Keto Protein Bread
If you poke around healthy cookin’ social media accounts, you’ve seen this one go viral… for good reason. This looks like real bread and tastes pretty darn close. Heck, just watching a video of someone pull apart a fresh-out-of-the-oven loaf makes my blood sugar spike. But it’s not bread. It’s totally grain free. The entire loaf has 8 grams of carbs and the protein content is off the charts.
There are caveats, however. But first, the simple recipe:
Ingredients
1 cup egg white protein
1 cup cottage cheese (not fat free)
1 cup water
Instructions
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
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Mix the egg white protein with the water. You’ll need a mixer for this. I used a hand-held mixer but a stand mixer is easier. Mix until stiff to semi-stiff peaks form. (That’s when the mixture gets very thick, and when you pull the mixer blades out it “peaks” like the top of a soft-serve ice cream cone.)
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Fold in the cottage cheese with a spatula. Don’t mix it. Just stir it in.
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Transfer to a parchment-lined loaf pan and bake for about 30 minutes.
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Let it cool. Eat it.
Note: I couldn’t fit all of the mixture into my loaf pan, so I added the leftover to a small cake pan. That turned into sort of a rustic-looking hamburger bun:
I’ve seen this made with yogurt instead of cottage cheese and it seems to work the same, but therein lies the big caveat:
Holy sh!t, egg white protein is expensive! Like, stupid expensive. My 8-ounce bag was $22. That’s less than two cups. I used more than half the bag in this recipe. That’s why I didn’t try it with yogurt too: I didn’t have enough. Each loaf will run you roughly $13 or more once you add in the cottage cheese. But if you’re curious and loaded, here’s the egg white powder I used.
Now, maybe I bought some pricey egg white powder. I did see it for a little cheaper after ordering, but not much cheaper. Twenty-two dollars for 8 ounces of protein powder? You can get two whopping pounds of Metabolic Drive protein for $37. I’m not sure if the bread recipe works with just MD, but I might have to try it.
That gripe aside, you do get about 129 grams of protein per loaf, and it’s delicious.
I made the world’s ugliest peanut butter sandwich with it today:
