Out of luck with desserts or just looking for something easy to make? Let’s try this keto crepes recipe to make the day!

We are control freaks even if we don’t like to admit it. Or rather our brain is. We hate uncertainty and chaos because historically these conditions lowered the survival rate, not just the individual but species as a whole.

Those, who planned ahead and organized themselves from groups of people into civilizations, survived much longer while those, who lived like there were no tomorrow, perished quickly.

Unfortunately, the best available science of the time wasn’t much help providing answers for a lot of uncertainties the people were facing. To create a framework for their life, people had to create gods to watch over them and make up rituals in hope of please the gods so they favor them.

Using such a weak evidenced based system worked for a while, but once people developed more advanced scientific principles, like ancient Greeks, the influence of gods eventually waned from the everyday life.

A couple of thousands years later, armed with the whole knowledge of humanity at our fingertips, our core still hasn’t changed much.

If we don’t know enough about the world around us, we make up things, so our brain won’t get a panic attack because of living on a whizzing ball of dirt in the infinite blackness.

This is why believe in hanging a hot cross bun in the kitchen will bring a year of good baking or we can get rich by holding a golden coin in our left hand while flipping a crepe by tossing it into the air with our right one.

Judging by its name, we may think that as many other tasty things, crepes were also invented by the French. Although, it could be possible, there is no historic evidence on that such a blatantly simple thing was invented by one nation only.

In fact, there is at least three names for crepes. First of all, crepes are pancakes, even though crepes are thin as tortillas. Secondly, crepes are called something totally different on the Eastern part of the block, derived from the Hungarian word “palacsinta” which comes from the Latin “placenta” (small flat cake).

We probably never find out who first thought of mix a bit of flour into too much water then fry it, but luckily, we can still enjoy it whatever name it has.

The most basic crepe recipe consists only flour, water and oil but many like to enrich the batter with eggs and milk which produces a somewhat thicker, more complex end product.

Unfortunately, flour has gluten and carbs that makes it an unsuitable ingredient on gluten free or low carb diets.

Although, crepes don’t require any leavening that would make us sorely miss the gluten structure found in flour, they still rely on gluten’s cohesive forces to hold the whole disc together. Or at least, they do in the most basic form of crepes that doesn’t have any eggs.

If we are into a bit more exciting crepe mix and we would like to throw one or two eggs into our batter then substituting flour with nut flour, like almond or coconut, will cause no significant hurdles in our preparation process.

Making a keto crepe is just as easy as swapping the flour with low carb alternatives and let the rest flow on its own as usual. Except, maybe we forsake the one handed flipping, due to the stickiness of the low carb batter and try our luck somewhere else.

Ingredients

Almond flour

2 cups / 200g Almond flour
6 tablespoons / 50g Psyllium husk (ground psyllium husk or psyllium husk powder)
1 teaspoon / 5g Salt
1 cup / 250ml Water (warm)

Coconut flour

½ cup / 60g Coconut flour
6 pieces / 300g Eggs
1½ cup / 360ml Milk
1 teaspoon / 5g Salt

How to make Keto crepes

Almond flour

Mix all the ingredients together. We get a slimy soft dough.
Make it into a ball then cut it into 8.
Roll them into balls.
Place one piece between two parchment paper then flatten it by a rolling pin or simply press it down with a flat bottom dish.
Carefully peel the parchment paper off. It tends to stick and tear at the edges.
Use a non stick pan on medium heat to fry both sides until golden brown spots start to appear, 2 minutes each side.

Enjoy!

Coconut flour

Mix all the ingredients together.
Pour a quarter cup or so batter into a medium hot frying pan. Run it around the skillet.
Fry both sides until golden brown spots start to appear, 2 minutes each side.

Enjoy!

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