The Fertile Fork: Spring Buddha Bowl 🌸🍠🥑🌱

Happy Friday!

Welcome back to The Fertile Fork — my weekly substack series serving up fertility-friendly bites every Friday! This is a space where flavor 🤝 function and for food that supports your fertility without overwhelming your brain or boring your taste buds!!

Spring Into Fertility

Spring into fertility with this beautiful buddha bowl featuring seasonal, colorful and fertility-friendly ingredients! Buddha bowls pack in nutrients with a combo of grains, protein, veggies and flavorful sauces like this lemon herb tahini 🍋

Ingredients (single serving):

• ¼ cup cubed roasted sweet potato

• ½ cup roasted asparagus

• ¼ avocado

• ¼ cup thinly sliced raw beets

• 1 TBS pumpkin seeds

• ¼ cup microgreens

• fresh dill

• 2 TBS feta cheese

• ½ cup @kettleandfire bone broth couscous

• 1-2 jammy soft boiled eggs

• 1-2 TBS @cava lemon tahini dressing - uses real ingredients, no seed oils

Batch Cooking Instructions:

• sweet potatoes & asparagus: pre-heat oven to 400F and line a baking sheet with parchment paper. cube sweet potatoes and trim woody ends of asparagus. toss with olive oil, salt and pepper. roast for 20 minutes (check asparagus depending on thickness after 10 minutes)

• bone broth couscous: replace “water or broth” amount with bone broth. bring bone broth, salt and olive oil to a boil. stir in couscous, remove from heat, cover and let sit for 5 min. fluff with fork

• jammy eggs: pre-heat the air fryer to 300F. add eggs to air fryer and cook at 300F for 11 minutes. shake halfway. place eggs in an ice bath for 1-2 minutes immediately after 11 minutes (don’t skip this step)

🌟 Fertility-Friendly Spotlight 🌟

• sweet potatoes - rich in beta-carotene, a powerful antioxidant

• avocado - loaded with healthy fats that help balance hormones, support egg quality and promote ovulation

• pumpkin seeds - another healthy fat and zinc powerhouse that particularly supports ovulation, progesterone production and a healthy period

• jammy eggs - rich in choline, which supports fetal development, egg quality and liver detoxification

• bone broth - rich in collagen, minerals and glycine that support gut health, inflammation and egg development

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grab a fork 🍴 and come back next Friday for more fertility-friendly bites! let me know if you make this nourishing buddha bowl 😍