Easy recipe for low carb / keto Greek Kourabiedes cookies with only few ingredients, sugar-free, gluten-free, with a dairy-free version, even for diabetics!
Keto / low carb
Kourabiedes considered the ultimate Christmas cookies and are popular in the Balkans, Turkey and of course in Greece.
Kourabiedes are first appeared in Persia in the 7th century, when sugar first appeared in this region.
These snow white cookies symbolize joy, celebration and happiness!
Kourabiedes are made with good goat or sheep butter, which gives a crunchy and fluffy texture and also brandy and roasted almonds.
In this recipe there you can find an alternative for those who avoid dairy as well.
I tried to use easy to find ingredients, so that every home to have kourabiedes smell this Christmas.
You can also try this recipe for Keto Kourabiedes.
Easy Keto Kourabiedes
Pieces 30
• Ingredients:
125 g / Goat or sheep butter*
250 g / Almond flour
10 g / Baking powder
120 g / Erythritol - stevia blend 1:1
30 g / Coconut flour
1/4 tsp / Salt
2 tsp / Homemade vanilla extract
2 / Eggs (medium sized)
20 ml / Brandy
80 g / Almonds (chopped)
• To sprinkle:
130 g / Erythritol - stevia blend (powdered)
• Instructions:
1 Put the butter 1 hour out of the fridge before you start making this recipe.
2 Roast the chopped almonds or almond sticks in the oven, at 180°C (conversational), or in a non-stick pan, for about 15 minutes approximately, taking care so that they do not burn.
and set aside until completely cool.
3 Mix the dry ingredients except the roasted almonds in a bowl and sift to avoid any lumps.
4 Beat the butter with a hand mixer until fluffy (about 15 minutes).
5 In another bowl beat the eggs, brandy and vanilla and add to the mixture of dry ingredients by stirring.
6 Knead lightly the beaten butter in the above mixture and at last add the roasted almonds.
7 Form a ball with this dough, wrap it well with a cling film and place it in the fridge for about half an hour.
8 During this time, preheat the oven at 170°C (conversational).
9 Prepare a big baking tray with a non-stick baking paper.
10 Half an hour later, shape the kourabiedes cookies into the shape you want.
Tip: You can also spread the dough with a rolling pin (1 cm thick) and then cut different shapes with a cookie cutter a like I did.
11 Place the cookies in the baking tray and bake approximately 15-25 minutes, (depending on the oven).
12 After baking, let the cookies cool a bit and finally dip one by one in the powdered sweetener or just sprinkle the sweetener on top
Enjoy!
*Note: If you avoid dairy you can use coconut oil instead of butter.
Macros for 1 cookie:
Protein: 3,9 g
Carbohydrates (net): 1,5 g
Fat: 10.3 g
Energy: 122 Kcal
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