AIP, Vegan, Gluten Free, Dairy Free, No Egg, No Nuts, No Processed Sugar
I loved eating tomato sauce but I didn’t realise how much tomato’s are used in every food you buy at a restaurant or in processed foods. Having an Auto-Immune disease called Hashimotos, I can no longer enjoy food with processed sugar, gluten, diary or even eggs and nightshades. Tomato is a nightshade and causes inflammation in my stomach so I avoid eating it but I love pasta sauce so the alternative is Nomato sauce!
Substitution for Tomato’s
Instead of tomato’s I use beetroot, watermelon and butternut pumpkin as a start to get a similar look to tomato but a few other things need to go into the sauce to get that similar taste.
Beetroots are super healthy because you get fiber, folate (vitamin B9), manganese, potassium, iron, and vitamin C. Beets help improve aerobic exercise performance, lower blood pressure and improve your blood flow. Definitely worth adding more of these vegetables into your diet.
Can you eat the pumpkin seeds?
When cutting up the butternut pumpkin, scoop out the seeds and put them aside. Use a baking tray to put them on and spray with olive oil and cook them at 180°C/356°F. They taste like popcorn when cooked and are really healthy to eat.
A healthy sauce that anyone can eat
Even if you don’t have an Auto-Immune disease this is still a great recipe that is super healthy and a good change from always having tomato when you make pasta sauces, pizza sauce, lasagna or even nachos.
What is Hashimoto?
If you are interested in knowing more about Hashimoto’s Thyroid disease, please look at my About Me page. It causes your immune system to attack your Thyroid gland if you eat certain foods and you can end up with all sorts of symptoms and problems like low energy levels, brain fog, anxiety, sleep apnea, being cold all the time and fatigue.
What is AIP?
AIP (Auto Immune Protocol) is one way to reduce the inflammation in your stomach and issues relating to auto-immune diseases by eliminating common foods known to cause inflammation. It usually lasts about a month and then you can start introducing certain foods back into your diet. I found that most foods outside of the AIP list cause issues for me so I stick close to the diet with some exceptions like black pepper, rice, quinoa, millet flour, coriander, cardamon. nutmeg and a few others as they don’t cause any issues for me.
How do you make the sauce sweet?
It’s hard to find recipes that don’t use tomato’s in them. I searched for a long time to find one that I could eat and actually tastes good. I add the carrot in because it makes the sauce sweet without adding any sugars. The house smells amazing while I am cooking.
Tip:
I usually make the Nomato sauce in one big batch and freeze into big and small glass containers. It’s so much easier to just take out a container and defrost in the microwave or on the stove and use for pizza, pasta or lasagna.
Why do you use glass containers?
I only use glass containers because they are better than plastic containers as they can be recycled and not end up in landfill. Unlike plastic containers that degrade over time and break down and end up with plastic particles in your food. The sauce lasts between 3 to 6 months in the freezer and 2 weeks in the fridge. I also put fresh herbs in once I have taken it out of the freezer to add flavour back in to the sauce.
If you are looking for glass containers then check out these from Amazon Glasslock Food Storage Container
Ideas for what to use the Nomato sauce for:
Here are some ideas for the way I use the sauce. I combine it with meatballs for pasta or a lasagna, spread it over my pizzas, a sauce for dipping chips into, salsa for nachos, sauce for wraps or a base for other recipes.
Why do you use stainless steel frying pan?
When I cook soups and sauces I use stainless steel pans because you can fit more in and they don’t leave stains, also acidic sauces like tomato can leech chemicals from the pan; like carbon steel or cast iron. They are easier to buy in larger sizes for soups and sauces and most have a heavy base for simmering sauces.
Why do you eat organic food?
I made the switch to organic foods to help with all of the issues with having Hashimotos, but I would recommend switching to everyone. I try to eat clean food with low to no chemicals and almost no processed food making everything from scratch. Eating normal supermarket food or even from farmers markets and not knowing what chemicals are sprayed onto your food can really affect your health, especially if you have health issues like an auto-immune disease.
Organic food is fresher, has all the antioxidants, nutrition and doesn’t last as long because it doesn’t have any of the chemicals that preserve the food. The other option is to grow your own food and not to spray with any chemicals using proper gardening techniques like companion planting.
Stainless Steel Stockpot:
For this recipe I use a stainless steel stock pot that is Scanpan Commercial Stockpot, 28 cm/ 11 Litre Silver
Let’s get into cooking….
First step is to cut up the onion and garlic and fry in stock pot until slightly brown.
Cut up the rest of the vegetables into small blocks that a hand blender can use to blend at the end. Simmer for 4 hours on a low heat then blend with hand blender.
Tip:
Add sauerkraut at the end when serving up dinner to give it a healthier kick and some acidity because it can be quite sweet depending on how much ginger you added.
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Equipment
Ingredients
- 6 medium beetroots
- ½ medium watermelon
- 4 medium onions
- 4 garlic cloves
- 1 Ginger root equal portion to garlic
- 2 medium carrots
- 1 medium butternut pumpkin
- ½ tsp salt
- ½ tsp pepper Leave out for AIP
- 1 tbsp sauerkraut
- 2 medium zucchini
- 2 medium cucumber
- 1 tbsp Thyme chopped
- 1 tbsp Sage chopped
- 1 tbsp Oregano chopped
- 1 tbsp Basil chopped
- 1 tbsp Parsley chopped
- 1 tbsp Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Instructions
- Cut up the onions, garlic and ginger and fry in a frying pan until slightly brown with a tablespoon of Olive oil
- Cut up the rest of the vegetables into small blocks that a hand blender can use at the end.
- Simmer for 4 hours
- Blend with hand blender
- Add sauerkraut at the end. when serving up dinner
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