The Best Keto Bread Recipe (Low Carb and Paleo Bread) (2024)

This is the Best Keto Bread Recipe we’ve ever tried and we’re confident you’ll feel the same way! It’s perfect for slicing and making into sandwiches or slathering with butter and eating as-is. It has great bread-like texture and no eggy flavor!

One of the foods that people tell us they miss most after going keto is bread. (And cookies or cakes, but you get the idea.) We get it, bread is undeniably comfort food. Growing up, it wasn’t unheard of to eat toast for breakfast, a sandwich for lunch, and maybe even a slice of buttered bread along with dinner. Not only is that ton of carbs, but it’s also a lot of empty calories when we could have been eating real-food alternatives, like this bread made from nutrient-dense ingredients!

We worked hard to come up with the absolute best keto bread recipe we could. We tested and re-tested and then did it again. Our recipe was inspired by and tweaked from Faith’s recipe for Paleo Low Carb Sandwich Bread Rolls (Keto Buns) on An Edible Mosaic. We know you’re going to love this bread as much as we do!

In order to simulate a bread-like texture without using gluten, grain free and gluten free bread recipes often use a variety of different flours and binders. We’ve tried so many keto bread recipes that taste way too eggy or too much like almonds or coconut.

The trick is to find a combination of ingredients that yields good flavor, as well as bread like texture and a loaf that rises nicely.

Paleo Bread

Paleo baking is gluten free and grain free. Generally, paleo bread recipes have quite a few more ingredient options than low carb baking. Ingredients like tapioca flour and arrowroot flour are common in paleo baked goods, and help improve the texture greatly.

The only thing is, these ingredients are relatively high in carbs and are typically avoided (or at least reduced) in low carb baking. This is why paleo baking can sometimes be a bit easier than low carb and/or keto baking.

Low Carb Bread

In low carb and keto baking, we’re concerned with two things:

1. keeping carbs low
2. still achieving a baked good that has great flavor and texture (because if we can’t gag it down there’s just no point, right? Lol).

Low carb bread recipes are usually gluten free and grain free, although we’ve seen a couple that use oat fiber. The challenge is to get creative to get the right combination of ingredients to yield something that rises properly and tastes good.

Because of the lack of gluten in the recipe, low carb baking requires something else to act as a binder. This could be beef gelatin, flaxseed meal, or eggs. But it’s important to find the right balance.

We can’t even remember all the times we spent experimenting with keto bread recipes only to have them taste like a bowl full of scrambled eggs!

After hours of playing around in the kitchen, we’ve come up with what we’re dubbing the best keto bread recipe…and we don’t say that lightly! This loaf is everything good bread should be, and by that we don’t mean that it’s good for being keto. Nope, this bread is GOOD for any bread!

Our keto bread recipe has a beautiful golden crust. It has great structure with a lovely rise and perfect bread-like crumb. It slices well for sandwiches or toasting, but you don’t have to toast or grill it to make it taste good.

Sliced with a smear of salted butter is keto perfection. And it actually tastes like bread, not eggs or almonds or coconut.

PRO TIP:This bread will keep well wrapped in the fridge for up to a week!

Ingredients in this Keto Bread Recipe

• Avocado oil spray
• Almond flour
• Coconut flour
• Psyllium husk powder
• Instant yeast
• Coconut sugar(only in a small amount to feed the yeast)
• Grass-fed beef gelatin
• Organic apple cider vinegar
• Grass-fed clarified butter
• Sesame seeds

How to Make Keto Bread

Keto baking is a delicate balancing act involving finding the right combination of gluten free flours, healthy fats, binders, and leavening agents that will yield a loaf that actually looks and tastes like bread! We did quite a bit of experimenting in the kitchen to make sure we developed the best loaf of keto bread we possibly could.

The best part is our bread is super easy to make. It mixes up similar to how a cake would mix up, without the need for a rise time. We use yeast, but it’s just for flavor, not as a leavening agent.

According to the USDA National Nutrient Database, 1 (29g) slice of white bread has the following nutrition information:

• 77kcals
• 2.57g protein
• .97g total fat
• 14.33g carbohydrates
• .8g fiber

Coconut flour is naturally gluten free and grain free ingredient. As such, it is a common ingredient in paleo, low carb, and keto baking. Coconut flour is exactly what it sounds like; coconut meat that’s dried and ground into flour.

Baking with Coconut Flour

The thing about coconut flour is that it absorbs a lot of liquid, and can result in dense and/or dry baked goods. It’s important to keep two things in mind when baking with coconut flour:

1. be sure to add enough liquid
2. use coconut flour in combination with other keto flours so the flavor of coconut isn’t overwhelming.

Another issue that can arise in keto baking with coconut flour is that many people have the tendency to use a ton of eggs as the liquid and binder. This definitely helps yield a lighter, less dense texture; however, the issue is that the bread tastes like eggs and not bread!

In our keto bread recipe, we use a combination of coconut and almond flours so neither is overpowering. We also use a touch of psyllium husk powder to help achieve the right texture.

A little bit of beef gelatin acts as a binder and adds bread-like “chew” to the final result. Our recipe only contains egg whites, which add structure and act as a natural leavening agent, but without the eggy flavor that the yolks would add.

Carbs in Coconut Flour

Coconut flour is known for being low in carbs and high in fat, which makes it great for a keto lifestyle. One serving (1/4-cup) of coconut flour has just 4g net carbs!

Coconut Flour Nutrition

According to the USDA National Nutrient Database, a (1/4-cup, 30g) serving of coconut flour has the following nutrition information:

• 100kcals
• 4g protein
• 6g total fat
• 16g carbohydrates
• 12g fiber

• Low Carb Zucchini Bread from The Keto Queens
• Flaxseed Keto Wraps from Sugar Free Londoner
• Low Carb Shortcake (Gluten Free Biscuits) from Healthy Sweet Eats
• Almost Zero Carb Breadfrom The Keto Queens
• Low Carb Crepes from Low Carb Maven
• Garlic and Herb Savory Keto Gluten Free Biscotti from An Edible Mosaic
• Low Carb Texas Toast from The Keto Queens

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