AIP Breakfast Soup
Breakfast is by far the hardest meal of the day when you are eating strict autoimmune protocol foods. There are not a lot of great replacement foods for the things you know and love as breakfast foods. I found one of the best ways to deal with this problem was to change what I thought of as breakfast foods. When I traveled to Asia I had been warned as a Westerner that it would be tough to get used to eating noodles for breakfast. What I found instead is that I loved noodles for breakfast and pho in particular is just about the best breakfast food that you can find anywhere in the world.
I found that the warm soup first thing in the morning was welcoming, and comforting, and the rich broth helped me to feel full without feeling too full. Within twenty minutes after eating this meal I no longer feel "full" but remain well satiated for hours. When I went looking for more breakfast options that are AIP compliant a big bowl of broth, veggies, herbs and noodles was a perfect fit.
* In this recipe I used leftover chicken, which I seem to end up with a lot of. If you don't have any then you can roast, BBQ, boil or pan fry a chicken breast with some salt. I also ALWAYS have a freezer full of bone broth that I batch make in advance. It is cheaper than store bought bone broth, by a mile, and tastes better than any store bought bone broth I have come across. If you need one you can use my turkey bone broth recipe.
Prep time
10 minutes
Cooking time
20 minutes
Recipe yield
2 to 4 servings
Ingredients needed
4 to 6 cups of bone broth
1 leftover chicken breast (boneless / skinless)
3 heads of baby bok choi
2 green onions
1 handful of sweet potato noodles
1 lime wedge (per bowl)
1 bunch of fresh cilantro
Step 1 - Boil a large pot of salted water
Step 2 - Add handful of sweet potato noodles to water, enough for two to four bowls of soup
Step 3 - Roughly chop bok choi and steam over boiling noodles
Step 4 - Heat bone broth and leftover chicken breast, or cook from scratch
Step 5 - Strain noodles while they are still al dente, or somewhat firm
Step 6 - Add hot bone broth to a large bowl
Step 7 - Add cooked noodles, chopped chicken, and bok choi to the bowl
Step 8 - Dice green onions and fresh cilantro and add to the bowl
Step 9 - Squeeze lime wedge over the bowl, mix and serve
There are a lot of different kinds of bok choi available. The ones that I like best are the ones pictured above, baby bok choi, specifically the ones with the white stems and dark leaves (as opposed to light green leaves and stem). I also find the baby bok choi is easier to add to smaller meals where the full sized ones are too much for my small family to eat in one serving. Having a package of a dozen or so baby bok choi is perfect for adding two or three to a meal, while keeping the remainder fresh in the fridge.
I hate when people look down on and pity me because I can't eat the same food they are eating. Next time one of these people is eating cold cereal with milk for breakfast go ahead and sit down next to them with a steaming hot bowl of Asian influenced bone broth soup with sweet potato noodles, bok choi, and green onions. The best part, by far, is the rich smell of both lime and cilantro that the steaming soup carries into the air all around you. Good luck enjoying a bowl of cold cereal after smelling this! Eating AIP is not bad at all once you learn how to work with it.
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