12/08/2019 / By Zoey Sky
Going on a keto diet can be difficult, especially if you love eating high-carb foods. But by making some healthy swaps, you can occasionally enjoy keto-friendly treats like keto bread.
The ketogenic diet is a low-carb, high-fat and moderate-protein eating plan. Going keto offers several health benefits, such as:
The keto diet also has some cons, like “keto flu,” an exhausting transition period that often triggers intense cravings. Whether you’re suffering from keto flu or you just miss the taste of bread, you can try these recipes for keto bread with familiar carb-like flavors and textures that won’t undo your progress.
To make healthy keto bread, you need to swap certain ingredients and use keto-friendly foods.
Keto bread recipes replace traditional flour with fiber-rich and high-fat ingredients like almond flour, coconut flour, eggs, psyllium husk powder and healthy fats such as avocado oil or grass-fed butter. This keeps your total carb intake low so you stay in ketosis, the fat-burning state that is the goal of the keto diet.
Ingredient swaps also boost your intake of essential nutrients:
Combining these ingredients produces keto bread that’s almost as good as the real thing.
This bread recipe, which is full of delicious nuts and seeds, is from the cookbook “Easy Keto Breakfasts” by Carolyn Ketchum, a best-selling author and founder of All Day I Dream About Food, a popular keto blog.
A slice of this coconut flour seed bread contains only six grams of carbs, six grams of protein and four grams of fiber, which is 16 percent of the recommended daily intake (RDI). The recipe below makes 12 servings.
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This next recipe is from “Keto Made Easy,” a cookbook by Megha Barot and Matt Gaedke, the founders of Keto Connect, another popular blog. A slice of this keto bread only contains 2.4 g of carbs and 4.6 g of protein.
The stevia used in the recipe won’t make your bread sweet. The sweetener will only help the keto bread mimic the flavor of traditional wheat flour-based bread. The recipe below makes 16 servings.
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Make the switch to keto-friendly foods to give your body the nutritional boost it needs. Visit Ingredients.news for more keto-friendly options for your favorite recipes.
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