The keto diet excludes 90% of carbohydrate foods from the diet. Bread is one of the first to drop out of the menu. But if you choose low-carb foods, you can bake ketogenic, tasty and flavorful bread.
What you need to know about keto bread
On a keto diet, any bread made from flour containing a large amount of carbohydrates is prohibited. Wheat, rye, rice, respectively, are not suitable. Look for low-carb nut and seed flours in the grocery store. It can be flax, sesame, coconut, etc. Psyllium is an important but optional component of the recipe. The bread will turn out without it, it will just not be so loose and fluffy. Psyllium is the husk of psyllium seeds. Not the one we trample on the forest path, but the flea plantain. Psyllium is rarely found on the market, is expensive, but consumed sparingly. If you look at the recipe, you will see that 1 tablespoon of psyllium is needed for 1 cup of flour. That's not a lot.
Basic keto bread recipe
To make keto bread, you will need:
- Low-carb flour 1 cup: coconut, flaxseed, or almond flour
- Eggs: 5 pieces
- Ghee, coconut or butter: 0.3 cups
- Water
- Psyllium: 1 tablespoon
- Soda and vinegar
- Salt, sesame seeds for sprinkling
Heat the butter in the microwave and beat the eggs into it. Stir until smooth. Add flour and psyllium to the mixture. Salt, add soda, slaked with vinegar.
Leave the dough for 5-7 minutes and watch. The fact is that different flours absorb moisture in different ways. Much also depends on the degree of grinding. If the dough is very dense and tough, add a little water. Psyllium also plays a role. He is a binding agent between flour and liquid. It takes away some of the moisture and makes the dough porous. The way it would be with wheat flour. You don't need to knead much. It is enough to bring the mass to a homogeneous state.
Place the dough in a mold or place on a baking sheet / foil. In the second version, you get bread in the form of a cake. Sprinkle the mixture with sesame seeds and place in the oven for 30-45 minutes. It is advisable to preheat the oven to 180 degrees.
Ready-made bread for the keto diet turns out to be porous, fragrant. If you need to add fat to the diet, brush the crust of baked goods with butter.
Keto bread variations
The basis of bread, however, like any baked goods on a keto diet, is butter, eggs and low-carb flour. The rest can be varied. For example, instead of sesame for sprinkling or filling, use nuts, seeds, and if you bake sweet dessert bread, use sweetener and cocoa chopped into pieces. Each butter gives keto bread its own flour-like flavor. Coconut flour keto bread is very aromatic and dense. Almond is softer and looks more like classic bread. Peanut flour bread is harsh but smells breathtaking.
