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A delicious keto version of the classic banana pudding made with layers of unsweetened whipped cream and keto gluten-free shortbread cookie crumble. You will love this keto banana pudding with less than 1 gram of net carbs per serving!
No, the classic banana pudding is not keto-friendly. It’s made of milk, sugar, cornstarch, vanilla wafer cookie, and banana slices. All these ingredients are high in sugar and carbs and are not keto-approved.
The classic Southern recipe can easily be adapted to create the most delicious keto-friendly banana pudding. The ingredients you need to make a keto low-carb banana pudding recipe are:
First, gather all your ingredients and bring the eggs at room temperature. This is an important step to avoid cooking the eggs in the hot milk in the next steps of the recipe.
Before you start, beat the eggs and erythritol (or any keto sweetener you like), and xanthan gum together until well combined. It is important that you sprinkle xanthan gum into the bowl to avoid lumps, don’t add the gum all at once.
Set the bowl aside while you warm the milk and heavy cream.
In a saucepan, over medium heat, warm unsweetened almond milk, and heavy cream together. Stir constantly to avoid having the mixture overflowing the pan or burning. After 2 minutes, remove from heat.
Scoop 2 tablespoons of the warm milk mixture and stir one at a time into the egg mixture bowl. This step brings the egg mixture to the perfect temperature, preventing the eggs from cooking in the hot milk.
Now that the egg mixture is lukewarm, you can pour into the saucepan along with the hot milk/cream mixture.
Continue to cook under low heat for 5-8 minutes until the mixture thickens and covers the back of the spoon.
If the mixture is not thick enough, sprinkle some extra gum all over the sauce, stirring at the same time to incorporate.
Don’t add more than 1/2 teaspoon of gum or the pudding will be slimy.
Remove the saucepan from the heat and stir in fresh butter, vanilla, and banana extract.
Stir in until the butter is fully melted and test the pudding flavor to check if it matches your linking. You may want to increase the banana extract flavoring depending on its strength.
Always add by 1/4 extra teaspoon, stir and taste. Adjust until it reaches the banana flavor you love.
No, you can’t use real banana in this keto banana pudding if you want to keep the carbs low!
Bananas are one of the highest-carb fruits and not a keto-approved fruit to stay in ketosis.
Therefore, it’s not recommended to add real banana puree to flavor your keto pudding. Instead, I am using natural banana extract, it contains no carbs, no sugar and a real banana flavor.
This sugar free banana pudding keto recipe must be stored in the fridge, in a sealed jar. Or, you can use a simple mixing bowl covered with plastic wrap.
It is important to cover the container to prevent the formation of a film on top of the pudding.
This recipe stores for up to 3 days in fridge. You can also freeze your pudding in small sealed containers and thaw in the fridge overnight.
This easy keto banana pudding can be served in many ways :
This keto banana pudding has a low-carb count per serving.
The serving size is half a cup of this recipe. It contains only 0.9 grams of net carbs, but it’s very fulfilling with its 11 grams of fat and 120 kcal. Jump to the recipe below for full nutrition information.
If you opt for the layered pudding, you would need:
The net carbs per serving then come to 4 grams per pudding.
If you love puddings, I have few more keto pudding recipes for you to try!
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Hi Carine, Is there a flour other than almond flour that can be used in your bread. It is really difficult to purchase almond flour in Adelaide, Australia. When available,it costs $22 per kilo which is an outrageous price.
Cheers Jill
You can make your own sunflower seed flour, blend the seeds in the blender until a fine flour form and use as same amount to replace almond flour. Both options are keto but sunflower seeds are very cheap. Enjoy, XOXO Carine
Looks nice