Roasted Garlic Mashed Cauliflower is an easy low-carb, keto side dish! This creamy mashed cauliflower requires few ingredients and time!
Vegetarian Recipes
Flourless Healthy Brownies made with 4 basic ingredients are a moist, fudgy brownies treat with benefits! With no added flour, sugar, oil, dairy, or grains, this easy brownie recipe will surely be a staple in your home!
Almond Flour Coffee Cake that is perfectly moist and fluffy with amazing cinnamon pecan topping. This delicious healthy coffee cake recipe is paleo, grain-free, dairy-free, and refined sugar-free.
Keto Snickerdoodle Mug Cookie is the easiest snickerdoodle you’ll ever make! Low-carb, grain-free, dairy-free, and sugar-free, this easy single-serve dessert recipe is made with 5 ingredients in less than 5 minutes!
The only thing better than a freshly-baked batch of snickerdoodle cookies is a freshly microwaved snickerdoodle mug cookie 😉
Joking aside, I do love my mug desserts, as they keep my intake of sweets under control. Rather than eating half that batch of snickerdoodles, I’m eating one…just one perfect one that happens to be sugar-free.
Simply stir up the ingredients for the cookie and nuke it in the ol’ microwave for an epic treat!
…And for those times you must bake a full batch, you can whip up my Keto Snickerdoodles recipe, or my Grain-Free Snickerdoodles for a paleo version.
The best part about the snickerdoodle cookie is the very thing that makes a snickerdoodle a snickerdoodle: the cinnamon-sugar sprinkle on top.
All we do to mimic that sprinkle is stir up a tiny amount of sugar-free sweetener with an even tinier amount of ground cinnamon. This mixture gets sprinkled on top for an ooh la la experience that’ll keep you coming back for more.
A snickerdoodle a day keeps the…well…moving right along.
Paleo Pecan Pie Bars that are vegan, grain-free, dairy-free, sweet, gooey, and buttery for the most amazing nutty treat. This caramel-covered dessert recipe is fun to make and perfect for sharing with friends and family during the holiday season.
Gluten-Free Cornbread Stuffing with caramelized onion, mushrooms, and dried herbs is a fabulous side dish for Thanksgiving!
Gluten-Free Cornbread that is also dairy-free! This easy GF cornbread recipe is moist, fluffy, and absolutely mouth-watering delicious. It goes great with just about any main entrée! Serve it up with a bowl of soup, stew, or chili for an epic meal!
Mediterranean Scalloped Potatoes with sun-dried tomatoes, olives and roasted bell peppers is a unique take on the classic side dish. This creamy, mouth-watering recipe is perfect for sharing with friends and family any time of year.
Step up your holiday feasts with homemade Maple Bourbon Cranberry Sauce! Sweetened with pure maple syrup and spiced up with cinnamon, orange zest and bourbon, this cranberry sauce recipe only takes about 10 minutes to make and is ultra flavorful!
Kimchi Fried Rice is a marvelously flavorful Korean-inspired dish. Chopped kimchi and gochujang bring so much flavor to this vibrant side.
Keto Mug Cookie made with 5 ingredients in under 3 minutes! This easy single-serve low-carb cookie recipe is mouth-wateringly delicious and a great option when you want a sweet treat
Paleo Pumpkin Swirl Brownies made two ways! This post includes a gluten-free option using a gluten-free all-purpose flour blend, and a grain-free option made with almond flour.
Dairy-free, refined sugar-free, rich, warmly-spiced, ultra chocolatey with all the fall flavors nestled into one delectable dessert bar.
Has anyone else been finding comfort at the bottom of a brownie dish lately?
When it seems like there is not enough fudgy melty chocolate in the world to soothe the soul, rest assured, these brownies are here for you.
AND they include a delightful swirl of pumpkin with all the pumpkin spice flavor swaddled deep inside.
Like a down blanket for your taste buds. If you will.
These paleo pumpkin swirl brownies are an amazing amalgamation of two of your favorite flavors: chocolate and pumpkin. Nope, you don’t even have to choose between them!
Decision? Made.
Because I’m so obsessed with pumpkin brownies, I created two versions of this recipe, both of which are near and dear to my heart and turn out completely differently from one another.
So make them both, because: variety 😉
Details? Here they are:
Highlight Reel:
- Gluten-Free and Grain-Free options
- Refined sugar-free
- Dairy-free
- Moist, fudgy, rich and decadent
- Sinfully delicious
Let’s talk ingredients!
The Best Creamy Cauliflower Sauce (to use for everything!)! This simple recipe is paleo, keto, whole30 and designed to be a cream-free substitute for any dish calling for cream sauce. Use it on your pasta, lasagna, meats, and more!
Healthy Pumpkin Cake made grain-free, refined sugar-free, dairy-free, and paleo friendly. This easy-to-bake pumpkin cake is warmly-spiced and healthy enough to eat for breakfast.
If I know you at all, I have a sneaking suspicion this is the exact cake you’ve been craving.
Okay, perhaps that was a massive projection, but this is the exact cake I have been craving not only recently, but for several autumns past.
Imagine this: all the colors and flavors of fall jam packed into one healthy pumpkin cake. It comes together lightning fast, and gifts your taste buds an utter explosion of pumpkin flavor.
Have I mentioned it’s healthy?
Recipe Features:
- Lower in sugar than a regular cake, but perfectly sweet.
- Paleo
- Grain-free, gluten-free
- Oil-Free
- Easy to make Vegan (see notes)
- Refined sugar-free
- Easy to make sugar-free/low-carb (see notes)
- Moist, fluffy, delicious
My secret ingredient to keep the cake lower in added sugar?: Ripe banana. The cake is mostly sweetened with one ripe banana (I can’t taste it over the pumpkin and pumpkin pie spice, but if you have ultra sensitive taste buds, you may be able to).
Flourless chickpea banana bread made with – you guessed it – chickpeas instead of flour! Simply blend the ingredients in a blender for a fluffy, dense, flavorful and delicious banana bread that is grain-free, refined sugar-free, dairy-free and healthy!
You knew this was coming, didn’t ya?
It was only a matter of time…
If you’ve been around The Roasted Root a while, you know I have a tendency to make sweet treats using chickpeas or black beans.
On this week’s edition of bean-infused deliciousness, we’re baking banana bread! No need for flour of any kind! All you need is a can of garbanzo beans (chickpeas), and you have a solid foundation for bean bliss.
Highlight Reel:
- Gluten-free, grain-free, flourless
- Dairy-free
- Refined sugar-free
- Lower in fat and sugar than regular banana bread
- Fun and easy to prepare with minimal cleanup
Let’s discuss the details behind this bread.