Need A New Breakfast Recipe? Try This Healthy Sweet Potato Hash

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Disclaimer: always consult with your doctor before making significant dietary changes.

Two years ago, I received a Hashimoto’s and Lyme disease diagnosis. These auto-immune diseases gave me swollen hands and feet, a foggy brain, achy joints, and worst of all, a perpetually exhausted body and mind.

My doctor recommended I subdue my auto-immune diseases by taking some supplements and adjusting my diet. He also introduced me to a way of eating I’d never heard of before: The Autoimmune Paleo diet (AIP).

The AIP diet removes all foods from your diet that cause internal and external inflammation, with the goal of repairing the body’s main disease fighter: your gut. 

AIP eliminates all grains, dairy, corn, eggs, lentils, nightshades, nuts, seed, and seed-based spices from your diet — so basically, every delicious and pre-made food and nearly every “normal” breakfast food is off the table.

Before receiving this diagnosis, I was a breakfast person. I loved getting up and eating eggs, toast with jam, oatmeal, and my favorite, Honey Nut Cheerios — but those were all things that I had to replace, something easier said than done. That is, until I found a recipe that I’ve adapted and perfected, and today, would like to share with you.

Over the past two years through diet, exercise, and encouragement from women experiencing similar health issues, I have and will continue to heal — I’m more in tune with my body and its needs, have more energy, less brain fog, and have become more conscious of what I put in my body.

Whether you’ve been given a similar diagnosis and need to find new breakfast dishes, or are simply looking for a new brunch recipe, I hope you enjoy the dish that’s now a staple in my house.

The Ingredients:

• 1 lb ground turkey

• 4 large sweet potatoes

• 2 medium apples

• 2 handfuls of spinach

• 1 tablespoon of dried sage

• 2 teaspoons of salt

• Cooking oil (I use coconut or olive)

Serves 4. Freezes well.

How to make my ‘Sweet Potato Breakfast Hash’.

Grease the pan with oil. Add the turkey to the pan and brown, adding ½ a tablespoon of sage and 1 teaspoon of salt while it cooks.

While the meat cooks, chop the sweet potatoes and apples. Once the meat is brown all the way through, remove it from the pan.

Add more oil and the sweet potatoes to the pan. Cover and cook until soft, adding the apples 5 minutes after the sweet potatoes. Once the sweet potatoes are soft, add the turkey, remaining spices, and spinach.

When the spinach is cooked and the meat is warm, transfer the hash into a casserole dish and garnish with chopped spinach and sea salt.

For a sweeter flavor, omit the spinach and replace the sage with cinnamon and coconut sugar.