Carnivore Bread by Deb
Yes, I know that this sounds moronic, but let me explain.
First off – there are a lot of different approaches to Carnivore. Joachim Bartoll’s approach is possibly the most extreme, which includes raw meat. At the other end you have people like Paul Saladino whose Carnivore cookbook includes recipes with fruit and vegetables (WTF?). The approach that makes most sense to me is somewhere between Bart Kay and Judy Cho. Bart says doing it right means:
- 80% of the diet should be ruminant meat and the associated fat
- Salt to your taste (and this may change over time)
- Water as required
- Some eggs, if you feel so inclined and you tolerate them
- Some dairy, if you feel so inclined and you tolerate it
- A tiny bit of organ meat, if you fancy it, but don’t overdo it and it’s not necessary
Some people do what they call BBBE, which is beef, bacon, butter & eggs.
Judy recommends a no plant elimination diet for healing. For long term Carnivore, she says to eat the Carnivore rainbow to get a range of nutrients – red meat, poultry, fish, bacon, seafood, dairy, eggs, animal fats – and I think a lot of people would find this easier. Always remembering though that the red meat should be the bulk of the diet.
Anyway, this post is not about how to do the Carnivore diet – do your own reading up on that, and I might write more later.
The post is about bread alternatives, which might help make the diet easier to stick to. They are usually based on eggs and either dairy of some kind or panko made from pork rinds. There is even one made from chicken. So as long as you don’t eat too much, they will fit in with most approaches.
Dr Natasha Campbell-McBride has a no plant variant to the GAPS diet, and these breads would also work for that.
I’ve collected together a range of recipes which I’ll list below. Currently I haven’t tried any, but will report back when I do.
Carnivore Biscuits
These are similar to what we’d call scones in NZ, and contain just 2 ingredients
- Eggs
- Butter powder (NOT buttermilk powder)
I don’t know if butter powder is available in NZ, but you can buy it from iHerb.
See the video of how to make them.
Bella’s Japanese style carnivore buns
First of several recipes by Bella, also known as Steak & Butter Gal. Similar to the one above but with cream or milk powder.
- 3 eggs
- 1.5 cups heavy cream powder, or milk powder
- 1 tbsp baking powder
See the video of how to make them.
She offers another alternative with 1 cup goat milk powder, 1/2 cup collagen and some extra baking soda.
One of the commenters on the video said: I made this with 3 eggs, 180g whole milk powder & 1 tbsp baking powder, I couldn’t find cream powder here in Scotland. I baked them in a conventional oven at 180 degrees Celsius for 12 mins without flipping them. I got 4 decent sized buns that smell like pancakes & taste like brioche. These are amazing for burgers or in my case, bacon & egg butties.
Other commenters have had success with A2 milk powder, or with buttermilk powder.
Cloud Bread
There are recipes for Cloud bread everywhere, and they are all very similar. This is just one I picked at random.
- 3 eggs (separated)
- 2oz cream cheese
- 1/4 tsp cream of tartar
- 1/8 tsp salt
Cloud Bread 2
This version of cloud bread only uses the egg whites and uses grated cheese instead of cream cheese.
See the video here.
Bella’s carnivore flatbreads
Replaces sandwich bread, pizza crust-ish, wraps, etc. Ingredients:
- 4 eggs
- 16oz of cottage cheese
See the video of how to make them.
Bella’s Carnivore bread
Ingredients:
- Eggs
- Egg white protein powder
- Cream cheese
- Butter
- Gelatin
- Raising agents
See the video of how to make it.
Bella’s Other carnivore bread
Version with dairy contains:
- 12 eggs
- 2 cups pork panko
- 1.5 cups cottage cheese
- 1 stick of butter
Dairy free version contains:
- 12 eggs
- 4 cups pork panko
- 8 Tbsp tallow
See the video of how to make it.
Bella’s pancakes
- 7 eggs
- 4 Tbs collagen + 2 Tbs gelatin
See the video of how to make them. (Or one commenter said just beating everything together in the food processor also worked.)
Chicken based bread
This is completely different and not as heavily egg based. Ingredients are:
- Chicken mince (or I imagine turkey mince would work too)
- Eggs
- Parmesan
- Baking powder
See the recipe here.
