melt / heat cottage cheese ?!

Well I dont know if you can melt it - but i have had it on top of stuff - like an open sandwich on nice crusty bread, and it has softened and bubbled a bit under the grill - made it nicer! but it is better for this not to use the very low fat ones.

I'll give it a go ! Thanks

If you cook the haddock in milk you will actually have the basis of a really nice sauce already or are you not allowed milk because of the carbs

Maybe you could cook the fish in milk and then use that with the eggs to make a sort of savoury custard sauce? (Never tried such a thing, might be vile and you have to be careful not to end up scrambling the eggs)

I'm curious - how did this turn out?

For low-carb fish dishes I usually just fry in lots of butter then spritz in some lemon or lime juice - delicious! In fact we are having trout like that tonight, with capers.

Ooh it was FAB !! I did (as above) kind of poached the haddock in milk - added pepper and a bay leaf and chucked in some prawns - not joking, the sauce was absolutely lovely - best I have made I think and really by accident
Witch - does milk have carbs ? That could be where it's all going wrong....

errr - yes milk has a lot of carbs!!!(speaking as carb counting diabetic mum)

Milk contains lactose, and anything ending in -ose is a sugar, which is a carb. Apples have maltose, fruit has fructose, white sugar is glucose, and so on.

Cheese and double cream have less lactose than milk, so if you want a low-carb sauce try a glug of double cream or creamy cheese melted in a tablespoon of milk with some mustard / peppercorns / lemon / herbs / other flavourings: blue cheese melted in a drop of milk is excellent on steak, for instance.

(NB fat is actively recommended on a low-carb diet as it helps stimulate the liver to burn your own body fat, which sounds counter-intuitive but is true. So have eggs or tuna with may, meat with cream or cheese sauces, and so on. Also it is great for your hair, skin and nails and fills you up so you don't feel the need to snack between meals.)

If you are serious about cutting out carbs and drink a lot of tea or coffee, try unsweetened soya milk (lots of soya milks add grape or apple juice as a sweetener). Takes some getting used to.