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healthy grain free gluten free cheese stick recipe Fried Cheese Sticks

I used to love fried cheese sticks in high school and college and would even just order these as my meal in restaurants. Now that we don’t eat grains or vegetable oils, I decided that we needed to find a healthy version that we could make at home (and much cheaper too!).

After some trial and error (and lots of burnt cheese), I’m happy with this recipe…

Fried Cheese Sticks
 
healthy grain free gluten free cheese stick recipe Fried Cheese Sticks
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A healthy take on mozzarella cheese sticks – grain free!
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Recipe type: Appetizer
Cuisine: American
Serves: 4-6

Ingredients
  • About half a pound of Mozzarella Cheese, cut into sticks
  • 2 eggs
  • ½ cup (or more) of almond flour
  • 1 teaspoon of Italian Seasoning
  • ½ tsp Himalayan Salt
  • 1-2 cups of tallow, lard or coconut oil for frying (I prefer tallow)

Instructions
  1. The day before you are planning to make, or at least 3-4 hours before, put cheese sticks in the freezer on a plate.
  2. Once cheese is completely frozen, crack eggs into a medium bowl and beat with about a teaspoon of water until creamy.
  3. Combine the almond flour, italian seasoning and salt on a medium plate.
  4. Put the tallow, lard or oil in a small pan so that it is about an inch deep and bring to medium high heat…. it needs to be hot before the cheese goes in.
  5. Remove the cheese from the fridge and dip the cheese in the egg mixture, then in the almond flour mixture, then back in the egg mixture and repeat if necessary until well coated. They need to be coated completely so they seal and the cheese can’t escape.
  6. Drop 3 or 4 at a time into the heated oil for a couple of minutes until they are starting to brown and carefully remove. I removed them with a flat pasta scoop (finally, a good use for it) but a slotted spoon will work too… you just don’t want to squeeze them with tongs or poke with a fork, as the cheese will escape and make a big mess.
  7. Repeat these steps with the remaining cheese until all is cooked. Oil can be re-used.
  8. Serve with homemade pasta/marinara sauce or enjoy plain! icon smile Fried Cheese Sticks

 

What was your favorite “bad” food post-real food eating? Do you like cheese sticks? Share below!

 

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  • Aimee

    I may have to surprise my husband with these. He will flip :) Thanks!

  • Greta

    Do you think the almond flour can be substituted for something else?  Maybe coconut flour? 

  • http://wellnessmama.com Wellness Mama

    I tried with coconut flour and it worked, but the texture wasn’t nearly as good, and it tasted different. You could do it, but the almond flour tastes a lot like the regular ones.

  • Saultite

    I would use my deep fryer… I melt the tallow in the removable pan in the oven then put the element in and it works! Not supposed to use it with solid fats, but I do anyways :) I have been looking for a mozzarella stick recipe, thanks so much!

  • Anonymous

    Thanks! My wife WILL be trying these.

  • Amy

    Making tomorrow…

  • Andrea@simplylivinghealthy.org

    Did you use like a regular block of mozzarella or fresh mozzarella?

  • http://wellnessmama.com Wellness Mama

    A regular block, though fresh could work, as long as it was well frozen, i think.

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  • http://www.rpsmiles.com/ RP Family Dentist

    I’ve been looking for a different recipe for cheesesticks recently and it’s a good thing I saw your blog with it. You just made me day! I’ll surely try this to surprise my mom.

  • Mocontrammell

    Where can I find tallow? Does the tallow have to come from organic cows?

  • http://wellnessmama.com Wellness Mama

    Preferably from grass fed cows… We get it from us wellness meats… The link is in the resources page :)

  • http://buttoni.wordpress.com/ Buttoni

    These look absolutely delicious!   I’ve never fried cheese before and am eager to try these! 

  • http://www.unrefinedkitchen.com/ Jennifer

    Yum! I made these tonight to have with supper! They were delicious! I fried them in lard…can I save the leftover lard and use it again? Should I just put it in a glass container? Thanks for the great recipe!

  • http://wellnessmama.com Wellness Mama

    Yep, just save in the fridge for re-use.

  • Angel

    These are great! thanks for the recipe.  

  • Kristi R.

    Hey, I read that you shouldn’t use coconut oil over 375 degrees? Is that true why is that?

  • http://wellnessmama.com Wellness Mama

    You basically don’t want to heat it high enough for it to oxidize. It should actually be fine to at least 400, or you can substitute lard or tallow, which have higher smoke points.

  • Elizabeth Fox

    Wow. These were amazing! I made my own Italian seasoning and then followed the recipe exactly. I fried them in coconut oil and served them with a simple homemade marinara sauce. By far my new favorite recipe!!

  • StarryNight32

    I just started going gluten free. Yesterday I cleaned out all the glutenous foods and today I decided to try this recipe. Well I must say, I made a good choice!! Your recipe for cheese sticks was phenominal!!! Loved them! If I can make at least half of the non glutenous foods taste as good as this then there will be no problem staying gluten free for life. This is one happy girl :)

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  • http://www.facebook.com/christi.woods.399 Christi Woods

    Any chance this could be modified to fry pickles.. That’s my southern food vice

  • http://wellnessmama.com Wellness Mama

    Haven’t tried it, but probably…