Sauce and Dressing recipes
10 AIP Sauce and Dressing Recipes
A sauce is usually the whole difference between food you tolerate and food you look forward to, and it's also where I see people quietly fall off this protocol.
The bottle in the fridge door is where the trouble hides. These 10 give the flavor back in about the time it takes to read a label.
Lemon garlic pan sauce: the cassava-thickened finish for any seared protein
A quick pan sauce built from roasted garlic, bone broth, cassava flour, lemon, and parsley. It takes less than
AIP Ranch Dressing and Dip
Ranch is one of those foods nobody thinks about until it's gone, and then a salad without something creamy to
Holy grail gravy: the flour-free vegetable-thickened sauce from a slow-cooked roast
The vegetables that braise under a pot roast - onion, carrot, celery, garlic, rosemary, bay - become the gravy
Cranberry Sauce
A bright, real cranberry sauce, fully at home on your holiday plate. Cranberries simmered with orange juice, h
A warm spread that makes the plain plate worth eating
A good spread turns plain chicken or a pile of crisp vegetables into something you actually look forward to, b
Tomato-free AIP ketchup: beets, carrots, and applesauce doing tomato's job
Nightshade-free elimination does not just take tomato away as a topping; it also takes away a cooking ingredie
Nomato Carrot and Beet Ketchup
A carrot and beet ketchup built without tomatoes, rich in carotenoids for skin, eyes, and gut lining, with jus
Coleslaw Dressing (AIP)
Homemade dressing is the kind of thing that feels optional until the bottle in the fridge door runs out and yo
Creamy turmeric dressing: the anti-inflammatory pour-over for salads and roasted vegetables
Coconut cream and olive oil emulsified with lemon, turmeric, ginger, and parsley. Creamy, bright orange, and r
Cilantro Chimichurri: a no-cook sauce that makes plain protein interesting
A jar of something bright in the fridge changes what a plain piece of protein can become. This chimichurri tak
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- A Creamy Ranch That Skips the Dairy and Keeps the Comfort
- A Jam That Sets Without Store-Bought Pectin
- A spoonful of chocolate-raspberry, no pectin needed
- A warm spread that makes the plain plate worth eating
- AIP Ranch Dressing and Dip
- AIP caramel sauce: a drizzle made from coconut sugar and coconut cream
- AIP dairy-free Alfredo-style sauce thickened with arrowroot and coconut milk
- AIP egg-free mayonnaise: a coconut cream and avocado oil emulsion in 5 minutes
- AIP nomato marinara: the herb-forward pasta sauce built from beets, carrots, and olives
- AIP nomato sauce - blender tomato-sauce substitute from butternut squash and beets
- AIP teriyaki sauce: the Asian pantry staple, rebuilt without soy or sugar
- AIP white grape and ginger jelly - sugar-free preserve set with Pomona's pectin
- All-Purpose Herb Sauce
- All-purpose herb sauce: mint, parsley, and rosemary in 5 minutes
- Apricot and thyme BBQ sauce: the fruit-bright glaze for wings and ribs
- Avocado Cilantro Dressing and Dip
- Avocado and Olive Salsa
- Basil and mint pesto, no nuts and no cheese
- Basil and parsley chimichurri: the herb sauce that makes grass-fed beef worth every bite
- Batch-Cook Peach and Apple Sauce
- Blueberry applesauce: 3 ingredients, a big batch, no sugar added
- Blueberry-Cranberry Sauce
- Caesar Salad Dressing (AIP)
- Carrot top chimichurri: the zero-waste herb sauce that belongs in your refrigerator
- Chamomile and Lavender Honey for Evening Wind-Down
- Cherry mango cucumber salsa with basil
- Cherry rhubarb sauce: the tart fruit glaze for roast pork and duck
- Chimichurri Sauce: a bright green herb sauce that wakes up any plate
- Chunky Apple Comfort, Three Ingredients
- Cilantro Chimichurri: a no-cook sauce that makes plain protein interesting
- Cilantro-lime ranch dressing: a creamy coconut base for salads and wraps
- Classic Nomato Sauce: a rich red sauce with no tomato at all
- Coleslaw Dressing (AIP)
- Cranberry Sauce
- Creamy turmeric dressing: the anti-inflammatory pour-over for salads and roasted vegetables
- Fresh dill vinaigrette: the herb dressing that makes poached fish worth eating
- Garlic and dill pickled okra: a cold-brine jar that waits for you
- Garlic cream sauce: dairy-free, egg-free, and startlingly close to the real thing
- Garlic-thyme vinaigrette: the avocado-emulsified dressing for everyday salads
- Golden turmeric sauce: the warm pour-over that goes on everything
- Guacamole
- Guacamole: a nightshade-free dip that still tastes like itself
- Holy grail gravy: the flour-free vegetable-thickened sauce from a slow-cooked roast
- Japanese carrot-ginger dressing: the hibachi restaurant starter, soy-free and AIP
- Lemon garlic pan sauce: the cassava-thickened finish for any seared protein
- Let the slow cooker do the tending
- Mint and turmeric pesto: the nut-free herb paste that goes on almost everything
- Mushroom and coconut cream sauce: the dairy-free pan sauce for chicken and cauliflower
- Nightshade-Free Spaghetti Sauce
- Nightshade-free cherry BBQ sauce: the summer barbecue sauce built from fruit
- Nomato BBQ sauce: the nightshade-free barbecue base the whole kitchen runs on
- Nomato Carrot and Beet Ketchup
- Orange and avocado dressing: the creamy citrus pour-over for salads and bowls
- Oregano garlic cream sauce: the cauliflower-based Italian-style sauce for spaghetti squash and chicken
- Oven-roasted garlic with olive oil
- Parsley and oregano chimichurri: the original Argentinian herb sauce, made AIP
- Peach and cherry BBQ sauce: the summer glaze for ribs and pulled pork
- Quick Pickled Red Onions to Brighten a Plain Plate
- Quick Stovetop Mango Jam
- Refrigerator Garlic Dill Pickles
- Roasted beet and carrot sauce: the ruby pour-over for lamb, salmon, and bowls
- Tomato-free AIP ketchup: beets, carrots, and applesauce doing tomato's job
- Tomato-free AIP ketchup: beets, carrots, and applesauce doing tomato's job
- Two-Ingredient Oven Apple Butter
- Vanilla applesauce, made simple
- Warm olive and lime vinaigrette: the two-minute pan sauce for fish and white vegetables
- nightshade-free no-mato marinara built on beets, carrots and celery, blended with kalamata olives for umami, tomato-free
- nightshade-free, tomato-free BBQ sauce built on strawberries, beets, carrots, and balsamic, with smoked salt for the BBQ note and black pepper omitted
- smoky-sweet AIP barbecue sauce built on pumpkin, no nightshades, ready in 15 minutes
What's actually in the bottle
Seed oils, mustard, black pepper, nightshade-derived spices, soy, and unspecified flavorings turn up across most commercial sauces, and rarely all on the front of the label. Mustard in particular hides inside anything described simply as a vinaigrette.
This isn't about vigilance as a personality trait. It's that the food system labels for shoppers who aren't managing an Autoimmune condition, and you are. That is a system problem rather than a you problem, and making 2 or 3 of your own sidesteps it entirely.
The 4 worth knowing by heart
A lemon and olive oil dressing. A creamy avocado or coconut sauce. An herb sauce in the chimichurri family. And a nomato sauce built on beets, carrots, and onion, simmered down and blended smooth, for anything you used to serve with tomato.
Learn those 4 and nearly every meal in this library has a finish. None of them is complicated, only the nomato needs real simmering time, and none needs a recipe once you've made it twice. If a homemade sauce tastes flat, it's nearly always missing salt or acid rather than anything you've removed.
Sauce and Dressing recipes, answered
What condiments are allowed on the Autoimmune Protocol?
Coconut aminos in place of soy sauce, olive and avocado oil, compliant vinegars, fresh herbs, garlic, ginger, horseradish, and citrus. What comes out is mustard, black pepper, most commercial mayonnaise and ketchup, and any sauce built on nightshade spices.
Is there an AIP substitute for soy sauce?
Coconut aminos. It's a little sweeter and less salty than soy sauce, so most people add a pinch of salt alongside it. It works in nearly every application where you'd have reached for soy or tamari.
How do I replace tomato sauce?
A nomato sauce, built on beets, carrots, and onion simmered down and blended smooth. It isn't pretending to be tomato and it's genuinely good in its own right, particularly with meatballs or over roasted vegetables.
How long do homemade sauces keep?
Oil and citrus dressings hold about a week refrigerated. Anything with fresh avocado or soft herbs is best within 2 days. Cooked sauces keep about 5 days and freeze well in small portions.
What can I use instead of black pepper?
Ginger, garlic, horseradish, and fresh herbs give you the brightness pepper was providing. Black pepper is doing more work in your old recipes than most people realize, which is why dishes can taste flat before you've replaced it.