Welcome to your new favorite breakfast. This easy low carb granola is packed with healthy fats, protein, and satisfying crunch – no oats required! Whether you’re craving a bowl of cereal in the morning or a tasty snack in the afternoon, this recipe delivers big flavor without the carbs.
If you need more ideas for high protein breakfasts, you’ll also love Chocolate Protein Muffins and Keto Pancake in a Mug. Great for busy weekday mornings.
I’ve always had a soft spot for homemade granola, and our house was almost never without a big container of it. When I switched to a low carb lifestyle, I thought granola was one of those foods I’d have to give up forever. But as I began to experiment with low carb ingredients, I realized that cereal didn’t have to be made with grains.
This Keto Peanut Butter Granola was my first foray into making low carb cereal, and it has stood the test of time. Readers love it, and so does my whole family. Whenever I make a batch, it disappears within a few days.
Since that time, I’ve created other delicious recipes like Keto Granola Clusters and Keto Cinnamon Cereal. But this peanut butter version might just be my all-time fave.
What readers are saying
“Absolutely delicious! I couldn’t wait to sample and while it was warm, I made myself a bowl. It’s easy to make and would definitely make it again. I would eat this a breakfast, but also a snack with maybe some sugar free chocolate or peanut butter chips!” — Sonia
Why we love this recipe
- Easy to make: Making your own keto granola is astonishingly easy, and it’s ready in 40 minutes.
- Ultra-satisfying: With plenty of healthy fats, protein, and delicious crunch, you won’t miss the high carb stuff!
- Free from: This recipe is gluten-free, grain-free, and egg-free. And of course, contains no added sugars.
- Customizable: Not a fan of coconut? Allergic to almonds? You can easily switch out the various nuts and seeds to suit your tastes.
- Low carb: With only 4.1 grams net carbs, you can indulge in your favorite breakfast again!
Ingredient Notes
- Nuts and seeds: Chopped nuts and seeds are perfect for making that crunchy breakfast treat. The combination you use doesn’t matter much, although I do recommend using a mix for better texture. I like a combination of almonds, pecans, and sunflower or pumpkin seeds.
- Shredded coconut: Adding in something with a finer texture, such as shredded coconut or almond flour, helps bind the granola together a little more. You can also use flax seed meal or ground hemp seeds.
- Sweetener: It’s important to understand that different keto sweeteners will give you different results. If you want a crunchy texture, you need to use an erythritol-based sweetener. For a better understanding of how all the various sugar alternatives work in baking and cooking, check out my Ultimate Guide to Keto Sweeteners.
- Protein powder: You can skip it but I recommend it for both flavor and a boost of nutrition. You can also use egg white protein powder.
- Peanut butter: This is an egg-free recipe so stirring in a thick nut butter helps to hold the other ingredients together and create clusters. You don’t have to use peanut butter, as any nut butter will do.
- Butter: This also helps bind the granola, but you can switch it out for coconut oil as well.
Overview: How to Make This Recipe
- Process the nuts: Add the nuts and seeds in a food processor and process until they resemble coarse crumbs.
- Mix in the other dry ingredients: Transfer to bowl and stir in the shredded coconut, seeds, sweetener, and protein powder.
- Add the wet ingredients: Melt the peanut butter and butter together in the microwave then pour over the nut mixture and stir well. Stir in the water.
- Bake: Spread the mixture onto baking sheet and pressing it down firmly with your hands. Bake 30 minutes, stir mixture again, press it down and bake until done.
- Break into pieces: Let the granola cool completely then break up large clumps.
Tips for Success
Aside from the ingredients specified above, the other important trick to getting crunchy keto granola is pressing it down firmly. You will notice in the instructions that I have you press it before and during baking. This helps it clump and stick together, and bake crisp against the hot pan.
You also need to let it cool completely after baking. Keto baked goods always continue to firm up and crisp up as they cool.
Sweetener Notes: For crunchy keto granola, you really need an erythritol based sweetener. Any amount of allulose or xylitol will prevent the granola from crisping up properly.
Frequently Asked Questions
Conventional granola is made with grains and added sugar, so it’s not a keto-friendly food. However, you can make your own low carb granola with nuts, seeds, and non-nutritive sweeteners. There are also some store-bought brands, and my favorite of those is NuTrail.
The same way you serve conventional granola! I like mine with heavy cream but it’s great with non dairy milk or Greek yogurt. And sometimes we just like grabbing a handful of dry granola to snack on.
This keto peanut butter granola recipe has 7.9g of carbs and 3.8g of fiber per serving. That comes to 4.1g net carbs per serving.
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Keto Peanut Butter Granola
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups (214.5 g) almonds
- 1 1/4 cups (148.5 g) pecans
- 1 cup (112 g) shredded coconut, or almond flour
- 1/2 cup (33.5 g) pumpkin seeds
- 1/3 cup (60.67 g) granulated sweetener, (erythritol based)
- 1/3 cup (36 g) vanilla whey protein powder, (or egg white protein powder)
- 1/3 cup (86 g) peanut butter
- 1/4 cup (56.75 g) butter, (use coconut oil for dairy-free)
- 1/4 cup (59.15 g) water
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 300ºF and line a large rimmed baking sheet with parchment paper.
- In a food processor, process the almonds, pecans, shredded coconut, and pumpkin seeds until they resemble coarse crumbs with some larger pieces. Transfer to a large bowl and stir in the sweetener, and vanilla protein powder.
- In a microwave safe bowl, melt the peanut butter and butter together. Pour the melted peanut butter mixture over the nut mixture and stir well, tossing lightly. Stir in the water – at this point, the mixture should begin to clump toether.
- Spread the mixture out evenly on the prepared baking sheet and press it down firmly with your hands. Bake 30 minutes, stirring halfway through and re-pressing it down. Remove and let cool competely.
- Break up any large clumps with your hands.
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Nutritional Disclaimer
Please note that I am not a medical or nutritional professional. I am simply recounting and sharing my own experiences on this blog. Nothing I express here should be taken as medical advice and you should consult with your doctor before starting any diet or exercise program. I provide nutritional information for my recipes simply as a courtesy to my readers. It is calculated using MacGourmet software and I remove erythritol from the final carb count and net carb count, as it does not affect my own blood glucose levels. I do my best to be as accurate as possible but you should independently calculate nutritional information on your own before relying on them. I expressly disclaim any and all liability of any kind with respect to any act or omission wholly or in part in reliance on anything contained in this website.
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Have all the ingredients, cant wait to make this granola! Thanks for recipe and congratulations on all you’ve accomplished!
Just discovered your blog, awesome! I’m gradually transitioning over to eating low-carb and gluten-free, but it’s been a bit tricky as I’m also 99% vegan. 🙂 This recipe should be perfect for me, however. I LOVE Bob’s Red Mill Coconut and Almond flours, I use these all the time. . . and I also have a bag of BRM Flax Seeds, X Gum, GF hot cereal, and tapioca flour in my cupboard right now. Thanks so much!! -Hannah
I can imagine that being vegan and going low carb is pretty tough. This recipes would easily be something you can make over, just putting in coconut oil for the butter.
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I battle severe Fibromyalgia/CFS and have found that following a low carb diet helps ease the pain. I ran across your FaceBook site and have tried quite a few of the recipes there and also from this blog. Great info, which generally helps keep me curb my cravings of carbs. I use a lot of Bob’s Red Mill products. What a Blessing your site and their products are.
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LOL, if you find a place that sells willpower, let me know! I could use some of that at times. I am fascinated that low carb helps battle Fybromyalgia. Do you follow gluten-free as well? Makes me wonder if gluten has anything to do with it…
While doing the low carb, I avoid all wheat products, which of course are rich in carbs ;o( I’ve wondered also about the gluten factor. Not overly sure of the correlation of the Fibro/CFS relief via a low carb diet, as there seems to be no rhyme or reason to the peaks and valleys in their symptoms, nor could my specialist that I was referred to by Mayo Clinic. For myself, I seem to feel better for the most part while sticking strictly to the very low carb per day. I tend to use Almond and Coconut flours to replace the wheat flour.
I have done some research to see if anyone has noticed the same relief and came up with a few docs/clinics that have wrote on the subject. Dr. Paul St Amand has stated that patients with fibromyalgia tend to have increased carbohydrate cravings and low carbohydrate diets may reduce their pain and fatigue.. http://www.ei-resource.org/articles/related-conditions-articles/hypoglycemia-%11-dr.-st.-amand/
Hopefully, one day they will find a cure. In the meantime… ;o)
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