Paleo Zucchini Bread
Paleo zucchini bread is delicious, moist and flavorful. And unlike most paleo zucchini bread recipes, it’s not overly dense. It’s a tasty way to use up all your in season zucchini and give a nutrient boost to bread.
The Best Paleo Zucchini Bread
Are you ready for the best paleo zucchini bread you’ve ever tasted? When it’s zucchini season it’s an absolute must to whip up a loaf of this bread. It’s gluten-free and grain-free, using my usual triumvirate of flours (almond flour, tapioca flour and coconut flour) for the perfect texture. And if there’s any doubts on why three flours are necessary, just read all the comments on my reader favorite paleo chocolate cake recipe.
This paleo zucchini bread is virtually identical to my gluten-free zucchini bread recipe, but so many readers didn’t realize that recipe was also paleo-friendly, so I’ve posted this updated version today (with just a few minor tweaks).
Paleo Zucchini Bread Recipe Video
Are you ready to make the tastiest paleo zucchini bread? It’s an easy recipe to make, but if it’s your first time I recommend you watch this step-by-step tutorial video. Give it a watch below!
Paleo Zucchini Bread Ingredients
Want to know what’s in this recipe? Just a handful of simple ingredients, including:
- Dry Ingredients: My flour blend of almond flour, tapioca flour and coconut flour, plus baking soda, cinnamon and salt.
- Wet Ingredients: A few fridge and pantry staples including eggs, applesauce, maple syrup, apple cider vinegar….and of course zucchini!
Extra Recipe Tips
One thing you should note, I’ve kept kept the maple syrup to a minimum in this recipe. That means you could easily use this recipe for both sweet and savory options. But if you’d like a sweeter bread, you could certainly increase the maple syrup by 1-2 tablespoons. And if you’d like a much sweeter bread, you definitely need to whip up my chocolate zucchini bread.
This is a quick bread recipe (similar to my paleo banana bread and paleo pumpkin bread recipes) so it will naturally be a thicker bread than sandwich bread.
On my Summer Meal Prep video I show you a few ways to get creative with your paleo zucchini bread recipe. Of course you can eat it plain or top it with butter. But you can also top it with a variety of other ingredients for a delicious, healthy and creative breakfast or lunch option. Enjoy!
More Delicious Zucchini Recipes
When zucchini is in abundance you’ve got lots of options for delicious zucchini recipes!
- Baked Zucchini Fries
- Zucchini Lasagna
- Zucchini Pasta with Lemon Garlic Shrimp
- Taco Stuffed Zucchini Boats
- Easy Sautéed Zucchini
- Zucchini and Prosciutto Egg Muffins
Want another “green” bread recipe? Try my Falafel Flatbread – it’s incredibly unique and versatile. You’ll love it!
Best Paleo Zucchini Bread (gluten-free, dairy-free)
Ingredients
Dry Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups almond flour
- 1/2 cup tapioca flour
- 1/4 cup coconut flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp salt
Wet Ingredients
- 3 eggs
- 1/2 cup applesauce
- 2 tbsp maple syrup
- 1 tbsp apple cider vinegar
- 1 1/2 cups grated zucchini
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees fahrenheit.
- Add all of the dry ingredients to a mixing bowl and stir until combined.
- In a separate bowl add the eggs, applesauce, maple syrup, and apple cider vinegar and whisk together. Squeeze the grated zucchini in a nut milk bag or kitchen towel to remove the excess water. Then add the grated zucchini to the wet ingredients and stir to combine.
- Pour the wet ingredients into the dry and stir until the batter is well mixed. Pour the batter into a greased 8.5 x 4.5 inch loaf pan.
- Bake the zucchini bread for 50-60 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
Lisa's Tips
- This is the nut milk bag I use to squeeze the zucchini and I love it. It's great for homemade almond milk as well.
Nutrition
Recipe originally posted August 2018, but updated to include new information.
Admittedly, we’re having a real hard time with the elimination diet we’re currently currently doing in my household, so I’m choosing not to give a rating. I don’t want to influence others with my opinion right now. But I did want to say something before others currently in my boat make the same mistake. I found these flat out disgusting. I went ahead and made a double batch because I’m rolling in zucchini from the garden, half in the 8×4 pan as directed and the other half in muffin tins…and I’m really regretting it. Nobody in the house will touch these, and they’re about to be ridiculously expensive dog treats. (The dog gives them 5 stars!)
I read comments about grain-free treats being “eggy”, and dismissed them because we just love eggs in this house, but I finally understand now. By “eggy” they mean weirdly porridge-like, spongy and wet at the same time.
I don’t think it’s a recipe fail, though. This might very well be the best that can be done with these types of ingredients and dietary restrictions. I’m so appreciative that you make the effort to try and share recipes like this, putting your reputation on the line. These are probably pure comfort food if you’ve forgotten what traditional baked goods are like. This has been a really difficult adjustment for my corn/wheat loving family, though, and I think these just added to the sadness rather than what I hoped for. I just want people who are new to this to proceed with caution before they waste expensive ingredients, and maybe try half a recipe in muffin tins first?
Hi Robyn – thanks for your honest feedback! If this is your first time baking gluten and grain-free, it can be an adjustment for sure. But just for clarification, these should not be porridge-like, spongy or wet in the middle. It sounds like you may have under-baked them and/or not squeezed enough of the liquid out from the zucchini. You can see from the photos that mine are perfectly bread-like in the middle (and it’s why this recipe has received so many rave reviews). Of course, everyone has different tastes, so I hope you enjoy some of my other recipes more!
Hi Lisa,
I made your pumpkin bread last week and it was delicious. I want to make this zucchini bread this week, and wanted to know if I could make it in my Nordic-ware heritage loaf pan? Thanks
Yes, no problem!
Hi Lisa,
Could I bake this in a Nordic ware 6 cup pan, one of those with the grooves?
I don’t see why not!
I can’t find the video.
Hi Ellen – you can see the video if you turn off your ad blocker.
if I am getting ready to shred and freeze zucchini, should I squeeze dry before or wait until ready to use after I thaw it? can’t wait to try. Thanks so much.
It would be best to squeeze dry before freezing.
It’s been years since experimenting with zucchini. My neighbor have me a huge zucchini from their garden and I ran across this keto friendly recipe. My zucchini bread loaf turned out great, the texture was perfect and it is a wonderful go to for a hurried breakfast. I added 2 to 3 tablespoons of monk fruit sugar to add a little more sweetness. Just love this recipe! Thanks.
Happy to hear your zucchini bread turned out perfectly Candice!
My husband and I love this. I have made it a few times. Today I tried it in muffin tins and it was perfect! Thanks so much.
Happy to hear you and your husband loved this recipe! If you also want a slightly sweeter version, I have a healthy zucchini muffin recipe as well :)