Paleo Asian Taco Meal Prep Bowls
by Paleo Asian Taco Meal Prep Bowls! Savory Chinese-inspired meat sauce with melt-in-your-mouth eggplants and tons of fresh veggies. Shop once, prep once, and eat healthy all week!
If you love Chinese eggplants, you’ll also love my Chinese steamed eggplant salad! It’s the perfect pairing for one another!
Love coming home to dinner like this ready for you to devour ?? Then you certainly don’t want to miss this Meal Prep perfect Asian Taco Meal Prep Bowls!
Add An Egg On It …Paleo Asian Taco Meal Prep Bowls
This is a serving day suggestion. I poached an egg until the egg white was cooked yet the yolk was still soft and tender. The melted egg yolk goes perfectly with the savory meat sauce and sweet eggplants.
I’m so hungry just thinking about it!
Ever since I started the Sunday Meal Prep Challenge group on Facebook, I’m totally sold on paleo meal prep!
I set aside between 1 ½ to 2 hours on a Sunday morning to get everything ready for the week. Since everything’s ready, I don’t need to rush home and reinvent the wheel just to figure out what to put on the dinner table. It saves me time, money, and most importantly gives me peace of mind.
To make an extra yummy Paleo Asian Taco Meal Prep Bowls…
I used a combination of ground pork and ground chicken for a more complex flavor. First, I sauteed the meat with aromatics and broke it down further into small pieces.
Then I added my homemade Asian Taco meat sauce to make it extra flavorful. Cover it with a lid and slow simmer over low heat.
I diced the eggplants into slightly larger bite-sized chunks so they would maintain their shape better once softened.
Pan-sear the eggplants in a separate large sauté pan until they turn slightly softer but not mushy or watery.
Combine the slow simmered ground meat with perfectly grilled eggplants. Give a quick toss and you’ve got a perfect pot of Asian-style Taco meat sauce! If you love this dish, you’ll also love my Chinese eggplant with garlic sauce. It’s one of my readers’ favorites!
Paleo Asian Taco Meal Prep Bowls
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Ingredients
- ½ lb ground pork + ½ lb ground chicken or turkey
- 2-3 medium size Italian eggplants, , diced to larger bite size cubes
- Ghee
- Broccoli florets, cherry tomatoes, cauliflower rice, , as much as you like
Aromatics:
- 2 large garlic cloves, , minced
- 1 large shallot, , minced
- 1 ½ tbsp ginger, , chopped finely
- 3 bulbs scallions, (separate white & green parts), chopped
- ½ tsp chili pepper flakes, (optional)
Meat Seasonings:
- 1 tsp sesame oil
- 1 ½ tsp tomato paste
Sauce:
- 3 tbsp coconut aminos
- 1 tbsp sesame oil
- 1 ½ tbsp Red Boat fish sauce
- 1 ½ tbsp aged balsamic vinegar
- 8 tbsp chicken or vegetable stock
- ½ tsp ground black pepper
- 1 tsp grated ginger
Instructions
- Ground meat: Melt 1 tbsp ghee in a large saute pan. When hot, add ingredients under “aromatics”. Season w/ a small pinch of salt. Saute until fragrant (about 10 secs.) Add ground meat and use a wooden spoon to further break up the meat into finger pieces. Season w/ 1 tsp sesame oil, 1 ½ tsp tomato paste, and a small pinch of salt. Cook until the meat is no longer pink. Add ingredients under “sauce”. Lower the heat to medium-low. Cover with a lid.
- Eggplants: In the meantime, heat 1 ½ tbsp ghee in a separate large saute pan. When hot, add diced eggplants. Cook until the eggplants become soft and withered but not mushy (about 6-9 mins.).
- Combine: Add cooked eggplants to the meat sauce. Give a few quick toss. Garnish with green parts of scallions.
- To make meal prep bowls: Once the meat sauce is cool to room temperature, add cauliflower rice, meat sauce, broccoli florets, and chopped cherry tomatoes. Seal the containers and store in the fridge for up to 4 days
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Girl that image of the pork simmering made my stomach growl. I love that you took the traditional taco bowl and kicked it up a notch. Looks amazing!
OMG that aubergine looks sooooo good… I’ve actually got real heart eyes right now 😉
That eggplant looks soooooo good!
I love your interactive photos!!! This looks amazing and sounds so delicious. I love all of those flavors.
These look incredible!!! I love a good Asian bowl 🙂
Your videos are always the best and make me so hungry! 🙂 These bowls look great and that sauce sounds incredible!
Adding this to the Taco Tuesday line-up! Looks amazing!
You always whip up something delicious and stunning. Love it 🙂
THanks so much Stacey ! XOXO
This looks amazing!! You know the way to my heart with these sauces 🙂 And I looooove recipes like this that you can meal prep so easily to eat all week!!
I’m doing whole30 as we speak so loving your inspiration and your meal prep video as it means a lot of cooking if you don’t learn to batch cook properly.
These looks so good. Eggplant was one of my favorite vegetables! I can’t eat it anymore but I just know it’s made perfect and soft in this recipe. Yum!
This looks delish! Your GIFs are so awesome. Drool!
You are such an inspiration! You make meal prep look both effortless and delicious, and I especially love the way you make the eggplant in this. I don’t like it unless it’s melt in your mouth status!
Thanks so much, Irena. I’m flattered !
What an awesome idea, I love taco bowls and I can’t wait to try your Asian inspired version!
Thanks, Kari !
Yum! I love how you’ve taken the flavors of a Mexican dish and made it with Asian flavors! Sounds good and perfect for an easy meal prep meal!
Thanks so much, Michele !
Love this! My kids would totally devour this! I am putting it on the menu next week!
Thanks so much, Renee !
Man these are taking meal prep to the next level! This looks amazing!
Thanks so much Allison. Appreciate it !
This was excellent. So flavorful and healthy! My whole family enjoyed it very much.
Those gifs are SO COOL! I feel like I am in your kitchen. Also, I think I need to make this dish. That eggplant looks too good to pass up. Great work!
Thanks so much, Morgan !
Yes! This looks SOOOO good!
Thanks so much, Kat !