1. Mexican-Style Ribs

These ribs are juicy, sticky, and delicious with flavors of paprika, chili, cumin, oregano, and garlic. Truly Mexican-style flavors coat these babies and make them absolutely irresistible to anyone who’s lucky enough to walk past the grill while they’re cooking.

2. Stuffed Avocados With Cilantro Cream Sauce

These stuffed avocados could easily make a full meal, because they’re filling, delicious, and have proteins as well as healthy fats. Chicken is seasoned with Mexican flavors and stuffed into avocado halves, baked, and drizzled with a coconut-cilantro cream.

3. Mexican Cauliflower Rice

You’ve heard of cauliflower rice, no doubt. It’s the process of processing cauliflower until it’s in tiny, rice-like pieces and then serving it up in place of the grain. This cauliflower rice has cilantro, avocado, onion, garlic, cumin, and other Mexican flavors for a spicy and flavorful side dish.

4. Fool-proof Pork Carnitas

These carnitas are impossible to mess up. Juicy and flavorful, they cook up with golden brown crispy edges and a tangy, spicy flavor from orange and seasonings. Use them in tacos, burrito-less bowls, or whatever you like. Or just eat them with a fork, because they’re that good.

5. One Pot Mexican Beef and Vegetables

This awesome one-pot meal (when is a one-pot meal not awesome?) will fill you up with meaty, spicy goodness and leave you going back for seconds. It’s flavorful and made with my new favorite rice substitute, plantain rice! You’ll need a spiralizer, but I promise it’s worth it.

6. Ancho Chile Mexican Meatballs

You can pile these babies on top of shredded cabbage, cauliflower rice, fried plantains, or whatever else your heart desires. It doesn’t even matter, because they’ll take over as the star of the show no matter what. These things are that good, with their tomato-garlic flavors and ancho spice.

7. Easy Slow Cooker Tomatillo Pork

You all know how I feel about slow cookers by now, so let’s not even get into how fantastic this recipe is for that alone. That would take away from the pure amazing flavor of this pork from the tomatillos, cilantro, lime and garlic. There are a hundred things you could add to this (some of the suggestions aren’t paleo).

8. Perfect Guacamole

I have a thing for guacamole. We’re kind of best buddies. It’s the perfect healthy fat dip for just about anything you can stick into it, including paleo chips and crackers, and you can pile it on top of your favorite non-dipping recipes as well, like tacos!

9. Mexican Cauliflower Rice Bowl

Um, can I just say this fantastic non-rice bowl has mango in it? That alone should be enough to convince you of how magical these flavors are, with a garlicky rice base, more vegetables, mango, and mushrooms, and a sauce with kale, cilantro, coconut yogurt, avocado, and lime.

10. Easy Ceviche

This simple seafood dish is easy to put together, and has a complex flavor that makes it a totally delicious side dish, snack, or even a light lunch all on its own. The avocado sauce is what makes it, in my opinion, with lime juice, coriander, and all those healthy, beautiful, green fats.

11. Oven Baked Chicken Fajitas

These fajitas come together easily in your oven for a one-dish dinner, and the recipe comes with a homemade taco seasoning mix that you can make up and keep around for whenever you feel a taco emergency come on. Don’t tell me I’m the only one who has taco emergencies.

12. Raw Mexican Cauliflower Rice

For a dish that’s even fresher than cooked cauliflower rice, here’s another version that’s entirely raw and would make a great summer side dish for a picnic, or just an evening spent outside. This rice would probably be great inside a paleo wrap, combined with some tasty meat.

13. Skillet Chicken Fajitas

I can tell just by the color of this chicken fajita mix how flavorful and juicy and delicious that chicken is. Do yourself a favor and make this for dinner tonight. It’ll be tastier and healthier than going out, and a whole lot more fun, too, with sizzling and popping galore.

14. Homemade Fresh Tomato Salsa

This yummy salsa has a super-fresh taste with chopped peppers, cucumber, tomatoes, garlic, jalapenos, and lime juice. You can eat it right away, but it’s much better if you leave it for at least half an hour in the fridge so the flavors can meld and become even more delicious.

15. Paleo Mexican Churros

You know churros. Those chewy, sugary, cinnamon-covered sticks of fried dough that you absolutely could never eat while paleo. But. BUT. Yes, this is a recipe for those delicious desserts that is totally paleo-friendly, and not even hard to make right in your own kitchen.

16. Spicy Pork Chile Verde

This green chile dish is highly nourishing, with pork shoulder, tomatillos, plenty of peppers and vegetables, and a whole quart of bone broth. With all those peppers, it’s the ideal delicious dish for sinus health, and it cooks most of the way in your slow cooker for time-saving goodness.

17. Paleo Beef Tostadas

Tostadas are one of my favorite dishes to have at Mexican restaurants, but of course, they’re not paleo when you eat out. Fortunately, you can make a paleo version at home, such as with this awesome beef tostada recipe made from tapioca starch and almond flour.

18. Homemade Fresh Chorizo

This recipe is for Mexican sausage that you can make up from scratch all on your own. You’ll know exactly what went into it, how it’s going to taste, and how fresh it is, especially if you get your pork sausage from your local butcher. Give it a try!

19. Steak Fajitas

I gave you chicken fajitas, and now I give you steak! These are hearty and tasty, with extra flavors from the coconut aminos, maple syrup, lime juice, adobo seasoning, and other fantastic ingredients that you’ll just have to check out for yourself. Happy sizzling.

20. Shredded Pork Tacos

This three-part recipe is for delicious and juicy shredded pork, salsa fresca with a cashew-based chipotle and lime sauce, and awesome tacos to pull it all together. They’re lettuce tacos, by the way. So you can appreciate all these fillings the grain-free way, obviously.

21. Slow Cooker Chicken Fajitas

These fajitas are made in my favorite kitchen tool, the slow cooker. You’ll need to set everything in that baby in particular order, but beyond that, there’s not a whole lot for you to do, friends. Except wait 5 hours or so and then dig in like it’s the last fajita you’ll ever eat.

22. Paleo Whole30 Carnitas

These are suitable for the Whole30 plan, but if you’re not doing that, don’t worry. There’s no deprivation here, so everyone can enjoy! The orange and lime keep these carnitas bright and flavorful, while coconut aminos add an extra umami flavor and bone broth adds valuable nutrients.

23. Slow Cooker Beef Carnitas and Tostones

My favorite Mexican side dish is fried plantains. They’re starchy, delicious, golden brown, and perfect with a pinch or two of sea salt. The double-fried plantains appear in this recipe next to slow-cooked beef, avocado, cabbage, and everything you need for a full, amazing Mexican meal.

24. Chicken Enchilada Soup

Enchiladas can be a tough break when it comes to paleo, but luckily, enchilada soup is not! In this recipe, you get all the great flavors of enchiladas, without the piles of tortillas and cheese. Just lots of chicken, chili powder, garlic, onion, and tomato goodness.

25. Paleo Taco Salad

This taco salad leaves nothing to be desired, because it includes all you could want in a fantastic taco salad without the grains, dairy, or legumes: plenty of seasoned ground beef, zucchini chips in place of corn chips, guacamole, and greens. Perfect!

26. Peachy Palate

No cheese here! Just meaty, sweet potato, mango, avocado perfection. This is a layered bowl that’s a full meal with shredded lettuce, mango salsa, and a “yogamole” sauce with avocado and coconut yogurt or coconut cream, lime juice, and Himalayan rock salt.

27. Paleo Nachos

Yes, my friends, you can enjoy nachos while eating in the paleo lifestyle. No cheese, of course, but hey, when we replace it with ground meat and seasonings, you won’t even remember what was supposed to be there in the first place. Because these nachos are that good.

28. Paleo Mexican Sticky Shrimp

When I was no longer a kid, I couldn’t stand sticky, messy foods. I was an adult, I tell you. But as I’ve grown older, I’ve learned that sticky nearly always equals perfection, or at least extreme goodness, like in the case of this Mexican sticky shrimp with cumin and other spices.

29. Mexican Gumbo

Up until now, I didn’t realize that Mexican cuisine had a version of gumbo. I feel a little silly for that, but now I’m so glad I know about it, because this recipe is fantastic. Full of coconut milk, chorizo, tomato sauce, vegetables, and shrimp, it’s a hearty and flavorful one-dish meal.

30. Soft Cauliflower Tortilla Tacos

Sometimes you just really need a real taco, am I right? For those times, these paleo taco shells come through. Made from cauliflower, they’re the grain-free soft tortillas of your dreams, and they’re filled with a spiced ground beef filling, avocado, tomato, and everything your heart desires.

31. Mexican Breakfast Casserole

This casserole is the perfect breakfast when you need something hot, savory, and filling. The eggs across the top are delicious and full of protein, and there are several add-in options you can use to customize this recipe to your own tastes, and to what your family likes best.

32. Taco and “Rice” Bake

This rice bake isn’t rice at all—it’s cauliflower rice. Ground beef and homemade taco seasoning mix to form a meaty sauce with tomato and onion, turning this into a fabulous side dish or light lunch you can enjoy over greens or with roasted vegetables.

33. Enchilada Stuffed Peppers With Chile Verde

These spicy, saucy peppers are inspired by enchilada flavors, but have no cheese or grains. Diced sweet potatoes give them a creamy sweetness, while spinach, carrots, and tomatillos are full of flavor and nutrition. You can’t go wrong with these peppers and their awesome sauce.

34. Mango Habanero Guacamole

These peppers are intense, so you have to promise me you’ll be careful while making this dip. Once made, though, it’s a fantastic sweet and spicy guacamole that you can dip anything into or pile on top of just about any dish you’d like, including the stuffed peppers above.

35. Green Chile Enchilada Sauce

You don’t have to buy enchilada sauce, especially not from a can. You can totally make it yourself at home from fresher, tastier ingredients, and make it paleo without any preservatives or funky stuff. Here’s a green version with tomatillos and chiles.

36. Red Enchilada Sauce

If you’re more of a red sauce kind of person, give this one a try. This red enchilada sauce is made with lard, onion, garlic, cumin, chili powder, tomato sauce, chicken stock, and a few other tasty ingredients that you can adjust to suit your own flavor preferences.

37. Mocha Mexicano

Just for fun, I want to share one final Mexican paleo recipe, and this one’s for Mexican mocha hot chocolate, made with cocoa (or raw cacao powder), vanilla, cinnamon, cayenne pepper, coconut sugar, coffee, and hot, steamy almond or coconut milk. Yum.

38. Veggie Fajita Noodles

These zucchini-and-more noodles are full of fajita flavor, and they don’t even need any meat. They’re delicious on their own! That’s thanks to plenty of cumin, chipotle powder, guacamole, and the fresh, natural flavors of peppers, sweet onions, mushrooms, and zucchini.

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1. Sweet Potato Bun Sliders

Particularly if you use the thick and round type with the white flesh (they hold together better when cooked), sweet potato slices can make great sandwich “rolls,” like in these delicious portobello sliders with almond pesto and lemony cashew mayo. So good.

2. Reuben Sandwiches With Grain Free Irish Soda Bread

These sandwiches are cheese-optional and absolutely delicious. The best part, in my opinion, is the grain-free soda bread buns. There’s something about that tingly soda flavor that can’t be beat, and that goes perfectly with the strong flavors of corned beef and sauerkraut.

3. Golden Flax Focaccia

This flax-based bread is silly-easy to make and can be filled with any sandwich fillings you like. Because it’s infused with rosemary flavor, it works well with fragrant, herbal sandwiches, meats, and Italian-style sandwich fillings. Freezes well, too!

4. Pulled Pesto Chicken Burger With Fire-Roasted Tomato Jam

Portobello mushrooms make fantastic buns for sandwiches and burgers because they hold together well, they’re flavorful but not overwhelming, and they’re a very healthy choice. Use paleo mayo in this recipe and you’ll be well on your way to a fantastic, balsamic-infused chicken sandwich.

5. Grain Free Sandwich Rolls

These rolls are made mainly from eggs and cashews, with structural support from arrowroot powder and coconut flour. You can use them any time you feel like you need a “real” sandwich bread, with any fillings you desire. You could also add dried herbs!

6. Pulled Pork Sandwichs on Sweet Potato Buns

Here’s a variation on the sweet potato bun, and this time you can use whatever sweet potato or yam you can get your hands on. Making your own pulled pork is a cinch, and if you’ve never done it before, take good note of this recipe because you’ll be making it again and again!

7. Cauliflower Bagel BLTs

There’s nothing like a good BLT sandwich. This one’s sitting in a bagel bun made from cauliflower, almond flour, and coconut flour, and you’re getting an extra serving of vegetables on top of your tomatoes and greens. Plus bacon. Triple win.

8. Nut Free Paleo Sandwich Bread

This is some of the best-looking paleo bread I’ve seen, and it’s sure to fill up your sandwich bread craving with meat-based sandwiches, veggie ones, or even nut butter and jam! Use coconut yogurt as suggested for paleo, and feel free to add herbs if you wish.

9. Paleo Breakfast Sandwiches

This awesome recipe has a handful of different filling options, plus the best-looking seed bread ever. What are you feeling? Try a Nutty Monkey, Gourmet Sautee, Spring Showers, or one of the other pre-designed sandwich combinations in this recipe, or think up your own.

10. Sloppy Joes

Sloppy joes were a family favorite in my house as a kid on nights when we needed something to come together quickly without a lot of effort. Unfortunately, they were from a can! So let’s do this from scratch, and paleo style, with a paleo bun to boot.

11. The Best Cuban Sandwich

This sandwich is made from plantain bread (recipe included, and amazing), good quality ham, delicious (paleo-friendly, check yours) mustard, butter pickles, and optional cheese (feel free to leave it off as suggested). This is one fabulous craving buster, right here.

12. Nut Butter Sandwich Bread

This delicious and nutrient-dense sandwich bread is made with either almond butter or cashew butter, and both would be fantastic. A bit of arrowroot powder and a few eggs help to stabilize, but this isn’t the crumbly grain-free bread you’ve tried before—this stuff really holds up.

13. Roasted Vegetable Sandwich With Avocado-Basil Aioli

If you’re interested in eating a rainbow (have I gotten your attention?) this is the sandwich for you! Check out all the colors in this baby. That’s from the avocado, tomato, roasted red peppers, red onion, and zucchini. All on a portobello mushroom bun!

14. Burger With Guacamole on Sweet Potato Noodle Bun

Burgers aren’t the main focus today, but I had to share this recipe because it’s the bun that steals the show, and if you’re not feeling a burger, you could steal the bun back for your own sandwich! These are made from spiralized sweet potatoes and an egg, fried to a crisp.

15. Pulled Pork Stuffed Sweet Potatoes

You can put your pulled pork between sweet potato buns, but if you want to remove a few steps to make things simpler, go ahead! This amazing pulled pork is perfect stuffed between the two halves of an opened-up baked sweet potato. You won’t miss the bun, I promise.

16. Pear, Candied Walnut, and Prosciutto Chicken Salad

The sweet and savory flavors in this sandwich make it totally addictive, so consider yourself warned. You can use whatever paleo buns you like, but there are two different recipes suggested on the page.

17. Cauliflower Bread Veggie Sandwich With Avocado Spread

This sandwich is super simple and fully customizable. I think I’m going to make it for lunch today! You can pile this one with sprouts, lettuce or other greens, bell pepper, sliced or julienned vegetables, even meat if you’d like—but spread that avocado spread on thick, because it’s oh so good.

18. Apple-Sage Sausage Sliders on Portobello Buns

This sandwich has warm, autumn flavors with both savory and sweet notes from sausage, apples, sweet potato, and sage. A fried egg makes the perfect topping, and collard greens balance out the colors, flavors, and nutritional profile of this simple, delicious dish.

19. Meatball Sub With Dry Garlic Rib Sauce

This is another totally easy, no-brain-required, breadless sub recipe. The meatballs are what make it completely amazing, because they’re the best meatballs you’ve ever had. I’m not kidding! And you’ll probably want to check out the sugar-free BBQ sauce, while you’re at it.

20. Chorizo Jibaritos

These burgers/sandwiches are made with one of the tastiest buns I can think of: the smashed plantain. It sounds simple, because it is, but these fried and smashed plantains add a salty, savory, starchy bite to your sandwich, and they’re so good you’ll want to use them for all your sandwiches.

21. Purple Sweet Potato Stegosaurus Plates

These sandwiches can be made with any color sweet potato, but the purple ones look so cool, and have more of a dinosaur-plate effect. They make an excellent breakfast sandwich, but you could certainly use them as bread for whatever sandwich you have in mind.

22. Roast Beef Apple Sandwiches

These roast beef sandwiches with homemade sunflower seed-basil pesto, hard-boiled eggs, bacon, and green apple buns have so much going on in the flavor department. The tartness from the apples rounds everything out into the perfect party in your mouth.

23. No Bread Bacon and Egg Sandwich

This might be one of the prettiest sandwiches we’ve looked at so far, despite its simplicity. The egg turns into the bread, and you can pack it with whatever shredded vegetables you like for a lovely color effect as well as a fully customizable flavor profile.

24. Zucchini Waffle Sandwiches

Who says waffles can’t be healthy? This one, with coconut milk, zucchini, and spices, makes an excellent sandwich bread for just about any fillings you can think of. If you’re feeling creative, you can change up the spices in the waffles to complement whatever you’re planning to put between them.

25. Scallop Bacon Sandwiches

I love these sandwiches where the filling becomes the bun. I guess that makes it no longer the filling, but you get the idea. Flavor on the inside, flavor on the outside, perfect all around. These scallops get cut in half and stuffed with bacon. What’s not to love?

26. Paleo Bagel Buns

These buns are the ideal paleo “everything” bagels with whatever add-ins you like: try poppy seeds, sesame seeds, dried herbs—experiment! You can also change the flavor of these by replacing the applesauce with any other fruit puree or nut butter, so go on—go crazy.

27. Mini Paleo Buffalo Chicken Sandwiches

If you’re missing your buffalo chicken flavors since going paleo, here’s the recipe for you. These cute little mini sandwiches are made on nut butter buns and piled with chicken, bacon, Frank’s hot sauce, peppers, and onions. And you can use the leftover egg yolks for homemade aioli!

28. Portobello Bacon Avocado Sandwich

This sandwich has such flavorful ingredients on its own, you don’t even need special seasonings or sauces to make it fantastic. Just bacon, avocado, lettuce leaves (or other greens), and portobello mushrooms. Takes just half an hour and you’re in bacon avocado heaven.

29. Turkey Cranberry Sandwich

The basic idea behind this sandwich (Thanksgiving leftovers) isn’t new at all, but it has a fun, contemporary paleo twist to it with sweet potato flatbread. Yummy! Using the sweet potatoes in the bread gives you one additional Thanksgiving flavor in this tasty sandwich.

30. Breadless Sausage and Egg Sandwich

Usually when we make paleo bread or buns, we’re using a lot of eggs to hold the bread together. So why not just use the eggs as bread, especially when this is a breakfast sandwich? Completely brilliant and easy, and you were going to be making that egg anyway.

31. Paleo Breakfast Sauce Egg Sandwiches

Breakfast sandwiches are popular for good reason. You can pack several different food groups into them, they generally aren’t high in sugar if you make your own, and they’re highly convenient, depending on what you can put together in advance. This one with red pepper flakes and maple syrup sounds amazing.

32. Meat Bagels

When I first found this recipe, I spent a few minutes glancing back and forth between the picture of the uncooked bagels and the final product. It looks like bread! How could this be? These totally grain-free bagels are a full serving of protein-rich pork.

33. Coconut Flour Sandwich Bread

This super simple paleo bread has nothing but coconut as its flour, which can’t be said for many paleo bread recipes with a dozen ingredients. Coconut oil, eggs, sea salt, apple cider vinegar, and a bit of baking soda bring this bread together. Perfect for freezing!

34. Jibarito With Garlic Avocado Spread

I had to include a second Puerto Rican plantain sandwich, because this avocado-garlic spread is too good to keep all to myself (well, when I make it I’m going to keep it all to myself, but I’ll share the recipe). Get some plantains in your hands, if you haven’t already.

35. Turkey Apple Sandwiches With Pomegranate Vinaigrette

These sandwiches are for the tired paleo eater without a lot of time. They come together in a pinch with hardly any work involved, and are dipped in a beautiful and delicious pomegranate dressing with herbs and olive oil. All you need is apples, turkey, and salami or prosciutto!

36. Inside Out Turkey Sandwiches

This sandwich is inside out because it uses the inside as the outside. Well, there’s something else inside. Wait… I’m confused. You’ll just have to look for yourself at these turkey patties filled with vegetables, avocado, or whatever else you like in your sandwich.

37. Grain Free Make Ahead Breakfast Sandwiches

Make ahead? That’s what I like to hear! I feel most productive in the morning, so my mornings are usually pretty busy as I try to get things done. A delicious bacon and egg sandwich with grain- and nut-free sandwich bread would really hit the spot between all the action.

38. Paleo Double Down

Here’s a variation on the most recent recipe. This one also uses chicken as its bun, but is filled with red onion, tomato, bacon, lettuce, and chipotle mayonnaise (recipe included). This chicken is seasoned with garlic and dill and is absolutely juicy and yummy.

39. Hawaiian Chickwich

You’re probably wondering what a chickwich is. See that “bread” wrapped around those tomatoes and pineapple? That’s chicken! This is a bread-free sandwich recipe that’s simple and could be changed up to use whatever you have around your refrigerator today.

40. Cucumber Watermelon Sammies

Let’s finish off with a fun recipe that’s hardly a recipe, but that I’m definitely going to go make myself for a snack. Watermelon and cucumbers are both cool and refreshing, but with different flavors. If you’re feeling fancy, add a basil leaf to the middle of each one.

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