Need a quick, healthy, delicious weeknight meal? Twin Cities food blogger greens & chocolate has this noodle bowl on her monthly menu!

Is anyone else ready for a cookie detox? I did my share of indulging this holiday season, which was fun and totally worth it, but let’s be honest – I could use a little break from the sugar.

My number one tool for getting back on track with healthy eating is meal planning. If I don’t plan our meals ahead my husband and I will, without a doubt, end up getting takeout or go out to eat. I’m just not that great at seeing what we have in the pantry and throwing something together. I need a plan. Written down on paper, preferably.

I also prefer weeknight meals to take minimal time and minimal prep these days. Since we typically start making dinner after the baby goes to sleep around 7, I’m usually pretty hungry by then and don’t want to mess around with anything fancy.

This Korean Beef & Vegetable Noodle Bowl fits all of my requirements for a quick, easy, healthy and delicious weeknight meal. The beef is marinated in a mixture of soy sauce, honey or brown sugar, Sriracha, rice vinegar and garlic, which is also the sauce for the noodles. I recommend marinating the beef for at least 30 minutes or up to overnight. I prefer the overnight option so 1) it has even more time to soak up all that good flavor and 2) so I don’t have to wait the 30 minutes for it to marinate when it’s time to start cooking.

If I marinate the night before, this meal comes together super quick because rice noodles cook really fast and I also used already sliced shiitake mushrooms and a bag of broccoli slaw, making the prep for this minimal.

So my plan for this new year? Put this recipe on our weekly menu at least once a month. It’s a keeper!