We all dream of a healthy mayonnaise and we always believe that it is not possible, until we come along and make it happen. We are going to indicate the step by step of a healthy low-carb and sugar-free mayonnaise suitable for the keto diet. It is one of the simplest and fastest recipes that can be made, in fact, if we are big fans of mayonnaise, we can "get bothered" and make it a few minutes before preparing the main duck of our meal.
Making mayonnaise seems like a mystery until we're told it's 3 ingredients. In addition, it will always be a much better option than buying an industrial mayonnaise loaded with fats, sugars, stabilizers, flavor enhancers, stabilizers, preservatives, etc.
The sauces are not highly recommended, but in the case in which they are homemade, we could take them more often, but neither becoming a daily habit. Also, that the ketogenic diet is very strict with many foods. Even so, we are going to love this keto mayonnaise, whether we follow this diet or not.
Because it's healthy?
A low-carb mayonnaise is always healthy, especially if it's homemade, since the commercial ones usually come loaded with artificial, unnecessary and unhealthy ingredients. In this case, this keto mayonnaise recipe only has 7 grams of carbs, 2 grams of protein, and 56 grams of healthy fats.
The keto diet, for those who don't know for sure, is a type of diet that was created for a different purpose than losing weight, since it was an experiment to reduce epilepsy in children 4 decades ago. Later it became popular as a diet given how effective it is to lose weight, it is based on eliminating carbohydrates from the diet and increasing fat.
This has a negative side and that is that it alters the metabolism, since, by reducing carbohydrates, the cells look for other sources of energy and use fat, which is why it is an effective diet, but not for everyone. We recommend being supervised by professionals so that our health is not put at risk.
It is best to go to a nutritionist dietitian and help us lose weight in a healthy way. In addition, it is not always a feeding problem, but there may be underlying problems such as a hormonal imbalance. If we put ourselves under a diet, we must ensure that it is healthy, sports is done and that there are no medications or substitute foods.
This is what you need to make it
This keto mayonnaise can be made in a number of ways, but we are talking about utensil type. It is enough to have an electric mixer and failing that, we can mix with electric beaters. It can be done manually with a fork or whisk, but it will take longer to finish the recipe and we run the risk of the ingredients not mixing well and the mayonnaise cutting. That is, we have to throw it away and start from scratch if we can't get it back.
Another important detail is the spices. If we look closely, in our recipe we do not put spices, and that is because we want to explain here that spices such as fine herbs, pepper, coriander, oregano, curry, rosemary, etc. They are extra things that we can add at the last moment before finishing beating.
If this is the first time you're making this recipe, we recommend making it as we tell it, and when you have some experience, start adding extra ingredients like spices. Otherwise, it is likely that we will fail since the bad thing about mayonnaise is that the ingredients can be cut.
The mayonnaise breaks down when the stabilizing effect caused by the egg is broken, which helps the oil to mix well with the rest of the ingredients and with the proteins. Thanks to the egg, stable links between water and oil can be created, and if mayonnaise is broken it is because the bridge between oil, water and egg proteins has been broken.
There is no turning back from this, so we have to start over from scratch. Although we can try adding more egg, since the error may be due to the quantities. Sometimes it is solved by beating longer or adding milk to the mixture.
Tips for a perfect keto mayonnaise
Perfection exists and that is what we are going to try with this recipe. For this we are going to give some simple advice that will help us to combine it better with the food we have on the plate, since it is not the same to use mayonnaise for a sandwich, than for meat or potatoes, than to use it with seafood and fish.
The ingredients of the mayonnaise, as well as the amounts of each one and the spices of the main food will make the sauce combine better or worse with the food. We want to solve problems before we create them, so if we are going to combine keto mayonnaise with seafood, we have to use lemon juice or white wine vinegar. If we are going to eat meats and sausages, it is best to use red wine vinegar. In case of eating something neutral, it is recommended to use half white vinegar and half lemon juice.
To preserve this mayonnaise we must do it in a container with hermetic closure and we recommend glass, for example, a glass tupperware. This recipe lasts about 5 days in the refrigerator, but if we see that it has broth, its white color turns yellowish, it no longer smells the same, it has lumps and such, it is a sign that it has been cut and has spoiled, so we do not recommend consuming it under any concept. If we risk consuming it, we could suffer the harsh consequences of salmonellosis.
Another tip, if we want more keto mayonnaise, we just have to increase the amounts of oil, vinegar or lemon juice, mustard and the spices we want, however, the egg remains. A single egg can create mayonnaise with up to a liter of oil. If we use more than 1 liter, the number of eggs would have to be increased, but with one liter of oil we have mayonnaise for almost an entire restaurant.
