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This is one of the yummiest things I have eaten in a long time – so full of flavour and nourishing! Thank you!!
Grace
Brown rice, red quinoa, turmeric sweet potatoes, lightly dressed arugula, a poached egg, pistachios, and lemon herb dressing.
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This is The Bowl Life.
When did this concept of bowls come on the scene, anyway? All is know is that sometime between maybe last year and this very moment I’ve become completely obsessed with the idea and practice of piling a bunch of foods in a bowl and calling it all fun bowl names. Oooh I know let’s have Bangkok Curry Bowls tonight! or omgosh SO CRAVING a Mediterranean Quinoa Bowl! or Netflix + Healing Bowls tonight, for sure.
I feel like it’s the millennial version of the casserole.
The only thing about bowls is that how do you make them if you are feeding a crowd? crowd as in family? I mean, I think you just make everything separately and let people kind of build their own bowls? Maybe? I only feed two people in my family so I’m not sure how these things work. Are bowls are sort of limiting in terms of who they’re practical for? Tell me what you think, wise readers who have families larger than two people.
In the meantime, all of us Cooking For One or Two peeps shall be over here assembling and devouring bowls bowls bowls more bowlssss! And I shall be working on creating a category on POY for Bowls, because I just went to categorize this recipe and it is not a salad, friends. Not a salad at all.
The Healing Bowl situation today is epically beautiful and nutritious.
GET A LOAD OF THIS.
How To Make Our Healing Bowls:
Here’s how they come together:
We’re doing a quick steam + mash of sweet potatoes in a skillet. Adding turmeric because these are healing bowls and we need our power spices for times like these.
We’re whirring up an addicting batch of lemon herb dressing in about 5 seconds flat THANK U BLENDER.
We’re throwing some cooked brown rice and red quinoa in the bowl and feeling a moment of intense gratitude for the time-saving product that is bulk packages of Seeds of Change fully cooked whole grain products that they sell at Costco. Just saying.
We’re arranging the sweet potatoes and the arugula over the brown rice and red quinoa in the bowl, and maybe revisiting the fridge for any last minute additions to the club, and then kind of just letting it all happily soak in some of that lemon herb dressing. It’s bright and snappy and you’re going to be tempted to eat it at this point but WAIT – THE EGG.
Okay. Let’s do this. We’re poaching an egg. I operate similarly to a toddler when it comes to my egg-poaching abilities so I use the jar-lid trick. Works like a charm every time. Here’s a post where I show off that hack. **You can also scramble the eggs but UGH scrambled eggs sometimes, guys. They’re just really hard to love. I much prefer poached eggs in the bowls (and ALWAYS).**
And finally, we’re done. We sit down to a bowl of nutritious and colorful slow food that is so filling and so packed with flavor that we wonder how we will ever eat anything else for dinner ever again.
Is this not the ultimate power food combo?
Major s/o to turmeric, sweet potatoes, arugula, brown rice, red quinoa, eggs, and garlicky lemon herb dressing. So. Much. Love.
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Healing Bowls with Turmeric Sweet Potatoes, Poached Eggs, and Lemon Dressing
- Total Time: 25 minutes
- Yield: 4 1x
Description
Healing Bowls: turmeric sweet potatoes, brown rice, red quinoa, arugula, poached egg, lemon dressing.
Ingredients
TURMERIC MASHED SWEET POTATOES:
- 2 large sweet potatoes, cut into chunks
- a swish of olive oil
- 1–2 teaspoons turmeric
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 2 cups vegetable broth
LEMON HERB DRESSING:
- 1/4 cup lemon juice
- 1/3 cup olive oil
- 1 small clove garlic
- 2 teaspoons agave
- 1/4 cup parsley leaves
- 1/4 teaspoon salt (more to taste)
HEALING BOWLS:
- poached or scrambled eggs
- brown rice or quinoa
- arugula or spinach or greensss
- pistachios or other nuts for topping
Instructions
- TURMERIC MASHED SWEET POTATOES: Heat the sweet potatoes with olive oil in a skillet over medium high heat. Add the turmeric and toss to coat. Add the garlic and vegetable broth. Simmer until the potatoes are soft and the liquid is almost all absorbed. Transfer to a small bowl and mash. Season with salt and pepper and/or a touch of cream if you want to be lush about it.
- DRESSING: Pulse all ingredients in a blender or food processor. Season to taste.
- BOWLS: Toss the greens with a little dressing. You can also stir a little dressing into the sweet potatoes – that’s yummy. Serve each bowl with the mashed sweet potatoes, brown rice, greens, and a scrambled or poached or fried egg. Top with more dressing and a handful of pistachios.
Notes
This makes enough for 4 servings of mashed potatoes and dressing.
- Prep Time: 15 mins
- Cook Time: 10 mins
- Category: Dinner
- Cuisine: American
Keywords: healing bowl, turmeric sweet potatoes, healthy bowl recipe
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“I feel like it is the millennial version of the casserole.” <–LOL enough reason to try this recipe <3
Bowls TOTALLY are the millennial version of a casserole, but so much healthier. Love how they are easily customizable and perfect for ‘clean the fridge’ days!
Looks Great. Much like a Buddha Bowl, which I have become obsessed with for my dinners. Living alone and not wanting to cook elaborate meals, these type of dishes work very well!
Agree! all about the easy! 🙂
Yum love anything with sweet potatoes and quinoa! From a Chinese medicine standpoint, this might be the most perfect nourishing meal of all time!
I can feel my body getting more zen with each bite… 😉
Quinoa is particularly high in harmful lectins. Perhaps a better alternative would be cauliflower rice or millet/sorghum.
millennial version of the casserole = truth!
hahaha glad you agree!
This looks and sounds amazing! !! I need to try your poached egg method bc there is something about poaching an egg that’s pretty scary! 😉
Thanks Emily! yes – if I can poach eggs you totally can too!
Sounds delish!
Thanks Chess!
yum! bowls are the best way to lunch, as far as I’m concerned. and I’ll happily top it all off with a poached egg! delicious.
Yep! #putaneggonit
Fixed this tonight for my family and everyone loved it. What a wonderful medley of flavors!
This recipe sounds absolutely delicious! I love anything turmeric and sweet potatoes. I’m totally going to add pine nuts to this. Yum. Thank you!
I love you for that!!!!
I’m with you. Bring on the bowls! I think it may be a Gen X thing too because I love throwing ingredients in a bowl and making it a meal. This looks so healthy and delicious!
Right? Thanks for the comment Sandra!
This looks so healthy! I don’t know about feeding more than two people with a bowl, but I love making them ahead of time and enjoying them for lunch!
Kari
http://www.sweetteasweetie.com
Same here Kari!
I have 4 kids, and this is actually a perfect meal for a largish family. They get to pick and choose which of the prepared items they want in their bowl, and then they bring bowl to the stove where I plop on the on their poached egg…or two!
Yay! makes me happy to hear that Maureen!
For work I used to cook for twenty to thirty people each day, and bowls are excellent for a crowd! No matter how picky or what allergies/intolerances are out there, people can pile on their own toppings and are happy. P.S. the poached egg on top of rice made me think of bibimbap, which is another super yummy meal in a bowl 🙂
Omg, yet another amazing looking meal that I’ve gotta try!
recipe looks very healthy and nourishing, will most definitely try tthis dish.
Thanks, Cecily! Enjoy! 🙂
Buddha bowls have been driving me nuts…in a good way! The reason why I love bowls is because they are so comforting and so darn roomy. Making recipes with them is so much fun! I love all of these ingredients, let alone combining them all to make one PERFECT dish. This is absolutely amazing!!!
We’d definitely agree! 🙂
I made this tonight and it’s amazing! It’s going to be on repeat around here.
We love hearing that! 🙂 Thanks for the comment!
I’ve been loving bowl meals lately…so convenient for meal prep purposes. Loving the runny egg and addition of turmeric to the sweet potatoes!
Thanks Molly!
Not only does the food look stunning, but the BOWL does too!
Thanks, Colleen! 🙂
How does the mashed sweet potato hold up if not used right away? I am always looking for recipes to make ahead of time for camping/hiking and would assume if the ingredients are prepped and packed separately until ready to eat, they should be good in the fridge for a day or two, correct? Thanks!
Yep! They should keep for a few days!
I need this bowl in my life! Seriously delicious!
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Hope you enjoy it! 🙂
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Looks very yummy. Thanks for great recipe
Hope you enjoy it!
I made this for dinner tonight and OH MY GOD it was amazing. Just delicious. And wholesome. And beautiful. I added broccoli because, well, greens, but otherwise followed the recipe exactly. I want to eat this all the time, except it used just about every pot in my kitchen But hooray for this recipe!
Glad you enjoyed it, Emily! 🙂
First bowl that I ever tried! So many of favorites -sweet potatoes, turmeric, quinoa,eggs all loaded into a single bowl. Yum yum
Glad you enjoyed it! 🙂