Steak and sweet potato come into my kitchen quite often! It’s a no brainer with how quick you can throw this Southwest Steak Bowl together! Enjoy a delightfully easy meal as often as you like.
A Beef Bowl using seasoned flank steak, spinach, baked sweet potatoes, cilantro, jalapeno, garlic and avocado, making it gluten-free and “whole”.
In my kitchen, a Beef Bowl is a quick, easy and healthy weeknight meal. Seasoned skirt steak is lightly seared in a skillet while sweet potato cubes bake in the oven. It all comes together in a big bowl lined with spinach and topped with cool, creamy avocado, leafy cilantro and a garlic-jalapeno “dressing”.
You can add a quality extra virgin olive oil
if you like, but I usually think it is fine without it. If you do prefer a traditional dressing, your can also make my Roasted Jalapeno and Onion Dressing. Superb on grilled veggies and steak salads.
This Beef Bowl is gluten-free and full of “whole” flavors and is ready in under 30 minutes. It literally has ALL of the veggies I need in one day. I love spicy foods, which are also linked to increased metabolism and bonus, it takes fabulous!
I do have to give credit where credit is due. I originally tried a version of this recipe from Terra’s Kitchen. I reviewed their delivery service and loved it!
We had their Southwestern Steak Bowl on the 3rd night and I craved the robust flavors for the next week. I headed to the grocery store, put my own spin on the original and now I have my own version of beef in a bowl.
While these robust flavors may not be kid-friendly, they will be any adult’s best friend. Make a Beef Bowl one of your new favorite weeknight meals! Sometimes I even get crazy and make mine with Jalapeno Cornbread Mini Muffins. Yummy!
If you liked this steak bowl, make sure you check out these other easy steak recipes:
- Mushroom Cheese Stuffed Flank Steak
- Copycat Peter Luger Steak Sauce
- Sheet Pan Steak Fajitas
- Insane Steak Sandwiches
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- 16 ounces flank steak
- Fine sea salt and freshly ground pepper
- 2 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil divided
- 2 sweet potatoes peeled and cut into 1-inch cubes
- 1 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1 avocado cubed
- 2 cups spinach
- 1 jalapeno seeded and minced
- 2 garlic cloves minced
- 2 tablespoons cilantro
- 1/4 cup scallions chopped
- 1 lime cut into wedges
- chile powder for finishing
- Maldon Salt for finishing
- Preheat oven to 450 degrees.
- Toss cubed sweet potatoes with 1 teaspoon cumin and 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil. Spread onto a rimmed baking sheet. Place into heated oven for 10-15 minutes or until potatoes are fork tender.
- Season flank steak with fine sea salt and freshly ground pepper.
- Heat a large cast iron skillet over high heat, until it smokes. Add 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil. Add seasoned steak, searing on each side for 2-3 minutes for medium-rare. Remove and allow to rest for 3 minutes. Cut into 1-inch cubes.
- Mix jalapeno and garlic in a small bowl.
- Divide spinach, cooked sweet potatoes, steak, scallions and avocado into 2 large bowls. Top with jalapeno-garlic mixture, cilantro and fresh lime juice from lime edges.
- Divide spinach,
Hope these recipes are as good as they look
Hi Marilyn! Every single thing you see here, has been eaten by me and my family. Literally, we eat what I photograph and I am terrible at photoshop, so what you see if exactly what you get and if it was terrible, I wouldn’t post it. With that said, everyone has different taste buds, so what I love, someone else might not. In my experience, most people agree that my recipes are pretty darn delicious. Thanks for stopping by!