Spooky Halloween Chorizo Olive Eyeballs

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By Dearna Bond, updated March 28 20202
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These tasty, eerie little keto-friendly treats come together really quickly to make a delicious appetiser for Halloween.

The base is made from fried chorizo, however you could easily sub cherry tomatoes or keto crackers instead. There's less than 1 gram of net carbs per serving so they're perfect or a healthy low-carb diet.

0 days, 0 hours, 5 minutes

Hands-on 15 minutes Overall 20 minutes

Serving size 3 eyeballs

Allergy information for Spooky Halloween Chorizo Olive Eyeballs

✔ Gluten free

✔ Egg free

✔ Nut free

✔ Coconut free

✔ Fish free

✔ Shellfish free

Nutritional values (per serving, 3 eyeballs)

Net carbs0.7 grams

Protein6 grams

Fat13.5 grams

Calories145 kcal

Calories from carbs 2%, protein 16%, fat 82%

Total carbs1.1 gramsFiber0.4 gramsSugars0.5 gramsSaturated fat5.3 gramsSodium434 mg(19% RDA)Magnesium6 mg(2% RDA)Potassium102 mg(5% EMR)

Ingredients (makes 18 eyeballs)

1 Spanish chorizo sausage or any other hard sausage (130 g/ 4.6 oz)
¹/₂ tbsp extra virgin olive oil or ghee
¹/₄ cup full-fat cream cheese (60 g/ 2.1 oz)
6 large green olives (36 g/ 1.3 oz)
2 black Spanish olives (6 g/ 0.2 oz)

Instructions

Slice the chorizo into ¹/₂ cm / ¹/₄ inch slices.
Grease a large fry pan with olive oil or ghee and heat over a medium heat. Add the chorizo in a single layer. Cook for 2-3 minutes until slightly browned, and then flip the chorizo over and fry another two minutes on the second side. Remove from heat.
Allow the chorizo to cool slightly while you prepare the olives.
Slice the green olives through the middle to create four round olive slices from each. Cut the black olives in quarters lengthwise, then in thirds horizontally to create smaller pieces.
To assemble, arrange the chorizo on a serving platter and put a teaspoon full of cream cheese on each piece. Press a green olive round into the cream cheese on each slice of chorizo, and then place a black olive piece in the centre.
Serve immediately or store in the fridge for up to 3 days.

Ingredient nutritional breakdown (per serving, 3 eyeballs)

Net carbs	Protein	Fat	Calories
Chorizo sausage, Spanish, hard type
0.3 g	5.3 g	8.5 g	101 kcal
Olive oil, extra virgin
0 g	0 g	1.1 g	10 kcal
Cream cheese, soft (full-fat)
0.3 g	0.7 g	2.8 g	25 kcal
Green olives
0 g	0.1 g	0.9 g	9 kcal
Black olives
0 g	0 g	0.1 g	2 kcal
Total per serving, 3 eyeballs
0.7 g	6 g	13.5 g	145 kcal

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Robin Prophet (http://threads62382@aol.com/) 5 years ago # Reply

I read all of Martina's emails and have 2 of her books, but I don't have the pizza crust recipe. Is there a link for me to get that recipe?
Thanks, Robin

Martina @ KetoDiet 5 years ago # Reply

Robin, thank you do much for buying my books! Here's the pizza crust recipe:Thin Keto Pizza Crust I hope you like it 😊