How to Prepare Veggie Power Bowl? | 850 Cal Vegetarian Meal

How do you prepare a veggie power bowl? If you’re not quite sure, let us show you step-by-step how to prepare a well-balanced, vitamin-packed, filling, and healthy vegetarian bowl.

Veggie Power Bowl: A Useful Guide to Balanced Dinner

After a tough day, generally, we do not want to set up tables that sometimes take a long time to prepare. In those days, all we wanted was to take our plates, sit in front of the TV, and enjoy a good meal.

But at that time, the meals we choose are usually ready-made, packaged, and unhealthy. Because the process of preparing a meal takes so much time, we don’t want to deal with it after a tough day.

What if we told you that you could have a quite healthy and balanced meal ready in just 20 minutes?

Veggie Power Bowl

Step-by-Step Veggie Power Bowl Recipe

Yield: 1

Veggie Power Bowl Recipe

Veggie Power Bowl

The Veggie Power Bowl is packed with protein from mushrooms and kidney beans, carbs from rice, and chard to fulfill the vegetable deficit. It also includes a crunchy pickle salad to balance all these flavors!

Moreover, with its spicy taste, this bowl will make you feel more connected to yourself.

Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Total Time 20 minutes

Ingredients

  • Greek yogurt (3 tbsp)

Ingredients for Cooked Rice with Mushrooms

  • Raw Rice (1/2 cup)
  • Mushroom (5 pcs.)
  • Vegetable broth (1 cup)
  • Turmeric (1/2 tsp, powdered)
  • Sunflower oil (1 tsp)
  • Butter (1 tsp)
  • Black Cumin (A pinch)
  • Salt to taste

Ingredients for Pickle Salad

  • Pickled cucumbers (2 pcs.)
  • Parsley (a pinch)
  • Fresh mint (a pinch)
  • Lemon juice (1 tsp)
  • Olive oil (1 tsp)

Ingredients for Chard with Kidney Beans

  • Chard leaf (4 leaves, chopped)
  • Kidney beans (4 tbsp, cooked)
  • Onion (1/2, small)
  • Tomato puree (2 tbsp)
  • Vegetable broth (1 1/2 fl oz)
  • Sun-dried tomatoes (2 pcs.)
  • Olive oil (1 tbsp)
  • Cumin
  • Chili flakes
  • Salt to taste

Instructions

  1. Wipe the mushrooms well, peel off the thin layer of skin, and place them in a pan. Sauté until the mushrooms release their water and then reabsorb it. Add salt and turmeric and fry a bit longer.
  2. Meanwhile, thoroughly wash the rice and drain it well. Add the rice to the mushrooms and sauté briefly. Then add the hot vegetable broth and let it simmer for a few minutes over high heat. Afterward, close the lid of the pot and cook on low heat until all the water has been absorbed.
  3. Once the water has completely absorbed, turn off the stove and don’t open the lid of the pot until it's time to serve.
  4. Chop the pickled cucumbers into cubes and put them in a bowl. Chop fresh mint and parsley and add them to the pickled cucumbers. Finally, add lemon juice, olive oil, and some salt, and mix gently. Keep it aside.
  5. Preheat a small saucepan. Meanwhile, dice the onion. Add olive oil to the saucepan, then add the onions and fry them. Finally, add the spices, tomato puree, sun-dried tomatoes, kidney beans, and vegetable broth, and let it boil. After the kidney beans have absorbed some of the water, add the chard leaves and cook for a few more minutes.
  6. To complete the veggie power bowl, add some cooked rice to your bowl. Sprinkle a pinch of black cumin over the rice. Place the pickled cucumber salad in another part of the bowl. In another section, add the sautéed chard. Finally, whisk the Greek yogurt in a separate small bowl. (If you wish, you can add a small clove of crushed garlic to the Greek yogurt for extra flavor.)
  7. Place the whisked yogurt in the last section of the bowl. And there you have it, a perfect veggie power bowl.

    Bon Appétit!

Notes

If you have a little more time to get the best version of the rice, soak it in lukewarm salted water for half an hour, then wash it, and use it.

Nutrition Information

Yield

1

Serving Size

1

Amount Per Serving Calories 850Total Fat 45gNet Carbohydrates 90gProtein 19g

How to Make the Veggie Power Bowl Completely Vegan?

If you can check the ingredient list above, you can see that the bowl is completely suitable for a vegan diet. For vegans, the only 2 problems there are a few tablespoons of Greek yogurt in the bowl and the butter in the rice.

So cut Greek yogurt off the ingredients list and continue preparing your meal without it. Increase the proportion of mushrooms and kidney beans for more protein needs. Also, don’t use olive oil instead of butter.

See Also

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