Make your own at home, it’s cost effective
Almond flour or almond meal is an essential pantry staple on the ketogenic diet – it goes into everything from keto bread to low-carb pancakes – but it can also be expensive to buy. Here’s a way to make it easily and cheaply at home. You can use blanched or unbalanced almonds for this.
Make a wide variety of recipes with almond flour
There are so many recipes that call for almond flour on a keto diet. It’s especially great when you want to treat yourself to dishes that you miss from your regular carb eating. If you crave a pizza, there is our fathead pizza recipe, if you miss your sandwiches you can make our Keto bread or if you miss desserts then try the almond flour chocolate mug cake. The almond flour has even been use to make our Keto dosa. So it’s always good to make a big batch of almond flour and stock up.
It’s essential that the almonds are dry when you grind them up. You can make them with the skin on as well if you like. Almond butter can also be made if you keep blitzing them for too long.
- Blanch the almonds in boiling water for 30-45 seconds or pour boiling water over them and let sit for a minute or two.
- Strain the water and peel the almonds
- Pat dry with a paper towel and leave to air dry for a few hours or overnight
- Use the grinder attachment or food processor and pulse till a fine powder is formed. Run through a seive for an even finer consistency
- Use it.
14 Comments
Rajesh Agarwal
April 12, 2018 at 2:28 pmWhich food processor would you recommend?
Sahil Makhija
April 13, 2018 at 3:06 amI use a Phillips one which I’m quite happy with.
Madhumita Seal
June 21, 2018 at 7:53 amHow do I make a cooker cake with almond flour?
Sahil Makhija
June 22, 2018 at 10:27 amUse one of my cake recipes and use the cooker to make it.
priyanka mitra
August 25, 2018 at 8:57 amCan you also make some meal preps? Few things that can be prepped over the weekend to be cooked on weekdays?
Sahil Makhija
August 27, 2018 at 8:32 amMost of my dishes can be prepped and cooked over the weekend and stored.
Georgia
November 29, 2018 at 2:49 pmHey! How do you store it once you are done? Shall I put it in the fridge?
Sahil Makhija
December 3, 2018 at 4:50 amIf you live in a warm country then for sure but otherwise it might be able to sit out for some time and then will need to go in the fridge.
Reni Risaal Abdul Jabbar
January 13, 2019 at 2:37 pmDo you need to dry it in the oven before grinding it?
Sahil Makhija
January 14, 2019 at 7:09 amYou can do it without that but for best results it’s best that it’s as dry as possible.
Ruth
September 5, 2019 at 4:05 pmdo we need to roast them in the oven a little?? i am worried that the nuts will begin to form a paste when blending. how do we avoid that.
Sahil Makhija
September 7, 2019 at 7:24 pmDon’t blend it too much. Just keep an eye on it. takes a while for it to become a paste.
Shreya
August 2, 2020 at 1:45 amHi Sahil, is there any benefit to taking the skin off? Thanks!
Sahil Makhija
August 2, 2020 at 2:27 amJust appearance I feel.