Low-carb Lembas Bread! (for LOTR nerds)
AdAstra47
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Yes, orcs and goblins, I played with this all afternoon and now present to you: low-carb lembas bread for the diabetic Elf or the Paleo Dwarf. (I posted this on the regular recipe forum, too, but thought y'all might especially appreciate it.)
8 slices bacon (or more, to taste. No such thing as too much bacon.)
2 cups almond flour
½ cup ground flaxmeal
4 eggs
4 oz (1 stick) butter
1/2 cup walnuts
1.5 T cinnamon
4 scoops vanilla protein powder (I used Syntrax Nectar vanilla whey protein powder)
1/2 cup sugar-free maple syrup, honey or similar sweetener (I used Smuckers sugar-free breakfast syrup)
1/2 cup peanut butter (I used Smart Balance creamy)
1 sugar-free fruit-flavored jello cup (the original recipe said to use 1/4 of an orange, including the peel, but I didn't have any oranges so I improvised) (also: orange peel? Yuck!)
Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
Cook bacon and chop into small pieces. Set aside.
In blender, combine all ingredients except bacon & flour. Blend until liquefied. Add one cup flour & continue.
Remove mixture from blender, add remaining flour and bacon. Stir until well-blended.
Spread evenly in 15 x 10 cookie sheet or similar baking pan. Bake for 15 minutes, then flip & bake another 10. Score into 24 bars. Each one will have 160 cal, 4g carbs, 13g fat, 9g protein.
Traditional: wrap each bar in large leaves.
Optional: line baking pan with tinfoil. Lay approx. 16 slices of bacon in weaving pattern & bake for 10 minutes. Flip and bake 5 more minutes. Use bacon to wrap bread.
Here's the link to the original recipe, brought to you by Feast of Fiction:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZ7P1EID7v8
Namárie!
8 slices bacon (or more, to taste. No such thing as too much bacon.)
2 cups almond flour
½ cup ground flaxmeal
4 eggs
4 oz (1 stick) butter
1/2 cup walnuts
1.5 T cinnamon
4 scoops vanilla protein powder (I used Syntrax Nectar vanilla whey protein powder)
1/2 cup sugar-free maple syrup, honey or similar sweetener (I used Smuckers sugar-free breakfast syrup)
1/2 cup peanut butter (I used Smart Balance creamy)
1 sugar-free fruit-flavored jello cup (the original recipe said to use 1/4 of an orange, including the peel, but I didn't have any oranges so I improvised) (also: orange peel? Yuck!)
Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
Cook bacon and chop into small pieces. Set aside.
In blender, combine all ingredients except bacon & flour. Blend until liquefied. Add one cup flour & continue.
Remove mixture from blender, add remaining flour and bacon. Stir until well-blended.
Spread evenly in 15 x 10 cookie sheet or similar baking pan. Bake for 15 minutes, then flip & bake another 10. Score into 24 bars. Each one will have 160 cal, 4g carbs, 13g fat, 9g protein.
Traditional: wrap each bar in large leaves.
Optional: line baking pan with tinfoil. Lay approx. 16 slices of bacon in weaving pattern & bake for 10 minutes. Flip and bake 5 more minutes. Use bacon to wrap bread.
Here's the link to the original recipe, brought to you by Feast of Fiction:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZ7P1EID7v8Namárie!
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You lost me at the jello.....the rest sounds completely doable.0
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What the heck is sugar free maple syrup?0
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KeithF6250 wrote: »What the heck is sugar free maple syrup?
I was thinking the same thing! (Of course, then it hit me that "maple syrup" here is "maple flavored table syrup." Yes, it took me a second to remember that, because table syrup doesn't really register as food these days.)0 -
I've lived in a lot of places but the 2 of the longest duration are Minnesota and upstate NY both home to millions of maple trees. When I was still a Cub Scout some 60 years ago I helped my Dad haul buckets of maple sap back to where an open kettle was boiling over a wood fire to evaporate down to syrup for the Boy Scout Pancake Breakfast. There is maple syrup or there is something else for breakfast. Some things are worth the carbs.0
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