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Keto Egg White Ice Cream – only 4 ingredients

Simple Ice Cream Recipe

Usually ice cream recipes calls for the use of egg yolks, leaving you with a number of egg whites to deal with.  The good thing is egg whites can keep even in the freezer.  Just pop them into a ziplock bag and freeze the egg white ready for use when you need it next.

I stumbled across the recipe for “Granny’s Ice Cream” when searching for an ice cream recipe to use some sour cream I had bought.  Surely ice cream could be made from sour cream I was thinking… so I was super excited to find this simple recipe that only needed 4 ingredients.  All of which I had at home.

  1. Sour cream
  2. Egg whites
  3. Sweetener (original recipe had sugar)
  4. Vanilla

I love it when there are simple recipes with only a few ingredients!

The recipe also had a no ice cream machine option and I’m sure you could make this using the double ziplock bag method of ice cream making (if you want something quickly).

I just can’t believe I hadn’t found this recipe previously as I had been making simple ice creams previous to going keto.

Granny Keto Ice Cream

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I adapted this from a recipe when searching for a recipe that used sour cream. Bonus is that is super easy and tasty too.
Prep Time10 mins
Cook Time15 mins
Freezing4 hrs
Total Time4 hrs 14 mins
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Keyword: ice cream
Servings: 8 scoops
Calories: 100kcal

Ingredients

  • 4 egg whites
  • 2/3 cup sour cream
  • 5 teaspoons powdered Xylitol (I have reduced this down from the original recipe as it was too sweet!)
  • 1 pinch vanilla You can use vanilla essence

Instructions

Directions

  • In a large glass or metal mixing bowl, beat egg whites until foamy. Gradually add sweetner and vanilla, continuing to beat until soft peaks form. Carefully fold in sour cream until well blended. Fold in any additional flavorings or goodies at this time.
  • Churn mixture in ice cream maker or....
  • Place the mixture into the freezer and stir every 30 minutes or so until frozen. This can be made without stirring, but the texture will be icy rather than creamy.

Notes

I used what I had at home.  I happened to have sour cream so I searched for recipe that would let me make ice cream using sour cream... and found an awesome recipe called "Granny's Ice Cream".  You can find the original recipe here:
https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/35210/grannys-ice-cream
The reason I was so excited was that I had 4 egg whites left over from a different ice cream recipe and had the egg whites in the fridge waiting for something to be made from them.  
For the sugar replacement I used Xylitol and using my Bamix had previously made some powdered Xylitol (so it resembles icing or caster sugar rather than crystals).  I didn't measure as I just used the 'rest' of it from a previous recipe.  It shouldn't be more than 10 teaspoons so I put that in the details to over calculate macros.
Total fat per serve 6g
Total carbs per serve 6g and 5g fibre so net carbs is 1g
Total protein per serve 3g

Egg white vs Egg Yolk

I love this recipe and taste of the ice cream so much. It’s super scoopable even days after. Whilst still hard it’s no where as difficult as “normal” home made ice cream.  It’s that good that I feel like making a batch now (but maybe with black sesame — you know to make it more Asian!) but feel that egg white keeps for longer than egg yolk.  Maybe it’s time to whip up two batches — one with green tea and one with black sesame!  Stay tuned!

Keto Egg White Ice Cream

1 Comment

  1. Interested in your recipes and would like to be informed of any new ones.
    Do you have a keto recipe for Kueh Bakar Pandan, Pandan Chiffon Cake or any recipes made with coconut Flour.
    Thank you.

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