Easy Keto Copycat Nacho Cheese Doritos

After creating the most A-M-A-Z-I-N-G copycat Dorito seasoning, I knew I had to come up with a recipe to make easy keto copycat  Doritos.  With only a couple of ingredients and limited "hands-on" time, you can make these easy keto copycat Doritos at home.  

 

Why would one want to make Doritos when one can easily buy them from a store?

Let me list the ingredients on store-bought Doritos:

• Whole corn, vegetable oil (corn, soybean, and/or sunflower oil), salt, cheddar cheese (milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes), maltodextrin, whey, monosodium glutamate, buttermilk solids, romano cheese (part-skim cow's milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes), whey protein concentrate, onion powder, partially hydrogenated soybean and cottonseed oil, cornflour, disodium phosphate, lactose, natural and artificial flavour, dextrose, tomato powder, spices, lactic acid, artificial colour (including Yellow 6, Yellow 5, Red 40), citric acid, sugar, garlic powder, red and green bell pepper powder, sodium caseinate, disodium inosinate, disodium guanylate, nonfat milk solids, whey protein isolate, corn syrup solids.

 

I don't know about you but the amount of unhealthy ingredients listed is enough for me to never want to eat Doritos again! 

If you want to read more about the health consequences of some of the ingredients listed in Doritos, make sure you check out my Dorito Seasoning recipe where I go into details on some of the ingredients and why they are unhealthy.

And since this recipe only requires a handful of ingredients and is super quick and easy to make, why not try to make your own Keto Copycat Doritos!

 

 

How do these low carb tortilla chips compare to Doritos?

1 oz (12 chips) of Regular Doritos:

• Calories: 150
• Fat: 8 g
• Carbohydrates: 18 g (of which 1 g is fibre and 1 g is sugar)
• Protein: 2 g

1 0z (12 chips) of my Keto Copycat Doritos:

• Calories: 124
• Fat: 10 g
• Carbohydrates: 5.3g (of which 3.4 g is fibre and 0.6 g is sugar)
• Protein: 5.2 g

 

So if you are watching your carbohydrate content, these low carb tortilla Doritos only have 1.9 g of total net carbs versus the real Doritos that have 17 g of carbs.

 

 

 

What ingredients do you need to make these Easy Keto Copycat Doritos?

• chia seeds
• golden flax seeds
• almond flour
• coconut flour
• Dorito Seasoning
• salt
• chili powder

 

 

 

Don't you need an egg to hold the Doritos together?

In this recipe, I am using both chia seeds and flax seeds as egg replacers.

When chia seeds and flax seeds are combined in water and allowed to sit for a couple of minutes, they produce a somewhat gelatinous material, similar to an egg.

If you don't have any chia seeds, you can try using an egg instead and add additional water to be able to create a "dough" consistency

 

 

 

How do you make these Easy Keto Copycat Doritos?

• Combine the water, flax and chia seeds and let them sit for about 10 minutes
• In a medium-size mixing bowl, add the almond flour, coconut flour, Dorito Seasoning,  salt and chili powder
• Whisk the dry ingredients making sure that everything is well incorporated
• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F
• Add the chia/flax water mixture to the dry ingredients, stir to combine and let it rest for about 5 minutes.
• Divide the dough in half
• Roll half the dough between 2 sheets of parchment paper (or 2 Silpat mats) until the dough is about ⅛th inch

• Score the dough to on the diagonal making rectangular shapes and then divide each rectangle to form 2 triangles
• Bake them in the oven for 10-12 minutes or until the edges are beginning to brown

 

 

How do you store these tortilla chips?

Once cooled, place the chips in an airtight container for up to 3 days.  Make sure they are FULLY cooled before placing them in the container otherwise they will soften.

 

 

What can I use this Keto Copycat Doritos for?

• use them as the tortilla for nachos such as my Macho Nacho recipe
• make pulled pork nachos
• use them to dip into my:
  • Buffalo Chicken Wing Dip (Whole30, Paleo, Keto)
  • Sausage Apple Cheese Dip (Gluten-Free, Keto)
  • Egg Fast Buffalo Wing Dip (Keto)
  • Easy 4-Ingredient Chorizo Dip (Keto)
• Eat them plain like regular Doritos

 

Tips and Tricks for making the best these low carb Dortito tortilla chips

• try and roll them as thin as possible as well as equally thin so that they bake evenly
• rotate the baking sheet every so often to help bake them evenly
• watch them carefully after the 10-minute mark as they can burn
• use a dough scraper and push the edges inward to create even lines as well as to thicken the edges as they have a tendency to bake the fastest and therefore if they are thicker, they will not burn before the rest of the tortillas have baked
• spray the parchment paper or Silpat mats before rolling to help the keto tortillas from sticking
• only place one tray in the oven at a time to help with even baking
• do not add any additional seasoning on top...I tried it to see if I could make them look more "dorito-ish" and it did not work
• if you pull them out of the oven and you realize they are not as crispy as you would like, place them back in the oven (that has been turned off), crack open the door and let them dry out

 

 

 

If you like this easy Keto Copycat Dorito recipe, you may also enjoy:

• Taco Tortilla Bake (Keto, Gluten-Free, Whole30)
• Hint of Lime Tortilla Chips (Whole30, Paleo, Gluten-Free, Low Carb)
• Whole30 Everything Bagel Avocado Spread
• Macho Nachos (Whole30, Paleo, Low Carb)
• Mexican Pulled Pork Carnitas

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