This is an extremely easy side dish, or a main course, potentially, if you paired it with brown rice or quinoa.

We are lucky enough to have an excellent vegan Asian restaurant not too far from us, that sells frozen steamed buns with vegan sweet and sour “pork”. I’m not usually a fan of fake meat; I’d be just as happy to call these “steamed buns with really good stuff inside”, but I digress…

I paired the buns with a sesame kale and asparagus side dish, as you’ll see here:

Ingredients (for 2 as a side dish):

1 bunch of kale, broken up into small pieces, hard stems removed, and cleaned well

10 or so shitake mushrooms, cleaned

6 spears of asparagus, bottoms snapped off and cleaned

1 tsp sesame oil

1 tbs good quality tamari sauce

1 tsp sesame seeds

How:

Add the oil to the bottom of a deep pan, over medium heat

Add the mushrooms and kale, and saute lightly.

Add the asparagus, then the tamari sauce, and then the sesame seeds, stir it all around, and then cover for a few minutes, reducing the heat to medium-low to low.

Serve and enjoy!