Low Carb Coney Island Casserole– a low carb casserole version of Coney Island Hot Dogs! Beefy chili & hot dogs, layered with onions, cheese & mustard, covered in low carb tortillas.
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Low Carb Coney Island Casserole is one of those casseroles that will stay on your menu, once you try it!
Or as my husband says,… “The best parts of a Coney Island Hot Dog put into to one low carb bowl!” Because he requests this about twice a month!
Growing up, in the summers, we always had Coney Islands. Hot dogs just seem to be the THING and so this was a STEP UP from plain hot dogs. If you don’t know what a Coney Island hot dog is… it’s basically a pan of hot dog buns filled with beef chili, stuffed with cheese, a hot dog, onions on top and last a drizzle of mustard… or if you’d rather, mustard on the bottom, cheese on the top. Then you cover with foil and bake for 30 minutes. Uh, YUM! These were always a huge hit growing up! Kind of the epitome of summer for us.
I brought that recipe into our marriage and of course, my husband loved it. After starting THM though, I knew I needed a better, healthier version of this for my husband. I had made the Coney Island Party Dip recipe but because it was a dip it wasn’t as thrilling to eat for my husband as a one-plate meal would be.
I had to come up with a better way to eat this dish… I had a brainstorm… LAYERING WITH LOW CARB TORTILLAS! BOOM! Low Carb Coney Island Casserole was born! The first bite was AMAZING!! You do not even miss the hot dog buns!
This Low Carb Coney Island Casserole is one of those dishes you can take anywhere and get compliments! NO one would even guess that it’s “low carb”. It’s not just a “man-meal”… my kids LOVE it!
I always go for the all-natural hot dogs without the junk in it. And thankfully, I can find that most places. I also use the Mission Brand Carb Balance Larger Low Carb tortillas. If you cannot find those, any low carb tortilla will work but make sure that it’s layered well enough.
If you want to lighten it up a tad or beef is harder to get, try it with lean ground turkey meat. I do this sometimes.
But I do believe your family will love it! And I hope you enjoy!
You might want to try this recipe from my blogging buddy…
Chili Dog Bake by My Table of Three
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Low Carb Coney Island Casserole
Description
The favorite parts of a Coney Island hot dog in one place and it’s LOW CARB!
Ingredients
2 lbs of lean ground beef or ground turkey cooked
1 package of all natural hot dogs
2- 15 oz cans of tomato sauce
3 tbsps of chili powder
2 tbsps of cumin powder
1 tbsp of garlic powder
1 to 2 tsp of salt depending on your preference
1/2 tsp of black pepper
1/2 an onion chopped
2 cups of cheddar cheese or blend of favorites
4 – Mission Carb Balance Large Low Carb Tortillas (4 grams each tortilla)
Mustard
Instructions
Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees.
In a skillet, brown the ground meat.
Once, cooked, drain off the excess grease and rinse with hot water (if you would like).
Put back into the skillet and add your spices, salt, and tomato sauce.
In a medium casserole dish add half of the chili mixture.
Slice up 4 of the hot dogs and put on top of the chili.
Sprinkle 1/3 of the onions and 1/3 cheese over the meat mixture.
Add a good line of mustard on that and then layer two of the low carb tortillas.
Add the remaining chili meat mixture to the top of the tortilla.
Cut up three hot dogs (save one hot dog for the top) and put on chili mixture.
Sprinkle another third of the onions and a third of the cheese to chili/hot dog mixture.
Add mustard again and the remaining two tortillas.
At the very top put the rest of the ingredients evenly and a good several lines of mustard.
Cover with foil.
Bake for 25-30 minutes.
Enjoy!
Notes
This should serve six people.
This recipe is excellent!!!
My family really loved this! I didn’t have any tortillas though, so I just skipped them. I cooked everything in my Dutch oven mixed together and added mushrooms for a THM ground beef hack. We ate it over steamed broccoli. This is going to become one of our regulars in our rotation! Thanks for an awesome recipe!
I’m soooo happy to hear this!!!
Made this for Memorial Day dinner and it was a huge hit with my husband and our 7 year old son! Thank you!
Thanks for the fun recipe, Sarah! Would Wonder Wraps hold up well enough in place of the tortillas, for those of us avoiding wheat?
I have to tried the Wonder Wraps but I think that they would hold up! Please let me know if you do try it! You could also use 4 corn tortillas. I think that it would even out to be still under the carb limit for S meals!
Would this be a THM S?
Yes it is. 🙂
I have made this so many times! It never fails to make me happy when the rest of my family, who dosent do low carb or THM, are eating regular chili dogs with white bread buns. But they love this in the casserole form. I do too! Thanks again!
I’m assuming you put the hotdogs in uncooked?
Yes, well, they come already pre-cooked but cold… just cut up and put in the casserole.
So, I’m considering making this recipe this week (but not baking it), and then freezing it and taking it along when we go camping next week and putting it in my crockpot – I would thaw it first… – do you think all this would work? Would it lose anything in translation by not baking it?
I think that would work just fine!!
This was very tasty! My husband and our guest loved it. This is going in my recipe box for sure.