When I am on a specialized diet or just eating healthier, I try to sneak in foods that I am not supposed to eat made over with ingredients that I can have. For a keto or low-carb diet, a list of allowed foods is helpful when preparing meals. All-purpose flours are not permitted on a Keto diet. Not only that, many gluten-free flours are not allowed on a Keto diet either because most of those include rice flour or some type of bean flour. Rice and beans, such as garbanzo, pinto and black beans, etc., are not allowed on a keto diet. Almond flour is a very nice alternative to all-purpose flour and can be found at many grocery stores.
You can use almond flour in many recipes that are sweet and savory with similar taste and texture. I like to make these Almond Flour Biscuits on Sunday mornings for breakfast. When using almond flour for a biscuit recipe, the baked texture is not quite as fluffy as a southern biscuit; they turn out a little crunchier, but they certainly satisfy that yearning for a biscuit to eat with your bacon and eggs or as a complement to a main entrée.
Ingredients
2 cups almond flour
2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
1/3 cup ice cold butter (or dairy-free alternative butter), cut into cubes
2 large eggs, beaten
1/4 cup sour cream OR 3 Tbsp. milk or almond milk
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees.
Mix the dry ingredients together in a large bowl. Add the cold, cubed butter and cut into the almond flour using a pastry blender. My mother used to cut butter into flour with two crisscrossing knives. I have never been able to replicate that action, so I like to use my hands. I squish all the tiny cubes of butter until the flour mixture seems like coarse crumbs. Then, mix the eggs and sour cream (or milk) in a separate bowl.
Form a well in the center of the dry ingredients and pour in the wet ingredients. Using a spoon, gently spoon the dry ingredients over the wet ingredients in the middle and fold them together. At some point, the mixture should hold together enough to start kneading the dough. Knead the dough until a dough ball forms.
Separate the dough into smaller balls of dough and place them on a prepared cookie sheet.
Flatten a little with the palm of your hand or the back of a spoon. Bake for 15 minutes or until golden.
These biscuits are best all by themselves. I have experimented frequently with almond flour biscuits to know that if you try to cut these biscuits in half to make a breakfast sandwich, they will crumble apart. If you want to make a breakfast sandwich with these biscuits, a better idea is to use two biscuits to form a top and bottom half. Either way, you will love these biscuits.
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