Ketovore Chopped Salad Recipe – Leftover Easter Ham Ideas

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Ketovore Chopped Salad Recipe using Leftover Ham:

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• This ketovore chopped salad has 10 grams carbs and 36 grams of protein. 611 calories. It tastes like an Italian grinder, without the bread. The creamy cottage cheese slowly mixes in as you eat the salad, which texture I prefer, but you could toss the cottage cheese together with the salad as well.
• I’ve been buying Frick’s bone in ham for several years after I discovered it at Winco. It tastes like ham used to taste, not like the slimy, rubbery spiral sliced ham one typically gets at the grocery store nowadays. Frick’s Quality Meats states on its website that all of its meat “…comes from the US of A”.
• I cook a ham butt at 350 degrees with the juices, covered loosely with foil, for about 1 hour. Slice and serve for any party or holiday. Slice as much meat as possible off the bone, trim fat as necessary (Frick’s hams have very little fat). Package for fridge or freezer with ham slices or diced ham. The diced ham thaws quickly to use in salads like in this chopped salad recipe, or cook with eggs for a quick breakfast. I put the ham bone with the leftover gelatin from the original roasting pan in my Instant Pot and fill with water to cover the bone. High pressure for 1 hour, strain and cool. Remove fat from the top, and you’ll be left with a thick gelatin pork stock to use in cooking soups and greens. The fat can be used like bacon grease, but it does taste very “hammy”. Pick the remaining meat off the bone to use in other recipes. (Not sponsored by Frick’s.)
• There is a lot more meat per pound in a ham butt vs. a ham shank. Expect to lose about half the weight of your ham butt to the bone. So a 9 pound ham will yield about 4.5 pounds of meat, but you’ll only get about 3 pounds of nice slices that look good on a serving platter; the remaining meat will be not so pretty, and I usually dice it to use later.
• Add avocado, bacon, dry blue cheese, and hard boiled egg to make this a chef’s salad. For the chef’s salad version, I blend the cottage cheese with the dry blue cheese for the dressing (omit the vinaigrette ingredients which are olive oil, vinegar or pickle juice, and dijon mustard).

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This is what the Frick’s ham looks like, but I get it at Winco for $2.19 per lb.

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