Paleo Dinner Recipes

By Food & Wine
Updated December 23, 2016
© Fredrika Stjärne
Try some of these easy and delicious paleo dinner recipes.
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Bacon-Wrapped Tuna Steaks with Frisée and Avocado Salad

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Katy Sparks likes to treat tuna steaks like beef. Here, she wraps them in bacon as she would a beef tenderloin, which not only adds a subtle smoky flavor to the fish but also keeps it moist.

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Roast Chicken with Chicken Livers

Credit: © William Meppem
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This flavorful chicken recipe is full of protein and great for an easy dinner.

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Sweet Potatoes with Apple Butter

Credit: © Lucy Schaeffer
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This quick recipe is the perfect side dish for any meal.

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Grilled Swordfish Steaks with Basil-Caper Butter

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For an easy dinner, try this grilled swordfish with herb butter sauce.

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Butter-Roasted Chicken with Cilantro and Mint

Credit: © John Kernick
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Rubbing butter on chicken skin (as well as under it) and letting it sit in the fridge for a few hours is a great way to make it extra-crispy, with moist breast meat. Here, Floyd Cardoz flavors the butter with cilantro, garlic, mint, chiles, cumin and lime juice.

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Grilled Leg of Lamb with Garlic and Rosemary

Credit: Thomas Heinser
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Instead of butterflying a boned leg of lamb and cooking it whole, Cal Peternell carefully cuts along the four natural muscle separations (they're easily visible) and pulls the four pieces apart with his fingers. Grilling the lamb this way is quicker, makes it easier to determine doneness, and simplifies carving. Plus the meat develops a mellow flavor and lots of delicious crust.

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Spinach Egg Drop Soup

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"A few years ago," Sang Yoon recalls, "I caught a cold and my friend Sal Marino of Il Grano invited me for a bowl of stracciatella alla romana, the Italian soup with egg strands and semolina. I went home and made my own ghetto version with broth from a box, and realized it would taste even better with ginger and spinach."

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Flank Steak with Herbed Salsa

Credit: Jody Horton
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Jamie Oliver likes to chop all the salsa ingredients together on a large cutting board so the tomatoes, garlic, jalapeño and herbs get well combined. He even seasons the salsa and adds a splash of olive oil on the board.

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Roast Bass with Kombu Butter, Iceberg Lettuce and Asparagus

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One of Chang’s favorite ingredients in his arsenal of flavor boosters is kombu, a dried kelp that’s typically simmered for stocks and soups. He pulverizes the kombu to a powder and blends it with softened butter to baste striped bass fillets.

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Caramelized Vegetables with Dijon Butter

Credit: © Con Poulos
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This simple roasted vegetable side dish tastes rich and complex thanks to mustard-spiced butter.

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Sliced Poached Chicken with Baby Turnips and Mushrooms

Credit: © Chris Court
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This recipe employs a technique Hopkins often uses when cooking chicken for his family: He gently poaches an entire chicken in an herbed stock, then serves just the moist breast for dinner. You can use any combination of fresh herbs, but tarragon is especially fragrant in the broth.

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Butcher Shop Chicken

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"I go to great lengths to figure out how many meals I can make from one chicken!" chef John Besh says. After roasting a chicken for Sunday supper, Besh pulls any remaining meat off of the bones to serve on another night with a warm tomato salad. Alternatively, you can start with uncooked quartered chicken, as we do here, and prepare the tomatoes as the chicken roasts.

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