Keto bread with fennel seeds – Greek Marathopsomo with Low-carb attitude
Keto bread with fennel seeds smells in our kitchen today. And it smells so good! How can something so simple as the smell of freshly baked bread fill you with joy? Especially if you decided to ditch the carbs and be loyal to the Keto diet! Naturally, Keto bread is like a Keto dessert – an occasional treat or just a help in the beginning. However, when you check our other bread recipes, you will notice something unusual. We always try to reduce the usage of flours. Even the well-known, Keto-friendly flours. if you compare any of our recipes with the most famous Keto bread recipes, you’ll notice that we tend to use smaller amounts of flour. Sometimes we go for no flour at all! However, in this case, our Keto bread with fennel seeds required some thickening.
The honour to fennel Greek name
Have you noticed how Greek Goes Keto is connected with ancient Marathon? Did you know that in Greek, the word “Maratho” (Μάραθο) actually means fennel? This beautiful area of western Attica in the springtime still flourishes with wild fennel. This is the very place where the historical battle happened. Also, the symbolic birthplace of the marathon race and the area where the first Keto Mediterranean retreat took place. All this is wrapped in our love for herbal teas and remedies. Since fennel seeds are used as medicine from ancient times we simply had to make a Keto version of Marathopsomo.
How Keto-friendly are fennel seeds?
Fennel is quite a keto-friendly plant, from its root, stalks to the seeds. The cultivated vegetable contains 7g of carbs per 100g of which 3 are fibre. This leaves us with 4g of net carbs. You can use it in your Keto gourmet experiments. When it comes to seeds, net carbs per tablespoon are somewhere around 0,7g, therefore you can be fully relaxed! For this Keto bread with fennel seeds, we used 4 tablespoons. For the whole bread, this gives less than 4g carbs and you can cut 15-16 nice pieces out of it. This was enough to bring the flavour and aroma to the stratosphere. Myriad of minerals and vitamins in fennel contribute to our health. Fennel seeds contain manganese, potassium, magnesium, and calcium. Including fennel in your keto diet can be actually good for your heart health, digestion and maintaining blood glucose!
Is this a Keto bread or savoury cake?
An interesting question, isn’t it? Our friends who don’t follow the Ketogenic diet asked us this when they tasted it! They actually loved and ate this bread with sour cream and crumbled feta cheese and chopped olives. What can we say, we the Mediterranean people always like to combine good bread with cheese or olives. But if we ditch the carbs, we end up with equal pleasure and no guilt. Trust us, this recipe for Keto bread with fennel seeds will be a hit among your friends, regardless of their Ketonian status! 😉

They both look awesome!