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Pumpkin Apple Breakfast Bake
Spice up your breakfast eggs this fall with this Pumpkin Apple Breakfast bake! It’s like an autumn frittata.
Serves 6
Prep Time: 5 minutes
Cook Time: 35 minutes
Total Time: 40 minutes
Ingredients
- 2 medium apples
- 2 medium sweet potatoes
- ¼ cup coconut oil
- 1½ teaspoons cinnamon
- 1½ teaspoons pumpkin pie spice (for AIP diet, omit)
- ⅛ teaspoon nutmeg (for AIP diet, omit)
- ½ cup pecans (roughly chopped)
- 1 cup pumpkin purée
- 8 eggs
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- ½ teaspoon full-fat coconut milk
Directions
- Preheat the oven to 325° F. Core and thinly slice apples. Peel sweet potatoes and slice crosswise into ¼-inch-thick rounds.
- In a large cast-iron skillet, heat coconut oil over medium heat. Add sweet potatoes and cook until softened, about 5-10 minutes.
- Add apples, cinnamon, pumpkin pie spice, and nutmeg. Cook until the apples are softened, 10 minutes. Apples and sweet potatoes should be easily pierced with a fork.
- Stir in pecans and cook for 2 minutes longer. Remove from heat.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together eggs, pumpkin purée, vanilla extract, and coconut milk until smooth. Pour into the skillet with apples and sweet potatoes. Use a spatula to level out the mixture.
- Bake for 20 minutes or until eggs are set. Serve immediately.
Republished with permission of The Paleo Diet, LLC. The Paleo Diet is the strong and healthy diet. Founded by Dr. Loren Cordain in 2002 after a decade of peer-reviewed research, The Paleo Diet has become the most influential way of eating, sparking over 500 supportive research papers and accelerating related nutrition movements like low-carb, gluten-free, ketogenic, autoimmune, anti-inflammatory, and organic/non-GMO. See more healthy recipes at thepaleodiet.com.
Jess Case, recipe developer, learned to cook with her Italian grandmother, as well as her mother, whose Norwegian and German heritage also influenced her repertoire. Jess has a master’s degree in art education, and that background influences how she presents her meals.
Published in the Journal of Health and Healing™
Summer 2024 | Volume 48, Number 2
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