Zucchini Avocado Cream Soup – AIP and Paleo

One of my favorite AIP cream soups is the green Zucchini-Avocado one. It’s incredibly easy to make, you basically just need a medium-large pot, a blender and some basic kitchenware.

Enough with the introduction, let’s do some AIP green soup!!!

Here are the ingredients I used:

3 zucchini

1 red onion

4 garlic cloves

1 ripe avocado

2 cups bone broth (beef or chicken)

1 Tbsp lemon zest

2 Tbsp olive oil

1 tsp dry oregano

1 tsp dry basil

1/2 tsp garlic powder

1 tsp Himalayan salt (you can use any salt but since I’m hyperthyroid I do avoid iodine)

And here's how I made it:

I peeled the zucchini and cut them into square small pieces and I minced the garlic and onion.

I added the olive oil in a medium-large pot over medium heat and cooked the garlic and onion for 5 minutes until they became softer. Then I added in the zucchini pieces and the spices (salt, oregano, basil, garlic powder) and I let everything cook on medium heat for another 10 minutes).

I then added in the bone broth and set the heat to high bringing to a boil. After it boiled once, I turned the heat to medium-low and let it simmer for another 20 minutes.

I let it cool down for about 10 minutes and then I added in a mashed avocado to the soup and also added in the lemon zest.

I then put it into the blender and mixed it on high speed for about one minute until it turned smooth and creamy. If the blender is too small for all the soup, you can do the blending in two steps.

It can be served with small pieces of raw vegetables (carrot, cucumber, green onion) or you can also serve with minced bacon if you’re a bacon kinda person 🙂 

Enjoy!

Guacamole – AIP and Paleo

Avocado has been my source of inspiration lately. I like its texture, it’s color and especially I like that it’s full of antioxidants and vitamins! It’s quite funny because we don’t grow this fruit in Romania, but I’m so glad I discovered it better since I’ve started my AIP diet.

Avocado is both carbohydrates and healthy fats, which makes it the perfect choice for the AIP and Paleo diets and the whole process of healing your leaky gut. And to make things more interesting, it contains some of the most valuable vitamins, like:

• Vitamin A
• Vitamin B6
• Vitamin C
• Vitamin E
• Vitamin K

Now enough with the praise, let’s do some AIP guacamole! 🙂

Here are the ingredients I used for one serving:

• 1 ripe avocado (the kind of use has a darker color when ripe)
• 1/2 medium size onion
• 1 tsp olive oil (the avocado is already oily so more oil makes it a bit icky). I used this olive oil since it’s 100% organic:

• 1 tsp lemon juice
• sea salt per taste

Here’s how I prepared it:

• I cut the avocado in two halves and took out its kernel. I then peeled it using a large spoon (if the fruit is ripe you just bring in the tip of the spoon between the pulp and the peel and you can easily take out the pulp by rotating the spoon)
• I placed the fruit in a small mixing bowl and mashed it all using a fork. It needs to be completely mashed in order to be able to mix it with the rest of ingredients.
• I then added in the chopped onion, the olive oil, the lemon juice and the sea salt and blended all ingredients together until I obtained a homogeneous mixture.

Yes, it’s that simple!

I like to eat the guacamole as it is OR as a side dish to Romanian traditional AIP “bucket meat”.

*If you prefer a bruschetta snack you can easily top any type of AIP or Paleo bread with it and you’ll have your super snack ready in no time.

Enjoy!