🍽️ Eating Paleo or AIP doesn't have to mean spending hours in the kitchen. These six simple dinners use everyday ingredients and are easy enough for busy weeknights.
Before you begin
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🍗 One-Pan Lemon Herb Chicken & Roasted Vegetables
A simple chicken and vegetable dinner with fresh lemon and herbs—and only one pan to clean.
🛒 Ingredients
- Chicken breasts or thighs
- Sweet potatoes, purple or orange
- Carrots
- Brussels sprouts
- Olive oil
- Lemon
- Fresh rosemary or thyme
- Sea salt
🔥 Instructions
Preheat oven to 400°F.
Place the chicken on a parchment-lined sheet pan. Chop the sweet potatoes, carrots and Brussels sprouts into similar-sized pieces and arrange them around the chicken.
Drizzle everything with olive oil and fresh lemon juice. Season with sea salt and fresh rosemary or thyme.
Roast until the vegetables are tender and the chicken reaches an internal temperature of 165°F.
For extra flavor, brush the chicken with Nada Mato Tomato-Free BBQ Sauce during the final few minutes of cooking and serve a little extra on the side.
🥩 Quick Beef & Vegetable Stir-Fry
This simple stir-fry comes together quickly with tender beef and fresh vegetables.
🛒 Ingredients
- Thinly sliced sirloin
- Carrots
- Broccoli
- Coconut or avocado oil
- Sea salt
- Garlic, optional
🔥 Instructions
Heat coconut or avocado oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat.
Add the sliced sirloin and cook until browned. Remove the beef and set aside.
Add sliced carrots and broccoli to the same pan and cook until tender. Add the beef back to the skillet, season with sea salt and garlic if desired, and toss everything together until hot.
Serve immediately.
🐟 AIP Fish Tacos with Avocado & Cabbage
Skip traditional corn tortillas and turn tender white fish into an easy AIP-friendly taco dinner.
🛒 Ingredients
- Cod, tilapia or another white fish
- Large lettuce leaves or AIP-compatible cassava tortillas
- Avocado
- Red cabbage
- Cilantro
- Olive or avocado oil
- Lime
- Sea salt
- Cassave flour
- Nada Mato Tomato-Free Garden Salsa
🔥 Instructions
Mix cassava flour with sea salt and give the fish a light dusting.
Heat olive or avacado oil in a skillet over medium heat and cook the fish until it flakes easily and reaches 145°F in the center.
Fill lettuce leaves or compatible cassava tortillas with the cooked fish. Top with sliced avocado, shredded red cabbage, cilantro and another squeeze of lime.
Finish with Nada Mato Tomato-Free Garden Salsa for an easy tomato-free taco night.
🍗 Sheet-Pan Chicken & Vegetables
Chicken thighs and roasted vegetables make an easy one-pan dinner that you can change depending on what you have in the refrigerator.
🛒 Ingredients
- Chicken thighs
- Broccoli
- Carrots
- Zucchini or another AIP-friendly vegetable
- Olive oil
- Sea salt
- Garlic or fresh herbs, optional
- Nada Mato Tomato-Free Hawaiian BBQ Sauce
🔥 Instructions
Preheat oven to 400°F.
Arrange chicken thighs, carrots and your other vegetables on a parchment-lined sheet pan. Drizzle with olive oil and season with sea salt and optional garlic or herbs.
Roast until the vegetables are tender and the chicken reaches an internal temperature of 165°F.
Drizzle the chicken and vegetables with Nada Mato Tomato-Free Hawaiian BBQ Sauce before serving for an easy smoky BBQ dinner.
🥕 Simple Beef Stew with Root Vegetables
This uncomplicated beef stew combines tender beef with sweet potatoes and vegetables for a hearty weeknight meal.
🛒 Ingredients
- Stew beef
- Sweet potatoes
- Carrots
- Celery
- Bone broth or water
- Olive or avocado oil
- Sea salt
- Fresh herbs, optional
🔥 Instructions
Heat a little oil in a large pot and brown the stew beef.
Add chopped sweet potatoes, carrots and celery. Pour in enough bone broth or water to cover most of the beef and vegetables.
Bring to a gentle simmer and cook until the beef and vegetables are tender. Depending on the size and cut of your beef, this may take longer than 30 minutes, so this is a good meal to start first on a busy evening.
Season with sea salt and fresh herbs to taste.
🍗 Roast Chicken Drumsticks with Mashed White Sweet Potatoes
Chinese white sweet potatoes make a great nightshade-free alternative to traditional mashed white potatoes. If you can't find them, mashed cauliflower or parsnips work great too.
🛒 Ingredients
- Chicken drumsticks or thighs
- Chinese white sweet potatoes (cauliflower or parsnips can be subsituted)
- Green onions
- Olive oil
- Sea salt
- Nada Mato Tomato-Free Classic or Hawaiian BBQ Sauce
🔥 Instructions
Preheat oven to 400°F.
Place the chicken on a parchment-lined baking sheet, drizzle lightly with olive oil and season with sea salt. Roast until golden and the chicken reaches an internal temperature of 165°F.
While the chicken cooks, peel and chop the white sweet potatoes. Boil until fork-tender, drain and mash with olive oil and sea salt.
Top the mashed sweet potatoes with chopped green onions and serve alongside the roasted chicken.
Add Nada Mato Tomato-Free Classic BBQ Sauce or Hawaiian BBQ Sauce to the chicken for an easy finishing touch.
⏱️ Easy Dinners for Busy Nights
Following Paleo or the elimination phase of AIP can require more planning, but dinner doesn't have to be complicated. Keeping simple proteins, vegetables, sweet potatoes, healthy fats and AIP-compatible sauces on hand gives you the building blocks for plenty of quick meals.
These six dinners can also be easily adapted based on what you already have in your kitchen—making weeknight cooking a little easier without sacrificing flavor.
❤️ Happy eating from Nada Mato!
