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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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This is nice and filling! The flavors individually are all good, but together I found it overall sweet. The sweet potato, the agave, and the pistachios — it reads very sweet! I would halve or even leave out entirely the agave next time.
This recipe was in a newsletter I recently read. I’m excited to try it. Because this has turmeric, I would also strongly suggest adding fresh black pepper so the body better absorbs the turmeric and reaps its benefits!
Add some black pepper when you add the turmeric which helps activate turmeric properties.
How many cups are 2 “large” sweet potatoes? I used 2 sweet potatoes and they were clearly not large enough since the broth came nowhere near to being fully absorbed.
Great question, Kristen. I’m guessing we used at least 3-4 cups of diced sweet potatoes. So sorry about that!
My mouth is watering! I cannot wait to have this. And yes, I’m sure we would all love more recipes like this!
I looove this dish. So yummy and comforting. But whenever I make it it takes forever for the sweet potato to soften. Like an hour. Any ideas what I might be doing wrong/tips to speed up the process ? I’ve tried cutting into smaller pieces. Should I peel the sweet potato? Are they supposed to be totally submerged in the broth? Thank you!!!
It was as a gray day here and this looked like comfort food, so I tried it. I used barley and brown rice for the grains, spring greens salad mix for the greens, salted almonds for the nuts, and accidentally bought yellow sweet potatoes instead of the orange yam type. Omg this is delicious! The flavors and texture are on point. It took me longer than expected, but was so worth it. I’ll be happily eating this for the next few days. Thank you for this recipe!
This is my new favorite recipe. The combination of flavors are really genius. I am putting the dressing on the sweet potatoes and an egg, and it outta sight!
Absolutely love this recipe! I prefer to make it with baby spinach, hard-boiled egg whites, and walnuts.
We did not like this recipe at all. The dressing was good, but the whole thing together was weird and didn’t jive. Sorry.
I want to eat healthy again and those bowls are amazing
I want to eat healthy again and this receipt are going to help me to go back to my weight
I appreciate that you said it works well for one or two people. I have a large family of 7. It is challenging to do bowls, I love the concept though. Also I love a good poached egg! Yummm…however it is challenging with the timing of having all,the ingredients warm and the eggs cooked right(I need one of those old fashioned egg poachers like my mom had that poached 5-6 eggs at a time) then assembling the bowls. I want my kiddos to,have the presentation and to,get all,the ingredients which if left to their own devices half of them will leave off half of the things…so I don’t have a lot of solutions but I wanted to offer my opinion as a large family and say I love bowls but I don’t make them often since I have yet to master getting the timing right with everything. However I’m no quitter and I will definitely keep trying. Especially one of these, as they look fantastic!! Thanks for the great idea!!
Where did you purchase that gorgeous speckled, rustic bowl that you used to hold this delicious meal?
Lindsay’s father-in-law made it!
I loved how customisable this recipe was. The dressing was so light and refreshing. I added a teaspoon of miso to the mash and added some truffle oil to the spinach I served the dish with. Delicious
I thought it tasted good! It seemed like it was missing something though. My husband made some falafel for variety.
What could I substitute to replace the sweet potato?!
You could try butternut squash!
What happens if you don’t have any kind of broth what else can be used
You could try a combination of water, salt, or butter/oil. A bit of wine added to water would work too!
YUM!! Oh my goodness this was sooo good! Even the teenager said it was “okay “!
I can always count on you to get me out of my recipe rut! While I wouldn’t have put these ingredients together myself, I can hands down say this is one of the BEST bowls I have ever made. The contrast of flavors and textures makes me never wanting it to end. My whole house was down for the count and I make these for dinner and it just felt good like it should. I did end up looking up muffin tin egg poached in the oven and this morning poached in the microwave and I’ll stick to those two methods for sure for those lovely poached eggs! I’m also the person that WANTS to love arugula, but I have a love hate with it and I found baby arugula instead and that was perfect!
So glad you enjoyed the bowls, Bri! Thanks for the comment!
Is the poached egg included in the nutrient facts for this recipe? Or are the nutrient facts only inclusive of the grains, sweet potatoes, greens, and dressing?
How long does it take to simmer the sweet potatoes until soft? I’m trying to plan how much time I’ll need.
We’d estimate 15-20 minutes!
I’ve been following you for about four months now and am having so much fun. I’ve been cooking up a storm for my household and everybody’s loving it. I’m making Healing Bowls with Turmeric Sweet Potatoes tomorrow. I’m looking at the gorgeous photography and wondering where you found those beautiful bowls. I usually use white dishes, which are great, but these bowls are inspiring! Thank you for all you’re doing!
Patty
Thanks for following along and giving the recipes a try, Patty! The bowls in the photos are made by Lindsay’s father-in-law. Here’s a link to his shop: https://www.larryostrompottery.com/shop
Made this for dinner tonight. It was amazing! I could eat this 3-4 days a week. I did a soft boiled egg and added walnuts.
So glad you enjoyed it, Laura!
Can I substitute honey for agave?
Yes, honey will work! Enjoy!