Easy Air Fryer Meal Prep with Sweet Potatoes & Brussels Sprouts

This recipe is sponsored by ZenChef. All opinions are 100% my own.

A flexible air fryer meal prep recipe with Brussels sprouts, sweet potato and two easy, blender sauces will keep things interesting all week long!

You might think that working from home makes lunchtime a lot easier, but it totally doesn't. I can't tell you how many workday "lunches" have involved me scrounging through the fridge, only to end up eating hummus and crackers while standing at the kitchen counter.

Not ideal, y'all. It was time for a change, and this super easy recipe was the first meal prep that I truly loved eating.

I've been making this air fryer meal prep a lot lately. I love how quickly the veggies come together in the air fryer. And having two sauces on hand lets me mix up my flavors throughout the week.

Choosing Your Grain

This recipe has some flexibility in the grain department. Choose your favorite grain! Here are the ones I've been using with links to cooking guides, where necessary:

• quinoa
• rice
• kamut
• leftover pasta (or pasta cooked according to package directions)

If you only need two or three days of meals, you can also skip the whole grain situation, and just eat the veggies and sauce.

Air Fryer Meal Prep

I love sweet potatoes and Brussels sprouts together, and they are perfection in the air fryer!

Start by chopping your sweet potato. Spray it with oil, sprinkle on some garlic powder, and get that going in the air fryer.

Halfway through cooking time, you add your sliced brussels sprouts, spray again with oil, shake on some more garlic powder, and keep on cooking.

You'll want to shake the veggies a few times during cooking, because the basket is pretty loaded up. I also like to add a sprinkle of soy sauce about halfway through cooking the Brussels, to keep things from getting dry.

The air fryer that I used to make this recipe is the ZenChef PRO XXL Air Fryer from ZenChef, who is sponsoring this recipe. Thank you, ZenChef!

I’ve had this air fryer for over a year, and it is hands-down  my favorite that I've ever owned. The basket is nice and large (5.8 quarts!), and I love the way it’s designed.

As you probably know, I am extremely picky about air fryers, and this basket design is the kind I like. It pops out for easy cleaning, and it has holes at the bottom (rather than mesh) to allow air flow and prevent sticking.

My favorite feature on this air fryer, though, is the little S button. The S stands for start and for stop. I've never seen another air fryer with a stop button, and it feels so much safer than unplugging it while it's running, if I need to end a cooking cycle early.

Making the Sauces

While the veggies and grains are cooking, you have plenty of time to make both of the blender sauces:

• 5-Minute Peanut Butter Sauce
• Magical Tahini Dressing

You don't have to thoroughly clean your blender between sauces, since the flavor profiles are similar. Just give it a good rinse, and you'll be fine.

You can halve the peanut butter sauce recipe, but don't halve the tahini dressing. That recipe is the bare minimum you need to get it to blend properly.

Both of these sauce recipes are pretty small-batch, but you will have leftovers, since you're only using two servings of each one in your meal prep containers. The leftovers are great over veggie bowls or salads, so serve them up at dinner throughout the week. Think of it as another time-saver!

Because we only season the veggies with garlic powder, you can really mix things up in the sauce department. Any of these easy vegan sauces would work great with this meal prep recipe, so if peanut sauce or tahini dressing aren't your jam, choose your own sauce adventure instead!

By now, the veggies and grains are probably ready, and it's assembly time! Divide the veggies and grains between four containers, add a dollop of sauce to each, sprinkle on some green onion, and you've got four days of meal prep lunches, ready to rock.