Colorful sweet potatoes, maple flavoured chipotle chickpeas, earthy mushrooms, vibrant greens, creamy avocado and a fiery vegan mayo makes for a spicy and healthful vegan meal.  Use tofu cubes instead of chickpeas, for an equally spicy protein option.

Second, prepare your mushrooms – dried or fresh.

You can use dried mushrooms, or fresh.  I like to have dried mushrooms in my pantry, they don’t spoil, and I always have some on hand.

Dried mushrooms are so amazingly excellent for flavoring soups.

They tasted great rehydrated in this recipe as well, a bit chewier than fresh though.  The broth you get from rehydrating mushrooms is so flavorful, save it if you can!

I bought this huge container of gourmet dried mushrooms from Costco, and followed the instructions for rehydrating, first in hot water, then boiling.  I used the microwave, thinking it would be faster and easier.  If you use a microwave too, be careful the water doesn’t boil over.  Next time, I think I will use a pot on the stove instead, so I can boil the mushrooms longer and make them less chewy.

If you are using fresh mushrooms,

even better!

See the recipe notes for instructions.

Saute them, with some diced white onions if you have any, in a large skillet.  Remove to a separate dish and use the same skillet for the chickpeas and/or tofu.

Third, make the chickpeas and tofu.

Either / both taste excellent in this recipe, separately or together.

Chop some green onions, add to a large skillet with soy sauce and fresh ground black pepper and add the drained chickpeas or tofu.

Add in the spices, and mushroom broth.  This is where you might use tofu instead.

Here, I am making chickpeas for my husband and I, and plain tofu for the kids – because one of my daughters doesn’t like chickpeas (we think she is crazy for this, but love her anyways).

These spices are going to fire it up whether you use chickpeas, tofu, or both.

While my chickpeas saute, I heated up the kids tofu for 3 – 4 minutes in the pot of boiling water for the sweet potatoes.

I could also have done this in the mushroom water, didn’t think of that until later, that would be even better, yum!

First, reserve about 5 cubes of cold tofu for the Fiery Vegan Mayo Sauce, throw them in a small blender instead of the boiling water.

Prepare the fiery vegan mayo sauce.

With tofu, cashews, a touch of lemon juice, chipotle powder or hot sauce, smoked paprika, soy sauce and some non-dairy unsweetened milk.

I use soy milk, cause it’s my fave.

Lastly put the bowls together!

First set down a bed of energy boosting greens, like baby spinach.  I used romaine lettuce for my girls.

Then, create rows of the vibrant orange sweet potatoes, spicy maple chickpeas and/or tofu, dark flavourful mushrooms, bright green sliced avocados and drizzle generously with the fiery creamy sauce.

It’s a fat free sauce after all, and so spicy good, use a generous amount!

Each color in the bowl, provides different antioxidants that you need.

With a vegan bowl recipe like this, eating a rainbow of foods is easy and you are going to feel great after this medly of nutritious foods.

A spicy, sweet, beautiful bowl of taste, and health!

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