5 Paleo-Friendly Recipes You Need to Try

5 Paleo-Friendly Recipes You Need to Try

Planning to make a jump towards a healthy Paleo diet? Then you’ve come to the right place. Check out these varied, delicious and highly nutritious Paleo diets, with complete recipes:

Stuffed Sweet Potatoes

Stuffed Sweet Potatoes
Here is a dish that serves four and takes one hour in total to prepare. Rich in carbs, vitamins, and antioxidants, this is an excellent initiation to the Paleo diet.

Ingredients:

  • Four sweet potatoes
  • Quarter cup of full-fat coconut milk
  • Half cup of roasted pecans, crumbled
  • Half cup of dried cranberries
  • One large cored and diced apple
  • One tablespoon of  fresh chives, minced
  • Quarter teaspoon of  ground cinnamon
  • Salt and black pepper (freshly ground) for seasoning

Preparation:
Preheat oven to 400 F.  Stab each of the sweet potatoes all around with a fork.  Wrap tightly in foil.  Place sweet potatoes in the oven.  Roast for fifty minutes.  Take them out and cool them down for twenty minutes.  Cut open each of the potatoes lengthwise.  Keeping skins intact.  Remove flesh carefully with a spoon. Place the flesh in a bowl.  Mash potato flesh with coconut milk and mix with chives, salt, and pepper.  Stuff each potato with the mashed filling.  Top with pecans, dried cranberries, and apples.  You can shower some cinnamon on top for extra flavor.

Grapefruit &  Banana Smoothie

Grapefruit &  Banana Smoothie
Grapefruit offers a host of nutritional benefits, which is what gives it a spot on this list. Broiled grapefruit serves four and takes only five minutes to prepare and six minutes to cook.

  The ingredients are as follows:

  • Grapefruit
  • Honey
  • Ground ginger or cinnamon
  • Sliced bananas
  • Yogurt

Preparation:
Cut each of the grapefruits into a half.  Place it in the blender. Add  banana slices & yogurt.  Drizzle some honey.  Sprinkle with ground ginger or cinnamon. 

Flourless Brownies

Flourless Brownies
If you have a sweet tooth, then this brownie recipe is for you. The flourless nature of this recipe is what makes it appealing. This recipe takes one hour to prepare and serves four.

The ingredients are as follows:

  • Two cups of shredded zucchini
  • One cup of almond butter
  • One and a half cups of dark chocolate chips
  • One egg
  • Half cup of raw honey
  • Quarter cup of applesauce
  • Two teaspoons of vanilla extract
  • Three tablespoons of cocoa powder
  • One teaspoon of baking powder

Preparation:

Preheat oven to 350 F.  In food processor, mix all ingredients.  Pour brownie mixture into a parchment paper lined the pan.  Place in oven and bake for forty-five minutes.  Wait till brownies are cool.  Then cut and remove from pan.

Slow Cooker Beef and Broccoli

Slow Cooker Beef and Broccoli
Rich in proteins, vitamins, minerals, and calcium, this is the perfect Paleo diet for bodybuilders who want to eat healthy without compromising on their muscle gain. This takes a long time to cook, but the taste makes it worthwhile. This serves four.

Ingredients:

  • One pound of boneless chuck roast (sliced into thin strips).
  • Two to three cups of fresh broccoli florets.
  • One apple, thinly sliced.
  • A half cup of beef stock.
  • A half cup of coconut aminos.
  • A half cup of raw honey.
  • Three cloves of garlic, minced.
  • One tablespoon of tapioca starch (optional).

Preparation:
In a slow cooker, mix beef stock with coconut amino’s, honey, garlic, and sliced apple  Add beef to the slow cooker and stir.  Set the slow cooker to low.  Cook for five hours.  After five hours, combine the tapioca starch with the liquid from the slow cooker in a small bowl.  Pour it back into the slow cooker.  Stir well.  Add broccoli and cook for thirty minutes.

Potato and Buffalo Chicken Casserole

Potato and Buffalo Chicken Casserole
Another carb and protein diet, this works best for dinner. Takes around one hour to prepare and serves four.

The ingredients are as follows:

  • Two pounds of boneless, skinless chicken breasts (cut into cubes).
  • Five sweet potatoes cut into cubes.
  • One tablespoon of paprika.
  • Two tablespoons of garlic powder.
  • Six tablespoons of hot sauce.
  • A half cup of olive oil.
  • One cup of cooked bacon (cut into pieces).
  • One cup of sliced green onions.
  • Sea salt and ground black pepper (fresh).

Preparation:
Preheat oven to 400 F.  In a large bowl, mix olive oil with garlic powder, paprika, hot sauce and salt and pepper.  Add sweet potatoes and chicken.  Stir to coat.  Empty bowl into casserole dish  Bake in preheated oven for forty-five minutes.  Stir after removing.  Add green onions and bacon to the dish.  Place in oven for five more minutes.  The ingredients for all the aforementioned dishes are easy enough to find. So you should have no trouble taking the plunge and adopting a healthy Paleo diet!