Keto egg loaf (egg, cream cheese, butter, in simplest form; all other ingredients optional) is a nice make-ahead option. Texture stays nice on reheating.
It takes nearly an hour to make, but only about 5 minutes of that is prep, even counting lining the leaf pan with parchment paper. So, I'll start it when doing something else in the oven. Really, I should start doing two at a time, and see how well it freezes.
Once the loaf is ready, what next? The two of us will eat it a bit at a time over the week ahead, in various forms.
- We'll cut bread-thick slices to sizzle in butter and serve as French toast / eggy bread.
- Thin slices in a wrap with some combination of bacon, ham, cheese, or even ham and cream cheese with sugarless jam.
- Thin slices, hot, with butter and no-cal fibre syrup. Bacon or sausage optional.
- Thick slices cut into sticks to wrap in wafer-thin ham and serve hot or cold.
- Any thickness slices served up on a plate hot, like any egg dish.
- Beyond breakfast or brunch, cubes or ribbon-like strips in soup or stir-fry.
The loaf can be sweetened or not. Spiced or not.
Keto egg loaf (egg, cream cheese, butter, in simplest form; all other ingredients optional) is a nice make-ahead option. Takes nearly an hour, but only about 5 minutes of that is prep, even counting lining the leaf pan with parchment paper. So, I'll start it when doing something else in the oven.
Once the loaf is ready, what next? The two of us will eat it a bit at a time over the week ahead, in various forms.
• We'll cut bread-thick slices to sizzle in butter and serve as French toast / eggy bread.
• Thin slices in a wrap with some combination of bacon, ham, cheese, or even ham and cream cheese with sugarless jam.
• Thin slices, hot, with butter and no-cal fibre syrup. Bacon or sausage optional.
• Thick slices cut into sticks to wrap in wafer-thin ham and serve hot or cold.
• Any thickness slices served up on a plate hot, like any egg dish.
• Beyond breakfast or brunch, cubes or ribbon-like strips in soup or stir-fry.
The loaf can be sweetened or not. Spiced or not. Often, I'll use just vanilla or just maple for flavouring. Recipes abound. This is a favourite version, though a little more complex:
sugarfreelondoner.com/keto-egg-loaf-recipe/
(I've been wanting to do a savoury version, perhaps with nutmeg at (pre-wilted, pre-drained) spinach, but haven't yet, so I'm not sure what that would do to the texture. And, I guess that gets us back to crustless quiche territory. )
