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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 up here if you guys want to see it or i'll have it
listed down below in the description box and also click on that description box for the full recipe
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