almond bread (and flour question)

[Avlev]

can anyone tell me definitively how many carbs there are in 100g almond meal/ ground almonds. Have heard everything from 6 to 16! Am trying to make the almond 'bread' with these ingredients:

100g ground almonds
2 eggs
1/4 tsp baking powder
25g butter

nuke for 2 mins... any ideas for carb count? Fitday seems to put it very high (above 15 if i remember correctly)

[tofi]

Most sites measure almond flour (= ground almonds) as about 24 -26 carbs PER CUP. So if you can put 100 grams into a cup measure, you will see if it's 1/4, 1/3, 1/2 or whatever of a cup.

I would bet that fitday.com is pretty accurate. BUT you can still subtract the fibre to get the Effective Carb Count. Fitday.com says that 1 cup of almonds has 27.83 grams of carbs MINUS 16.64g of fibre which equals 11.19 gm of carbs to be counted.

[Karen]

Under Low Carb Tools (http://www.lowcarb.ca/low-carb-tools/) at the top of the page is a carb counter that uses the default of 100 grams for everything. To use other weights and measures, you click on the drop down box. Anyway, you're looking for the count of 100 gr of blanched almonds. By weight, almond meal and blanched almonds are the same carb and fiber count: 19.94 gr carbohydrate and 10.4 grams fiber. Fitday seems to put it very high Fitday does not subtract the fiber, You have to subtract the fiber from the total carb count.

For all you non-metric users, 1 cup of almond meal weighs 100 grams.

Karen

[Sooike]

Hello Avlev, I love that bread (it's easy). I use +/- 60g almonds and 40g broken flaxseeds or sometimes I use almonds, flaxseeds and protein powder. The bread is also very good as a cake : just add cacao, vanille essence and sweetner. I love it with sweetned cream cheese

[pippa26]

To add to Karens info. 100grams=3 1/2 oz
pippa

[intastella]

does anyone have the full recipe for the bread? i would love to try it since i have some almond flour sitting around

[elmuyloco5]

Just incase someone out there doesn't know.......

almond meal and flour are both just ground up almonds. The "meal" is a coarser grinding of them and the "flour" is a finer one. It's easy to do yourself. And to get finer flour than you can just produce out of your blender or food processor, sift the flour and re-grind the bigger chunks of almond.

This flour makes the best muffins and bread. None of that terrible soy flour taste!!! It also makes terrific cheesecake crust, batter for fried chicken, and covering for fried mozzarella sticks. I also use it in my cheese stuffed meatballs to hold them together better.

[tomsej]

I'm impressed; an LC bread recipe without gluten flour!

I'm going to try it. I really can't stand the breads with 3/4 or more cups of vital gluten in them. To my taste it's like eating old socks (well, at least smelling them!)

Thanks!

Tom. :)

[MoseyMan]

I make almond/coconut flour muffins once a week. I have one for breakfast everyday, they taste great! I'm not sure how many carbs are in them, but this recipe makes 12 regular size muffins. Coconut flour is lower in carbs than almond flour and it is alot cheaper. (I use it to bulk the muffins up, and lower the cost)

I use coconut oil like crazy. After using it for just 3 weeks, my belly fat shrunk a few inches. They claim it has this effect and raises metabolism, and I did not believe it until I tried it! It works. Plus, it keeps you regular.

I buy raw almonds and coconut flakes (unsulfered and unsweetened) at my local health food store and grind them at home.

This recipe is very forgiving, I've never measured accurately and it never came out bad - not one time!

2 cups ground almonds
1 cup ground coconut flakes
(enough of these two ingredients to make around 3 cups of flour)

1/4 to 1/2 c butter/ coconut oil or mixture of both
(add to make a good consistency, but not runny)
2-3 egglands best eggs
1/2 to 1 tsp aluminum free baking soda
pinch of celtic sea salt

[greannmhar]

The ground almonds I buy have 6.9 carbs per 100 gms - this is the standard carb count for most ground almonds sold in the UK and Ireland. The fibre is already subtracted from this figure.
All food products sold here must include the nutrient count, so I would go with what's printed on the pack.
Babs

[MoseyMan]

Complete fruit muffin recipe with carb count breakdown:
http://forum.lowcarber.org/showpost.php?p=5181686&postcount=3

[cbcb]

Any variations on those muffin recipes to give them poof? I'm doing a carb/cal watch combo and would like to 'pump up the volume' on the muffins. :D

Also, just curious if anyone's found an el-cheapo source for almonds (or for that matter unsweetened coconut)?

I tried the muffins recipe as giant cookies (as I don't have a muffin tin at moment), with strawberries - and they were really tasty!

[MoseyMan]

I buy raw almonds & unsulfered, unsweetened coconut flakes at the local Health food store (6 bucks a lb for raw almonds, coconut is really cheap) If you don't have a HFS close by, you can order almond flour ($6.95 lb) and coconut flour ($4.95) here:
http://www.nuts4u.com/asp/s-products.asp?NType=95&Category=8

That's the cheapest I have come across. The supermarkets here sell almond flour for 18 a lb and that is why I grind my own.

[MissScruff]

Coconut flour????? Do you buy it that way or is there a process to make flour from it?