Bread is off-limits when you’re following the ketogenic diet. But don’t worry, there’s always our second-favorite food group, cheese. Oh, wait, you don’t eat cheese? Well, that’s tragic—but no problem, friend. There are tons of delicious dairy-free keto recipes to try for dinner tonight. Here are 19 of our favorites to get you started.
19 Dairy-Free Keto Recipes to Make Tonight
1. Baked Eggs And Zoodles With Avocado
Is this dish breakfast or is it dinner? Well, it’s anything you want it to be (and whatever you decide, something tells us you won’t be disappointed).
2. Keto Sheet-pan Chicken With Rainbow Veggies
A hearty dinner for the whole family and no dishes to do? We can’t believe it.
3. Whole30 Chicken Meatballs And Cauliflower Rice With Coconut-herb Sauce
This creamy, decadent sauce looks like it’s loaded with dairy. The secret ingredient? Coconut milk.
4. Salsa Verde Shredded Beef Bowls
Eat your heart out, Chipotle. This Mexican-inspired bowl will keep you full and satisfied without any cheese or sour cream.
5. Lemon Baked Cod
Pair it with some cauliflower rice and green beans and you’re in business.
6. Cauliflower Fried Rice
How is it possible for a plate full of such utter deliciousness to contain only 22 grams of carbs? (Witchcraft, possibly?)
7. No-bean Whole30 Keto Chili In The Instant Pot
Skip the cheese and sour cream and opt for a sprinkle of keto-friendly tortilla chips instead.
8. One-pan Roasted Chicken With Carrots
Rainbow carrots are optional but encouraged. (Especially if this is a meal you plan to Instagram. We’re just looking out for you.)
9. Chicken Pesto Spaghetti Squash
Where we’re going, we don’t need bowls.
10. Five-ingredient Chipotle-lime Shrimp Lettuce Cups
Eating keto doesn’t have to be time-consuming or expensive. Case in point? This five-ingredient miracle dinner.
11. Chicken And Snap Pea Stir-fry
Ditch the carb-laden takeout and whip up this flavorful stir-fry in just about 20 minutes. Add a side of cauliflower rice and we’re in business.
12. Keto Salmon Sushi Bowl
This beautiful dinner could be yours in about 15 minutes thanks to a pouch of store-bought precooked salmon.
13. Baked Mongolian Beef Meatballs
Meatballs aren’t just spaghetti’s sidekick. Here, they take center stage in a saucy, savory recipe you’ll want to make every damn week.
14. 15-minute Skillet Pepper Steak
Zero special ingredients, less than 230 calories a serving and very few dirty dishes (and no dairy, of course) make this an instant weeknight hit.
15. Cast-iron Pork Chops With Cacao-spiced Rub
For those nights you want to be a little bit fancy but still want to eat on the couch while watching Love Is Blind. (No judgment.)
16. Keto Instant Pot Sausage-kale Soup
Not into kale? Try chard, spinach or really any leafy green your heart desires.
17. Crock-pot Fire-roasted Tomato Shrimp Tacos
“But wait,” you might be saying. “I thought taco shells were off-limits.” Not if they’re keto taco shells. (Yep, they exist.)
18. Whole30 Thai Basil Beef (pad Gra Prow)
Some like it hot. (And saucy. And meaty. And totally keto-friendly.)
19. Steak Fajita Roll-ups
Believe it or not, these little bundles of flavor have 3 grams of carbs per serving. Is it dinnertime yet?