Easy Low Carb Baked Sliders aka White Castle Sliders
When you want to feed a crowd and the weather may not be the best to grill or you just don't feel like making burgers, these Easy Baked Sliders will be your favorite new recipe!
Over the last few months I've partnered with Kohl's and their #MakeYourMove campaign and I've loved every minute of working with them. The #MakeYourMove campaign has been all about Making Your Move in Life! Making time for yourself outdoors with friends and family and enjoying and living in the moment! Spending time with my family is precious and important to me. I love to cook and feed my family healthy meals so creating time for me to be with them instead of slaving at the stove or grill is how I made my move in this campaign. Choosing to find simpler steps to feed my family and help relieve my own stress management was the key to my success in this campaign.
Recently I was headed with my family to my parents pool for probably one of the last times since we live in New England and the weather is all ready turning to fall. We wanted to savor the pool enjoyment one last time, but I knew my hubby and dad didn't feel like grilling. Being from an Italian family, it's always about the carbs unfortunately. I'm the only low carb and sugar free person in my family which can tend to get pretty hard sometimes. This recipe came out of a necessity for me to eat something low in carbs and versatile enough so that the rest of the family could eat it in a bun if they so chose to. Also my Italian father said, "I'm not grilling, I'm taking the day off!" So enough said I got his point and this recipe was created.
I found this fantastic porcelain baking dish in white which I absolutely love! I had no idea if my idea to make a giant patty uncooked in a baking dish would work and I hoped I might be the FIRST ever to make such an awesome recipe, lol! I did a little research and discovered something like this has been done and it's called White Castle Sliders which I had never heard of before.
It may sound or look funny to you to see green kale at the bottom of these burgers, but let me explain. Most of us enjoy lettuce on our burgers right? This is a yummy replacement. Adding some fresh kale also absorbed the juices from the burgers as they baked. And guess what? Even my KIDS ate these up, seeing the KALE and still eating it.
Next time I will cut off the skin on the smoked Gouda which I didn't like the look of after baking, but super tasty, no one complained!
To keep mine low carb I loaded it up on a plate with avocado slices, pickles, a couple of cherry tomatoes and sugar free ketchup and mustard! Everyone was happy the day I brought these over and we all enjoyed the company without the stress of slaving at a grill or stove! That's what I call another fabulous way to #MakeYourMove and be with the ones you love!
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Easy Low Carb Baked Sliders aka White Castle Sliders
Ingredients
- 6 cups fresh kale stems removed, chopped
- ½ teaspoon nutmeg
- 2 tablespoon dehydrated onion flakes
- 2 lbs ground beef
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon pepper
- ½ teaspoon onion powder
- ½ teaspoon garlic powder
- 8 ounces Smoked Gouda cheese or your preference
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
- Spread out kale into baking dish evenly.
- Sprinkle nutmeg and onion flakes over kale.
- Press the ground beef onto the kale as evenly into a rectangular shape as you can.
- Sprinkle the remaining seasonings on to surface of the meat.
- Bake 20 minutes then pat the top of the surface of the meat with a clean paper towel to absorb the juices.
- Lay slices of cheese over the meat and return to oven for 5 minutes or until cheese is nicely melted.
- Slice into 12 servings.
- Add toppings and enjoy in a bun or not!
Nutrition
This post is sponsored by FitFluential on behalf of Kohl's.
About Brenda
Brenda Bennett is a certified Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, certified Sugar Detox Coach, certified Keto Coach and certified Life Coach. She has been Sugar Free & Refined carb free for 17 years and has written 2 cookbooks, Sugar-Free Mom, and Naturally Keto and her 3rd book The 30-Day Sugar Elimination Diet, is a four part program to help you detox from sugar, eliminate cravings, balance blood sugar and lose weight all while eating a delicious, nutrient dense whole foods. Meal plan offers two tracks to follow, low carb or keto. She is the founder of the Sugar Free Fresh Start course and Sugar Free Tribe weight loss membership. Learn more.
Kim Beaulieu
I'm digging that campaign. I spend so much time outdoors between grilling for the other blog, and visiting the barn to hang with horsey, I feel like I spend 2/3 of my life outside. I wish I could sleep outside. But I don't like bugs, so I don't. Ha.
Love this recipe. You could totally make it on the grill too. I love this idea. Nothing beats White Castle burgers so this has to happen in my house. Plus they are just cute. I love cute food.
The Food Hunter
What a great campaign and recipe! i love the way you cooked these
Lana | Never Enough Thyme
What a unique and interesting recipe! I would have never thought of putting the kale to cook under the burger, but it makes total sense and sounds really great. Giving this a try soon!
kate
What ground beef did you use ,80 %fat ?,what works best ?
Brenda
Mine was lean, 93% but use whichever you like.
Nutmeg Nanny
I have made homemade white castle burgers before but never though to throw in the kale. I love the addition because it has enough time to cook to get soft but also picks up all that burger flavor. Yum!
Lauren @ Healthy Delicious
Baking the meat on top of the kale like that is so clever! I'm all for replacing the lettuce on my burger with kale. Yum!
Lauren+Kelly+Nutrition
These look delicious! I love that you added kale on the bottom too!
Angie
This is a great idea, but I'm pretty sure these are much better than white castle! Yum!
Kirsten/ComfortablyDomestic.com
Wow! My husband misses White Castle in the worst way. I can't wait to surprise him with these!
Melanie
This is a fantastic idea. I'm low-carbing it right now and this is right up my alley.
Paula - bell'alimento
Oh my GAWsh I'm totally crushing on these. If I wasn't heading out of town today this would so be dinner!