Keto Grilled Cheese

A grilled cheese sandwich is a lunch-time classic. On a keto diet, it’s hard to enjoy any sandwich without using keto bread that has gluten. Rather than opting for low carb sandwich recipes using ingredients other than bread like a bell pepper sandwich or sandwich bowl, you can easy make a gooey keto grilled cheese in minutes with this simple bread recipe.

This is the BEST keto grilled cheese around! Fluffy pieces of white low carb bread are toasted on a griddle or non-stick skillet to create a golden crunchy crust with gooey, melty cheddar cheese sandwiched within.

The keto bread recipe is baked in the microwave at 90 seconds. It only takes a couple minutes to make 2 slices of bread. This bread looks and tastes like real bread. It doesn’t have that overwhelming eggy flavor that other keto recipes have. All that’s left is to layer on your favorite cheese – cheddar, Pepper Jack, Colby Jack, brie, or try a combination of all of them!

Lunchtime just got better especially if served with a tomato soup or a tomato based soup like minestrone.

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“I have all the ingredients except the microwave which I don’t have only because of limited space. Doubled the recipe into a longer thick ceramic pan in which cooking time was 17 minutes at 350°. To my surprise, after cooling and careful slicing in half, it looked exactly like your bread and tasted so good by itself. I made the grilled cheese sandwiches and it was ever oh so delicious! This is a keeper!!“

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1. Make low carb bread for the sandwich. The recipe used only takes 90 seconds to bake in the microwave; although, you can use the oven as well. It has special ingredients to make the bread fluffy and airy, all the while looking and tasting like real bread.
2. Spread butter on one side of each slice of bread. This will help crisp and toast the outside of the sandwich.
3. Grill each slice of bread on a non-stick skillet. Add the bread, butter side down to a hot skillet, top with cheese, cover and cook until cheese is melted and bread is golden brown.

Key ingredients

• Keto bread – When it comes to sandwich bread for your keto grilled cheese recipe, this recipe yields an easy bread that comes together in a few minutes. It uses almond flour, protein powder, baking powder, allulose, butter, egg white, sour cream and heavy cream. The combination of all these ingredients makes a soft, airy bread that doesn’t taste like an egg.
• Butter – Necessary to spread on the outside of the bread so the bread will toast on the skillet to a crunchy, golden brown hot sandwich.
• Cheese – Of course, you need cheese when you make a cheese sandwich. I use sharp cheddar cheese because it has a strong cheddar flavor and is zero net carbs per slice. Other options for cheese are, mild cheddar cheese, medium cheddar cheese, pepper jack cheese, swiss cheese, gouda cheese, and Havarti cheese. You could use American cheese, however American cheese does have carbs in it. Typically, a slice of American cheese has 1 g carb.

Equipment needed

• Square baking dish – This will be the mold for making your keto sandwich bread. Make sure it is microwave and oven safe. Ideally, you want a square shape around 4″ x 4″. The baking dish I used  came in a meal prep set similar to this set. It holds 781 ml if that helps.
• Parchment paper – To keep the bread from sticking to the sides of the baking dish and to make it easier to lift our your bread loaf out of the dish.