If you love biscuits and haven’t had them since going gluten free, you will love this paleo biscuit recipe that Simone from Zenbelly shared with us! Make a batch of flaky biscuits in under 40 minutes.
If you are looking for that perfect paleo biscuit recipe to go along with that bowl of soup, look no further than this delicious gluten free biscuit recipe from Chef Simone Shifnadel, the owner of the Zenbelly blog. She has just the recipe for you to try just in time for the holidays!
If you are not grain-free, check out my gluten-free biscuit recipes.
Why I love these paleo biscuits:
- These biscuits are perfect for dipping into herbed olive oil or a bowl of soup! Don’t forget to check out all of my delicious gluten free bread recipes while you are here!
- To restate the obvious, these delicious fluffy biscuits are grain-free and refined sugar-free.
- Almond flour gives these biscuits some protein to balance out the carbs.
- These homemade grain-free biscuits are drop-style and so easy to make! All you need is a bowl and a few simple ingredients!
They were amazing!! I highly recommend!”
Jillian, Pinterest pin comment
Don’t forget to check out all of my delicious gluten free bread recipes while you are here!
Allergen Information:
These paleo biscuits are gluten-free, grain-free, oat-free, and soy-free. Make them dairy-free if you use VERY COLD ghee.
Flour Blends Tested:
1. Anthony’s Almond Flour – I love this brand batch tests for gluten to ensure there is no cross-contamination.
2. Arrowroot Starch – I used Bob’s GF arrowroot starch. Tapioca starch also works.
Ingredients Notes:
- Almond Flour—Use almond flour instead of almond meal. The flour is much finer and gives this biscuit recipe a better texture.
- Arrowroot Starch – You can also use tapioca starch.
- Eggs – Use size large.
- Butter – Butter is one of the more controversial ingredients. Many on a paleo diet will eat butter if it is from a grass-fed animal. You can also use ghee, but it needs to be very cold to get the flaky layers. Use unsalted.
Step-By-Step Photos and Directions:
Step 1: Preheat your oven to 400º F. Be sure the oven rack is positioned in the middle of the oven.
Step 2: Add your dry ingredients to a large
Step 3: Add very cold butter chunks. The next step is to cut the butter into the flour. There are two ways you can do this (the easy and the hard ways.)
How To Cut Butter Into Flour:
- The easy way. Use a pastry blender to cut the butter into the flour. You can see what a pastry blender looks like in the photo above.
- The harder way. Use two cutting knives to chop the butter into the flour. Another thing I don’t like about this method is that it is harder to get small pieces of butter…making the biscuits a bit inconsistent.
Step 4: Add your wet ingredients to a small bowl. Whisk to blend.
Step 5: Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and mix them into the biscuit dough.
Step 6: Line a
Step 7: These biscuits are drop-style and cook fairly quickly. Bake at 400º F for 15 minutes. The actual baking time will vary depending on the size of your biscuits. Serve them warm with ghee and honey.
These biscuits are amazing dipped in these soups:
One of my favorite things to do with a biscuit is to dip it into a bowl of hot soup or stew. Here are some delicious recipes to dip these paleo biscuits into:
And if you like what you see, Simone has several amazing paleo cookbooks, including:
Frequently Asked Questions:
You can use almond flour, coconut flour, cassava flour, and tapioca starch when making paleo biscuits. This recipe uses a combination of almond flour and tapioca starch.
You can use a biscuit cutter. Press the biscuit dough to 1 ½ to 2 inches thick and use your biscuit cutter to cut out your biscuits.
Store the biscuits in an airtight container in the refrigerator. They will keep fresh for up to 3 days. Warm them up in the toaster oven or air fryer at 300º F for 5 minutes.
You can easily freeze these biscuits. Place room-temperature biscuits into a freezer-safe zipper bag.
I was able to substitute maple syrup for the honey and tapioca starch for the arrowroot starch and it tasted delicious.”
Allison S.
More Delicious Paleo Recipes:
Love This Recipe?
If you made and enjoyed this recipe, I would be incredibly grateful if you could leave a comment below. Please include which flour blend you used. This will help others know this recipe is delicious. Thank you!
Paleo Rainy Day Biscuits
Ingredients
- 2.5 cups almond flour
- ¾ cup arrowroot Flour
- ¼ cup butter preferably grass-fed, unsalted
- 2 tablespoons honey
- 2 large eggs preferably pastured
- ½ teaspoon sea salt
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400º F and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- In a large mixing bowl, combine the almond flour, arrowroot, salt and baking soda. Combine with a whisk.
- Cut the butter into 4-5 pieces and cut into the dry ingredients with a pastry cutter or 2 knives. You’ll want the result to look like coarse crumbs, no larger than pea sized.
- In a small bowl, whisk together the honey and eggs.
- Gently mix into the dry ingredients, but try not to over mix. You want it just to come together.
- Drop the batter onto your prepared sheet with a large spoon. It helps to dampen your hands to shape them a bit- the dough is sticky. This recipe makes 6 large biscuits. (If you make smaller ones, adjust your cooking time accordingly)
- Bake for about 15 minutes, but give them a peek after 10.
Notes
- Although almond flour is gluten free, there is a risk of cross-contamination, so be sure the package says gluten free. I like Anthony’s Almond Flour.
- Store in an airtight container for up to 3 days in the refrigerator.
SPECIAL NOTE
Please know that every gluten free flour blend has a different starch to grain ratio. If you use a blend I didn’t test, you may need to adjust your moisture levels in your baked goods.
Nutrition
Nutrition Disclaimer
Nutritional information is an estimate provided to you as a courtesy. You should calculate the actual nutritional information with the products and brands you are using with your preferred nutritional calculator.
This post was updated from an older October 2018 post with more details.
We are biscuit eaters in my family, or, at least we were before we started eating Paleo. I have tried myriad recipes for Paleo biscuits and they have, mostly, been dismal disappointments…. until I tried this fabulous recipe.
Tonight we had an amazing beef, mushroom, onion gravy over your biscuits and I got repeated raves about the biscuits. Everyone thanked me for not giving up on all of the options available.
Thank you for this wonderful recipe.
I am so glad you loved these biscuits. I can’t take credit for the recipe. Simone shared it with my readers a few years ago. Her Zenbelly blog has a lot of great paleo recipes.
I have never made biscuits before. I will love to try this recipe! Paleo is bonus.
I hope you like these Yang 🙂
I would have never guessed you can make biscuits with almond flour. Sounds like such a great recipe. I’ll definitely be trying this.
Almond flour is very versatile 🙂
These look perfect! I can totally imagine dunking them into a big bowl of soup or pretty much anything!
That sounds amazing :-).
Such a great biscuit recipe! I love Simone’s recipes & books.
Simone is such a great person and cook. She was hired to prepare all of the food at a work retreat a few years ago and that is the best I have ever eaten!
These biscuits are so perfect for the holiday season. They go well with practically anything!
They really do. Thank you so much for stopping by.
Biscuit with almond flour! Yes, I finally found what I was looking for!
I am so glad you like this Joni, enjoy 🙂
These biscuits look awesome! Love how easy they are.
Thank you so much Anya 🙂
These look great! My kids love it when I get around to making biscuits – they will love these!
Thank you so much Renee, I am glad your kids will love them!
Those do look pretty perfect! Do you know if coconut oil works instead of butter?
Hi Raia, I haven’t tried this recipe with coconut oil, I think you would have to get it very cold and hard in order to get it to cut in like butter. If you try it, please come back and let us know 🙂
I love a good biscuit, these look so fluffy and delicious!
Thank you so much Tessa, glad you like these 🙂
i’m allergic to almond. is there some other gf flour to use?
Hi Elayne, this recipe is paleo so I don’t have a gluten free flour that would substitute. You can find gluten free biscuit recipes on Pinterest or Google if that helps.
great recipes
Thank you Dave!!
I am trying to eat healthier, so this will be great to make a decent version of biscuits and gravy.
Enjoy 🙂
I may have to order the flour online to make these, but I am going to try them!
I hope you like it 🙂
Great job on these, and sneaking in nutrition is always important.
Thank you Michelle 🙂