One of the first foods I’ve added in “after SCD” is sweet potatoes. This Thanksgiving I made a dish with sweet potato and apples which after searching online I see is actually a popular dish. I have since made it with butternut squash and it is a wonderful SCD Thanksgiving dish.
Ingredients
For 4 regular-sized servings. If you have hungry people over or a large family, double or triple this in a bigger dish!
2 large sweet potatoes (or about 1/2 butternut squash)
2 large red apples
1/3 cup butter
1/8-1/4 cup honey
cinnamon
Method
The first time I made this I pre-cooked the sweet potato by boiling them. I wanted to speed up the baking time since I was putting this in after the turkey was done. Let them boil until almost soft, then remove them from the water and cool. Meanwhile, peel and core your apples. Slice up the sweet potatoes and apples about 1/4″ thick or less. Place a layer of sliced sweet potatoes in the bottom of a casserole dish. Add a layer of sliced apple, and sprinkle cinnamon generously over top. Add another layer of sweet potato, apple and cinnamon. Then spoon honey and cut up the butter over top.
Bake covered at 350F for 1 hour. If you did not pre-cook the sweet potatoes, it will take at least 30 minutes longer. The thinner the slices, the faster it should cook. You can test the ‘doneness’ by sticking a fork through to the bottom, everything should be soft.
You can also do this with butternut squash instead of sweet potato for an SCD-legal dish. Slice it uncooked, or cooked until almost done but not soft since it will fall apart too easily. For anyone on the intro diet or who needs to puree vegetables, layer some pureed butternut squash and applesauce with plenty of cinnamon on top of the applesauce layers.
For more Thanksgiving ideas see what I ate for Thanksgiving this year.
Check out Mrs Ed’s Research and Recipes for more SCD Holiday ideas!
This post is part of Real Food Wednesdays hosted by Kelly the Kitchen Kop.
This dish sounds really scrumptious – and very good for you too!
oh gosh–I want this NOW!!!
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Those dishes look amazing! I think I would use the squash, haven’t had any in too long 🙁
jd
I made this today and it was a big hit. Thanks for posting this on RFW!
@Beth Good to hear Beth! I’ve made it a few times now.
Kat,
I’ve put up a SCD for the Holidays page for everyone to put links to holiday recipes. I hope this will help everyone find plenty of SCD recipes, especially those who are new to the diet. If you want to add any links of your great recipes: http://mrsedsresearchandrecipes.blogspot.com/2010/11/scd-for-holidays.html
Kat – would you be willing to do a consultation? I found out about your blog via GAPS support group several months ago. I realized from your blog that eating fiber was not good for my younger son after reading how you realized that, even GAPS and SCD legal, fruits and veggies caused you to have mushy stools. I have noticed that when I take out most if not all fiber from my son’s diet, his stools are normal. But now I wonder if I can introduce ghee in his diet or wait till he’s able to handle the fiber from cooked, peeled veggies/produce. We’ve been on GAPS since Feb ’10. He doesn’t have any other issues other than his stools except red cheeks every now and again.
I’d love to pay you for you time. I live in Colorado.
Thanks
Tina
@tina Hi Tina, I will send you an email shortly.
Hi Kat, great recipe! I never thought of sweet potato and apples going together but this sounds delish. It was great meeting you at the WAPF Conference this past weekend! I think we Real Food bloggers are now blood brothers from our Sunday night dinner! 🙂
@Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist It was so wonderful to meet you and all the RFM bloggers. What a dinner that was. I wish we could all get together on a regular basis, imagine the ideas!
Looks lovely. Perhaps as part of dinner tonight. 🙂
This reminds me that I need to post a pic of my baked bananas and apple dish.
Also boiling taters is much healthier than baking them because of the acrylamide issue. I like to boil my sweet potatoes in coconut milk. Very tasty.