Basic Keto Mayonnaise
So you’re looking for a healthy low carb keto-licious mayonnaise that tastes great, is “no fail” and easy? You want an easy homemade mayonnaise that’s a complete no brainer and you’re probably askeered of making homemade mayo, too—worried about the raw eggs. Hmmm. Is homemade Keto Mayonnaise for you? How can you possibly bear breaking-up with your beloved Hellmann’s or Duke’s?
Well, first off, congratulations for taking this momentous step! It is a serious break-up with tears, wailing and gnashing of teeth. But you’re finally ready to progress out of hedonism (A complete dietary disregard to potentially or reputedly toxic food ingredients, additives, and “shady oils—ahem—trans fats? And by the way, hat’s-off the good Drs. Eades for coining this awesome word in reference to dietary frivolity in PROTEIN POWER LIFEPLAN.)
Fluffy Chix Cook Basic Keto Mayonnaise that tastes amazing in low carb keto-licious salads such as Creamy Egg Salad with Veggies.
Fluffy Chix Cook’s Basic Keto Mayonnaise is so much more than “basic.” It’s a life-saver—one luscious spoon at a time. Basic Keto Mayo morphs into many different versions from Garlic Aioli to Sriracha or Wasabi Mayo. Use Basic Keto Mayonnaise in any creamy salad like Fluffy Chix Low Carb Salmon Salad, or Deviled Eggs and in low carb sandwiches and wraps. Use it in creamy salad dressings and as the “wet dredge” for oven-fried breading. Delish! Just promise you’ll use it. Because, falling in love with homemade keto mayonnaise is one of the healthiest things you can do for your heart.
Most prepared mayonnaise begins with soybean oil. Most soybean oil in the US is made from GMO soybeans and is also partially hydrogenated (aka highly processed). Food manufacturers need to partially hydrogenate soybean oil because it goes rancid very quickly. The partial hydrogenation causes formation of trans fats and trans fats are unanimously touted as “lousy fatty acids.” Dr. Mary Enig, renowned fat researcher and author of several books: KNOW YOUR FATS, and EAT FAT, LOSE FAT, describes the artery-blocking, pro-inflammatory, trans fat as being dose dependent. That means, EVERY time you eat trans fats, the damage done to your body is directly proportional to how much you ingest. Every time! She declares soybean oil to be scurrilous oil.
Pox upon you, partially hydrogenated soybean oil. You are a menace!
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The Low Carb Keto Continuum describes the process involving migration from complete, wet-behind-the-ears, low carb keto noob to seasoned veteran of the carb wars (by the way read my good friend, Judy Barnes Baker’s book by the same name: CARB WARS—it’s as close to a low carb bible as you can get). As a seasoned veteran, you practically wouldn’t be caught dead eating mayo from a jar, or eating prepared salad dressings from a bottle. At least you wouldn’t confess to consuming those convenient fiends.
STEP 1 – Living the Low Carb Keto Continuum—Fluffy Chix Cook-Style
Replace the stinkin’ bad fats with better choices: extra virgin olive oil, extra virgin coconut oil, grass fed oil, extra virgin palm oil, tallow, lard, schmaltz, avocado, olives, walnuts and pecans.
The raw eggs in mayonnaise pose potential health risks to children, pregnant mamas, your grandparents and to anyone with a compromised immune system. If you have one of those issues, use pasteurized eggs (they have some brands pasteurized in the shell). You can also use a version, we’ll post later, that uses hard boiled egg yolks—pretty tasty. Using the freshest, truly pastured eggs from foraging hens present the least risk from salmonella and the other beasties that will make you very ill, if consumed. Cooking helps kill the bugs lurking in your mayo. Acid (from the lemon) helps kill some forms of bacteria and presents an unpleasant environment for culturing bacteria; but it won’t kill salmonella—one of the deadliest around. We probably would not be caught using factory or battery eggs in raw applications. Well, almost never. There was that one time—at band camp…
Basic Keto Mayonnaise
Notes
The taste of your oil is a highly personal preference. We've come to love the flavor of unfiltered extra virgin olive oil. We work quickly with a the stick blender to keep the heat as low as possible. Heat will turn olive oil bitter! Ick! But other oils or oil blends will work, should you object to extra virgin olive oil. Half extra virgin olive oil and half extra virgin coconut oil is a delicious blend (as are bacon drippings). Both the coconut oil and bacon drippings should be liquid and as close to room temperature as possible without solidification.
Note for the immune-compromised: Those of you who are immune compromised, please use pasteurized eggs in the shell available at your grocery store. We do not recommend using raw eggs due to potential risk of contamination. To lessen risk, choose true, free range chickens in place of battery eggs. The food police made me say this.
Serving Ideas Serve on hamburgers and sandwiches, as a dipping sauce for chicken fingers and as a salad dressing.
Nutritional Information
Basic Mayonnaise Per Tablespoon: 75 Calories; 8g Fat (98.7% calories from fat);0.15g Protein; 0.1g Carbohydrate; trace Dietary Fiber; 11mg Cholesterol; 0.1g Effective Carbs
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Ingredients
- 1 large egg yolk
- 1 teaspoon Dijon Mustard—or Country Dijon Mustard
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 1 tablespoon unfiltered apple cider vinegar
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1 drop concentrated stevia drops—or EZSweetz
- 3/4 cup unfiltered extra virgin olive oil—or your favorite olive oil
Instructions
- Stick Blender: Combine all ingredients in a glass mason jar (a pint jar). Insert immersion blender (aka stick blender) into the jar making sure to place blender tip at the bottom of the jar. Turn the stick blender on and slowly work it up and down to mix everything (about 10-15 seconds). Then position the blender with the burr at the bottom of the jar and blend—slowly—lifting up on the stick blender as the mayonnaise comes together and thickens or emulsifies. Gradually and slowly work your way up the jar until every bit of the oil is incorporated. It sounds contradictory but don’t mess around. Try to work fairly quickly to keep the heat from the burr blender to a minimum.
- This is an almost foolproof method, and Fluffy Chix Cook’s personal favorite. Remove burr blender. Stir with a clean, sterilized spoon to make sure everything is evenly mixed.
- Seal tightly and according to Alton Brown, it's time to let the mayo sit out on the counter for one to two hours, to let the acids in the mayonnaise kill any beasty-bugs. Store in the refrigerator up to 1 week.
- Food Processor or Blender Method: Place first 6 ingredients into container. Pulse 5-7 time to mix ingredients and make the liquid frothy. With the processor or blender running, slowly drizzle oil into the mixture in a thin stream (about the size of a piece of butcher's twine or string. When a smooth emulsion has formed and about half of the oil has been accepted, it's safe to pour the oil in a bit faster, in a bigger stream.
- If the mayo breaks, where oil begins to stand on top, stop adding oil. Try pulsing 2-4 times. If the emulsion doesn't come back into a smooth and even paste, try turning the machine back on and drizzling in a tablespoon or two of ice water until an emulsion forms. Then continue adding the remaining oil.
- Mix in additional elements for your desired variations. Cover and refrigerate up to a week.
Nutrition Facts
Basic Keto Mayonnaise
Serves: 20 Tablespoons (1 1/4 Cups)
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Amount Per Serving: 1 Tablespoon
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| Calories | 75 | |
| % Daily Value* | ||
| Total Fat 8g | 12.3% | |
| Saturated Fat | 0 | |
| Trans Fat | ||
| Cholesterol | 0 | |
| Sodium | 0 | |
| Total Carbohydrate | 0 | |
| Dietary Fiber | 0 | |
| Sugars | ||
| Protein | ||
| Vitamin A | Vitamin C | |
| Calcium | Iron | |
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
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Check out Alton Brown’s mayonnaise video on YouTube. Gosh, Fluffy Chix Cook just loves this guy!
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I attempted the blender route, dropped the first 6 ingredients in and, since it all sat below the blades, was unable to ‘pulse’ or blend until I’d dumped about half the olive oil into the mix. It didn’t work. Final result was about a cup of pure krap…
Sorry Will. This is good to know. My blender blades sit very low to the bottom, so I never encounter an issue with it. But in your situation, the proper technique would have been to put only enough oil into the first 6 ingredients to get the blades to start working. Then you pulse it until you see an emulsion forming. Then and only then start drizzling in the olive oil. And if your mayo is too thin at the end for whatever reason, add a second egg yolk and continue to whip. But quite honestly, the burr blender method is the only method we use these days. That’s why it is listed in the #1 instruction method. It is practically full proof.
By the way. You can salvage that mayo. Take 2 tbsp. of the emulsified portion out into a stainless or glass bowl. Whisk by hand or with an electric beater, and add the “crap” from the blender 1 tablespoon at a time until you have a stable emulsion. You can then slowly (SLOWLY) drizzle in the olive oil drop by drop until the entire mixture is a beautiful mayonnaise.
Hi Fluffychix! I’ve tried this mayo with avocado oil and it worked and tasted great! The green color is a little off putting though since I’m used to the white stuff. I have a couple of questions. Do you let the mayo sit on the counter for one to two hours like Alton said? This makes me a little nervous but if you’ve been the guinea pig I’ll be brave. Question number 2: Have you tried this with coconut oil or MCT oil? I tried with liquid coconut oil and it would not emulsify. I assume that different oils have different properties. I’d sure love to find a healthy oil that is a little more neutral in taste than olive or avocado. But I’ll never go back to the old slow pour method. Any ideas on neutral healthy oils that work with the stick blender? Thanks!! Terri
Hey hon. So glad you like the recipe. When you get into flavor-neutral oils you usually get into more PUFA type oils and more refined oils. When you are hooked on prepared mayo, the transition to homemade can be tough. We’re the first to admit it! The way we transitioned was by always adding garlic at first. 🙂 Going more for aioli or doing a super thick version of our Caesar dressing. After we adjusted we just kept a search until we found an extra virgin olive oil that we love the hell out of! 🙂 So now we adore it. I have not used coconut oil or MCT oil because I did hear of this issue. I don’t know if adding an emulsifier helps that? LIke adding more mustard or another egg yolk. dunno. Sorry I can’t help you there.
As for letting it hang out…well, we have. But we are food roulette veterans. And sometimes that’s just not convenient or I forget. We’ve yet to get sick and we don’t use pasteurized eggs (except when I was in cancer treatment). So you know, I just don’t know what to advise there. 🙂 I will say in general, we are HUGE Alton Brown fans! 🙂