So here it is, the Paleo Cookbook. Please feel free to add any recipes, cooking suggestions, snacks, drinks, desserts, or other concoctions that you have created/discovered that fit within the Paleo Diet (meat, vegetables, fruit, nuts).
So easy, a caveman could do it.
Paleo Muffins:
Ingredients:
* 2 cups almond flour (almond meal)
* 2 teaspoons baking powder
* 1/4 teaspoon salt
* 1/4 coconut oil
* 4 eggs
* 1/3 cup water
*Add blueberries, raspberries, strawberries, peanut butter, chopped nuts, or any other fruit as desired, cinnamon/coco and other similar ingredients can be included.
Preparation:
Preheat oven to 350 F.
You can really do it with any size, but I’m basing the recipe on a 12-muffin tin.
Mix dry ingredients together well.
Add wet ingredients and mix thoroughly (You don’t want strings of egg white in there and you don’t have to worry about “tunnels” when you are using almond meal).
Put in muffin tins (about 1/2 to 2/3 full) and bake for about 15 minutes.
Paleo Doughnuts:
Ingredients:
* 1 cup flax meal
* 1 cup almond meal
* 1 T baking powder
* 1/4 t salt
* 1 and 1/4 t nutmeg
* 1 t honey
* 1 t cinnamon
* 1/4 cup coconut oil, melted
* 4 eggs, beaten
* 1/2 cup plus 2 T water
Preparation:
Makes 12 regular-size muffins
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
Mix dry ingredients well (exclude those used for topping).
Add beaten eggs, melted butter, water, and sweetener to the dry mixture. Mix well.
Fill muffin cups a bit more than half way with the mixture.
Bake for about 20 minutes, until tops are golden brown. Allow muffins to cool in pan for a few minutes, then remove.
Mix the cinnamon and powdered sweetener for the topping in a clean bowl.
When the muffins are cool enough to handle, dip the tops in the melted butter you allocated for the topping, followed by the sweetener/cinnamon mixture.
Paleo Pancakes:
Ingredients:
* 1 cup almond flour
* 2 eggs
* 1/4 cup water (for puffier pancakes, you can use sparkling water)
* 2 T coconut oil
* 1/4 teaspoon salt
* 1 T honey
Preparation:
Mix ingredients together and cook as you would other pancakes. I like to use a nonstick pan with a little oil. The only real difference is that they won’t “bubble” on top the same way as regular pancakes. Flip them when the underside is brown.
Shugart’s Flax Bread:
Ingredients
2 cups milled flax seeds
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt (I use RealSalt sea salt)
2 whole eggs (I use omega-3 enriched)
3 egg whites
5 tablespoons virgin coconut oil
1/2 cup of hot water
Mix the wet ingredients. Mix the dry ingredients. Then mix both together.
You may want to warm your coconut oil in a hot bath to get it liquid (it’s solid when cool). The hot water should keep your oil from returning to a solid when you add it to the egg mixture. Bringing your eggs up to room temp will help too. If it turns solid, no worries, just place your mixing bowl in a sink with hot water and whisk like a madman.
Pour into a loaf pan, a baking dish, or those disposable foil bread pans. Bake at 350 degrees for 35 to 45 minutes.
good stuff, thanks.
Very good thread WC7!
LR
Good stuff WC7.
Here’s the Paleo Pyramid… don’t forget your meat! Seriously though if your food log doesn’t truly resemble this, then you aren’t really following the paleo diet
I love rice, but have been eating 90% Paleo for a few months now. So, I like to substitute cauliflower for rice now. I think I like it just as much as rice, but it doesn’t make me feel like hibernating right after like I used to feel after eating rice.
Break the cauliflower up, steam it in the microwave for 7-8 minutes and then mash it into rice size bits.
I have had beef and broccoli and kung pao with it and it is just as good as the real thing. I add some coconut oil to the cauliflower to add a few good fats and some flavor.
Thanks for starting this topic…good stuff.
almond flower? I’m going to keep an eye out for that.
I love almonds and I love pancakes, looks like we have a winner!
[quote]jak3_dude wrote:
almond flower? I’m going to keep an eye out for that.
I love almonds and I love pancakes, looks like we have a winner![/quote]
That’s Almond FLOUR buddy. I don’t want you going into your local florist looking for food.
rofl, woops, brainfart, well I’d still be ahead of 90% if North Americans if I did look for food in a flower shop
Made this for dinner/dessert, pounded 3 pieces, one with almond butter on it.
I. Feel. Great.
and will be glued to my couch watching the Olympics for the next 3 hours.
[quote]WestCoast7 wrote:
Shugart’s Flax Bread:
Ingredients
2 cups milled flax seeds
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt (I use RealSalt sea salt)
2 whole eggs (I use omega-3 enriched)
3 egg whites
5 tablespoons virgin coconut oil
1/2 cup of hot water
Mix the wet ingredients. Mix the dry ingredients. Then mix both together.
You may want to warm your coconut oil in a hot bath to get it liquid (it’s solid when cool). The hot water should keep your oil from returning to a solid when you add it to the egg mixture. Bringing your eggs up to room temp will help too. If it turns solid, no worries, just place your mixing bowl in a sink with hot water and whisk like a madman.
Pour into a loaf pan, a baking dish, or those disposable foil bread pans. Bake at 350 degrees for 35 to 45 minutes. [/quote]
oh hells yea, this is exactly what i needed, thanks westcoast
so, what kind of protein powder is allowed on a paleo diet?
Awesome, I’ll be keeping an eye on this thread… especially since I recently moved to a house with a more well-equipped kitchen …
yay for cave men!
[quote]JaX Un wrote:
so, what kind of protein powder is allowed on a paleo diet?[/quote]
I’m just now starting to eat paleo and was wondering the same thing.
[quote]JaX Un wrote:
so, what kind of protein powder is allowed on a paleo diet?[/quote]
I’m just now starting to eat paleo and was wondering the same thing.
strictly speaking, I don’t think protein powders are allowed in paleo diets…
it seems the paleo diet for athletes does make an exception for protein powders for recovery purposes though (ie. PWO shake)