Spicy and intensely flavorful, this vegetable curry makes a tasty side dish to meat, or serve it as a main vegan dish atop cooked brown rice. If you don’t enjoy very spicy food, reduce the cayenne pepper to 1/8 teaspoon.
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Paleo Recipes
Recipes that highlight animal protein (including fermented dairy), vegetables, good fats and good carbs (such as root vegetables and fruit), and avoid grains, beans, legumes and sugar.
There’s something so pretty and festive about stuffed bell peppers, especially if you use different colors of peppers. This dish of meat-stuffed bell peppers can be viewed as the nutritional opposite of my previous dish of vegan stuffed peppers, but they are both delicious, and both very healthy – it all depends on your personal taste and diet preferences. These days I favor a lower-carb, higher-protein diet, so these meat-stuffed peppers work better for me than the higher-carb, lower-protein quinoa-stuffed peppers.
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These roasted drumsticks truly are spicy, but not overwhelmingly so. I like to serve them with sautéed spinach and roasted butternut squash. The chicken and the squash can be roasted together in the same oven, which I find convenient.
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In this easy Thai chicken recipe, succulent chicken pieces are sautéed in fragrant coconut oil and flavored with a delicious, creamy, mildly spicy sauce of coconut milk, almond butter (healthier than peanut butter), garlic and ginger. Do use the full-fat coconut milk in this recipe – it imparts so much more flavor and creaminess, and coconut fat is a very healthy fat.
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These pickled red onions are very easy to make, and are wonderful paired with just about any meat dish you can think of. Most pickled red onion recipes call for sugar – some for lots of it, some for just a teaspoon. I’m trying to eliminate sugar as much as possible these days, so did not use any sugar, and we loved the result. You could add a teaspoon or two of sugar to cut a bit on the acidity, if you prefer.
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One of my favorite ways to prepare cauliflower is sautéing it in fragrant, garlic-and-spices-infused olive oil. (Another favorite is garlicky mashed cauliflower, in case you were wondering). 
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A wonderfully seasoned, simple preparation for chicken breasts. The original recipe instructs to marinade a few hours in the fridge, but as I was staring at the chicken breasts, trying to decide what to do with them, at 5pm, I only had about 30 minutes to marinade, and they still turned out delicious and succulent.
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