Favourite AIP Breakfast Recipes

My sister-in-law mentioned that a friend of hers needs to go on a restricted diet. It sounds a lot like the autoimmune protocol (AIP) diet, so I am posting some of our favourite AIP breakfast recipes from the time that we were on the AIP diet. I hope this helps!

Sausage/Patties + a Smoothie

Meat (in the form of sausages or homemade patties) plus a smoothie was one of the most common breakfast combinations during our AIP journey. I would often make patties using 4 pounds of meat to have leftovers for breakfast another day. (I like to be efficient. :))

Sausages/Patties

• Pork Patties (or American-Style Breakfast Sausage) – This was definitely one of our family’s favourite AIP breakfast recipes. I never put the meat mixture in the fridge overnight like the current recipe calls for. I just mixed up the meat and spices and cooked it the same morning.
• Beef Breakfast Sausage – We preferred using half the amount of mace in this recipe.
• Turkey or Chicken Breakfast Sausage – This is actually a recipe for turkey breakfast sausage, but I often used ground chicken for it as well.
• We also have some great brands of pre-made sausages using high-quality meat and no sugar near Calgary from TK Ranch, Broek Pork Acres, and Sunworks Farms.

Smoothies

My usual smoothie formula is from Simple Green Smoothies. I get lots of frozen fruit from Costco and try to keep lots of bananas on hand. Then just mix up whatever my heart desires (or my kids request).  For the liquid, I usually use water or half-half water and coconut water. The only thing to remember is to rotate your greens.

Hashes and Stir-fries

Going on AIP made me rethink meals. Why couldn’t dinner-type foods become breakfast meals? Especially if hashes are kind of like stir-fries. For the following, I would brown the meat with spices and then add the vegetables to stir-fry. Here are some that I threw together myself:

• Beef Breakfast Stir-fry – 1 lb ground beef, 1 tsp salt, 1/2 tsp garlic powder, 1/4 tsp ginger powder, 2 cans water chestnuts, 1 lb frozen broccoli
• Pork Stir-fry – 1 lbs ground pork, 1 tsp salt, 1/2 tsp garlic powder, 1/4 tsp ginger, 1 onion, 1 lb broccoli slaw, 1 lb shredded carrots, 1 can water chestnuts
• Pineapple Shrimp Breakfast Hash – 1 lb shrimp, 1.5 Tbsp ghee, salt, pepper, 1 lb mushrooms, 1 can pineapple chunks (red pepper is nice in here, but omit for AIP)

More Breakfast-y Type Foods

Sometimes it was nice to try to have something more like a typical breakfast food. These favourite AIP breakfast recipes helped us meet that craving.

Fritters and Flatbread

• Plantain & Apple Fritters – Instead of following the recipe method, I blended the plantain with with fat. Then I grated the apples and stirred in along with cinnamon. To finish, I used a non-stick griddle to fry.
• AIP Squash Flatbread – My kids loved eating this flatbread plain. I created a new flatbread version (not AIP) with flax and cassava flour that we top with St. Dalfour brand jam. St. Dalfour brand is sweetened with juice and available at Well.ca.

Porridge, Pudding, Compote

• Butternut Squash Porridge – This was a lovely alternative to meat plus smoothie breakfasts.
• Plantain Porridge – Instead of following the recipe method, I throw the plantains and coconut milk in a blender. Then I put the mixture in a saucepan with melted oil and cook it for about 10-15 minutes until it’s nice and thick. If you have trouble cutting up plantains (especially if they are more green), here is a tutorial from the Paleo Mom. I usually use 6 ripe plantains, 1 can of coconut milk, and a cup of water. Then I serve this plantain porridge with a berry topping (4 cups of frozen berries (thawed) and 1/4 cup of chia seeds – let stand for 10-20 minutes while you are making the plantain porridge but skip the chia seeds for AIP.)
• Bacon plus Strawberry Rhubarb Compote – Make the compote (you can omit the honey) and bake up some sugar-free, nitrite-free bacon at 375 degrees in the oven for about 15 minutes. My kids and I loved dipping the bacon in the compote…something about the sweet, sour, salty flavour combination.
• Blueberry-Chocolate Pudding – Yum! You can sub carob powder for the cocoa powder for AIP and omit the maple syrup, if needed.