Low Carb Blueberry Ricotta Galette

For your next Keto dessert, make something handmade and with a little love. Don’t worry, you don’t have to be an expert of any sort in the kitchen to make this French Keto recipe. Just follow through the steps and you’ll have your own rustic and beautiful blueberry ricotta galette with lemon zest. You’ll make your own blueberry filling that cooks down to a sweet natural syrup. The light cheese and lemon flavors are complementary to the fruit for a sweet-tasting recipe. If you have carbs to spare, a drizzle of organic honey across your piece of galette would be the finishing touch.

What is a galette?

A galette is a French term for a sort of freeform dish made with a dough crust. The good news is, despite being French, you don’t have to have an artistic bone in your body to make a galette look good! Galettes can be sweet or savory. In most cases, galettes are made with pie dough, which is really easy to make.

Are blueberries keto-friendly?

Blueberries are on the keto-friendly list of berries you can eat. A half-cup of blueberries contains about 11 grams of carbs. Other Keto berries you can eat on your diet are strawberries, raspberries, and blackberries. In this recipe, the natural sugar in the blueberries creates a sweet syrup all on its own.

Tips for making pie dough

In the case of pie dough, you want all your wet ingredients to be cold. As in ice cold. So you can actually put the butter and almond milk in your freezer to get extra cold! This is also why so much prep time is devoted to chilling the dough. The cold flecks of butter in the pie dough are how pie dough becomes flakey in the oven to form a crust.