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, nutritional review by Franziska Spritzler, RD, CDE![Franziska Spritzler, RD, CDE]()
in Recipes, Appetizer, Snack
, photo by Emma Shevtzoff
, nutritional review by Franziska Spritzler, RD, CDE
in Recipes, Appetizer, Snack Keto cheddar cheese and bacon balls
These cheese and bacon balls aren’t just fantastic, they’re ketotastic! They’re loaded with smoky bacon and sharp cheddar cheese. Can you imagine the look on your guests faces when you put these on the holiday table? Oh, yes. You want these.
USMetric
servingservings
Ingredients
- 5 oz. 140 g bacon
- 1 tbsp 1 tbsp butter
- 5 oz. (2⁄3 cup) 140 g (150 ml) cream cheese
- 5 oz. (1¼ cups) 140 g (290 ml) cheddar cheese
- 2 oz. 55 g butter, at room temperature
- ½ tsp ½ tsp pepper (optional)
- ½ tsp ½ tsp chili flakes (optional)
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Making low carb simple
Instructions
- Fry the bacon in butter until golden brown. Remove from the pan, and let cool completely on paper towels.
- Crumble or chop the bacon into small pieces and place in a medium-sized bowl.
- In a bigger bowl, mix the grease left over from frying the bacon with all the remaining ingredients by hand, or with an electric handmixer.
- Place the big bowl in the fridge for 15 minutes to set.
- Make 24 walnut-sized balls, using two spoons. Roll them in the crumbled bacon and serve.
Tip!
You can use any kind of grated flavorful cheese you prefer. If you don't eat bacon, you can roll the cheese balls in chopped herbs, grated parmesan cheese or chopped nuts. Let your imagination run wild!
Your photos always look fantastic.
By the way, I check in with this site (as a member) every few days. Keep up the good work.
Add ground beef and you've got cheeseburger balls.
Part of the issue was, I think, adding butter to the bacon. Bacon has enough fat on its own for frying. Also, bacon grease amounts can vary greatly depending on what you buy. An arbitrary "dump it all in" doesn't work. I would say reserve a certain amount--maybe 1-2 Tbsp--to add into the remaining mixture and not the rest.
Good recipe but I think it's too greasy/fatty feeling on the tongue. Maybe with some tweaking it'll be superb.
Also the US adopted imperial because the metric system hadn't been invented yet.
you might not have the use for metric system, but you can choose to use the imperial system as was mentioned by Becky. However, I am sooooo glad metric system is available now as my recipes turn out much better now than when I tried to convert from cups into grams . Thanks for having thought about the metric users too.
This may seem like a stupid question but are the recipes carb count the total amount for 1 serving...on the drop down when yournchoose how many servings would you need to increase the carb value for the amount of servings .... sorry I’m a novice here !!!
The nutrition information listed is for one serving, regardless of how many servings the recipe yields. If you eat 2 servings, double the macro counts.
Yes, I would think these would freeze well.
Great idea! Horseradish would certainly kick it up!
Awesome! So glad you love them!
As noted in the Nutrition section, there are 3 balls per serving.
Did you experiment with storage?
Hi, Sam! These should keep for a few days in the fridge!