Creamy Gochujang Butter Beans

Creamy gochujang butter beans with bok choy, shiitake mushrooms, and a silky sunflower seed sauce. It's saucy, a little spicy, high-fiber, high-iron, and packed with 34 g of protein.

Author Sarah Cobacho (plantbaes.com)

PREP TIME10

COOK TIME20

TOTAL TIME30

Servings 2 servings

Course Main Course

Cuisine Korean-Inspired

Keyword butter beans, creamy butter beans, easy plant-based dinner, garlic, gochujang butter beans, high-fiber dinner, high-protein beans, lime, mushroom, scallions, soy milk

Ingredients

Creamy Gochujang Butter Beans

1 tbsp sesame seeds
1 tsp sesame oil
3.5 oz shiitake mushrooms sliced
1 red bell pepper thinly sliced
4 garlic cloves minced
3 cups cooked butter beans
½ cup vegetable broth optional, for a saucier consistency
3 small heads baby bok choy chopped, stems and leaves separated
½ lime juiced
1 scallion finely chopped

Gochujang Cream

¼ cup sunflower seeds
2 tbsp gochujang paste
2 tsp reduced-sodium tamari
1 tsp rice vinegar
1 tsp maple syrup
½ cup soy milk

Instructions

Toast the sesame seeds: Add sesame seeds to a large dry pan over medium heat. Toast for about 5 minutes, stirring regularly, until just slightly golden. Set aside.
Brown the mushrooms and capsicum: Add sesame oil, mushrooms, and red bell pepper to the pan. Cook for about 8 minutes on medium heat until the mushrooms are browned and the red bell pepper softens.
Make the gochujang cream: In a small blender, add sunflower seeds, gochujang paste, tamari, rice vinegar, maple syrup, and soy milk. Blend until perfectly smooth.
Add the garlic: Add the garlic to the pan and cook for 1 minute, stirring regularly, until fragrant.
Simmer the beans: Add butter beans and the gochujang cream. Simmer for 5 minutes. Add the vegetable broth, if using, for a looser consistency.
Finish with greens and lime: Stir in bok choy stems first and cook for 2 minutes, then add bok choy leaves and cook for another minute until just wilted. Turn off the heat, stir in the lime juice, then serve topped with sesame seeds and scallion. Enjoy!

Notes

Baby spinach is a great alternative to bok choy. If using only spinach, stir it in at the end until just wilted.

To serve, this is delicious with a slice of our buckwheat bread.

To stretch this to 3 servings, serve with a side of brown rice or quinoa. If you do, use the vegetable broth so it's a little more saucy and perfect with grains. Split into 3 servings and served with 1/2 cup cooked brown rice, this still gives about 25 g of protein per serving.

Nutritional Information - Per Serving