
The Best Low Carb Bread Recipe
This Low Carb Bread recipe has proven way more popular than I ever anticipated.
For that very reason I have just updated the post to answer the many questions regarding it. Every day I receive so many photos of your creations, questions for substitutions, baking tips, etc.
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Low Carb Bread Is It Keto?
This low carb bread recipe contains gluten. So, for those of you who cannot tolerate gluten this low carb bread recipe is totally out for you.
Since starting blogging keto, I have had my share of people telling me what is or is not keto foods. Keto is actually based on the state of ketosis right? Eating a very low carb diet to maintain a ketones in the blood is “being keto”. This recipe still suits that lifestyle, but this bread does contain grain.
This low carb bread without almond flour has only has 1g net carbs per slice, based on 24 slices per loaf.
Originally inspired by Deidre’s Bread Maker Bread and Keto.luna. This is easily one of the best keto friendly bread recipes I have tried.
Low Carb Bread Ingredients

Many of these ingredients have NO substitutes so please don’t ask what they can be changed with.
- Inulin is prebiotic insoluble fibre sourced from plants. It has sweet properties naturally occurring and can be used to feed and activate yeast as well as be used in baking and sweets. Other sweeteners like xylitol and erythritol will not activate yeast. However, if you do use sugar or honey the carbohydrates will be eaten by the yeast thus reducing carbs.
- Oat Fiber is the hull of the oat ground into a fine powder. It is all fibre and hence, the no carb value. It has a nice fine powdery consistency that works well in this bread.
- Gluten Flour a natural protein found in wheat that is high in minerals and low in carbs. Vital wheat gluten has no substitutes and creates beautiful texture low carb breads.
- Golden flax meal a delicious tasting meal that adds earthiness to this recipe. Substitute more oat fiber or blanched almond flour if you don’t have it, but it is recommended.
NOTE: This recipe uses no coconut flour, psyllium husk powder, almond flour, or baking flour like many other low carb breads. This is also not a gluten free bread recipe. You can try our other keto bread recipes like Soul Almond Flour Bread recipe (with added protein powder), Garlic Star Bread or Best Keto Bread for gluten free options.
Ingredient Substitutes
I often get asked about many of the ingredients and if there are substitutes. So, here are just a few options I have used.
Gluten flour – sorry no gluten free substitute for this one and yes, it is essential to the bread recipe. This is one keto recipe using vital wheat gluten that cannot be substituted.
Oat Fiber – oat fibre is made from the husk of the oat. It is zero calories and carbs. No, it is not oat flour. I have used Woolworths Gentle Fibre as a substitute in another low carb loaf however this does add carbs and grains to your bread. The texture and taste of the low carb bread is much better using the oat fiber
Eggs – eggs can be substituted with a chia eggs (2 tbsp chia seeds or chia flour and 6 tbsp of water) for an egg free keto bread recipe and also for a keto vegan bread.
Butter – substitute ghee, any vegan or dairy free spread, or light tasting olive oil for a dairy free low carb bread.
How to Make Low Carb Bread
It really is easy to make and bake your own no carb bread at home. Here is all you need to do. I have included a low carb Thermomix bread recipe method. See the recipe card below.
- Mix the yeast with the inulin and water in a large bowl or 2 cup measuring jug. Cover it and leave it in a warm place for 15-20 minutes until it activates. You will know it is activated by a thick foam on the surface of the water. The foam can almost double the volume in the jug.
- Combine all the ingredients into a mixer with a dough hook, food processor or Thermomix and mix until the dough comes together.
- Turn the dough out onto a clean bench or silicone mat and knead for 5 minutes or until the dough is soft supple and no longer sticky.
- Press the dough into a large rectangle the same width as your loaf pan. Roll the dough over to form a log and place the dough seam side down into the loaf pan. Cover with a silicone mat or kitchen towel and leave in a warm place for 1 hour or until the dough has doubled in size.
- Bake for 45 minutes. Remove bread from baking pan immediately and allow to cool on a wire rack before slicing. For more details and baking tips check out my YouTube full video baking low carb bread.
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FAQs
There are a few reasons this can occur.
* Not kneading the dough long enough to develop gluten structure
* Under proofing.
* Not scoring/slashing the bread or not deep enough slashes
* Using too much yeast
Activate the yeast. The yeast I use is just the dried stuff you can buy in every supermarket. Activate it in warm water with the inulin. Inulin (or sugar) helps to activate the yeast and help give great rise to this keto bread.
When adding all your ingredients never add the yeast onto the salt. Salt kills yeast. If you add your salt after the eggs and flours, then pour the yeast starter over the top this is enough to separate the two and not kill your rise.

Low Carb Bread Baking Tips
- I recommend using a mixer to mix the dough. If you are mixing by hand, mix with a spatula at first, then move to a clean bench or silicone mat. Knead the dough until a soft and supple dough is achieved. Do not over-knead as this can result in dense bread.
- The dough needs a warm place to rise. If it is cold outside and inside it can be hard to rise a dough at room temperature. If you have an oven that has a proving temperature (40°C or 75°F), then you can use that. Alternatively, add a large tray of boiling water into your oven and place the loaf in the middle tray and shut the door. Check after 30 minutes and refresh the water if it has not doubled in size. The air conditioner is always another option too. I have invested in a fabulous quality silicone mat and wrap mine tightly and add a kitchen towel to help keep the dough warm.
- You can also rise the dough then place into the fridge for a longer fermentation and proving process.
- Bread tin choice and size can greatly influence easy keto bread crust and size. Read through the Keto Low Carb Bread Tins post to see what tins are best to use and why.

Next Recipes To Try
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Low Carb Bread Recipe
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Ingredients
- 1 cup warm water See Note 2
- 1 tablespoon inulin or sub sugar or honey, See Note 2
- 2 teaspoons instant dried yeast (7g) See Note 3
- 2 eggs room temperature large eggs, See Note 4
- Pinch salt flakes
- 2/3 cup golden flax meal (80g) or almond meal
- 1/2 cup oat fiber (50g) click for supplier see blog post for substitutes
- 1 1/4 cup gluten flour (180g) click for supplier
- 70 g (2.5 oz) salted butter cubed, See Note 6
- 1/2 tsp xanthan gum optional
Instructions
CONVENTIONAL METHOD
- Combine inulin and yeast with water; cover with cling film and a silicone mat and leave in a warm place until yeast activates and almost doubles with foam. This can take 20-40 minutes.
- Add all ingredients to mixer, including activated yeast. Using dough hook attachment knead dough for minimum 5 minutes (dough will be smooth, soft and supple but not wet)
- Stretch dough out to large rectangle roughly as wide as your loaf tin. Roll dough over lengthwise to form a roll. Place into loaf tin seam side down.
- Cover loaf with clean towel or silicone mat and leave in warm place for approximately 1 hour until loaf has risen.
- Preheat the oven to 170℃ fan/190°C static/375°F. Line a 25.5 cm x 13 cm (10 x 5 inch) loaf pan. Bake for 40-45 minutes. Cool on a wire rack.
THERMOMIX LOW CARB BREAD METHOD
- Add inulin, yeast and warm water to mixer; heat 2 min/37°C/speed 1. Leave lid on and leave for 10-15 minutes or until thick and foamy.
- Place all ingredients into mixer; knead 5 min/dough setting. Follow from step 3 above.
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634 responses to “Easy Low Carb Bread Recipe”
Hello, I was making this bread after i had it all made and rising. i went to plug in the ingredients
into my carb manager. how can you say that it is 2 carbs a slice. when 1 1/4 cups vital Wheat gluten is 60 net carbs. is this correct maybe it is listed wrong in the recipes. I had to trash mine as i would not even bake it with that high of net carbsHi Susan, gluten flour is only 3g net carbs per 1/4 cup. So only 15g net carb or 20g total carbs per loaf. It is used in all low carb breads across the globe.
This bread is a Miracle!! Love it! Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!!!๐ Do you have any recipes for noodles? Not the weird pre packaged rubber kind, but ones made with nut flours or similar low carb flours?
Made this today. I added another cup of water as the dough was too dry. I used a bread machine on the 3 hour slow cycle and I got an amazing rise. Best keto bread I have ever made. Thank you for sharing.Can i please know the dimension of the loaf pan you used?
I use a 23 cm x 13cm x 7cm or 22cm x 11cm
I made this today. Somebody please help me to troubleshoot. It rised beautifully but after baked, it collapsed :(. Here are the pictures of before baking and after baking. http://imgur.com/gallery/y3WHdLP
Hi there, by the looks of it the dough was over-risen before baking. Here is a link that can help with why a loaf can collapse. https://oureverydaylife.com/bread-drop-middle-cooling-39197.html
Looking forward to baking this bread. Has anyone got any feedback on how this bread toasts?
Hello Megan, I am from Oz too and find your cup measurements difficult to judge. Do you have the metric weight of the ingredients please or can you tell me where to find them. I had 2 total disasters with the recipe and wondered if maybe I wasnโt kneading it properly so bought a secondhand machine and even that wasnโt what I would call successful but edible. Thanks
Wow, just wow. When I cut into my first perfect fluffy loaf that looked, smelled and tasted like ‘real’ bread I thought what sort of witchcraft is this, how is it possible? Megan you have absolutely nailed it. In the famous words of the Aussie legend Molly Meldrum, if you haven’t tried this yet “do yourself a favour”I mad this bread this afternoon and my dough was very firm and like your video. I checked the ingredients list and it seems that itโs all right. Did I do something wrong? I mixed it with a stand mixer with dough hooks for about 5-7minutes
Hi Jo, It can be firm for more than a few reasons. Firstly did you use Oat Fibre and not oat flour? With the measures of both Vital Gluten and Oat Fibre were they correct? Both absorb a lot of moisture so if there is too much added it will make your bread rubbery and firmer. Also was the yeast activated, did the bread rise up above the tin before baking?
I made it again and paid a lot of attention to the measurements and followed your video but it dough when mixing is rubbery so I mixed for longer. The bread did rise above the tin but didnโt rise further in the oven, so it not high and fluffy like yours. I must be doing something wrong. Maybe the dough hooks are doing a very good job?
What a fab recipe. I actually made 2 loaves out of this one batch as my pans were only 6cms deep. Each loaf was then sliced into 14 slices. Iโve been on and off keto diet for a few years now and these recipes definitely help a bread carbo loving girl keep on track. Thanks Megan and Dave for all your hard work. Debbie
Hi Megan. My first attempt gave tasty but hilarious results! All seemed well with it rising nicely. Then I stuck it in the oven and it rose way more – pressing the rack above it and developing a belly on one side. There were no large air bubbles in it when it cooled. I want to confirm the cup measurements (I’m Canadian). I used 1 1/4 cup wheat gluten. Could you give this in grams – like someone else requested? Then I will know what to do next time because I bought all the right ingredients.
Iโm so disappointed ๐ this recipe is a direct rip off of a YouTube recipe by Diedres Kitchen. Made in 2016. Why donโt you give credit to the original creator? Very disappointing Megan. I would expect better from you.The recipe is actually influenced by a lot of bloggers and LC Foods, Bobs red Mill Bread Mix, and Sola Breads. Please read the first paragraph of the blog post where Deidre’s Bread is listed as well.
To safely rise the bread in winter.Place a shallow pan of boiling water in the oven. Heat oven to lowest setting and switch off.
Place bread in oven and leave to rise for 30 min.
PS thank you for this recipe. My family love it and you’ve changed our lives.
Awesome bread. Iโm curious though because I was getting a sort of bouncy texture I was thinking maybe itโs because of the eggs. It has worked every time I made it but Iโm going to try without eggs just wondering if you have recommendations as to what to substitute? Perhaps just more water or perhaps a ratio of more water and fat?
HI may I know if I can omit the xanthan gum? Thanks. This looks so good, I can’t wait to try it.
Hi Megan,
Wonderful looking recipe. I was wondering if you would be kind enough to give the oat fibre and vital wheat glutenโs measurements in grams please. When I select metric, it still gives measurements in cups for these two ingredients. I can never get good results in baking with cup measurements. Thank you so much
Hi Megan. The first time I made this recipe, it was absolutely perfect. Just like in the photos and videos. The second time, the yeast was fluffy, but it did not double like the first time and it did not rise as much, but it was still great. The 3rd time I was careful to let the yeast rise to 2 cups and did exactly what I did the first time and itโs even lower than the second time I did it. Iโm sure it will still be wonderful and Iโve advertised your recipe, tagging you all over the web. Any idea what I could have done wrong? Thanks so much, this is the most wonderful low carb bread ever!How are you kneading it Tommy? I am guessing it could be under done as that can affect the developing of the gluten structures in the bread. If you are in the southern hemisphere it is very cold, so make sure you really work at proving in a nice warm environment. I wrap in a large silicone mat and a large microfibre tea towel to get the rise. It can take an hour to rise. Not sure if you maybe are using a larger tin for the last two times? So either ensure you knead for 5 minutes minimum, and make it toasty and warm (no higher than 40โ) Also when you are mixing your loaf do make sure the salt is not sprinkled on the yeast? As salt kills yeast and that is why I add the salt after the eggs, cover with the dry ingredients before adding the yeast and inulin mix.
Also, I have made this bread now a few times. US conversions I use are 5 Tablespoons of butter and oven temp at 335 F has worked each time for 45 mins. I have bought a few different yeast brands and Fleischmanns is a better rise than Red Star.Thanks Renee you are a legend.
My goodness, this was a game changer! Fabulous! It turned out great, just as good as any bread I have made and purchased! Thank you, thank you! Looking forward this week to making the rolls out of it. super easy and so worth the cost of the ingredients.
Also, I have made this bread now a few times. US conversions I use are 5 Tablespoons of butter and oven temp at 335 F has worked each time for 45 mins. I have bought a few different yeast brands and Fleischmanns is a better rise than Red Star.
The texure of this bread is terrific! My only issue is the yeast taste & smell is overpowering. Any ideas on how to reduce that?
You can reduce the yeast to only 7g if you wish. It will just have a smaller rise.
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