Zero-Carb Keto Fried Pickles

These Keto Fried Pickles are sure to win you over.  It's a zero-carb snack or appetizer that will please dieters and non-dieters alike.

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• 🐖 Pork rinds?
• 🥣 Ingredients
• 📖 Instructions
• 💬 Keto Dieters Often Ask
• 📋 Recipe

Greetings 👋

Today I'm going to share my recipe for Keto Fried Pickle Spears, but first, a little dill pickle humor. For Christmas this year, I bought my 10-year-old son a t-shirt with a pickle in sunglasses that says, "DILL WITH IT", and he thought it was hilarious. So now, one of our family jokes is to tell each other to "JUST DILL WITH IT".

(The bar for humor is, obviously, not very high in our house.)

Annnnyhoo.

Let's talk about the kind of pickle that doesn't wear sunglasses. I'm talking about nice, naturally low carb, dill pickle spears. Now, I'm not exactly sure what spurred this recipe, since I have never had fried pickles in my life. Never been tempted at TGI Fridays. But a few days ago I just got a hankering for them.

So I've spent the last couple days experimenting with the best way to fry up pickles.

And honestly, making fried pickles is very easy.

All you need to do is bread some dill pickle spears and cook them up. But what to bread them with? You've got several breading options when you are eating low carb. You can use almond flour, coconut flour, oat fiber, flaxseeds, parmesan cheese, or pork rinds. Or some mixture thereof.

🐖 Pork rinds?

Yes, pork rinds, good old chicharrones. These salty snacks actually make great zero-carb breading. They have crispiness that you can't get from other Keto ingredients. You can grind up some pork rinds or buy already ground "pork panko". I use them in my recipes for Chicken Tenders, Fish & Chips, and Buffalo Cauliflower.

So yes, I am there for pork rinds.

🥣 Ingredients

• Dill Pickle Spears- Make sure that your pickles are made without sugar, if possible. You can use dill pickle spears or dill pickle chips in this recipe.
• Crushed Pork Rinds- You can buy pre-ground "pork panko" but it's much cheaper to buy pork rinds and pulse them a few times in the blender.
• Grated Parmesan Cheese- You can get as fancy with the cheese as you like. The plain old shakey cheese that comes in the can is absolutely fine though.
• Oat Fiber- Oat Fiber comes from the husk of the oat grain, which is almost all fiber. So oat fiber might sound like high-carb oat flour, but is actually very different.
• Eggs- This will act as a binder to keep the breading on the pickles.
• Heavy Whipping Cream- This also helps bind the breading, but you can skip it if you need to.

For more great air fryer recipes, check out my round-up of 50 Quick Keto Air Fryer Recipes.

📖 Instructions

1. You start with some dill pickle spears. In order to bread the pickles, you'll need to set up an assembly line. First, you coat the pickles in oat fiber, then you dip them in an egg wash, and finally, you press them into a crunchy mixture of crushed pork rinds and parmesan cheese.
2. At this point, you are at a crossroads. You can either fry the breaded pickles in oil, bake them in the oven or cook them in an air fryer. I wouldn't wish oil frying on my worst enemy, so I don't recommend that you do that. Baking is less messy, but the pickles won't come out quite as crispy as frying. So my recommendation is that you cook them in an air fryer. It's the quickest method with the best results.
3. AIR FRY:  Place 4 pickles in the basket of an air fryer.  Fry at 320 degrees F for 8-9 minutes until browned.  Repeat with the remaining 4 spears.
4. OIL FRY:  Add coconut or avocado oil to a large skillet so that will just cover the pickles.  Bring the temperature up to 375 degrees F and fry the pickles, 4 at a time, for 2-3 minutes, turning once.  Remove pickles to a paper towel-covered plate to drain.  
5. BAKE:  Preheat oven to 400 degrees F and cover a cookie sheet with parchment paper.  Spray the parchment paper with cooking spray.  Place all pickles on the cookie sheet and spray them with the cooking spray.  Bake for 15 minutes, carefully flip the pickles and bake for 5 minutes more.  If the pickles haven't browned enough, then broil for 1 minute, watching carefully so that they don't burn.

💬 Keto Dieters Often Ask

Soon you'll be munching on a crunchy fried pickle with only 30 calories and zero net carbs.

Your only problem will be all the friends who'll want to come over and eat all your pickles.

But whatever, you'll just have to DILL WITH IT.

Ok, chow for now!

(But let's keep in touch.)

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📋 Recipe

If you liked this low carb appetizer, then you might like my recipes for Bacon and Onion Mini Poppers, Onion Rings, Air Fryer Buffalo Cauliflower, or Antipasto Skewers.