Lemongrass Ginger Breakfast Soup

This Lemongrass Ginger Breakfast Soup from Mickey Trescott's new cookbook, The New Autoimmune Protocol, is a stunning addition to your breakfast soup collection. Chicken, mushrooms, sweet potato, zucchini, and spinach mingle in a broth fragrant with lemongrass, ginger, and lemon. It's fragrant, beautiful, and perfect for meal prep. Make a big batch on the weekend, and you've got breakfast covered all week (and it also works for lunch or dinner).

This recipe happens to be gluten-free, dairy-free, paleo, and AIP-compliant. It's nutrient-dense, gut-supportive, blood-sugar-friendly, and anti-inflammatory. In other words, it checks a lot of the boxes I look for in a thyroid-friendly meal.

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The Case for Breakfast Soup

If you haven't yet discovered soup for breakfast, let this be your introduction. It's one of the surprising pleasures of thyroid-friendly cooking. And while it may buck against our traditional ideas of what constitutes breakfast, a warm, savory bowl of veggie-packed, protein-rich, gut-loving soup is a wonderful way to start the day. 

For many Thyroid Thrivers, breakfast can be a bit of a problem. As many of us discover that we feel better without gluten or dairy, many breakfast options get wiped off the table. Eggs are easy, fast, and gluten-free, but they also happen to be a common allergen or intolerance for some of us. Even if you do fine with eggs, it's easy to get in a breakfast rut with them. They quietly take over your GF/DF breakfast rotation until one day you wake up and realize you just can't face another scramble or runny yolk.

Breakfast soups like this one add something to your rotation that can be higher in protein than eggs, loaded with vegetables, and genuinely satisfying. It's become one of my favorite ways to start the day, especially during cooler months. And if you enjoy this recipe, be sure to check out my Zucchini Basil Breakfast Soup or this Hearty AIP Breakfast Bowl for more savory ways to shake up your morning routine.

About the Recipe Creator

A special thank-you to Mickey Trescott, MSc, for allowing me to share this recipe from The New Autoimmune Protocol. Mickey is a nutrition professional, author, and co-founder of Autoimmune Wellness, where she has helped grow the Autoimmune Protocol (AIP) community from a small grassroots movement into a widely recognized, research-supported approach for autoimmune disease management.

She is the author of four influential books in the autoimmune nutrition space: The Autoimmune Paleo Cookbook, The Autoimmune Wellness Handbook, Nutrient-Dense Kitchen, and her latest book, The New Autoimmune Protocol, which is the first major update to AIP in over a decade. It includes 75 delicious, nourishing recipes along with practical guidance for implementing the protocol in a more flexible and sustainable way.

To learn more about the Autoimmune Protocol and the updated AIP framework, be sure to listen to my recent conversation with Mickey Trescott on the Thyroid-Healthy Bites Podcast, where we discuss The New Autoimmune Protocol and what's changed about AIP over the past decade.

Thyroid-Friendly Recipe Highlights

While there isn't a single "thyroid diet" that works for everyone, I love that this recipe includes many of the nutrient-dense, whole-food ingredients I often encourage Thyroid Thrivers to incorporate into their meals.

Protein-Rich: Chicken thighs provide satisfying protein to help support energy, blood sugar balance, and satiety throughout the morning.

Packed with Colorful Vegetables: Sweet potatoes, zucchini, mushrooms, spinach, onions, garlic, ginger, and lemongrass all contribute a variety of vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and plant compounds that support overall health and well-being.

Savory Breakfast Alternative: If you're tired of eggs, looking to cut back on sugary breakfast foods, or simply looking for more variety at breakfast, this soup is a wonderful way to start the day with a balance of protein, colorful veggies, healthy fats, fiber, and soothing broth.

Meal Prep Friendly: This recipe makes a generous batch and reheats beautifully, making it easy to have a nourishing breakfast, lunch, or dinner ready to go throughout the week. Bonus: It also freezes well!

Naturally Gluten-Free and Dairy-Free: For those following a gluten-free, dairy-free, Paleo, or AIP lifestyle, this recipe fits beautifully into a thyroid-friendly kitchen focused on whole, minimally processed foods.

Happy cooking, happy thriving, and enjoy the recipe (below)! 

P.S. Looking for even more thyroid-friendly breakfast ideas? Be sure to grab my FREE Thyroid-Friendly Breakfast Guide, featuring my favorite breakfast tips, simple meal ideas, and delicious recipes to help you start your day feeling nourished and energized.