Zucchini is a great source of antioxidants, vitamin C, potassium, and B vitamins.
One of the easiest and most delicious ways to get zucchini in to your diet is by baking it in to a bread!
Zucchini bread is a versatile dish that can be eaten as a snack or as a dessert!
Loaded with fiber, spices, and fat-soluble nutrients, this delicious low-carb treat is sure to please the whole family!
Erythritol gives this bread just the right amount sweetness without adding any extra carbs. Walnuts add healthy omega-3 fats as well as more vitamins and minerals.
So go ahead and try out this tasty and nutritious treat today!
Ingredients:
3 pasture-raised/organic eggs
½ cup butter, melted
1 teaspoon organic vanilla extract
2 ½ cups organic almond flour
1 ½ cups erythritol
½ teaspoon sea salt
1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
½ teaspoon organic nutmeg powder
1 teaspoon organic cinnamon powder
¼ teaspoon organic ginger powder
1 cup organic zucchini, grated
½ cup organic walnuts, chopped
Instructions:
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Grate the zucchini.
- Combine wet ingredients (eggs, butter, and vanilla extract) in a large mixing bowl and whisk until well combined.
- Use another bowl, and mix together the dry ingredients (almond flour, erythritol, salt, baking powder, nutmeg, cinnamon, and ginger).
- Put the grated zucchini in a cheesecloth or paper towel and squeeze out the excess water.
- Whisk the zucchini into the wet mixture.
- While mixing, lowly add dry ingredients into the wet ingredients until fully blended.
- Oil a 9×5 loaf pan, and spoon in the zucchini bread batter.
- Add the chopped walnuts on top of the zucchini bread.
- Using a spatula, gently press the walnuts into the batter.
- Bake for 60-70 minutes or until golden brown and a toothpick comes out clean from the middle of the loaf.
- Enjoy!
Makes 16 slices.
Nutrition Facts (per slice):
Calories: 200.13
Fat: 19 grams
Net Carbs: 2.6 grams
Protein: 5.6 grams
How did your zucchini bread turn out? Let us know in the comments below!
Recipe adapted from ruled.me
We are really enjoying this sweet treat. Looking at the recipe, I cut the sweetener to 1 cup at my first try. It is still a bit sweet for my tastes but the family loves it! I will cut the sweetener a bit more the next time I make it. Delicious and really met the desire for a treat! Thank you so much for sharing this recipe!
Thank Dr Colbert.
Yummy
What is the best oil to oil the pan?
This was a very easy recipe to make. I did not use as much of the erithrytol that was called for, but used 1 cup. Very good – Thanks!
Thanks for this recipe. I used only about a third cup of Swerve and that was enough for me. It wasn’t necessary to drain the zucchini. I think it just makes it more moist to keep all the juices. Also, I left out the ginger, doubled the cinnamon, used almond meal instead of almond flour (that was all I had) and I thought it was great.
Hi, this looks delicious. Curious though about the erithrytol, I thought the only “approved” sweetener was stevia? Please advise. Thanks.
Hi Pam,
Erythritol has become much popular among people on low carb and ketogenic diets. Though it is actually a form of carbohydrate and approximately 60 to 80 percent as sweet as sugar, erythritol has about 0.2-to-no calories per gram (2).
I hope this helps!