The Best Keto Bread Rolls

Name: The Best Keto Bread Rolls
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 13 min
Yield: 12
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 3 cups shredded mozzarella cheese; 4 ounces cream cheese; 2 eggs; 2 1/4 cups almond flour; 1/4 cup coconut flour; 1/4 cup buttermilk or plain low carb yogurt; 1 teaspoon baking soda; 1/2 teaspoon baking powder; 1/2 teaspoon salt

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This recipe for fathead keto bread rolls is the best you will ever have. These keto rolls are fluffy and taste like the holiday rolls your grandma used to make! You will love these keto dinner rolls, however, if you are looking for a keto bread, similar to white bread check out this recipe.

making low carb rolls with eggs and cheese

18 Mins

Nutrition Facts

Serving Size:
1 Bread Roll

Servings

261

Calories

20.5g

Fat

14.4g

Protein

4.2g

Net Carb

7.3g

Total Carbs

butter spread on a sliced keto roll

The keto diet has replacements and substitutions for many our favorite foods – bread is included here. My favorite keto bread recipes are keto buns, keto bread and these keto rolls.

Everyone needs a good keto roll recipe in their arsenals of recipes. This one is easy to make, so you can whip a batch up to serve along with dinner. And it’s the closest thing to a traditional non-keto dinner roll that you can get, so it’s perfect for holiday meals or potlucks because you friends and family will love them.

The secret to scrumptious rolls is adding a little bit of buttermilk or yogurt. It helps with the flavor, and it helps to make the bread rise in the oven.

Spread some grass-fed butter over the top and you will no longer be missing bread on the keto diet. You can enjoy it everyday!

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Recipe Details
Similar recipes others love
What is fathead dough?
How to Get Keto Bread to Rise
Mixing the Keto Bread Dough
Keto Recipes to Serve with Low Carb Bread Rolls
FAQs
Nutrition information: facts & macronutrients

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Keto Bread Rolls Ingredients

3 cups shredded mozzarella cheese
4 ounces cream cheese
2 eggs
2 1/4 cups almond flour
1/4 cup coconut flour
1/4 cup buttermilk or plain low carb yogurt
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt

The Best Keto Bread Rolls Directions

STEP

1

Preheat

Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
STEP

2
Melt the cheese

In a small glass bowl, add shredded mozzarella cheese and cream cheese. Microwave at 1 minute intervals until the cheese is melted and cream cheese has softened. If you don't want to use a microwave, melt the shredded cheese over the stovetop in a non-stick skillet and use softened cream cheese.
Ingredients

Mozzarella cheese

Cream Cheese
STEP

3
Get your food processor

To a food processor, add remaining ingredients and melted cheeses. Pulse until combined. You may also combine the ingredients using an electric mixer; however, the dough comes together evenly and faster using a food processor.
Ingredients

Eggs

Almond flour

Coconut flour

Buttermilk (or yogurt)

Baking soda

Baking powder

Salt
STEP

4

Create dough balls

Wet your hands with some water or oil in order to handle the dough. This will prevent the dough from sticking to your hands. Grab a handful of dough, form it into a ball and place on a parchment lined baking tray. Continue with remaining dough. You can form your desired size. Dough balls larger than 2.5 inches wide, will require longer cooking times. Evenly place dough balls on the tray spacing about 1 inch apart.

Quick Tip
If you are counting macros and going off the supplied nutrition facts ensure you get 12 dough balls out of this batch.
STEP

5

Bake the rolls

Bake at 400 degrees Fahrenheit for 13-18 minutes or until hardened on the outside and slightly firm on the inside. Let cool for 3-5 minutes before eating.

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What is fathead dough?

If you have heard of fathead dough before, you are probably used to seeing it used as a keto pizza crust in low carb recipes. It can be used to make other breads and baked goods. In this recipe, we are taking the main components of fathead dough (mozzarella cheese, almond flour and egg) as a base for our keto bread roll recipe.

We add other ingredients, like buttermilk or yogurt, to help decrease the cheese flavor that some fathead doughs can have.

How to Get Keto Bread to Rise

Since keto bread typically doesn’t use gluten based flours or yeast, it can be difficult to get the dough to rise in the oven. The ingredients in this recipe that help the dough rise are the use of baking powder and baking soda. Baking soda needs to react with an acid in order to produce carbon dioxide bubble to puff up the dough while baking. The acid in this recipe is the buttermilk or yogurt.

Another trick you can use to help your keto bread rolls rise is to throw a handful of ice cubes in the oven while the rolls are baking. The ice cubes will rapidly melt creating steam. Steam in the oven will also help you keto dough rise. Of course, if you had a steam oven, this would work even better.

Mixing the Keto Bread Dough

The best way to mix up this keto bread dough is to use a food processor. Since this is a fathead dough, the best way to incorporate the cheese with the rest of the ingredients is with an electric tool – like a food processor or mixer. I prefer the food processor because just a few seconds on the pulse button and the ingredients are combined. You can use an electric mixer but it’s a little messy because the ingredients can fly out of the bowl sometimes.

My favorite food processor is by Breville.

Is Buttermilk Keto?

Although it may seem like buttermilk has a lot of carbohydrates in it, it’s really not that much when you break it down per serving. In this recipe for keto rolls, we use 1/4 cup of buttermilk. That equates to 3 net carbs for the entire recipe; therefore, buttermilk is keto approved.

I like to use buttermilk in recipes because it adds a tangy flavor and serves as an acid to interact with baking soda, which will help leven baked goods. In other words, it helps the bread to rise. The tanginess covers up the cheese and egg flavor in keto breads.

Keto Approved Yogurt

If you don’t want to use buttermilk, a low carb yogurt works well in this recipe too. It is tangy and acidic to give the bread flavor and help it rise while baking.

My favorite brand of keto approved yogurt is by Peak Yogurt. Their yogurt is triple creamed and only has 4 g net carbs per serving and it is made from Grass-fed cows. If you can’t get a hold of their yogurt, another brand to try is Two Good Yogurt. This yogurt has 3 g net carbs.

If you can’t get ahold of either of those, when all else fails, just look for a Greek yogurt with the lowest carb count. You are only using 1/4 cup of yogurt for the entire roll recipe, so it won’t push your carb limit too much.

Keto Recipes to Serve with Low Carb Bread Rolls

These keto rolls are so yummy on by themselves, but you can serve them as a side dish during dinner or a holiday meal. Try these recipes:

The Best Keto Bread Rolls: FAQS

How many carbs are in bread rolls?

Traditional bread rolls with wheat flour have a significant amount of carbohydrate ranging from as low as 15 Net Carbs to well over 30 carbs per roll! This keto bread recipe has only 7 Total Carbs and just over 4 Net Carbs!

Can I add seeds such as sesame seed?

Sure. Experiment with the 'kitchen sink' of seeds! Other than sesame seeds you could use poppy seeds, minced dried garlic or onion, flaked sea salt and garlic powder. I would either add melted butter and then top with seeds, or I would apply an egg wash, then top with seeds and do another couple of minutes in the oven. I could see this turning into a nice sandwich roll or burger bun!

Does this recipe contain psyllium husk powder?

No. While psyllium powder is in many keto recipes, this bread roll recipe does not call for it.

Nutritional information & Macros

Amount Per Serving
Calories	261
Fat	20.5g
Protein	14.4g
Total Carbs	7.3g
Net Carbs	4.2g

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