Butter Bean Bowl

Wow!  This was delicious!!!!!  I found this recipe on a YouTube video linked here...
https://youtu.be/owy7Tc6Gvp4
The recipe I made is the first one in the video.  (by the way... I really, really want to find some Jerusalem artichokes somewhere to make the third recipe in the video!  I am not having any luck locating those here?)

Butter Bean Bowl (One of the Buddha Bowls in the video linked above)
Soak butter beans in water overnight. Then cook with water and salt until overly cooked.  You can do this in your Instant Pot.  (I have also done that but this first time I just used two cans of butter beans, drained.  Also note - butter beans are just the large lima beans.  So you can find them frozen, dried or in cans.  Canned butter beans are usually in the section by lima beans and peas, not the other types of beans.)

In a skillet add some olive oil and then saute some garlic, rosemary, and leeks.  Add a little sage if you have it and also some salt and pepper.  Since I used canned butter beans and they were not hot, I added them to the skillet after I had fully sautéed these veggies.  Then I added some olive oil and began to mash them using a potato masher.  Add more oil as needed to get the consistency you want.  (be sure you are using a good quality olive oil... this is key for this recipe.)  When you have this butter bean mash ready you can set it aside.  (also note - you can use vegetable broth in lieu of most of the olive oil if you prefer.)

Trim the ends on the brussels sprouts, then cut them in half, removing outer leaves as needed.  Scrub the sweet potatoes and cut them in slices.  Put both vegetables in a bowl and drizzle them with olive oil, some lemon juice, salt and pepper.  Toss.  Then I placed them in the Air Fryer basket and cooked them at 400 degrees for 18 minutes.  That was a bit too long... I would go 375 degrees for 18 minutes or 400 degrees for 16 minutes.  I might also leave the brussels sprouts whole next time.  (trial and error)  You want the vegetables to be roasted and browned and slightly caramelized, but not burnt.

Then I washed a bunch of kale and broke the leaves off.  I steamed some kale in a Pampered Chef micro cooker for about 30 seconds.  That is all.  That was almost too much!!  :)

Now you have the ingredients to put it all together.  Add a drizzle of tahini over the top of all of it.  You can make your own tahini, but I bought a jar at HyVee.

I HAVE NO WORDS FOR HOW DELICIOUS THIS WAS!!!!!!

Here are photos of the various steps along the way....

butter bean mash in the skillet
(with leeks, garlic, rosemary and a fair amount of olive oil)

brussels sprouts and sweet potatoes fresh out of the air fryer

steamed kale

all together on the plate and drizzled generously with tahini