Top 12 Grain Free Bread Recipes That REALLY Taste Like Bread!
By Hannah Healy
Updated June 14, 2023
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These grain free bread recipes are some of the best you can find for fluffy and flavorful wheat free bread. If you are paleo or gluten free and missing sandwiches, buttered toast, buns and biscuits, look no further for the best grain free breads to satisfy your cravings!
If you are gluten free or on a grain free or paleo diet, it’s nice to have a grain free bread alternative every once in a while. I do enjoy a nice grain free bread from time to time. With all these great wheat free alternatives available, I would say that some of these recipes are even better than their grain-filled counterparts!
Common grain free bread ingredients…
For grain free bread baking you’ll need some special ingredients. Most wheat free breads will use one or more of the following ingredients:
- Coconut flour
- Almond flour
- Psyllium Husk
- Ground flax seeds
- Cassava Flour
- Tapioca Starch
- Arrowroot Flour
Baking with alternative grain free flours
It’s good to know about the different grain free flours out there when you are looking to make wheat free bread. Many people assume that all grain free flours can be used like a 1:1 substitute for wheat flour, but this is not always the case. Coconut flour is a prime example of this.
Coconut four cannot be substituted for wheat flour 1:1. Coconut flour soaks up a ton of liquid so you only need to use a small amount of it and you usually need quite a bit more liquid ingredients than usual and a lot of eggs to keep it from crumbling.
The batter or dough of a recipe using coconut flour will look a lot different than a normal wheat flour batter or dough. It can be tempting to want to add more flour, but just follow the recipe and you’ll be good!
Flours like almond flour and cassava flour usually work quite well as 1:1 substitutes for wheat flour, but if you use only almond flour, your bread can end up quite dense. That’s why I like to use a combination of different flours in grain free baking to achieve the right texture.
Top 10 Grain Free Breads
The following grain free bread recipes exemplify some of the best qualities of a good wheat free baked good. If you try one of more of the recipes, please leave a comment below and let me know what you think!
1. Easy Almond Flax Keto Bread Recipe
Many grain-free bread recipes tend to use too many eggs and therefore have an overly eggy flavor, but not this one! The amazing benefit to this keto bread recipe is that it is just so simple and easy to make and it has a great crunchy crust and dynamic flavor. All you have to do is dump all of the ingredients together (some of the main ingredients include almond four, ground flax and eggs) then mix it and bake it!
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2. Paleo Sandwich Bread
This paleo sandwich bread recipe uses a combination of different grain free flours like almond flour, arrowroot and flax to achieve a wonderful grain free bread that is pliable, not too dense yet strong enough to hold up in a sandwich. The recipe has been rigorously tested by the Faith over at An Edible Mosaic and includes lots of great tips on how to make the perfect loaf even with substitutions.
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3. Grain Free Boules
It’s rare to find a grain free crusty boule like you would find in a french bakery, but I’ve managed to track one down! This recipe includes yeast and involves letting the dough rise just like a traditional bread recipe. Although it takes a bit more time to make, this allows the bread to have a lighter texture reminiscent of real bread.
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4. Southern Style Fluffy Paleo Biscuits (Keto)
If you are on a low carb or keto diet, these biscuits will really be a welcome bready treat! This recipe contains a combo of almond and coconut flour as well as beaten egg whites, which is what gives these biscuits their fluffy texture despite not having any wheat flour in them.
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5. Grain Free Cashew Sourdough Bread
This recipe is a flavorful, tangy bread reminiscent of old world artisan sourdough loaves. Traditionally, sourdough is made by fermenting wheat dough. This grain free sourdough is unique in that it uses cashews blended into a creamy nut butter along with probiotic capsules to culture the dough. Although there is a bit more waiting involved with this recipe, the end result is definitely worth the time put in!
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6. Grain Free French Bread
There’s nothing quite like a loaf of french bread with it’s crusty outer layer and soft doughy inside. This grain free version is remarkably similar to the wheat-filled counterpart and doesn’t involve too much effort. It takes about one hour from start to finish, but will turn out best with an authentic french loaf pan.
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7. Keto Buns
I have made these keto buns dozens of times because they are just one of those standby recipes that always comes out great. They are made with almond flour and psyllium husk.
The psyllium husk is what really makes the texture of these keto buns just like real bread. Psyllium husk binds with liquid to make the dough sticky, stretchy and airy, which is usually hard to achieve with grain free bread. These keto buns are great with burgers, sandwiches or toasted with butter!
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8. Paleo Bagels
When I went grain free, bagels is one of the things I missed the most! Luckily, this paleo version is a pretty close substitute made from cassava and arrowroot flour. These paleo bagels are light yet hearty with that hallmark chewiness that you enjoy from regular bagels.
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9. Psyllium Flax Grain Free Sandwich Bread
This sandwich bread recipe ticks all the boxes; it’s low carb, cuts well, freezes well, tastes good and is one of the few that can hold up to be the true larger sandwich bread size. The psyllium husk and flax help to make it sturdy and pliable without being too dense.
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10. Grain Free Herb Flatbread
This grain free flatbread is also suitable for those on the autoimmune paleo protocol diet, so it is also nut-free and egg-free. This recipe uses tapioca starch, coconut milk and nutritional yeast to achieve a crisp texture and buttery flavor.
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11. Rosemary & Sea Salt Focaccia
This grain free focaccia bread is made with a combo of almond flour and psyllium husk. It has a soft and chewy texture to accompany the bright flavors of rosemary and sea salt.
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12. Paleo Garlic Bread Rolls
This recipe resembles brazilian pao de queijo bread, but without any dairy. It’s made with tapioca flour and has a light texture that is perfect to accompany any meal.
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Did you try any of these top 10 grain free bread recipes?
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This post was originally published in June of 2013, but has been republished in September 2019 to include new and improved grain free bread recipes.
The link for the last bread — the Paleo dinner rolls — is not correct. Can you please post the proper link.
I do want to try some of these recipesI ! I have been following Dr. David Pearlmutters- Grain Brain 🧠recommendations and I’ve been looking for these ideas that you posted. Thank you so much.😊
You show a “Boule” of nice crisp bread, the recipe doesn’t look like that at all and you put them into a bread tin! Very confusing.
Wonderful breads! Glad to see so many grain-free recipes!
Wondering if the sandwich style bread recipes can be made in a bread maker?
Thank you! I’m not sure about the breadmaker. You’d have to check those specific recipes to see if there are bread maker instructions. 🙂
Hi. OK, so I just found this article and I tried the best Paleo bread recipe just now, and oh my goodness, it is fantastic. Like seriously, this recipe isn’t just isn’t just tolerable, but is excellent and some thing that I would order off the menu It is THAT good! Slap a bit of healthy Irish Kerry Gold butter on it when it’s warm, and you will be dancing
I have tried to buy grain free bread alternatives, and make my own grain free bread alternatives to no avail… Until now. I think she is right on the money with her method of combining different types of flour and starches to get this perfect texture, consistency, and taste. I am just so excited and wanted to thank you! Tomorrow, I’m going to make a couple more loaves to get to my friends and I am excited to try each and everyone of these recipes. Goody!,,
So glad you liked it Kirsten!
I see this is an old post. I was wondering which flour is best to substitute for cassava flour. Thank you.
I was wondering if you are the lady with the non grain bread recipe book.
I don’t have a book like that, but my blogger friend does! You can see more about it here: https://wholelifestylenutrition.com/gluten-free-grain-free-breads-batters-doughs-cookbook/?ap_id=healyrealfood