It might at first seem tough to stick to a ketogenic diet during the holidays, but actually you can find easy keto Christmas dinner recipes that loved ones will never know are low carb.
Whether you’re looking for keto Christmas side dishes, main dishes, appetizers, or keto Christmas dessert recipes, our collection of 25 low carb Christmas recipes for a keto Christmas dinner will help you out.
Many of these are recipes from our own site, we’ve also mixed some in from other keto bloggers to give you a well-rounded variety of meal options.
We don’t mix in tons of keto Christmas main dish ideas since many common family recipes don’t include extra carbs anyways. Most of the recipes in our low carb Christmas recipes post focus more on the keto side dishes, desserts, sauces, and appetizers since frankly, that’s where most of us struggle to stay away from the carbs!
Our most popular keto holiday recipes are:
Cold Broccoli Salad with Bacon
Cheesy Brussel Sprouts Casserole
Keto Christmas Dinner Recipes
Last year I was able to sneak in numerous Keto Christmas dinner recipes on our holiday table and no one even knew! And even if you aren’t hosting, if you’re able to bring one or two holiday dishes that are low carb, that’ll make it so much easier to have something to eat at holiday gatherings.
Our go-to Keto Christmas menu includes:
2-3 easy keto Christmas appetizers
2 hot keto side dishes
1 keto holiday salad
1-2 meat main dishes
1 dessert + cookies on the side
Maybe this is controversial, but I still mix in our high carb favorites for the kids because I’m a sucker for tradition. Yet because I simply feel better cutting out the sugar and carbs, it’s made it easier to avoid those other dishes as much as possible (or at least just take a bite instead of piling up the plate.)
I’d love to know what others do around the holidays! Do you try to make a whole keto Christmas dinner or do you add things to mix in with your family holiday favorites like we do?
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Keto Christmas Side Dishes
Finding easy keto Christmas side dishes doesn’t have to be tough, the issue is that many classic holiday sides are laden with processed sauces like canned soups or are made with flour mixed in as a thickener.
All of the recipes we’ve included are made without canned soups and high carb starches, and instead, are swapped with real ingredients like heavy whipping cream, butter, and cheese. Some of the side dish keto Christmas recipes might call for mayo, be sure to check the labels or purchase low carb mayo that doesn’t include sugar.
Our list of side dish Keto Christmas recipes include both hot dishes and cold sides like our favorite holiday salads.
If you’re looking for even more keto Christmas side dishes, be sure to check out our post that’s just about low carb keto holiday sides!
Cheese Sauce
This keto-friendly cheese sauce makes holidays simple. Just steam any vegetable of choice and take it to the next level with cheese sauce over the top.
We served this over instant pot steamed broccoli, which has a cook time of 0 minutes!
Recipe and image by Whole Lotta Yum
Parmesan Roasted Broccoli
There’s just something about roasted vegetables that bring out the flavor more than other cooking methods. If there’s room in your oven, we highly recommend serving parmesan roasted broccoli with your keto Christmas dinner.
Recipe and image by Whole Lotta Yum
Brussel Sprouts Casserole
This easy low carb and keto Brussel sprouts casserole has always been one of our most popular recipes. With bacon mixed in, it truly can be a main dish keto casserole too.
What’s unique about this version is it roasts the Brussel sprouts FIRST before adding the cheese and cream sauce–doing it this way makes a WORLD of difference!
Recipe and image by Whole Lotta Yum
Cauliflower Casserole
Recipe and image by Whole Lotta Yum
Spinach Salad with Hot Bacon Dressing
A spinach salad with hot bacon dressing was always one of my favorites growing up, we lightened it up and made it keto-friendly.
Recipe and image by Whole Lotta Yum
Keto Broccoli Salad
Here’s another keto take on the traditional cold broccoli salad. My family always made this with added raisins, since it already has so much flavor and added goodies, it’s an easy ingredient to leave out.
Recipe and image by Whole Lotta Yum
Asparagus with Brown Butter Hollandaise
Find the recipe at Low Carb Maven
Keto Christmas Main Dishes
Swedish meatballs
Low carb and keto-friendly Swedish meatballs will be so popular with your family you won’t just save it for the holidays! While the meatballs bake it’s easy to make a quick cream sauce to serve over the top.
Recipe and image by Whole Lotta Yum
Prime Rib
Prime Rib is like the king or queen of Christmas dinner, truly, it’s hard to beat a perfectly cooked prime rib.
Since a prime rib isn’t exactly the cheapest cut, I’ll often serve it for Christmas when we don’t have many guests. It IS worth every penny!
Recipe and image by Seeking Good Eats
Stuffed Pork Roast
Making a stuffed pork roast is the perfect and easy way to keep the holidays simple yet still get the wow factor from the main course.
And how can you pass up a crowd-pleaser like cordon blue stuffed pork roast?
Recipe and image by Seeking Good Eats
Christmas Goose
Coming from a Danish family, we grew up eating Christmas goose on every Christmas eve. Why? Because it was a tradition.
I’ll fully admit, I’ve never been a Christmas goose fan, but my sister has a recipe on her food blog that her whole family said was tasty! At least she didn’t stuff it with prunes like we had growing up.
Recipe and image by Seeking Good Eats
Keto Christmas Desserts
Finding low carb desserts after you’ve finished your keto Christmas dinner isn’t always easy. So much temptation!
Our suggestion is to at least have one keto Christmas dessert option available to make it easier to stick to, whether it be a creme Brule, cheesecake, or a simple keto Christmas cookie.
Keto Whipping Cream
Recipe and image by Whole Lotta Yum
Regardless of what you’re serving as a holiday dessert, most likely something will taste even better with a little whipped cream on top. Even better when it’s keto whipping cream!
Keto Chocolate Mousse
Recipe and image by Whole Lotta Yum
No one will even know this keto chocolate mousse is missing the sugar. Since it only takes 5 minutes to whip up, it’s the perfect easy dessert to serve to gluten-free guests or those not eating sugar.
Low Carb Cheesecake
Recipe and image by My Baking Addiction
It’s hard to beat a classic traditional cheesecake when you’re looking for a crowd-pleasing dessert. No one will know this low carb cheesecake is keto-friendly!
Be sure to serve with a side of low carb berries like strawberries or raspberries.
Low Carb Panna Cotta with Raspberry Sauce
Recipe and photo by All Day I Dream of Food …(don’t we all lol?)
Keto Christmas Candy
Looking for keto Christmas candy and cookies? Then you’ll want to check out our popular post on keto holiday treats you and your loved ones will adore!
Keto Christmas Appetizers
You don’t want to ruin your ketogenic diet before dinner even starts, here’s a handful of our favorite keto Christmas appetizers to make things easier on you. All of these can be prepped in advance and served at room temperature, pulled from the fridge last minute, or just popped in oven briefly to re-heat.
These also make fantastic keto appetizers for New Year and other holidays like Thanksgiving too.
parmesan crisps
Few keto Christmas appetizers are easier than baked parmesan crisps! Seriously! Just form your cheese mounds and bake for 6 minutes! So easy.
Recipe and image by Whole Lotta Yum
pepperoni crisps
Another easy as can be keto Christmas appetizer are these 1 minute pepperoni chips! This is a mind-blowing and game-changing snack if I do say so myself.
The pepperoni seems to get spicer when they’re crisp, so we love to serve them with blue cheese dressing instead of chicken wings.
Recipe and image by Whole Lotta Yum
candied pecans
Wanting a sweet snack or appetizer that tastes sugary but isn’t? Then you’ll definitely need to try our keto candied pecans. Sweetened with monkfruit and butter, they’ll satisfy any sugar craving. Walnuts work great too!
Recipe and image by Whole Lotta Yum
charcuterie board
Putting together a keto-friendly charcuterie board is just so impressive! This is actually our most favorite appetizer to serve guests.
Really, it also makes for a simple and stylish light dinner too! Maybe not as a holiday meal but maybe on a Friday night with cocktails.
All but the apple slices on here are keto-friendly, but again, all things in moderation can probably still work with a keto diet. It’s easy to swap the fruit with low carb fruits like raspberries, blackberries, or strawberries.
Here’s a link to our popular post on putting together a healthy low carb charcuterie board.
Recipe and image by Whole Lotta Yum
artichoke dip
Are you even at a holiday gathering if there isn’t at least one type of hot dip on the table? For our family, our go-to keto hot dip recipe is this 15 minute artichoke green chili dip.
Serve with low carb vegetables.
Recipe and photo by Whole Lotta Yum
BBQ Bacon Wrapped Smokies
Recipe can be found on Ruled.me
Buffalo Chicken Stuffed Mushrooms
Recipe can be found on Snappy Gourmet
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Keto Christmas Treats and Candy
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