For an epic start to your day, try these Easy Keto Bacon Chaffles. Taking almost no time to come together, they’re a low-carb, keto, and gluten-free twist on traditional waffles.
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What is a Chaffle?
If you’re already following a keto or low-carb diet, you’ve probably already heard of these infamous waffle substitutes made out of cheese and eggs.
Chaffles are a savory take on what would usually be a sweet and fluffy waffle drizzled with syrup. Instead, they’re a savory and flexible keto-friendly breakfast, made up of only a few ingredients you likely already have in your fridge and pantry. Add extra flavor by including your favorite ingredients, such as sausage, peppers, or green onions.
Let your imagination take control as you create your own version of these Easy Keto Bacon Chaffles!
The Savory Alternative to Sweet Waffles
I would never diss traditional waffles because they’re classic and absolutely delicious, but with dietary needs becoming more and more prevalent, less and less people are able to enjoy them. Covering all the bases as keto, low-carb, and gluten-free, Easy Keto Bacon Chaffles are a great mimic to regular waffles and are still chock-full of craving-crushing ingredients. A foolproof choice for a hearty meal, chaffles can be enjoyed for breakfast, lunch, or dinner.
Helpful Tips For Making Easy Keto Bacon Chaffles
Instead of whisking the ingredients and dealing with a potential mess, save yourself time during prep and clean up by pulsing the ingredients in a blender before cooking. Add the eggs, cheese, baking powder, and almond flour to the blender for the first six to eight pulses. This will scramble the eggs without pulverizing the cheese. Then add your additions, such as meat or veggies, for the last two or three pulses.
If you don’t own a waffle iron, check out the one I own here. I love that it’s easy to use and a great price. While prepping the ingredients, pre-heat your iron. It should be hot enough to cook the Easy Keto Bacon Chaffle batter as soon as it touches. Cook each chaffle for 3 minutes or until they turn golden brown.
If you want to enjoy your breakfast hot and fresh off the iron, prep your toppings early. Chaffles are best served hot and gooey, so once they’re done cooking, top them with your favorite ingredients immediately. If serving your family or guests, place a variety of toppings in small or medium bowls so everyone can choose their favorites.
Serve Your Easy Keto Bacon Chaffles With…
My Easy Keto Bacon Chaffle recipe contains bacon and green onions as flavor enhancers. These would go perfectly with pickled onions, avocado, smoked salmon, and Everything But The Bagel seasoning. You could also make them extra savory by melting garlic butter on top and sprinkling with parmesan and dried parsley. Yum!
If you want to get extra creative, replace the bread on a breakfast sandwich with two chaffles. Fry up some extra bacon or sausage and throw in some eggs for an epic start to your day!
For an out-of-this-world meal, serve any of these savory breakfast options alongside the Easy Keto Bacon Chaffles:
- Khachapuri (Georgian Cheese Bread)
- Instant Pot Egg Bites Recipe (Starbucks Copycat)
- One Sheet Pan Sweet Potato Breakfast
- Low-Carb Breakfast Bowl
- Breakfast Egg Bread Bowls
- Bacon Pancakes
If you love these Easy Keto Bacon Chaffles as much as I do, give them a try! Don’t forget to leave a comment below letting me know what you think, and feel free to give this recipe a STAR rating on the recipe card.
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Easy Keto Bacon Chaffles
Equipment
- Waffle Iron
Ingredients
- 2 eggs
- ½ cup cheddar cheese
- ½ cup mozzarella cheese
- ¼ tsp baking powder
- ½ tbsp almond flour
- 1 tbsp butter, for waffle iron
Savory Filling options
- ¼ cup bacon, chopped
- 2 tbsp green onions, chopped
Toppings
- Smoked salmon
- Greek yogurt
- Pickled onions
- More bacon
- Avocado
- Everything But The Bagel Seasoning
Instructions
- Preheat the waffle iron.
- Add the eggs, cheddar, mozzarella, baking powder, and almond flour to a blender and pulse 10 times so the cheese is still chunky.
- Add 1/4 cup of the bacon and 2 tbsp of green onions or chives. Pulse 2-3 times to combine.
- When your waffle iron is hot, add the butter and make sure it's coated entirely. Add half of the batter and cook for 3 minutes or until golden brown. Repeat with the rest of the batter. Makes 2 large chaffles.
- Add your favorite toppings and enjoy while hot.
Donna
Why almond flour?
Irina
Awesome recipe! I didn’t think it would be this good with no flour but I really enjoyed them. I added the pickled red onions from Lena’s recipes and a poached egg and they were perfection!
Domnica Boros
Delicious!! I used white cheddar cheese and topped them with an over easy fried egg cooked in herbed garlic butter. It will definitely be on repeat in our house! Thanks Lena!!
Nadiya Radion
This recipe deserves 10 stars! I ran out of eggs and used egg whites and it still tasted like heaven! Highly recommend ?
Anna
Such an easy, quick and healthy breakfast option! I have a square waffle maker and it was perfect to make them and use them in place of bread for a breakfast sandwich!
Fatima El Kadri
Absolutely love this recipe!
inna arreguin
SO dang good!!!
Kaity
I tried this recipe and absolutely loved it! Was delicious and easy to follow. It is my new favorite breakfast.
Elizabeth
Love this Keto chaffles recipe! Very easy to make and so delicious! Will definitely be doing them alot! Thank you Lena for all you do, you inspire us so much!
Betsy
I had always wanted to try this recipe but wasn’t sure if I could substitute for regular flour (almond allergy). This morning I decided to just to just go for it and they came out great! An excellent savory breakfast option and a fun way to incorporate salmon and capers!
Cookwithdena
I tried this recipe and I’m obsessed! This is going to be a go to brunch item for me from now on! And I love that it’s Keto!
Semida
Tried this today. The kiddos loved it. It’s so easy and so delicious tastes like your dinning at a fine dinning brunch place.
Emily
Great recipe. I added broccoli and bacon. Topped mine with sour cream. I will be making this again. Thanks for posting it.
Anna R.
Sooooo good! Very easy to make too. Can’t even tell that it’s all made out of cheese. Kids loved it!
Mila
These waffles are so delicious! Super easy to make and kids loved them! They’d be amazing for a brunch party with a side of added toppings of choice. So good!
Mila
These waffles are so delicious! Super easy to make and kids loved them! They’d be amazing for a brunch party with a side of added toppings of choice. So good!
Elena
So delicious! I made these while on our family vacation- kids and adults loved it! Goes really good w smoked salmon as one of the toppings. Thanks for the recipe!
Vita
Seriously these are absolutely THE best!! My kids are obsessed!!
Sara Joy Brown
These are amazing!!! I had never heard of this before, but I’m sold!
Valentyna
This looks sooo good! I can’t wait to make the chaffles in the morning!
Julie
Absolutely love this recipe! Easy to make and delicious. These waffles go quick! Made 3 batches and nothing was leftover ? a new breakfast favorite!
Angie
These are soooo bomb! Super fast and easy to make. Had to make another batch quickly because we ate them so fast!??
Lana Bytgysaim
This recipe is so good. It saved my busy morning. I was running out of ideas since I make breakfast for husband and 19 years old son daily really early . It was a hit. I’m more of a savory type of girl anyway. Sweets make me nauseous early in the morning. This hit the spot. I’m so grateful for Lenas post. I had to ask her if the flour measurement was correct. Have you seen how much flour is in a box of waffle mix? I seriously was questioning the 1/2 of tbsp amount. But that’s all you need. Love it.
Natasha
Its so good. Delicious breakfast
Olga
Omg these are amazing. Way better than just omelet with cheese. Definitely gonna be making them a lot. Thanks Lena.
Becky
Super easy and delicious. I substituted almond flour for cassava flour instead.
Amelia
Super yummy Chaffles! My husband and I enjoyed these very much and it definitely has become one of our favorite breakfast dishes. I topped mine with an egg, avocado and salmon!
Marika Dominika
Easy waffle breakfast without the guilt!
Comes together quick. I topped mine with avo, lenas pickled onions, bacon and ebtb seasoning! Delicious
Suze from Beaverton
I actually have almond flour!!!!!!!!!!!! Going to try ASAP!
Amy Holt
This looks amazing and the recipe pretty versatile. I can’t wait to try 🙂 all your food and photography looks amazing!!
Amy
This looks amazing and the recipe pretty versatile. I can’t wait to try 🙂 all your food and photography looks amazing!!
Veronika
So easy to make and yummy!! Thank you for the recipe!
Nataliya
Tried these today, we added bacon to ours. It was so good! And really easy to make.
Jo
My blender died. Any other suggestions for how to mix aside by hand?
lenaskitchen
You can use a whisk and whisk the eggs first and then just add in the rest of the ingredients and use a fork to mash some of the cheese, it doesn’t have to be fully blended so you should be fine.