These healthy rice bowls are a delicious vegetarian dinner recipe filled with kale, peppers and portabello mushrooms and topped with a fried egg.
Do you have recipes that you care about not only because of how they taste, but also because of the people you’ve shared them with? This healthy rice bowl recipe was created upon returning from our road trip through Minnesota. Fresh out of the car after a 10 hour drive, we were craving something relaxing and stuffed with veggies. Alex ran into the store and found this inspiration with our new rice cooker. We ate it together, enjoying the sparkle of a solo dinner after days of partying with family and friends. Read on for a healthy rice bowl recipe!
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How to make healthy rice bowls
We enjoyed these healthy rice bowls so much we couldn’t stop making them for guests, new friends and old ones. Our rice bowls are filled with brown rice, flavorful and nutritious veggies, a squeeze of lime, and a fried egg. Here’s a little how to make these healthy rice bowls.
White rice vs brown rice
Brown rice is a highly nutritious grain that packs an impressive amount of vitamins, minerals, and beneficial compounds. It is less processed than white rice: white rice has the husk, bran, and germ removed, but brown rice has only the husk removed, leaving the nutrient-rich bran and germ. As a result, brown rice retains nutrients that white rice lacks, like vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants. Brown rice also contains more fiber than white rice.
This healthy rice bowl recipe includes brown rice for all those vitamins, nutrients, and fiber! Cooking brown rice on the stovetop can take 45-50 minutes. So our favorite method is to use our Instant Pot! An Instant Pot can also be used as a rice cooker. How to make rice in the Instant Pot (white rice and brown rice).
cut the vegetables
This healthy rice bowl recipe is loaded with nutrient-dense veggies: Tuscan cabbage, red peppers, portabello mushrooms, garlic, and ginger! Where you see people tripping is at the veg cutting. We have a video series of 20 Knife Techniques: How to Cut Anything videos that can help you cut everything from kale to garlic to ginger! See the recipe card below for links to all videos related to this recipe. We’ve included our video on slicing a pepper below because it helped us cut down on our prep time in the kitchen!
Video: How to cut a pepper
Wondering how to cut a bell pepper for these healthy recipe bowls but not sure what the best way is? Alex and I use a great method of cutting peppers that doesn’t end up with seeds all over the counter! (Anyone have this problem?) Here’s our step-by-step guide to slicing a pepper, including a video of me slicing peppers in our kitchen.
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And that’s it! Let us know if you try our healthy rice bowls in the comments below!
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This recipe is…
This healthy rice ball recipe is vegetarian and gluten-free. For vegans, use our Best Lemon Tahini Sauce and omit the egg.
The description
These healthy rice bowls are a delicious vegetarian dinner recipe filled with kale, peppers and portabello mushrooms and topped with a fried egg.
- 2 1/2 cups brown long grain rice (uncooked)
- 2 Red pepper
- 2 Portabello mushrooms
- 2 Tuscan cabbage florets
- 4 Garlic cloves
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh ginger
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- ⅛ teaspoon red pepper flakes
- 1 tbsp soy pasture
- 4 eggs*
- 1 lime
- Kosher salt
- Ground fresh pepper
- Cook the rice according to How To Cook Rice or use our Instant Pot Method.
- While the rice is cooking, prepare the ingredients: Slice the red bell pepper and portabello mushrooms. Cut kale into bite-sized pieces. Chop the garlic. Chop the ginger.
- In a large pan, heat the olive oil over medium-high heat. Add the garlic and ginger and sauté until the garlic starts to brown, about 30 seconds. Add the peppers and mushrooms and sauté for about 4 minutes. Season with a pinch of kosher salt and pepper. Add kale and sauté another 4 minutes until tender. Season with another pinch of kosher salt, red pepper flakes and soy sauce.
- While the veggies are cooking, in another pan, lightly cook the eggs.
- To serve, place rice in a bowl, then garnish with greens and eggs. Serve with a squeeze of lime juice.
- Category: main course
- Method: Cook
- Kitchen: American
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