Ever made faux apples with peeled deseeded zucchini? Sounds crazy but apples actually are loaded with carbs. As much as a bake potato! I usually stick with berries and a peach or nectarine on occasion.
I peeled and deseed 3 zucchini (take that seedy center out!) and sliced like apples. Added 3 T lemon juice, 1T sugar free maple syrup for a brown sugar feel and about a cup of my sugar subs (mostly allulose and swerve and a touch of Splenda granular-works well mixing for a real sugar type taste) and 1.5 t pure monk fruit liquid, cinnamon to taste (1/2T-1T) and last a whole packet of unsweet green apple koolaid powder! I got a six pack at Amazon really cheap because I couldn’t find that flavor in stock anywhere. I use it to make low carb sugar free hot apple cider in the winter too! Slow cooked covered that concoction for 1.5 hours. Thickened after they were fall apart tender but still held together with 2T butter, 1T King Arthur keto flour and 1/4t xanthan gum.
You CAN NOT tell it is not apples! Not in look or taste. They taste…the way I flavored…like a tart but sweet green apple pie filling. I couldn’t stop eating it! It’s a veggie though with mostly 0 calorie zero carb sugars so I can!
You can purée this as applesauce or add unflavored gelatin or sure gel to it puréed as well and turn it into apple butter jelly!
The only carbs come from the zucchini and 5 carbs for the whole batch adding in the koolaid packet. 3 large zucchini (about 8 cups peeled, de seeded and chopped). The whole recipe made 5 cups! Will freeze some!
Made a dessert with them for tonight!
Took 4 of my frozen homemade keto cinnamon rolls, cut them in thirds, placed in a 6 inch mini cake pan, topped with 1.5 cups of this faux zucchini apple concoction and some of my homemade keto cake mix I keep on hand and poured 1/2 a cup of that on top dry just like you would a dump cake, a few pecans and drizzled 2T melted butter on top and made a sort of dump cake apple cobbler sort of thing! Baked 30 minutes at 350F. Omg BEST cobbler EVER…even better then any made with real apples I have ever had! Already took two bites of it! Can’t wait to have it later heated up with some keto ice cream! 4 net carbs per serving! It’s high protein and a serving of veggies! lol! For dessert! Who’d a thought! Got picky kids who won’t eat a veggie but like applesauce? Try this and buy those reusable “suck” pouches, fill and freeze and thaw as needed and sneak in a veggie! They never know! My autistic grandson doesn’t!
