High Protein Gluten Free Crisp Cereal Recipe (Keto)
When I need a high protein breakfast first thing in the morning that is quick and easy I reach for my High Protein Gluten Free Crisp Cereal Recipe. This gluten free high protein cereal is loaded with healthy ingredients that even your kids will love! With all of the flavor varieties under the sun to create, you will not even look at the cereal aisle at the grocery stores anymore unless it is to get your next great flavor idea! Serving Size=1 cup (8oz)
Equipment
- hand mixer
- Medium Bowl
- parchment paper
- baking dish with raised sides like a jellyroll pan
- Spatula
- Wooden Spoon
Ingredients
- 2/3 cup monkfruit sweetener/or erithrytol
- 1/2 tsp powdered stevia
- 1 cup fine almond flour
- 1 cup whey protein powder
- 1/2 cup salted butter or coconut oil for dairy free
- 2 tbsp water
- 1/4 cup egg whites
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 300F. Line a large baking sheet or jellyroll pan with sides, with parchment paper and set aside.
- In a large bowl, combine the dry ingredients of monk fruit, stevia, almond flour, whey protein. Whisk them all well until it looks sandy textured.
- Add in the butter or coconut oil plus water and mix well with a mixer until it is all moistened.
- Spread out the cereal with a silicone spatula in a single layer onto your prepared baking sheet. Bake for 20 minutes until golden brown.
- As soon as it comes out of the oven, stir it very well and let it cool for 20 minutes.
- Now add the cereal back to the large bowl and add in whisked egg whites and any dry additions you may want to add, such as crunchy mini keto chocolate cookies like I did with this delicious recipe! Pour the whisked egg whites plus the dry additions over the top of your once baked cereal and stir well.
- Break up any big clumps and stir well to bring all ingredients from the bottom of the bowl into the cereal. Now put it back in the oven for an additional 15 minutes.
- Let it cool again before breaking up and eating! Store any leftovers in an airtight container in the fridge up to 2 weeks.
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Notes
It has approximately net 18 g carbs and 126 g protein for the whole recipe.
This recipe makes 8 servings.
You will get full from one serving although it looks like a small amount!
All the extra protein will get will help you meet your protein goals for sure!
These figures are based on using 1 cup of whey protein powder with 80g protein total for the recipe. Since this is divided up into 8 portions, this is the amount of protein, fat and calories. You must figure out your own figures based on the protein powder you use.
Here is the figure of nutritional values WITHOUT the protein powder so you can add in your own figures.
- Skip using the mixer and throw everything in each step into a food processor. This speeds things up and will give you a finer grained cereal as a result versus chunkier like some granola recipes, as it turns out with using a hand mixer.
- Make the cereal as listed but in step two, add in some thinned sugar free jelly or jam. Drizzle it over then go for the second bake. I made some berry almond cereal this way when I added sliced almonds and triple berry jam.
- Substitute the oil called for with smooth peanut butter melted to create a peanut recipe version of the original. You could take it another step and drizzle some jam in the second step too and make a pb&J protein cereal!!
- Add in any healthy cookie that you want as an addition, just make sure they are crunchy cookies. I made my own with cocoa powder and almond flour to mimic Oreos in my cookies and cream version shown.
| Nutrition Facts | |
|---|---|
| Serving size: 1 cup | |
| Servings: 8 | |
| Amount per serving | |
| Calories | 177 |
| % Daily Value* | |
| Total Fat 13.2g | 17% |
| Saturated Fat 7.4g | 37% |
| Cholesterol 31mg | 10% |
| Sodium 91mg | 4% |
| Total Carbohydrate 0.8g | 0% |
| Dietary Fiber 0.4g | 1% |
| Total Sugars 0.1g | |
| Protein 11.7g | |
| Nutrition Facts | |
|---|---|
| Serving size: 1 cup | |
| Servings: 8 | |
| Amount per serving | |
| Calories | 127 |
| % Daily Value* | |
| Total Fat 13.2g | 17% |
| Saturated Fat 7.4g | 37% |
| Cholesterol 31mg | 10% |
| Sodium 91mg | 4% |
| Total Carbohydrate 0.8g | 0% |
| Dietary Fiber 0.4g | 1% |
| Total Sugars 0.1g | |
| Protein 1.7g | |
Nutrition
Calories: 177kcal
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