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Jump to VideoHomemade Nut and Seed Paleo Bread. Finally, a homemade paleo bread that is soft, easy to make, and great for sandwiches. This wholesome nutty bread is freezable and low carb! A grain free bread to enjoy at each meal.
Oh hey there Monday. I’m ready for my peanut butter apple pie cake breakfast fuel to start off the week! Ya’ll, I have a feeling I’m going to need a lot of energy this week. Not to mention good “golden” food to boost my immunity (post surgery). Good thing I have a bread recipe to share (and devour). Um, yes, this paleo bread recipe is totally my bread and butter today! Haha. Plus I think you’re totally gonna love it! Who doesn’t love a good bread recipe? Bread is needed in life. Always.
Homemade Nut and Seed Paleo Bread 1 Minute Video
So.. let’s talk about the needed part. Quick, what’s the one thing you can’t live without, food wise? That you NEED!! Here’s what I hear a lot when I explain the Paleo or grain free style of eating. “Oh my Goodness, how can I live without bread or a good sandwich bread?” Well ya, bread is so delicious and I don’t always make paleo bread, but when I do, it’s usually for a good reason.
Reason 1 –>> I need it. Like I need comfort food. Plus we all could use some extra healthy fats in our diet. Right? Paleo bread and butter (or coconut butter) = Good fat BOMB diggity Bomb! Did I just say that? Whoa I did.
Reason 2 –>> I can’t find a good store bought sandwich type paleo bread that is actually soft and tasty. I’m sure many can relate.
Reason 3 ->> We’re “reducing” grains for a few days, or weeks, or whatever. This usually happens when we are trying to reduce inflammation in the body, gut, etc. For us, we have found that reducing grains when we are either stressed, sick, or over trained, can help the body recover faster.
How so? By easing digestion and BOOSTING nutrient absorption. When you limit certain grains, the gut is able to really ABSORB the nutrients your are eating. Is this true for everyone? Yes and now.
Studies on phytic acid reveal that for some people, the phytic acid in whole grains blocks calcium, zinc, magnesium, iron and copper; while others are immune to it. (weston price)
Gah, do you feel like I say that enough? Haha. But really, the way our bodies respond to certain foods and digestion is so individualized. I think it’ definitely depends on our gut flora, hormones, environment we are living, etc. Which is why I like to make gluten free allergy friendly recipes. Some people need grain free, nut free, others feel better on an egg free or vegan diet, and some are just starting off eating a gluten free diet and are overwhelmed.
Regardless of people pleasing, this nut and seed paleo bread quickly became a staple in our house and a new FAVORITE! I made a few loaves batch and froze one loaf. Just one loaf of this paleo bread made about a week worth of sandwiches plus breakfast toast. Heck ya! If you follow me on snapchat, you will know this. I made the kiwi (aka my husband) all his sandwiches in one week so he wouldn’t forget to eat! Who does that?
Anyway, back to my point here ya’ll. This easy nut and seed Paleo Bread recipe tastes DELISH and is made with just 7 nutrient dense ingredients. It’s great for those looking to reduce grains, for back to school grain free paleo sandwich bread, or for toasting and enjoying with with soup/pasta. You know when it’s not 100F out.
I really wanted to keep this nut and seed paleo bread more on the seed side. Haha, you get my point. The only nut that is really involved is almond in the almond flour. The rest are seeds such as pumpkin seeds, chia seed, and poppyseed, which you can interchange with flax or sunflower seeds. Either way, it truly gives the bread a nutty flavor that’s not too heavy. Cool?
If you are looking for more fluffy bread recipes, I highly recommend Meaningful Eats AMAZING gluten-free sandwich bread. Um, YUM!!!!
Before I jump the recipe, I must confess…. I experimented with making a vegan option for this paleo bread as well. It definitely tasted GREAT but didn’t rise as much. So great for eating, just not sandwiches. Just so you know. Option is noted in recipe.
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Homemade Nut and Seed Paleo Bread
- Prep Time: 10 min
- Cook Time: 40 min
- Total Time: 50 minutes
- Yield: 12 -15 slices 1x
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Homemade Nut and Seed Paleo Bread {Low Carb}
Ingredients
- 1 1/4 cup almond flour
- 5 eggs (6 if you want extra fluffy)
- 1/3 cup coconut oil or avocado oil
- 1 tsp white vinegar or apple cider vinegar
- 1/2 tsp sea salt
- dash of black pepper
- Optional 1 tsp spice mix of choice (garlic, rosemary, Italian, etc.).
- 1 – 2 tsp poppyseed (plus extra for topping)
- 3 to 4 tbsp tapioca flour (if you are using more egg, add 4 tbsp).
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/4 cup chia meal (just grind chia seed in a coffee grinder or blender) or use ground flaxseed
- Pumpkin seed for topping and Extra poppyseed
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350. Grease a 9×5 bread pan or line with parchment paper. Set aside. For higher rising bread, use an 8×4 pan.
- In a small bowl, whisk your eggs, oil, and vinegar.
- In another bowl, combine your flours, poppyseed, and seasonings.
- Add your wet ingredients to dry ingredients and mix thoroughly.
- Pour batter into greased pan and top with additional pumpkin seeds and and additional poppyseed.
- Bake covered for 20 minutes. Then uncover and continue to bake for additional 15-20 more or golden and knife in the centre comes out clean.
- Should be around 35-45 minutes all together depending on your oven. If you used 8×4 or are baking at higher elevation, you might need to bake longer.
- Remove from oven and let cool.
- Wrap the paleo bread in foil or plastic wrap, slice and store in container. Keeps well in fridge for up to 7 days or freezer for up to 3 months.
- See notes for vegan option.
Notes
If you are looking for vegan or egg free option, you can try using 3/4 cup aquafaba to replace the eggs. It does bake but does not rise much. Still tasty!
Nutrition Per Slice
Told you this bread was nutrient dense and low carb. SO SO needed to fuel us for the week. Bring on the healthy fats. My brain needs it!
More grain free or paleo bread to try!
Grain Free Chocolat Hazelnut Bread
What’s your favorite homemade bread recipe?
Paleo folk, please share with me if you have found a good paleo store bought bread. I found one store in Dallas that is AMAZING but that’s kind of a long haul for one loaf of paleo bread.
p.s.
This month’s gluten free meal plan will be a little delayed. Ugh, this whole month is one big reschedule of all things. Whoops! But better late than never, right?
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This homemade paleo bread recipe is AWESOME! My all-time favorite paleo storebought bread is from Fox Hill Kitchens. I order online (my latest order is arriving today actually, haha. I always stock up). Google their website! I recommend the Everything Bagelz and Large Bunz the most.
oh i will check that out! thanks Liz!
It looks good,
Any suggestions what can I put instead of poppy seeds and tapioca?
Sure, you can just omit the poppy seeds or use more chia/flax. Instead of tapioca try arrowroot, potato starch, pr corn starch. Or if you are okay with grains, rice flour.
What purpose does they tapioca flour serve? I have none of the substitutes for the tapioca flour. Can I just omit or substitute something else that is more kitchen staple friendly?
It helps bind the bread and give it more texture. But you can use corn starch or skip it. Just might not give it same fluffy texture.
I make (or used to make) a decent amount of quick breads, and my favorites are my peach yogurt bread and my zucchini bread recipes. Nut and seed breads are delicious, though probably not on your menu this week (thinking about you!)
I want that yogurt bread… in like 2 days. mm k? deliver??? haha
This reminds me of a bread I made a few years ago. May have to dig that one out of the archives and work on it again. I’m sure not as good as this! The seeds are just like whoa!
I want that recipe! <3
I’ve been looking for a good paleo bread recipe that isn’t a quick bread so this is perfect!!! I can only imagine this bread with a nice spreading of almond butter on top 🙂
you know it! butter it up! haha
Doing a real sandwich bread has been on my list for a while. Somehow it feels overwhelming! This looks so good though, I’m officially inspired 🙂
this is soooooo easy! pinky promise.
That looks amazing . . . and a good excuse to make a roast beef sandwiches this week!
mmmmm bring me one after wednesday. I will be back home from hospital then and need real food! haha
bread looks awesome! we are the same need our fats 😉
but our favorite bread is our plantain bread ! xoxo
Mmmm yes! love your plantain bread! love YOU!
This looks so good! I love that you’re always emphasizing the individualized dietary needs… not one diet that should work for everyone. We are bread lovers… my husband is on a sourdough making kick for about a year now so that’s always around but I’d love a grain free option for my girls to mix it up.
oh that is on my list! sourdough so good! Wish you were closer. <3
We’re not paleo or gluten free, but this bread sounds delicious! Love all of the seeds for texture and flavor!
it’s totally about texture! agreed!
Hey, my sweet-hearted, kind, caring blog friend thinking of you and wishing you an easy and speedy recovery with many, many years of future great health for you and your husband?
thank you so much friend. <3
Very helpful and Great information,
we appreciate advise especially coming from a professional.
Thanks again and keep up the great work!
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thank you!
YUMMY in my TUMMY! This looks DELISH! I have tried to make bread once and it did not go so well, so I just buy it…HAHA!
I’ve been playing with all sorts of Paleo quick breads, but I haven’t had any real luck with a good sandwich bread/toast. This might just be exactly what I’m looking for!
I so love the texture of this nut and seed Paleo Bread – it looks totally DELISH woohoo – only 7 ingredients!
My daughter had a bought of gluten sensitivity, but she has been incorporating gluten-full bread slowly back into her diet just cos she wasn’t a fan of the available options – but am thinking she would love this – even though she isn’t quite GF these days!
If I lived in Dallas I’d bring you the loaf of Paleo bread – in exchange for some of your bites – just saying! 🙂
Hope you heal quickly Lindsay! xx
You know I won’t make it BUT it looks amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🙂
This looks great!! Making soon 🙂
Yay! Keep me posted
This looks absolutely PERFECT! I love making homemade bread as it always tastes so much better, however, I haven’t made a loaf in SO long! That definitely needs to change!
I just told Evie we needed to chill on the grains. Back to the anti-inflammatory. I think we have a pulled everything right now.
We keep Canyon Bakehouse’s 7-Grain in the freezer. Vegas approves as long as it’s toasted. I also love the baguette from Against the Grain.
Hi Lindsay
Just wondering if it will work with a different flour instead of almond? I can’t get almond flour in my town. Or can i just grind down my almond meal more? It just looks so delicious I definitely want to make it!
Sure! What flour do you have? You can make your own almond meal and it would work but probably wouldn’t be as fluffy. Baking times might be different too.
If you use another flour, watch the baking time as well. Could be shorter or longer depending on flour. Start off with 30 minutes and adjust from there. Does that make sense?
It certainly does. I’ll try the ground fown meal and might order some almond flour on line – I was looking at some of your other recipes and can see I’ll need to order peanut flour for the breakfast mug cake as well! ?
You can use a pea or vegan protein instead of the Pb flour. But I do love that Pb flour
Sometimes I eat bread just so I can have another reason to ingest butter. 🙂
Bread’s not bad either, and I love all the seeds in this. Bring on the nutrients…and the butter. 🙂
Butter… Always… Agreed!
Woah Lindsay, this seriously looks like it would out rank any gluten free bread I’ve ever had. I would LOVE to try this for my dad, and the description of it sounds just like it would be like a normal or even better than a normal bread. 🙂
Nuts and seeds are the BOMB! And I love the way some grain-free breads taste, actually! SO nutty, delicious and satiating!
Wow I love how simple this is! And always so interesting to read on gut health and digestion and absorption of nutrients. So much information!!
Made this today, had a couple slices for a sandwich for lunch! My add-in spices was a Mediterranean spice blend that added a nice depth. I froze the rest for future sandwich cravings… thanks for an easy recipe with everything I have on hand! Oh, and I used 3/4 cup of dehydrated almond pulp from making milk, and 1/2 cup bob’s red mill gf flour instead of all almond flour!
wonderful! So glad! Love that bread too.
I’m so excited to try this! Other Paleo sandwich breads use coconut butter or cashews, which is great, but this recipe is much more cost effective. Thank you!!
awesome! keep me posted Mandy!
Love this recipe! The bread tastes great but the loaf I made did not rise as high as yours did. It’s just not quite high enough for sandwich bread, but it’s wonderful to slice and eat and I love that it slices easily. I followed the recipe exactly, do you have any suggestions on how I can get the loaf to rise higher? Should I add more baking soda?
Thanks for your suggestions.
Did you whisk the eggs enough? Yes more baking soda could work. Where do you live? At altitude?
Best paleo bread I have made! so easy! Thanks for sharing
wonderful! so glad! We love it too
This recipe sounds amazing! unfortunately I can not eat Almonds… Do you think a different type of gluten free flour would work instead as well?
best wishes,
Elena
You mean instead of almond flour? What flours do you have on hand? Happy to help
Yes instead of almond flour! I don’t have any, I will buy any gluten free flour that could work as substitute because I am allergic to almonds 🙂 Do you have any suggestions ? I only know buckwheat flour but I feel like it is not too good for baking
This looks great!
Could I sub any other flour for the tapioca? I have chickpea and coconut flours on hand.
Thanks in advance!
I think chickpea would work! Check baking times though.
This sounds amazing! Would it be possible to substitute the tapioca flour? Thanks!
For sure! Try oat flour or corn starch or potato starch. Cooking times may vary.
What did you mean about substituting flax meal? Was it just as a substitute for poppy seeds or could it sub for the chia? Thanks.
you can substitute the chia meal for ground flaxseed. I will update that in notes now. Thanks!
Hello, I just found your recipe and it looks amazing I really want to try it. Regarding the tapioca flour. I can only find tapioca starch where I live and I’m not sure whether I can use it instead of the flour. I googled it and some sources say that it is the same thing and some others that it’s not. Do you think it’ll be fine if I use the starch?
Thank you!
For sure! You can use arrowroot, tapioca starch, or corn starch. Does that help?
Would potato starch work?
It might! I haven’t tried it before with this bread but I do use potato starch in a lot of recipes for corn starch replacement
Love all the nuts + seeds! Sometimes I leave out the herbs and eat it as a “sweet bread” in the morning otherwise I add in the herbs to use for a sandwich!!
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Now this is a stunning loaf! I love the pumpkin seeds on top and the optional savory mix-ins. I can see this becoming a staple in my home, especially in cooler months when I’m in the mood to bake!
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OMG this is gorgeous! Can’t wait to try it!
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Keep me posted Lara!
So good!!!
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I am sure vegan option of this paleo bread won’t be as good. This is so amazing. Love you Lindsay
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Oh thanks Nikki! I have tried this with aquafaba and flax egg. It’s good but it doesn’t rise. So totally worth a shot!
This bread looks amazing and I will definitely give it a try. I’m wondering if I can substitute the almond flour with hazelnut flour. Thank you 🙂
sure! I think that would work if it’s similar texture of flour.
I just made this bread. Simple to make and I’m impressed with the results. I made it in the smaller tin and it actually rose 😃 I didn’t add the herbs as I will use it sometimes with a sweet topping but I will add herbs next time. It’s the first time I have been happy with a paleo/ gluten free bread. Thank you for the great recipe
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Oh wonderful! Thanks for the feedback Jaye! Yes, add the herbs next time. Curious to see whatcha think!
I love this bread! I add dried fruit to give it some sweetness. I don’t add they savory seasonings. And 6 eggs. Yum!!
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Oh i love the fruit addition! great idea Lisa
I tried this today. It was delicious but didnt rise at all.. so was quite flat. Any suggestions?
Sometimes it can be from over mixing. I’ve had several loaves rise and then some are a little more dense/flat. I also have to bake at altitude. EEK! Not fun. You could try add cream of tartar to eggs when mixing.
Pros:
easy to make. It doesn’t have any complicated procedure.
Soft
Good taste Nd most of all it’s grain free…….
Cons: it just happened with my bread. Maybe I did something wrong.
Small size loaf
I saw some separate egg white(cooked but can see, which is weird)
But overall it’s worth to try recipe. I will make another batch but before I need to figure out what I did wrong
Thanks for sharing recipe
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Happy to help you with this! Did it not rise? It could have been the size of the pan or something with the eggs. Feel free to email me at team@cottercrunch.com or reply here-happy to give help and tips!
Followed this recipe but used LSA seed nut mix instead of just almond meal and used 6 eggs.
Turned out beautiful. Having some for lunch with roast chicken and bacon jam.
Delicious! And those toppings…YUM!
Why are so many comments from people who HAVEN’T EVEN MADE THE RECIPE!!!!!
Actually most of comments are coming from a meal plan group I have that have tried this recipe. Or from IG video with this recipe. Lots of feedback there! Hope that helps. And I can answer any questions needed.