all over social media heavenly fans keto french fries are flooding feeds
this viral keto french fry video has people running to their kitchens to make them
and they're appropriately dubbed heavenly fries by her fans and they're supposed to taste and look
just like mcdonald's french fries so of course i had to try them and put my own keto taste
buds to the test and of course i had to try to make different variations of them
which most of them failed but i am happy to report that we do have one winner in all of my testing of
heavenly fans recipes i did pick out some common mistakes that people can make from making her
recipes and i wanted to show you how to avoid them but first let's talk about the base recipe
heavenly fan has two different variations on her website french fries can be made out of
almond flour or you can use coconut flour i only experimented with the almond flour version because
i just don't really like the taste of coconut flour and things unless it's mixed in with some
almond flour but it is nice to know that there's a coconut flour version out there in case you do
have an allergy to start we're going to add 100 grams of almond flour to a bowl when i measured it
it was roughly around one-half cup of almond flour plus one-third cup of almond flour that's probably
like the easiest way to measure it out you're also going to need three teaspoons of xanthan gum which
is the same as one tablespoon the purpose of adding xanthan gum in this recipe or in
any keto baked good recipe is to provide structure and support so it's going to hold that french fry
together so that's why she adds it in the recipe whisk everything together and then we're going to
add six tablespoons of hot water and stir it until it forms a dough ball and then she needs it just
to make sure that all the ingredients are combined and then she'll let it rest for 15 minutes covered
now i don't really understand why she says you need to let it rest i think maybe she let it rest
because it looked like maybe she added a little bit more water than i did so her dough is a little
bit stickier so it kind of needed to dry out so that you could it was moldable and you could roll
it out and you could cut it out into strips but there's no like yeast in here so there's really no
need to let it rise or anything like that so i don't really get what the purpose was
so actually i did not let mine rest for 15 minutes and it still works just the same
next all you need to do is roll out the dough in between two sheets of parchment paper
and you want to roll it into a rectangle shape and it needs to be around a quarter of an inch thick
now the one thing that i will add about this recipe is that when i rolled these out it kind
of reminded me of a tortilla in fact one of the comments that i did notice on her video
was that someone said that they used this recipe to make keto tortillas and it completely worked
and really that's no surprise because if you look at some of the keto tortilla recipes on
the internet it's very similar to this recipe for these french fries next you cut the dough
into strips now this is where i made my first mistake i used a pizza cutter to cut these and i
cut them way too thick so when i tried to fry them or bake them they actually turned out more like a
crusty breadstick than a french fry so i recommend using a knife and cut them into very very thin
strips although i must say in the video she actually cut them into thicker strips so i'm
not quite sure my mine turned out like that but they did but when i tried it a second time cutting
them thinner that's when we had some success and they looked more like a french fry next she says
you can either fry them or bake them and i tried both variations plus i actually air fried them too
so i put them in my airfryer and let them bake to fry them she adds a generous amount of olive oil
to the skillet enough to cover the fries and fries them over a low to medium heat now this is
where i made my second mistake and that was that i decided to use lard instead of olive oil to fry my
french fries and i use lard because i was thinking at the time well that's what mcdonald's uses to
fry their fries but then now i'm realizing no wait they used tallow back in the day that was what
made their french fries so tasty was that they cooked them in tallow and i didn't have tallow
so that's why i went with with the lard but the lard didn't fry these as well as the olive oil did
it actually gave them a really strange flavor so i don't recommend frying them in lard interesting
point my friends over at the keto twins they made this same mistake click up here to watch their
video on it but they also fried them in lard and noticed the same same thing with the flavor was
just kind of off and um the way they fried up it wasn't quite as what hers look like in the video
now if you want to bake these you spread them out onto a baking tray
and spray them with some olive oil on top and bake at 400 degrees until they're golden brown
when i did this it took around 12 minutes i also tried to cook them in the air fryer
and with that i placed them on my airfryer tray again sprayed some oil on top and then airfryed
them at 400 degrees for six minutes i preferred the french fries when i cooked them in the oil
compared to the other two variations they were crispier they tasted more like a french fry
and instead of the baked version and the air fried version was more like a toasted breadstick
overall i was very impressed with heavenly fries recipe for keto french fries they look like real
french fries and the texture is the same too the taste on the other hand is super close
you probably wouldn't be able to tell if you dipped them in like a sugar-free ketchup or ranch
but i feel like her recipe tasted kind of bland of course it needed some salt so i needed to add that
but i also felt like it lacked that potato flavor so i wanted to see if i could mimic that
i wanted to experiment and see if i could come up with something better so i tried a couple of
different variations so my first variation i added a half a teaspoon of baking soda now i
played around with some baking soda before usually it's used in baked goods to help them rise up
in the presence of an acid so this recipe doesn't have an acid so we don't really have
to worry about it like levitating too much but it is actually used in other recipes to
help crisp things up so i was thinking well maybe it'll help these get a little bit more crispier
especially with my first version that i tried of her recipe where they were just thicker and they
didn't really cr it was more like a breadstick it didn't crisp up like i thought i wanted it to
so i thought it would help with the crisp factor but i was wrong it did not make them crispier and
it kind of gave them a strange taste even though i only added like a half of a teaspoon in so
that that was thrown out the window another variation was to try adding some protein
powder now i love the flavor of unflavored protein powder mixed with almond flour
it really gives it a good it's just really good base recipe for any sort of covering like i've
used protein powder before for trying to make chicken crispy and it works really really well
so i thought maybe this would work in this recipe to kind of crisp up the fries a little bit adds a
little bit more flavor to it but the dough ended up being so sticky and puffy after i mixed it
because i should have been thinking this is the same dough i use for making my chicken
and dumplings which delicious you should click up here to try that recipe and also my keto donuts so
if you want some keto donuts click up here too and check out my donut playlist but it's the same sort
of concept where we're combining the almond flour and the protein powder and like the combination of
them when you add some hot water actually puffs up your dough so i that's it created too sticky of a
dough and it wasn't i couldn't roll it out it was hard to cut so they made these really thick crispy
french fries and it reminded me more of like a french or a fish fry batter than a french fry
it was crispy and the texture was great but the flavor and appearance was totally off then i
decided i should really stop trying to mess with the crispiness and the texture and the appearance
because they already look like a mcdonald's french fries i really just needed to tackle the flavor
so in order to enhance the flavor and make it more like a real authentic french fry i decided to do
a couple of things so like i mentioned before i felt like her recipe was a little bland because
she didn't add any seasoning which is fine you can salt them afterwards but to me that did not work
i you really need to add the salt inside the batter so i salted it i tried a quarter of a
teaspoon at first i still feel like that was not salty enough it needs to be a half of a teaspoon
and then to give them more of a potato flavor i decided to look up some flavor extracts so
i went to my favorite flavor website that sells keto approved flavorings it's one-on-one flavors
and i found that they have a mashed potato flavor extract so i purchased that and then added that
to my my batter so my third attempt at perfecting this amazing recipe from heavenly fan
was to add more salt and then the potato extract and i was blown away at how these tasted like
real french fries so not only do they have that crispy appearance and look like a french fry but
they also have the texture too and the flavor so i got that third component that i was hoping for
now that i have a pretty decent keto french fry recipe that i can use i wanted to see if it could
solve a pain point for many of us when it comes to making keto fries is that they're amazing but they
take a lot of effort to make i mean whether it comes to this recipe or making like a daikon or a
jicama based french fry there's a lot of effort that goes into it so i really don't make them
unless i have a french fry craving or i'm trying to impress friends or family when they're over
for like a potluck or barbecue i really wanted to address that fact that i miss having french
fries with my burgers and i just want to be able to pull them out from the freezer spread them on a
sheet and bake them or add them to the frying pan and fry them up at a moment's notice so i decided
to see if maybe this recipe freezes well and guess what it totally worked you can meal prep up these
keto french fries and pull them out when you want to have them spread them out on your baking tray
or pop them in the fryer and fry them up and i think this recipe would work in an air fryer too
but the only thing you would probably have to do is actually fry them up ahead of time flash freeze
them and then freeze them together in a plastic bag and then you can pull them out and crisp them
back up in your airfryer and then it will be just like a regular frozen fry that's baked in
airfryer overall i am amazed by this recipe and cannot believe i finally have an option for keto
french fries a big thanks to heavenly fan for this recipe and who by the way she also makes a bunch
of keto vegan recipes so if you're vegan and your keto definitely check out her channel just click
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