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Healthy, low sugar crème brûlée recipe using only four whole ingredients as traditionally practiced for creamy decadence loaded with healthy fats.
It’s Friday afternoon. You’ve just looked at the calendar and suddenly realized that your vegetarian friends of many years are coming to dinner.
No worries. Just serve a nice veggie stir fry cooked in store-bought or homemade ghee or expeller-pressed coconut oil and whip up creme brulee for dessert. You won’t miss having meat with the main meal at all because creme brulee is loaded with healthy fats that will satiate you and your guests completely without an overload of sugar that will leave you groggy the next morning.
Even better, you can use up that quart of sour raw cream in the back of the fridge that is just a bit too tart for making homemade ice cream!
Classic Crème brûlée
Creme brulee made the traditional way with full-fat cream and loads of egg yolks is nothing short of creamy decadence, but you can serve it knowing that it is a very healthy ending to your dinner party too.
How so?
Egg yolks and the butterfat in cream are high in the important omega 6 fat called arachidonic acid. Ironic but true. Westerners are so inflammation-ridden from the excessive processed omega-6 fats in their diet but are typically deficient in arachidonic acid. This is one of the most critical omega-6 fats of them all!
11% of the brain is composed of this vital fatty acid. It is also of great importance for healthy, beautiful, sag-resistant skin as it ensures strong cell-to-cell junctures. Arachidonic acid is also critical for the proper development and maintenance of the intestinal tract.
So eat up and enjoy that decadent creme brulee and be sure not to use egg replacer or fake cream in this recipe!
How to Use Leftover Egg Whites
What to do with all the leftover egg whites from making this fabulous dish? Click here for an easy high protein cookie recipe complete with a video how-to! This nut pudding recipe also uses up 6-8 egg whites in a hurry.
Note that egg whites are not healthy to eat raw. In other words, don’t add them to a smoothie!
Traditional Crème Brûlée Recipe
Healthy, low sugar creme brulee recipe using only four whole ingredients as traditionally practiced for creamy decadence that is also loaded with healthy fats.
Ingredients
- 1 quart heavy cream preferably raw
- 8 egg yolks preferably pastured
- 1/2 cup coconut sugar or sucanat
- 1 Tbl vanilla extract
Topping
- 8 tsp coconut sugar or sucanat
Instructions
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Heat cream gently with vanilla but do not let it boil.
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Beat egg yolks with coconut sugar (sucanat may be substituted if desired) until smooth and well blended. Beat vanilla and hot cream into yolk mixture.
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Pour into eight 4-inch ramekins or other small, oven-safe dish (about 3/4 cup each). Set dishes in very shallow pans of warm water. Bake 45-60 minutes in a 300-degree oven until custard sets and forms a a crust on top.
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Let custards cool, cover lightly with waxed paper and chill 4 hours in the refrigerator.
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To serve, sprinkle 1 rounded teaspoon of coconut sugar or sucanat over the top of each. Place under the broiler until the sugar melts, being careful not to burn (it melts very quickly!). Let the ramekins cool and then return to refrigerator until melted sugar forms a crust. Serve very cold.
Looks delicious! Do you think it would work to 1/2 the recipe and make in a 9 by 13″ cake pan?
I was going to as a similar question!
Probably .. haven’t tried this myself. Let us know how it turns out 🙂
Have you tried this? Any updates?
Would anything substitute for the cream for someone with a dairy allergy?
Dawn, I haven’t tried this myself but I do think it would turn out lovely using coconut cream.
Does the cream have to be sour? I wanted to make this tonight…..
Thanks, this and flan have always been my favorite dessert 🙂
You can absolutely make this with fresh cream! It’s just a great dessert to have in your back pocket if you need to use up some slightly sour cream.
This looks great! I see you use sucanat, have you ever tried rapadura? I think it dissolves better. I’ve never tried coconut sugar.
Thanks!!
I love creme brûlée and flan! Thank you for this recipe! Now if I could find a flan recipe that turns out like the one from el pollo loco, I’d be set
Sarah, how in the world do people promote an 80/10/10 diet with 80 being carbs? There is a crazy lady on FB touting this ratio. I could just scream. For anyone interested, look at Freelee Frugivore. I’m just appalled at the stupidity and the sheep that think eating tons of fructose is a good thing. Sorry, I know, unrelated, but I had to find solace here 🙂
My all-time favorite dessert…Classic vanilla bean is great, and I also love to add a bit of orange or tangerine zest to it for a creamsicle kind of flavor. Mmmmm!
Sounds and looks yummy!!! I can’t wait to make it!
Any thoughts on using erythritol or stevia in place of sugar? My young son has Early Childhood Tooth Decay and cannot have sugar, but we love the idea of yolks and raw cream!