Enjoy delicious gluten-free low carb cheese straws, perfect for snacking or parties. Crunchy, cheesy, and guilt-free indulgence awaits!
Deliciously Crunchy Snacks for a Healthy Lifestyle
A gluten-free cheese straw recipe has been developed using almond flour and a blend of flavorful ingredients. The main components include 2 1/2 cups of almond flour, 16 ounces of grated cheddar cheese, and a mix of butter and margarine. This recipe also incorporates a large egg, mustard, black pepper, garlic powder, turmeric, cayenne powder, and a small amount of salt, ensuring a delicious and spicy kick in every bite.
To prepare the cheese straws, start by whipping together the cheese and butter in a stand mixer until well blended. Then, combine all the dry ingredients and gradually add them to the cheese mixture along with the egg and mustard. The final batter should have a non-sticky texture when touched. Once ready, transfer the batter to a piping bag and pipe it onto a lined cookie sheet before baking at 350°F for 12 to 15 minutes, resulting in a crispy and flavorful snack.
Deliciously Crunchy Indulgence: Savor the Guilt-Free Flavor of Cheese Straws!
Merry Christmas Merry Christmas and welcome to my channel and today I’m going to um I I have a request I have a request from Carl thank you thank you Carol for your suggestion um my cheese straws uh my very best cheese straws that I usually would make um it’s nice and Rich Carl requested that I do a keto.
Version or a gluten-free version of those cheese straws so I developed a recipe and I came up with a pretty good recipe which I’m going to uh share with you and you can try it thanks again Carol um so let’s go to those ingredients and let’s get some gluten-free cheese straws made okay guys let’s make the best.
Gluten-free cheese straws there is on the planet let’s go and those ingredients are two sticks we have two sticks two 8 oz bricks of uh of cheddar cheese here I have them grated grated nice and fine one egg I’m going to use an egg because Ammon flour does not uh hold uh very well like the like the regular flour so you need that.
Binder you need a binder for almond flour always um margarine I have a half a stick of margarine and a half a stick of butter I am mixing this um I’m not all butter um I have the almond flour here I have 1 and 1 half cups of almond flour in this in this bowl here and I have 1/4 cup of 1/3 cup of almond flour on the.
Standby just in case my my dough does not uh come to the consistency I want I can always add a tablespoon or 2 tablespoons of that so we have that on the side for the seasonings we’ll have uh a half a teaspoon of uh black pepper or white pepper um a half a teas one teaspoon of garlic powder and this is a half a teaspoon of.
Uh of turmeric I like the vibrant color um cayenne pepper for some heat I have a/4 teaspoon of cayenne pepper and I have um a 1/8 teaspoon of salt your cheese is already already has some salt in it so you don’t need to put too much salt in it um and I have a tablespoon of uh mustard to give it a give it a little zing so we’re going to combine all these.
Ingredients we’re going to get the get the stand mixer and we going to do all this in the stand mixer so let’s get the stand mixer uh ready and I’ll be back the stand mixer is uh fitted with the with the paddle attachment so we’re just add we’re adding the cheese now I’m going to add my I’m going to add my grated cheese.
2 8 oz bricks of grated cheddar get it all in there to this we’re going to add the margarine and the butter half a stick of margarine half a stick of butter going in and this we’re going to mix we’re going to beat this until.
It’s nice and fluffy so let’s get started start on a low speed and then you’ll just increase the speed as it mixes in I’ll do that okay I just wanted to stop it and uh scrape down the edges just to make sure that everything is getting Incorporated.
Properly so once we crank this up to a higher speed and uh continue the mixing process for the cheese and the butter we’re going to put our dry ingredients together so let’s go let’s go to a four and get that done okay now for our dry.
Ingredients I forgot to tell you I’m I’m adding some baking powder in here in the in my regular flour mixture um I do not put any baking powder in there and comes out wonderful but with the Ammond flour it does not have any uh gluten and would not puff so um in order to keep it nice and loose.
And moist um and puffed a little bit but put add a little bit of baking powder in there just to have half of a teaspoon and we have the black pepper or the white pepper 1/4 teaspoon some garlic powder for some flavor turmeric for some color cayenne pepper for some heat and.
Salt for more flavor and we’re going to whisk whis together I have the mustard here still along with the egg this these are going to go in once the once the butter and the cheese once the butter and the cheese are well Blended in I’m going to add that and give it a mix so that those can.
Go in and enhance the flavor so let me get a whisk and we’ll whisk this together and wait until uh our cheese and butter is ready get this all mixed in good I’ll be back our cheese and egg is doing pretty good I’ll just add the add the mustard in right.
Now and the Egg so they can come together together and we stop and scrape the sides down again in a minute now that my cheese is nicely blended into the cheese my uh butter is nicely bended into the cheese I’m going to introduce the almond.
Flour mixture and let it take its time start on a slow speed I’ll put it in like half and half I put a half in now let it work and then put another half of dry mixture and bring up the speed let that get nice new.
Incorporated slow it down add the other half of the flour mixture an almond flour mixture right can’t forget we’re using almond flour and this is a glutenfree chees straw so let that work for a minute and then we’ll take we’ll scrape the sides down see what texture what um.
Consistency we have if we need some more Ammon flour or not and we’ll go from there I’ll be back consistency looks fine to me so let’s check on that see the little bit that’s on here if you touch it it should not stick to your finger your finger should come away clean from that and that’s the.
Consistency you want uh it should not stick to your finger and even if you take a little bit up you should be able to roll it into a ball like that and it’s not you know messing your hand up so you know you’re in a good consistency there so we’ll go we’ll find a Piping Bag and go ahead and pipe some out and.
We baking at 350 for about 12 minutes so I’ll be back So I placed in a Piping Bag I placed the batter in a Piping Bag fixed with a semi a medium tip and we’re going to just pipe it out in short bursts oven is preheating.
350 and we’re going to bake these for 12 minutes 12 to 15 minutes so these are glutenfree cheese straws made with almond flour so I’m going to go ahead and finish piping and then we’ll put them in the oven so here are.
The almond flour cheese straws that we made very first time very first recipe um that I have developed and this is the result now a few things happen here but like every like every time you do a first recipe uh there got to be some maybe some.
Flaws um okay it did not stay in shape as as a as a cheese straw should it flattened out and that could be that could be because of the um it needed more flour either because it needed more flour or because of the um the margarine that I put in.
There now margarine has a lot of oil or it could have been the baking powder so it’s like like three different things that could have caused it not to stay in shape as it should so this is why you have to test your recipes maybe three times or more um I usually test the recipes like.
Several times before I really put it out there but I at this one I wanted to explain to you why these things why these things could happen why and how you can correct them so the next one but these are delicious they’re delicious they’re not uh something that that doesn’t taste well you just did not get the shape the color.
Is fantastic uh The Taste is great it’s cheesy it’s nutty it’s it’s fantastic but it’s just it’s just not a straw kind of a shape it’s maybe like a cookie or a biscuit you know an almond cheese biscuit um but hey you can change the name and your guest will still enjoy them but they’re still.
Gluten-free and low carb and they’re low in calories so and low in carbohydrates and low calorie so but developing the recipe will take some time and maybe two or three tries before you get it perfectly like a cheese straw should look like should look like but you know once it’s once it’s.
Delicious and it tastes great you don’t have a problem with that just change the name just change the name and you have you have a you have a um a Del a delectable um item there you know um so I can’t stop eating them so it’s a loc car Ammond flour cheese.
Straws that’s what we were trying to make but we came out with an almond flour cheese cookie or cheese biscuit it just flattened out and that’s about it but other than that it’s delicious so we’ll keep working on the it’s a work.
In progress we’ll keep working on it and it’s going to be delicious but if your style or your your your shape or whatever is not the same you can work on it until you can get so there are a few things you can add more flour to it same recipe but just add an extra cup of.
Flour and to that’s going to make it a little a little more sturdy and it will hold the shape in the oven use the butter only no margarine just butter because apparently the margarine uh the the almond flour does not really because almond flour probably has its oils from the Almond nut already in there and that’s that along with the.
Margarine can just make it just you know spread open so that’s why you have to add some more flour to it but we’ll add some flour in the next dry we’ll just add some more flour and we’ll leave the we’ll just use butter only butter only and and add an extra cup of almond flour and we’ll see how it comes out so.
That would be my next try but right now you do this recipe with a little with a little extra flour it should be it’s delicious it’s fantastic it’s cheesy it’s nutty it’s great okay so low carb cheese straws cheese crackers cheese biscuits um you have something for your guests for your for the holidays okay so I’ll see you in the next clip The Test.
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