Quick Keto Granola

This Keto Granola recipe comes together in a jiffy. It's grain-free, gluten-free sugar-free, and has just 5g net carbs.

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• 💬 Keto dieters often ask
• 🥣 Ingredients   
• 🥜 Nuts for nuts 
• 📖 Instructions
• 🥛 Got milk?
• 🍓 Serving Suggestions
• 📋 Recipe

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again.

Snacks are everything when you are on a low carb diet.  If you don’t have something close at hand when you start feeling peckish, then you’ll be sorely tempted to scrap the diet and eat a bag of potato chips.  But you must RESIST! 

Luckily, this Keto Granola recipe can help. 

💬 Keto dieters often ask

But enough about storebought granola, let's just make our own, shall we?

🥣 Ingredients   

• sliced almonds
• whole almonds
• chopped pecans
• unsweetened coconut flakes
• almond butter
• coconut butter
• egg whites
• Swerve Granular
• ground cinnamon
• sesame seeds
• sugar-free chocolate chips
• unsweetened dried cranberries

🥜 Nuts for nuts 

Now, this recipe calls for almonds and pecans, but that isn’t written in stone. You can substitute in other low carb nuts like macadamia nuts, walnuts, Brazil nuts, hazelnuts, cashews, or pistachios.  Just make sure that the nuts equal 3 cups. 

Some people think that peanuts are Keto, but others do not.

Peanuts are actually legumes and not nuts, and legumes are against the rules of Strict Keto. So if you are pro-peanut, then you can use them in this Keto Granola, and if not, then I pity you.  A life without peanuts is no life at all.

📖 Instructions

1. Pre-heat oven to 375 degrees F and get out parchment paper, a large cookie sheet, and an 8x8 or 9x9 baking pan.
2. Add the almonds and pecans to the parchment-covered cookie sheet.  Toast nuts for 4-5 minutes until just starting to brown.  Add coconut flakes and toast for 2-3 minutes more.  Keep a close eye on them because it is very easy to burn them.
3. Add nuts and coconut flakes to a blender and pulse.  Shake the blender to mix the ground nuts and the unground nuts.  Pulse and shake a couple more times until the nuts are all broken up but not completed ground up. 
4. Add almond butter and coconut butter to a small microwave-safe bowl and microwave for 30 seconds until melted.  Stir together until smooth.
5. In a large bowl, whisk together egg whites, sweetener, and cinnamon.  Mix in the coconut and almond butter mixtures.  Mix together the wet and the dry ingredients.  Fold in sesame seeds.  Fold in chocolate chips or dried cranberries if you are using them. 
6. Use the parchment that you used to toast the nuts to line an 8x8 or 9x9 baking pan.  Press the parchment paper into the bottom of the pan and fold the paper at the corners. You don't need to do it, but it helps if you grease the pan beforehand, because then the parchment paper will stick to the sides and bottom of the pan.  Bake for 15-18 minutes until just starting to brown. 
7. Cool the granola mixture in the pan for 1 hour.  Cut the granola roughly to break it into large pieces.
8. Use your hands to crumble the mixture into clusters.  

🥛 Got milk?

Regular cow's milk is very high in natural sugar, but not to worry.  There are some really good milk alternatives out there.  You can use unsweetened almond milk, cashew milk, or light coconut milk. 

Or you can make your own milk by watering down heavy whipping cream.

It’s a 1:9 ratio, of 1 part cream to 9 parts water.  So, for example, you could mix 2 ¼ cups water and ¼ cup cream you’ll have 2 ½ cups of low carb milk. When you compare the two, the same amount of milk has 29g carbs whereas the watered down cream has just 2g.

If you like this low carb breakfast, then you might like my recipes for Keto Waffles, Keto Banana Bread or Keto Cheese Grits.

🍓 Serving Suggestions

You can’t go wrong with a few berries on top. Or you could make a parfait with granola, berries, and Greek yogurt.  That’s another yum.  If you have more berries, you can mix up a cobbler using granola as the crumble topping.  Or you can just eat it plain, by the handful.  Really, there is no limit to what you can do with your homemade Keto Granola. 

Because, you know what they say.  

On a low carb diet, snacks are everything.

Ok, chow for now!

(But let's keep in touch.)

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