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This sticky mince nourish bowl is one of those meals that proves eating well doesn’t need to be complicated. Ready in under 30 minutes, it’s a nourishing mix of savoury-sweet beef mince, fresh herbs, crisp veggies and a little tang from kimchi or pickled onion. It’s perfect for busy weeknights, meal-prep lunches or those evenings when you want something wholesome and deeply satisfying without spending hours in the kitchen.
Health benefits
This bowl is rich in both protein and fibre, making it a well-balanced meal to keep you full and energised. With around 35g protein per serve, thanks to the beef and tamari, it supports muscle repair, stable energy and satiety. The peas, capsicum, leafy greens and fresh coriander contribute 7g fibre per serve, which is essential for gut health, hormone balance and steady digestion. As a complete meal, it offers a mix of macronutrients and micronutrients that help you feel nourished and grounded.
Ingredients
The beauty of this sticky mince nourish bowl is in its simplicity. It combines beef mince with garlic, ginger, tamari and coconut sugar to create a sticky, caramelised protein base. Fresh peas, capsicum, coriander, leafy greens and kimchi (or red onion pickle) provide colour, crunch and a burst of freshness. Lemon or lime ties it all together with brightness, while olive oil brings healthy fats.
How to make this Sticky Mince Nourish Bowl
To make this meal, start by heating a pan with olive oil and sautéing the beef, garlic and ginger until cooked through. Once the pan is dry, add the tamari and coconut sugar, increasing the heat so the mince caramelises into a sticky, golden mix. Toss through the peas right at the end for a pop of colour and sweetness. While the mince cooks, prep the coriander, capsicum and greens so everything is ready to assemble. Serve in bowls with your chosen fermented topping and a wedge of lemon or lime to squeeze over just before eating.
Serving suggestions and how to store
Serve the sticky mince nourish bowl as is for a light but filling dinner, or make it heartier by pairing it with steamed rice or quinoa. It also works beautifully as a warm salad with wilted greens, or you can pack it into meal-prep containers for quick lunches through the week. The cooked mince can be stored in an airtight container in the fridge for three days or frozen in portions, while the fresh vegetables and herbs are best stored separately and added fresh at serving.
Vary this Sticky Mince Nourish Bowl to suit your dietary needs
If you’d like a soy-free version, simply replace tamari with coconut aminos and adjust the seasoning. For a plant-based take, swap the beef for crumbled tempeh or cooked lentils, which still pair beautifully with the sticky marinade. To make it go further, serve over rice, or bulk up the fibre with extra beans or lentils stirred through.
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Sticky Mince Nourish Bowl
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- 500 g beef mince
- 2 clove/s garlic – finely grated or crushed
- 1 tbsp ginger root – finely grated
- 2 tbsp tamari
- 2 tbsp coconut sugar or rapadura
- 1 cup/s peas – fresh or frozen (defrosted)
- 1 red capsicum/s – diced
- 1 bunch/s fresh coriander leaves – leaves picked
- 4 tbsp onion pickle – recipe here, or kimchi, or sauerkraut
- 60 g mixed leaves – or wilted greens
- 1 lemon/s – or lime quartered
Instructions
- Place a pan or wok over a medium high heat.
- Add the olive oil, beef, garlic and ginger. Stir-fry until the beef is cooked and there’s no liquid in the pan.
- Then turn the heat up high, add the tamari and sugar and stir for 2-3 minutes, until the sugar caramelises.
- For the last minute add the peas. Turn off the heat.
- While the mince is cooking, pick the coriander leaves off the stems and dice the capsicum.
Serve
- In a bowl place the mince, leafy greens, capsicum, coriander, onion pickle or kimchi. Serve with the wedge of lemon or lime. Mix together and enjoy.
Store
- The mince in an airtight container in the fridge or freezer.
- The capsicum in an airtight container in the fridge.
- The herbs and leaves in an airtight container in the fridge.
Warm Bowl
- Heat the mince and wilt the greens to serve.
Notes
Soy-free
Replace the tamari with coconut aminos (plus sea salt, to taste).Bulk it up
Make this meal go even further by adding in cooked rice, quinoa or legumes. The legumes will also really improve the fibre count!Did you love this easy as could be Sticky Mince Nourish Bowl? Let me know in the comments below…
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Easy Red Onion Pickle
I love to have a jar of Easy Red Onion Pickle in the fridge to add extra colour and flavour to meals. They are delicious alongside veggies, grilled or roasted meat, as an addition to wraps, burgers, sandwiches, salads or just a milder way to enjoy onion in salads.
Health benefits
This Easy Red Onion Pickle recipe offers several health benefits. Red onions are packed with antioxidants, particularly quercetin, which helps combat inflammation and supports heart health. Apple cider vinegar is known to improve digestion, which can enhance nutrient absorption. It has also been shown to improve insulin sensitivity supporting stable blood sugar levels. While this recipe doesn’t ferment long enough to create probiotics, apple cider vinegar itself can support a healthy gut by balancing pH levels.
These quick pickled red onions make for a tasty and healthful addition to various dishes, enhancing flavour while offering nutritional benefits.
Ingredients
All you need for these quick pickled onions are a few basic ingredients, including finely sliced red onion, apple cider vinegar, coconut sugar or rapadura, and sea salt.
How to make easy red onion pickle
Warm the vinegar, sugar and salt in a small saucepan until everything dissolves. Pop your sliced onions into a jar or mason jar, then pour the hot pickling liquid over the top and press them down so they’re mostly submerged. They soften quite quickly, so just give them a stir over the first hour to help them settle under the liquid.
Serving suggestions and how to store
They’re ready after about fifteen minutes, but the flavour develops beautifully if you chill them. Keep them in a sealed container or jar in the refrigerator for up to a week. Use them anywhere you want a bright pop of flavour: piled onto salads, with grilled meat or fish, slices added into wraps, stirred through bowls or added to burgers. I love this a lot on Smashed Avocado Toast. My whole family adore the taste of these pickled onions and request them weekly.
Vary this easy red onion pickle to suit your dietary needs
You can use any natural sweetener you like (honey, maple syrup, rice malt syrup). Add chilli flakes for heat, mustard seeds or peppercorns for a more traditional vibe, or swap the vinegar for red wine vinegar or white vinegar or white wine vinegar if that’s what you have on hand.
Easy Red Onion Pickle
Ingredients
- 1 red onion/s (large) halved and finely sliced
- 120 ml apple cider vinegar (½ cup)
- 2 tbsp coconut sugar or rapadura – or sweetener of your choice
- 1 tsp sea salt
Instructions
- Place the apple cider vinegar, sweetener and salt in a small saucepan and bring to the boil, stirring to dissolve all ingredients.
- Place the onions into a mason jar or airtight jar.
- As the pickling liquid comes to the boil, pour it over the onions, making sure you press the onions down to be mostly covered by the liquid. They do collapse as they pickle so for the first hour or so give them a stir until they are below the vinegar.
- Set the onions aside for 15 minutes, stirring occasionally, then they are ready to used or store in the fridge for up to a week.
Serve
- Delicious alongside grilled or roasted meat, as an addition to wraps or a milder way to enjoy onion in salads.
- Serve with one of our fabulous Dhal recipes or any of the curries.
Store
- In an airtight container for up to a week.
Notes
Add to….
- Eggs cooked anyway
- Salads
- Steak (or any fish or meat)
- In sandwiches (my son loves it with nitrate free ham in his roll at school)
- With a curry or dhal
- On a hamburger
Did you love this easy red onion pickle? Let me know how you used them in recipes in the comments below…
Recipe by Kristin Cosgrove
Hi, I’m Kristin Cosgrove. I’m a mum, student of psychology and passionate whole foods cook. I love to share my love for simple, seasonal recipes and my modern approach to cooking for my family. I live on the Surf Coast with my husband and three children.
You can find me on Instagram at @kristinjcosgrove
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Health benefits
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Ingredients
For this creamy vegetable soup recipe, you will need cauliflower, sweet potato, celery, onion, garlic cloves, cashews, chicken broth, mild curry powder, nutritional yeast and a topping of roasted chickpeas seasoned with tamari, cumin, smoked paprika and maple.
How to make this Creamy Vegetable Soup
Roast the seasoned chickpeas until crisp. While they cook, sauté the onion and celery, then add garlic, curry spices, cauliflower, sweet potato, cashews and broth. Simmer until tender, blend until smooth and stir in the nutritional yeast. Taste and adjust the seasoning so the flavours really shine.
Serving suggestions and how to store
Serve warm with the crunchy chickpeas and fresh coriander scattered over the top. A drizzle of chilli oil works beautifully if you enjoy a little heat. Store leftovers in the fridge or freezer and reheat gently to maintain that velvety texture.
Vary this Creamy Vegetable Soup to suit your dietary needs
Omit the chickpeas for a legume-free version and add toasted pepitas on top. Swap the nutritional yeast for grated parmesan if dairy is tolerated.
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Creamy Vegetable Soup (with crunchy chickpeas)
Ingredients
- 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil – or ghee
- 1 onion/s – diced
- 2 stick/s celery – diced
- 4 clove/s garlic – minced
- 2 tsp mild curry powder
- 1 small cauliflower – approx. 400g broken into florets, stem chopped
- 1 sweet potato/s – peeled and diced
- 140 g raw cashew nuts – 1 cup
- Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper – to taste
- 750 ml stock or broth – 3 cups chicken or vegetable
- ¼ cup/s nutritional yeast – see variation below
Crunchy Chickpeas
- 400 g can chickpeas – drained and rinsed
- 1 tbsp tamari
- ½ tsp ground cumin
- ½ tsp smoked paprika
- 1 tbsp maple syrup
To Serve
- ½ bunch/s fresh coriander leaves – finely chopped
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 200°C / 390°F (fan-forced).
- Drain the chickpeas really well and dry in a clean tea towel.
- Toss in the tamari, cumin, paprika and maple syrup.
- Place on a baking tray (in a single layer) and roast for 20-30 minutes, stirring a few times.
- While they are roasting make the soup.
- Place the onion and celery in a large pot with the olive oil or ghee.
- Saute for 2-3 minutes. Add the garlic and curry powder and saute for a couple of minutes, stirring.
- Then add the cauliflower, sweet potato, cashews, broth or stock and season to taste. Bring to a simmer and cook until the vegetables have softened, 20-30 minutes.
- Allow to cool before pureeing with a stick blender or blender. Add the nutritional yeast and blend again. Taste and adjust the seasoning (salt really brings out the flavour).
Thermomix
- Follow steps 1-5 to make the crunchy chickpeas.
- Place the onion (quartered), celery (roughly chopped) and garlic in the Thermomix bowl. Chop 5 seconds, speed 5.
- Add the olive oil and curry powder; saute 3 minutes, 100deg, speed 1, MC off.
- Add the cauliflower (roughly chopped), sweet potato (roughly chopped) and cashews and chop 5 seconds, speed 5. Add the broth or stock and seasoning.
- Cook 25 minutes, 100deg, speed 2, steaming basket on top to prevent splatter.
- Add the nutritional yeast.
- Blend 30 seconds, speed 6-7 or until smooth. Turn the dial up slowly to prevent splatter and make sure the steaming basket is still on top.
- Taste and adjust the seasoning (salt really brings out the flavour).
Serve
- Once the chickpeas are crunchy (or almost crunchy) remove from the oven and serve over the soup with the coriander. I also added a drizzle of chilli oil (because I love a bit of spice) but this is entirely optional.
Make-ahead
- Re-heat in a pot over a low heat until just hot.
Store
- Store in an airtight container in the fridge or freezer.
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- Place all the ingredients for the soup into the Grab Bag.
- Carefully seal your Grab Bag. I close most of the seal then press out as much air as I can then complete the seal. Place the Grab Bag in the freezer.
- To cook, remove the Grab Bag from the freezer, place on a baking tray and thaw in the fridge overnight.
- Tip the contents of the Grab Bag into a large oven proof dish (with a tight fitting lid) or Dutch oven. It may still be a bit frozen; that’s okay.
- Place the lid on the pot, set your oven to 150°C/300°F (fan-forced) and cook for 2 hours.
- Allow to cool before pureeing with a stick blender or blender. Add the nutritional yeast and blend again. Taste and adjust the seasoning (salt really brings out the flavour).
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Notes
Legume free
Omit the chickpeas. Perhaps top with toasted pepitas.No nutritional yeast
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