This Vegetable Rice Noodle With Peanut Sauce Foundational Five Nourish Bowl is a great example of how to make a fully delicious and equally nutritious meal that will leave you satisfied and well-nourished.
This Nourish Bowl is inspired by the many flavors from Thailand. When I traveled to Thailand in 2015 I had the joy and honor to soak up the Thai culture including the most delicious fresh foods, including rice and vegetable noodles dishes with peanut sauces, pad thai, mango rice desserts, teas, incredible street food, and so many delicious foods.
I love making traditional pad thai at home, this recipe is not a traditional pad thai, but when I want to throw a delicious meal together that reminds me of all the incredible meals from Thailand in one bowl, this is the sauce and dish I make.
Pad Thai is a popular dish ordered at local Thai restaurants, as street food in Thailand, and is a great introduction to Thai food in general. I hope that you enjoy trying this in addition to trying authentic and traditional pad thai recipes from recipe creators like hot thai kitchen and eating Thai food blog.
Pad thai is a stir-fry dish that usually contains rice noodles, eggs, tofu, another source of protein such as shrimp, chicken, etc. and flavored with fish sauce, tamarind paste, garlic, red chili pepper, palm sugar, cilantro, or Thai basil, and a lime wedge. People describe the flavors of this dish as bold, rich, vibrant, sweet and sour, and a little funky from the fish sauce.
Vegetable Rice Noodle Nourish Bowl With Peanut Sauce
There are a variety of ways you can make this Nourish Bowl with your choice of protein, sprinkling crushed peanuts on top, adding a handful of bean sprouts on top, and more. It’s up to you and what you like or think will fit well with the flavors.
The peanut sauce can be made and used for meal-prep if you need to whip up a quick lunch or dinner, and it has similar flavor factors as pad thai.
What Is A Foundational Five Nourish Meal?
The Foundational Five Nourish Meal is any meal that contains all 5 elements within the Foundational Five, non-starchy carbohydrates, starchy or sugary carbohydrates, healthy fat, protein, and the Flavor Factor.
By following this simple template it keeps food flexible, fun, and nourishing. Our Foundational Five Nourish Meals can be found as yogurts, oatmeal bowls or breakfast bowls, nourish bowls, salads, soups and stews, and stir-frys.
Any meal can be made into a Foundational Five Nourish Meal by just knowing the system I teach in our Mindful Nutrition Method™.
Foundational Five
Learn how you can nourish your body at each meal by creating a Foundational Five Nourish Meal. This is McKel’s simple framework highlighting the five elements of nutrition she’s used with thousands of clients in her decade as a Dietitian and now you can use it too!
The Foundational Five supports you in nourishing your physical body so you can learn what to eat, which is the first step in mindful eating. The remainder is knowing how to eat and to experience your food positively.
Eating in this way supports your physical body on a cellular level ensuring you’re consuming the nutrients you need to have a sharp focus, calm digestion, lasting energy, sound sleep, and vibrant long-term health.
Here are the following Foundational Five Elements in this recipe:
1 • Non-starchy Carbohydrate
- Vegetables of your choice, like red bell peppers, broccoli, pickled radishes, carrots
2 • Starchy Carbohydrate
- Rice noodles
3 • Healthy Fat
- Peanut butter
- Sesame oil
4 • Protein
- The protein of your choices like tofu, shrimp, or chicken
5 • Flavor Factor
- Gluten-free soy sauce
- Garlic
- Ginger
- Lime
- Red pepper flakes