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BBQ CHICKEN DIP

2/10/2025

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Ok y'all. If you didn't already know- I am originally a southern girl. Yep. I grew up in Georgia. As kids we used to walk down to the gas station from our house that used to sell 50 cent BBQ sandwiches. I was obsessed with these beautiful little sandwiches. So  GOOD. 
So as you can see, I love BBQ related anything. I am big on making my own BBQ sauce cause I don't love everyone's BBQ sauce- believe me, they can truly vary in flavor. Some of them are just way too sweet for me. So I like making my own, so I can control the flavors. 

I know buffalo dip was all the rage there for a moment so I thought I'd try and make a BBQ dip for all the people out there who are like me, that love BBQ sauce ;)

The toppings on this dip are important to me, because it really balances everything out.
Red onions always are necessary when it comes to BBQ chicken pizza, so I didn't leave them out of this. Pickles are key also for me, cause ya can't have BBQ without a dang pickle! Ya feel me? And jalapenos because come on now- do you know me? Ha! Ya girl loves a spicy situation. I just do. SO yeah. They went on here as well. And like spicy, my love for ranch runs real deep. So yeah. A drizzle of ranch on top. Ranch and BBQ sauce are best friends. Trust me. The flavors work so well together cause they balance each other out. 

Sweet, smoky, savory and with a little kick. 

before going into the oven...
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Pickles, jalapenos, ranch,

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after...transformed into melty goodness
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bbq sauce... so good.

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BBQ CHICKEN DIP
Recipe by The Daily Kale, aka Krysten Jorgensen
Serves 1, double up if you're sharing ;)

Ingredients:
  • 1/3 cup BBQ sauce
  • 2 Tbsp. whipped cream cheese
  • 1 cup Chicken, shredded/seasoned 
  • 1/4 cup Cheddar 
  • 1/4 cup Monterey Jack

Toppings: 
  • Jalapeño 
  • Pickles
  • Red onions
  • Scallions
  • Ranch
  • Extra cheese
  • Extra BBQ sauce 

Directions:
  1. Preheat oven to 425.
  2. In a bowl mix together your BBQ sauce, whipped cream cheese, shredded chicken and cheeses. 
  3. Place the mixture in an oven safe dish.
  4. Add your toppings evenly on top.
  5. Bake for 10-12 minutes or until cheese has melted.
  6. Serve with corn tortilla chips or your favorite dip chip! *I made homemade tortilla chips for these in my air fryer, and it was so good! 




️BBQ sauce:  
  • 1 cup ketchup
  • 3 tbsp. apple cider vinegar 
  • 1.5 tbsp. Worcestershire sauce  
  • 7 tbsp. coconut sugar or golden monk fruit 
  • 2 Tbsp. yellow mustard
  • 1/2 tbsp. garlic powder 
  • 1/2 Tbsp. paprika 
  • 1/2 tsp onion powder 
  • 1/2 tsp ground black pepper, or to taste 
  • Pinch of chipotle and chili powder (optional)
  • 1 cup water   


Directions:
  1. Add all of your ingredients to a small pot.
  2. Stir together on low heat. Use a whisk to make sure it is well combined.
  3. Simmer for about 10 minutes or until slightly thickened.

NOTES:
  • You can use your favorite store-bought BBQ sauce for this instead
  • Skip adding the ranch if you're not a fan, but if you are, give it a try.
  • Use your favorite chips to serve with this
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If you're excited to give my BBQ chicken dip a try leave me a comment below! And if you try it, tag me on Instagram/ tik tok @thedailykale! I love seeing all of your re-creations of my recipes! Enjoy!
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Buffalo Chicken Salad Cucumber Boats (Low Carb, Lunch Recipe)

12/3/2024

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Remaking one of recipes back from many years ago but making it better! I shared my original buffalo chicken salad recipe about 6 years ago. Love adding this chicken salad to cucumber boats. It makes it even more crunchy and refreshing. But you could also add it to a sandwich if you'd like. No matter what, it's gonna be real good!

This chicken salad is perfect to meal prep and have ready to go in your fridge! I love snacking on it when I'm hungry cause chicken salad is always so satiating. This is a great low carb friendly food to enjoy whenever!

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Crunchy, Refreshing and so satisfying!

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BUFFALO CHICKEN SALAD
Recipe by The Daily Kale aka Krysten Jorgensen


Ingredients:
  • 1 cup chicken, cooked/shredded 
  • 2 Tbsp. celery, chopped
  • 1 tbsp. mayo
  • 2 tbsp. Buffalo sauce
  • 1-2 tbsp. scallions or red onion
  • Pinch of garlic powder 
  • 3-4 Tbsp. shredded cheddar cheese
  • Salt + pepper to taste

Directions:
  1. In a bowl, combine all ingredients listed above.
  2. Stir together until combined.
  3. Adjust salt and pepper to your liking.
  4. To make cucumber boats: slice your cucumbers in half.
  5. Scoop out the inside.
  6. Fill your cucumber boats with the chicken salad and enjoy!

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Supreme Pizza Stuffed Bell Peppers [Low Carb, Easy Dinner Recipe]

10/14/2024

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Sometimes you want pizza... well wait a minute- I always want pizza. How about you? :)
But I do try to eat low carb most days of the week so making stuffed bell peppers for dinner has always been one of my favorites. It's warm and feeling and feels like a comfort meal but is actually pretty healthy- depending on what your definition of healthy is. 

I first made this version of stuffed bell peppers back in 2019, thankfully my photography skills have improved since then. Before reels/videos were all the rage. I am going back through all of my old recipes and revisiting them so I can take what I would consider at least, better photos. SO all that being said here these are again years later and looking even better than before!

I will say when I filmed this I accidentally cut myself on the black olive container so I am just gonna say be careful with that thing! Sheesh that hurt. But these peppers were worth it! Just be careful ;)

When you're craving pizza but trying to keep it low carb. These peppers really hit the spot!

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after the ranch
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Supreme Pizza Stuffed Bell Peppers  
Recipe by: The Daily Kale, aka Krysten Jorgensen
Serves 2


Ingredients:
  • 2 Bell peppers
  • 1 cup Ground Beef or sausage
  • 1/2 cup Pizza or Marinara sauce
  • 1/2-3/4 cup Shredded Mozzarella 
  • Toppings: Black Olives, Mushrooms, Red onions, Pepperoni
  • Ranch or Blue Cheese sauce


Directions:
  1. Preheat oven to 425.
  2. Cut bell peppers in half and take seeds out.
  3. Place the halves of bell peppers on a parchment paper lined pan.
  4. Bake for 10 minutes flipping half way through.
  5. Mix together your meat with the sauce (start with 1/2 cup sauce, add more if needed) and then add some of the shredded cheese ( I measure cheese with my heart ). 
  6. Place the mixture inside the bell peppers.
  7. For the toppings -add as much or as little toppings as you'd like.
  8. Add extra cheese on top of the bell peppers.
  9. Bake for 15-20 minutes or until cheese has melted.
  10. Serve as is or with a drizzle of ranch on top like I did here. Enjoy!
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Hot Honey Buffalo Salmon w/ Blue Cheese Sauce [Easy + Lower Carb Dinner]

9/19/2024

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Salmon has never been more flavorful y'all. SO good. I genuinely want this every week for dinner. If you love buffalo sauce and blue cheese as much as I do- pleaseeee give this a try! It comes together so quick and the flavors are just so delicious together. Pair this with your favorite vegetable on the side or rice or potatoes. Totally up to you! If you're not a fan of blue cheese you can always sub ranch on top, if you prefer. Either way this dinner is so delicious, I hope yall enjoy!



Hot Honey Buffalo Salmon w/ Blue Cheese Sauce
Recipe by: The Daily Kale aka. Krysten Jorgensen

​Ingredients:

-Serves 1-
  • 1 Salmon filet
  • 2-3 tbsp. Buffalo sauce
  • 1 tsp oil
  • Spices: heavy pinch of paprika, garlic powder, salt, pepper and oregano 


Directions:
  1. Coat the salmon filet in the oil. Add your spices and sauce.
  2. Stir around to coat.
  3. Air fry at 400 for 8 minutes.
  4. Once your salmon is cooked, take out of the air fryer.
  5. Place in a pan with the glaze and coat it well.
  6. Serve with the blue cheese sauce on top and chopped scallions.

*Everyone's air fryer is different so please make sure your salmon is cooked through all the way by checking with a kitchen thermometer.


️Hot Honey Glaze:

Ingredients:
  • 1/4 cup Buffalo sauce
  • 1-2 tbsp hot honey *or regular
  • Pinch of garlic powder 

Directions:
  1. In a pan on low heat add the buffalo sauce, honey and garlic powder.
  2. Stir.
  3. Let it become a thicker glaze like consistency, slowly adjust heat if needed.
  4. Add your cooked salmon to the pan and coat it with the glaze.


️Blue Cheese Sauce:

Ingredients:
2-3 Tbsp. blue cheese
2 Tbsp. sour cream
1 Tbsp. mayo
Heavy pinch of garlic powder
*salt and pepper to taste 
*Splash of lemon juice or milk to thin out*

Directions:
  1. Stir everything together in a bowl.
  2. Add liquid to thin out, if needed.
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CHICKEN CAESAR SALAD TACOS w/ garlic butter tortillas [ low carb + healthy lunch idea ]

9/6/2024

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Fresh caesar salad wrapped up in a warm, garlic butter tortilla... It's just SO good.

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These tacos became my obsession last week. After I made that garlic butter toast with chicken Caesar salad on top. I immediately wanted to try it with tortillas. I was blown away with how good they turned out. The tortillas transformed with this garlic butter. They are so good. It's hard to use these tortillas without garlic butter now. You have to give this a try! I used low carb, street taco sized tortillas for this too- so somehow these are even considered low carb! Wraps/ tacos are pretty much my favorite thing to have for lunch...if you follow me on Instagram or tiktok you probably already know that. I have a whole bunch of different versions of wraps/tacos.. LOVE. But these are definitely my favorite I gotta say! More coming soon so stay tuned! enjoy yall! 




Chicken Caesar Salad Tacos w/ Garlic Butter Tortillas
Recipe by The Daily Kale aka Krysten Jorgensen

Ingredients: 
-makes 2 small tacos-


  • 2 flour tortillas 
  • 1-2 tbsp. Garlic Butter (my recipe is below)
  • 1/2 cup Shredded chicken, cooked
  • Romaine
  • 1-2 tbsp. Caesar dressing
  • 2-3 tbsp. Parmesan
  • Black pepper

Directions:
  1. Place garlic butter in a heated pan and melt.
  2. Add your tortilla to the melted butter and then turn it over to coat both sides.
  3. Cook in the pan on both sides until it gets somewhat crispy.
  4. In a bowl mix together your shredded romaine, shredded chicken, caesar dressing, grated Parmesan, a little bit of fresh cracked black pepper and stir until combined.
  5. Once your tortillas are nice and warm place them on your plate.
  6. Place your salad mixture in the tortillas.
  7. Enjoy!





️Garlic butter:
  • 2-3 cloves of garlic (chopped)
  • 1/2 stick of Butter (room temp)
  • 2-3 tbsp. fresh Parsley- chopped
  • 1 tbsp. Parmesan
  • Pinch of Salt
  • Pinch of dried basil
  • Pinch of dried oregano 

Direcrtions:
  1. In a bowl add all of the ingredients above and mix together until combined.
*Store in an air tight container in the fridge to have on hand so you can make these anytime ;)


Notes/Tips:
  • I used low carb tortillas, but you can use regular flour tortillas if you prefer
  • If you like bacon in your caesar salad by all means add some chopped bacon! I have and it's so good with that extra crunch in there if you're into that sort of thing!
  • Use your favorite caesar dressing here!
  • If you're vegetarian you can sub tofu or a vegan 'chicken' alternative
  • Sub tortillas for a gluten free soft tortilla, if needed
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