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Crock Pot. National Center for Home Food Preservation. Dark Chocolate Cake I Recipe. Chocolate Protein Brownies Recipe. The Many Uses of Almond Meal. As you might recall from our pie and cracker recipes, and Son of Grok’s pizza recipe we like to use almond flour or almond meal as a foundation for Primal baking. It has a similar consistency to traditional flours (albeit denser and heavier), forms good batter with eggs and other fats, and it gives whatever you’re making a nice nutty quality. Almond meal is also fairly taste-neutral; it has a distinct nutty taste that coincidentally works well with many food combinations. So just what is almond meal (or almond flour, for that matter)? Almond meal is just ground up almonds, usually with the skin still on. Almond flour is ground up blanched (skin off) almonds.

The two can basically be used interchangeably. Because it’s just almonds, almond meal has the same nutritional profile as its nutty forebear: high in protein, manganese, potassium, copper, and vitamin E, as well as healthy monounsaturated fats. If you can’t find the stuff prepared, you can always make your own. Okay – now what? LOW CARB NO-BAKE COOKIES. LOW CARB NO-BAKE COOKIES 1 tablespoon butter 3 tablespoons heavy cream 2 teaspoons cocoa Liquid Splenda equal to 2/3 cup sugar 1 tablespoon natural peanut butter 2 tablespoons oats 1/4 cup unsweetened coconut * 1/4 cup almond flour, 1 ounce 1/4 teaspoon vanilla Bring the butter, Splenda, cream and cocoa to a boil in a very small pot; boil 1 minute, stirring constantly. Stir in the peanut butter until well blended, then stir in the remaining ingredients. Drop onto wax paper (mixture will be crumbly so you may need to shape them with your fingers); chill or freeze until firm. Makes 12 bite-sized cookies Can be frozen * Or use 1/2 cup coconut and omit the almond flour.

Per Serving: 58 Calories; 5g Fat; 1g Protein; 2g Carbohydrate; 1g Dietary Fiber; 1g Net Carbs I might try using all coconut instead of half almond flour next time. Candice's Low Carb Recipes. Tropical Traditions - Recipe - Coconut Flour "Tortillas" Servings: 1 tortilla Preparation Time: 2 minutes 1 tablespoon coconut flour1/16 teaspoon baking powder 2 egg whites (or, 3 tablespoons egg whites) 2 tablespoons water or coconut milk* coconut oil/butter Mix the coconut flour and baking powder with the water (or milk) and egg whites. Whisk or blend until all lumps disappear (I usually mix, then wait a couple of minutes and mix again). Pour all the batter on a heated pan greased with coconut oil or butter (grease well).

Pour batter in center of pan. Be very careful with this part: wait until the edges are brown on the side of the tortilla, or carefully circle spatula around the bottom of tortilla until safe to flip. Fill with cream, berries, enchilada filling - anything you like! These are thin and delicate. . * For the freshest coconut milk make homemade coconut milk.

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