This is a great recipe when you yearn for a comfort food, especially a starchy and sweet one like a sweet potato!

I call it Sweet Potato Casserole, and I serve it as a side dish. Some people consider it a dessert. It is sweet, but it is also very healthy and goes great with meet and veggies. In fact, many people say it reminds them of Thanksgiving. As I said, it almost seems like sweet potatos, but it is not!

Low Carbohydrate Pumpkin Casserole Recipe

You need: 2 15 oz cans of pumpkin puree (pie filling), 1 8 oz container of cream cheese, 3 eggs, cinnamon, 1/2 cup of chopped nuts, 1 cup of butter, 1 cup of almond (or pecan) pieces, and 3 packets of sugar substitute (no carbs like stevia).

First – Preheat your oven to 350 Degrees.

• Warm the cream cheese to soften it. I find that about 30 seconds in the microwave works well.
• Melt 1/4 cup of butter too.
• Mix the pumpkin, cream cheese, eggs, cinnamon, butter, and 1 packet of sugar substitute. Make sure it is well blended. The cream cheese is the hardest thing to mix in well.
• Make the topping – Melt the rest of the butter (2/3 cup), and mix it with the almond peices and 2 packets of sugar substitute. You will have a sweet and sticky mixture.
• Pour the pumpkin mixture in a baking pan, and then level it so it is flat and smooth on the top.
• Distribute the topping over the surface. This can be a little tricky, and I usually drop it with a spoon.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes.

I hope you enjoy this dish as much as I do. It is better served warm (in my opinion), but I do make it the day before sometimes and then reheat it in the oven or microwave (if I made it in a microwave safe dish). You can also add a few tablespoons of almond flour to the pumpkin mixture to give it a firmer texture.

Serving sizes will vary, but the whole mix should not contain more than 35 – 40 net grams of carbohydrates. In my family, the mix makes at last 10 generous servings. So enjoy, and don’t worry! Plus, pumpkin is a high fiber treat.

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