Halupki (Unstuffed Cabbage Rolls) PALEO, SCD, UMass IBD-AID is a family favorite comfort food recipe. Interestingly, it is also one of the recipes I provided last year to our Ukrainian nutrition support effort. We were providing recipes in war torn regions having limited ingredients that resembled traditional foods and which would help with digestion. In the Ukraine, nutritionists/dieticians must be MDs thus all were no longer available to the public as they were involved with the war effort. I mention that and note the contrast to U.S. MDs, who have negligble nutrition education.
This recipe has been in my mother’s family forever. Her roots were nearby with a birth certificate reading Austria-Hungary, though she always mentioned Czechoslovakia.
My mother would place a whole head of cabbage for a few minutes in simmering water to soften its outer leaves. Those were used to roll up the meat mixture. This recipe greatly modifies this tedious step and uses an oven, crockpot, OR Instant pot for baking. It is so dang simple to make and it is loaded with incredible nutrition including the spice load, antioxidant rich vegetables used, and lean protein.
SUMMARY: What do I feed 4000 pounds of twenty-four men the night before the big game? SCD PALEO Pot Roast with Orange and Dates redic EASY and delic! This dish has graced our table repeatedly over the years. In fact, my boys request this dish when we feed their basketball team the night before big games. Bonus: Double it always. This is an EASY make Ahead and Freeze. I send it to school so my kidos slurp in extra immune boosting bone broth. It travels over twenty-four hours as the ice in my cooler and feeds my ever expanding clan at the beach. The secret ingredients: Dates, apples, pineapple, allspice, red wine vinegar, OJ, and parsley(still coming out from under our garden’s blanket of snow) combine with the tenderness of a Dutch Oven. Credit for this culinary redic delic creation goes back years to Mara from the SCD Breaking the Vicious Cycle yahoo blog. It is without a doubt my favorite amazing healing diet recipe. Add it to your arsenal!
Summary: Most everyone wonders what are the ingredients that make up healing diet holiday recipesand that create nutrient dense, anti-inflammatory, low toxin great tasting traditional food that even folks not on any dietary restrictions will enjoy. Seems impossible, but it is absolutelypossible. I do it all of the time; guests are amazed and hosts welcome such! For predinner delights, check out these appetizers! Otherwise, lets dive into our soup, tenderloin and sauce recipes, as well as many AIP blogger all time holiday favorites! Happy Holidays!
I’m sharing four of my family’s and guests favorite holiday recipes (and my Pinterest Holiday board shares more) for ourButternut Squash Soup opener and incredible Whole Beef Tenderloinrecipe which literally melts in your mouth and is great topped with Alton Brown’s Horseradish Cream Sauce or our fav Mushroom Sauce. The Horseradish Cream Sauce uses SCD 24 hour dripped yogurt (or Greek yogurt), and it is also a great salad dressing! We’ve tested lots of recipes but these stand the test of time and remain our holiday tradition first course and main entree. It is interesting that long before I even knew what a healing diet truly was, the soup, tenderoin, and mushroom sauce recipes are coincidentally also autoimmune-protocol (AIP) compliant as well as PALEO, SCD, AND GAPS compliant. The Horseradish Cream Sauce is PALEO, SCD, AND GAPS compliant, but not AIP compliant due to the dairy. AIP is explained further below, but suffice it to say AIP is perhaps the most challenging of the healing diets due to the vast amount of foods eliminated, albeit this is temporary. I bet some of your own family favorites are AIP compliant!
I’m also sharing an incredible roundup of AIP blogger all time favorite and most popular holiday recipes. Check out the AIP ingredients listed below for several of those recipes for clues as to what are less gut irritating recipe ingredients and to learn more about this healing diet.
My Butternut Squash Soup Recipe has evolved over the years and is a combination of the best of many recipes including Epicurous. Usually for the holidays we serve this plain; you can add ingredients (lentils or berries) for a complete meal after the holiday blitz. For easy “How-to” instructions for making calcium rich nutrient dense bone broth for use in recipes see therecipe in this post. Another insider tip: This soup stays frozen for all day travel replacing ice packs nicely and moving through TSA without incident!
Whole Beef Tenderloin (AIP, PALEO, SCD, GAPS) — at every Christmas meal for as long as I can recall:
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MANY MORE AIP Healing diet holiday recipes
Actually, there are a wealth of AIP compliant recipes online from amazing bloggers. This download, “Holidays on the Autoimmune Protocol, a recipe guide by the AIP blogging community”gathers together over 80 AIP compliant holiday recipes by the top AIP bloggers. The free pdf link is here. The document is interactive meaning you’ll need to click on the links to go to the recipe page on the original author’s website.
AIP is arguably one of the strictest of the healing diet protocols. AIP is used to induce remission in autoimmune diseases eliminating most all gut irritants. An AIP compliant recipe eliminates grains, beans, dairy, eggs, nuts, seeds (this includes spices such as nutmeg, fennel, coriander, cumin, dill, and poppy and sesame seed — cautious use is recommended for pepper, vanilla bean, cardamom, juniper, and allspice), and nightshades (these are potatoes, tomatoes, peppers, and spices such as cayenne, chili powder, chili pepper flakes, curry, paprika and red pepper)! Don’t panic here… AIP is successfully used by many and although it is not a forever diet, you are never meant to return to the Standard American Diet. Following gut healing AIP, you reintroduce foods; most can successfully reintroduce nuts, seeds, dairy, eggs, rice, buckwheat, and quinoa (properly prepared in most cases).
Sharing an EASY 4th of July Fruit Roundup, and a Grassfed Burger recipe, for party & picnic ideas, although honestly, these are fun & fabulous anytime!
And the best part… absolutely NO artificial colorings, artificial flavorings, or additives! Nature is providing all!
Tip: Just dip banana slices in lemon juice to prevent discoloration.
Berries… please buy organic as they are on EWG’s Dirty List:
