Grocery store shelves are stocked these days with products labeled ketogenic. Keto diet devotees can easily find everything from granola bars to high-fat coffees and low-carb loaves of bread. But those items can be expensive, not to mention heavily processed, so cooking at home comes with many benefits. Figuring out how to put a keto spin on your favorite foods, however, can be daunting—not to mention overwhelming. Fortunately, as the keto diet surges in popularity, so do the number of cookbooks coming out each year that offer recipes that support it. Whether you’re new to keto, a seasoned veteran who’s sick of making the same old recipes or looking for a specific keto niche, like vegan keto or keto cocktails, there is likely a book out there for you. Here are 25 keto cookbooks to start with, and they’ll have you cooking exciting dishes all year long.
Best Keto Cookbooks
The Complete Ketogenic Diet for Beginners: Your Essential Guide to Living the Keto Lifestyle If you’re just getting started, the ketogenic diet can seem overwhelming. But this beginner keto cookbook is a great stepping stone into one of the most popular diets of the moment. It starts off with an overview of the diet, breaking it down into five digestible steps and then dives into the fun part: the recipes. You’ll learn to make everything from a bacon artichoke omelet to lemon butter chicken and more. There’s also a week-long meal plan and shopping list, as well as advice on how to adhere to a ketogenic diet when eating at restaurants. The Keto Cure: Two Weeks That Will Change Your Life Author Pascale Naessens provides readers with 60 delicious breakfast, lunch and dinner keto-friendly recipes that she created. It also includes contributions by two doctors specializing in the relationship of food to disease. Dr. Hanno Pijl walks readers through how the keto diet works for diabetics. And Dr. William Cortvriendt focuses on how keto can benefit those undergoing cancer treatments. The Easy 5-Ingredient Ketogenic Diet Cookbook: Low-Carb, High-Fat Recipes for Busy People on the Keto Diet : A busy lifestyle and sticking to a diet aren’t always a great combination. This cookbook sets out to provide readers with ketogenic recipes that are quick and easy to make. It includes recipes that require only five main ingredients that can be made in thirty minutes or less, as well as one-pot staples. Crazy Busy Keto Another one for the busy folks. Author Kristie Sullivan helps you figure out what to eat on the go, when shopping at the grocery store, and what to choose from the hotel breakfast buffet. Every chapter provides you with recipes that use common kitchen ingredients that you’ll likely already have around the home. And you won’t need access to a full kitchen to make them. Recipes include things like: Good morning granola, peanut butter fudge and speedy creamed spinach. The DIRTY, LAZY, KETO Dirt Cheap Cookbook: 100 Easy Recipes to Save Money & Time! “You don’t have to break the bank to go keto,” that’s the motto of author Stephanie Laska, who lost 140 pounds after figuring out how to eat keto without breaking the bank—or spending hours in the kitchen. She shares what she learned with readers, as well as recipes that built around common ingredients and ones that don’t include “pretentious or expensive” ones. There are also tips on rebooting recipes and recreating your favorite comfort foods. Keto Made Easy: 100+ Easy Keto Dishes Made Fast to Fit Your Life According to food bloggers Matt Gaedke and Meghan Barot, “everything can be made keto.” In this book, you’ll learn how to make ketogenic versions of your favorite comfort foods like chicken alfredo, crab mac ’n cheese, fish tacos and chocolate chip cookies. The Vegan Ketogenic Diet Cookbook: 75 Satisfying High Fat, Low Carb, Dairy-Free Recipes Yes, you can follow a vegan diet and be ketogenic. This cookbook will show you how. The recipes focus on using ingredients like nuts, seeds and low glycemic vegetables and fruits. You’ll learn how to fuse the principles of a ketogenic diet with your already plant-based lifestyle, recipes that fit the meal plan and tips for swapping ingredients, as well as help making meal plans. The Wholesome Yum Easy Keto Cookbook: 100 Simple Low Carb Recipes. 10 Ingredients or Less Maya Krampf founded the popular keto website Wholesome Yum. Now she’s sharing some of her favorite recipes and keto hacks in a book. All the recipes involve ten recipes or less and include 100 “I can’t believe that’s not keto” recipes like: garlic bread sticks, spaghetti squash ramen soup, sheet pan sausage breakfast sandwiches and flourless chocolate chip peanut butter waffles. It also contains pantry-stocking essentials and the many things you can do with Krampf’s famous “fathead” keto dough, which she uses to create low-carb versions of breads, tortillas and pastries. Homemade Keto Soup Cookbook: Fat Burning & Delicious Soups, Stews, Broths & Bread Soup lovers rejoice! This book teaches you how to make your favorite cozy soups keto-friendly by swapping out a few key ingredients. You’ll also learn to create ketogenic versions of delicious loaves of bread to dip in them. Recipes include: tomato bisque, cream of macadamia soup, broccoli cheddar and bacon soup, no bean chili, anti-inflammatory turmeric stew and rosemary and thyme flatbread. Keto Diet Cookbook for Beginners: 550 Recipes for Busy People on Keto Diet (Keto Diet for Beginners) New to keto? This book is filled with many recipes to get you started. The smoothie and breakfast section alone will keep you busy for weeks! There’s an entire section dedicated to cooking with poultry, another that focuses on meatless meals, soups, stews and salads, snacks and side dishes, desserts and drinks and beyond. The author also shares her personal favorite 10 recipes, which include things like raspberry almond pancakes with blackberry sauce and spicy ahi tuna keto sushi, plus a “14-day meal plan to lose 20 pounds.” Keto Comfort Foods: Family Favorite Recipes Made Low-Carb and Healthy In her latest keto cookbook, bestselling author Maria Emmerich shares recipes for her most “soul-warming and happiness-invoking recipes.” You’ll learn to make everything from tiramisu cheesecake to cinnamon rolls, steak fries and chicken cordon bleu – and healthier versions, at that. There’s a section on breakfast, appetizers, main dishes, sweet endings and even comfort food favorites for grown-up kids. Simply Keto: A Practical Approach to Health & Weight Loss, with 100+ Easy Low-Carb Recipes
Craveable Keto: Your Low-Carb, High-Fat Roadmap to Weight Loss and Wellness
Kyndra Holley, the founder of popular food blog Peace, Love and Low Carb, takes you step by step through what it means to lead a low-carb lifestyle. Her delicious recipes put creative spins on your favorite foods like: dill pickle brined fish and chips, everything bagel dogs, buffalo chicken flatbread and lasagna zucchini roll-ups. Inside, you’ll find 130 recipes, detailed meal plans and shopping lists.
The Keto Reset Diet Cookbook: 150 Low-Carb, High-Fat Ketogenic Recipes to Boost Weight Loss: A Keto Diet Cookbook
The follow-up to Mark Sisson’s bestselling The Keto Reset Diet, The Keto Reset Diet Cookbookteaches readers how to swap ingredients to replace your favorite recipes with keto-friendly dishes. You’ll learn to make everything from cream cheese pancakes to braised short ribs with mashed cauliflower, Italian stuffed spaghetti squash, dairy-free avocado moose, lemon protein balsa and more. Sisson and his co-author, Lindsay Taylor, also walk you through the dos and don’ts of keto, his 21-day metabolism reset and even includes recipes for making your own keto spice blends.
Keto Your Way: A Customizable Approach to a Low-Carb Lifestyle with Over 140 Recipes
Julie Smith is a busy mother of four, so she knows how hard it can be to stick to a diet – and keep it budget-friendly along the way. She shares 140 of her favorite family-friendly keto recipes that are easy on the wallet and are crafted from ingredients that are easy to find. She also talks about the different versions of the keto diet, including the standard ketogenic diet, cyclical keto, high-protein keto, targeted ketogenic diet and carnivore keto. And she breaks down the keto lingo, teaching readers what the hot abbreviations in the keto community mean—i.e. SF is sugar-free and GW stands for goal weight.
The Mexican Keto Cookbook: Authentic, Big-Flavor Recipes for Health and Longevity
Ready to make keto versions of your favorite Mexican dishes? The Mexican Keto Cookbook has you covered. This book will teach you how to make low-carb versions of everything from Nopales salad to chicken tortilla soup, spicy cilantro chicken wings, fish tacos, goat cheese enchiladas, turmeric caper cauliflower and more. The recipes are high-fat, anti-inflammatory and include the fun flavors that come straight from South of the border.
Almost Keto: A Practical Approach to Lose Weight with Less Fat and Cleaner Keto Foods
Many keto dieters fill their plats with bacon, cheese and pork rinds. But fears of not being able to keep up with a high-fat diet—and the potential implications of eating too much meat—spook some people from giving keto a try. In their book, Aimee Aristotelous and Dr. Kenneth Akey speak to these readers, offering “cleaner keto-approved foods” to infuse into recipes. It teaches you how to get started, the perfect 10 keto foods to include, “Almost Keto tactics for success,” as well as tips on how to do vegan versions of the keto diet and meal planning tips.
Ketotarian: The (Mostly) Plant-Based Plan to Burn Fat, Boost Your Energy, Crush Your Cravings, and Calm Inflammation: A Cookbook
If you want to try keto but keep hearing about the health benefits of plant-based eating, the good news is that you can definitely combine both. Ketotarian helps you balance your electrolytes, manage your macros and “find your carb sweet spot.” It includes creative recipes like: Asian cabbage mushroom soup, sheet pan veggies with nut-free olive basil pesto, baked avocado fries with smoky tomato mayo and tangy green beans with olives.
The Keto Diet: The Complete Guide to a High-Fat Diet, with More Than 125 Delectable Recipes and 5 Meal Plans to Shed Weight, Heal Your Body, and Regain Confidence
Leanne Vogel, the voice behind the Healthful Pursuit website, does away with the “one size fits all” approach and teaches you how to customize a keto diet to fit into your individual lifestyle. It features 125 recipes for dishes like bacon-wrapped mini meatloaves, chicken pot pie, Waldorf-stuffed tomatoes, chocolate-covered coffee beans and keto sandwich bites.
Keto Air Fryer: 100+ Delicious Low-Carb Recipes to Heal Your Body & Help You Lose Weight
If you follow a ketogenic diet and own an air fryer, you’ll be happy to know that you can happily pair the two together. Keto Air Fryer gives you a fun new way to make healthy and crispy versions of your favorite low-carb dishes, like breakfast pizza, mushroom and Swiss burgers, coconut shrimp with spicy mayo, crunchy top personal mac ‘n’ cheese and caramelized broccoli.
Keto Diet: Your 30-Day Plan to Lose Weight, Balance Hormones, Boost Brain Health, and Reverse Disease
Ancient Nutrition founder Dr. Josh Axe will walk you through everything from keto shopping lists to explanations behind the benefits of the diet and why it works, exercise routines and delicious recipes. His book also talks about five different types of ketogenic plans and helps you to choose the one that best fits your lifestyle. These include versions like the keto vegan plan and the keto collagen-boosting plan.
Southern Keto: 100+ Traditional Food Favorites for a Low-Carb Lifestyle
Biscuits and gravy? Grits? Southern food is usually loaded with carbs. Southern Keto is ready to change that. Author Natasha Newton shares her story of how going keto helped her manage her Cohn’s disease, lose weight and break her addiction to food and sugar. Inside, you’ll find recipes like: smoked sausage and mushroom breakfast skillets, dill pickle chips, cornbread salad, slow cooker bourbon chicken, keto cheesecake with pecan almond crust and Kentucky bourbon balls.
Keto Cocktails: Keto Diet Cookbook Cocktails:
Cocktails can be filled with carbs but in Keto Cocktails, you’ll learn how to make lower-carb versions of staples like Sidecars and Moscow Mules. The book also contains 25 bar food recipes to accompany those drinks, like fried mac ‘n’ cheese balls, hangover homies and drunken gummy bears. It teaches you the basics of stocking your low-carb bar so you’ll always have ingredients ready to go whenever you’re craving something fancy to drink.
The Ultimate Guide to Keto Baking: Master All the Best Tricks for Low-Carb Baking Success
Going low carb doesn’t mean you have to give up baking, not with all the grain-free fancy flour substitutes like almond and coconut flour out there. Author Carolyn Ketchum walks readers through how to make delectable baked goods like marble cheesecake, key lime pie bars, maple-glazed donuts, chewy keto bagels, tomato ricotta tart and summer berry cobbler.
Squeaky Clean Keto: Next Level Keto to Hack Your Health
Clean eating is all the rage these days. And you can do it on a keto diet. Squeaky Clean Keto helps readers how to eat their favorite keto foods while banishing grains, nuts, sweeteners, nuts and dairy from your diet. Author Melissa Sevigny promises 130 delicious recipes big on flavor that “will appeal to even the pickiest of eaters.” It includes weekly meal plans that include daily meals like: a breakfast of Bulletproof coffee with fiesta egg cups, cobb salad with warm bacon vinaigrette for lunch and a dinner of crispy lemon chicken with cauliflower rice. Next up, 98 low-carb foods that taste great.
