More on Low-Carb Black Walnut Pie

Last year I posted a recipe for relatively low-carb black walnut pie. I decided to eliminate the grains from the crust to try to lower the carbs further.  I found this recipe for an almond flour crust and made a couple of subtle adaptations:

1 1/2 c almond flour
2 tbsp Whey Low D
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 c butter

I melted the butter and mixed it with the other ingredients:

Then tried pre-baking for 10 minutes at 325 per the recipe.  This is what it looked like when it came out of the oven.  I thought I might run into trouble given that it was already browning at the top.

I mixed the filling up using the recipe posted last time and put it in the oven.

One change that I didn't appreciate the significance of until later: normally I put a thin metal pizza pan under the pie dish to catch any overflow, but that's seldom a problem with fruit pies and has never happened with nut pies.  So I skipped it.

When I checked it mid-bake, I saw the crust above the level of the filling was getting very brown, so for the second time in my life tried putting foil strips over the exposed areas, and for the second time in my life the oven updraft blew most of them off when I opened the door to return the pie.  So I just decided to roll with it.

The final result is shown.  Both the filling and crust are somewhat overdone, but the taste is actually not at all bad.

I think the next time I do this I'll skip the pre-baking of the crust--it really isn't necessary--and see how things turn out.  I may also try foil-wrapping at the outset, because even without pre-baking the crust will probably get overdone.

Note that the crust is very friable and crumbles above the level of the filling when leveraging pieces out of the plate.  However, it eliminates most of the carbs in the crust, which can only help for people who are insulin-resistant or diabetic. I'm neither but a large and increasing proportion of the population is.

Other almond flour crust recipes on the web suggest using up to 2 1/2 cups of almond flour, but that much is unnecessary. This amount worked out fine.