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Vegetarian Quinoa Bowl with Roasted Kale, Chickpeas and a Lemon Tahini Dressing

August 18, 2018 by mbmccarrick@gmail.com Leave a Comment

quinoa with roasted kale

This power quinoa bowl is bursting with flavors that your taste buds will love! Roasted kale and chickpeas are mixed with a garlicy lemon tahini dressing and topped with avocado and green onions. 

quinoa with roasted kale

Thursdays have slowly become my favorite day of the week! Crazy right?? But I’m fortunate enough to have Thursdays off from work and they have become my recipe testing, cooking, and food photography day. For countless Thursdays I have created quinoa power bowls for lunch/dinner from whatever I have left in my fridge. This vegetarian quinoa bowl with roasted kale, chickpeas, avocado, and a lemon tahini dressing is definitely in the top five!

Roasted kale chips are probably my all time favorite thing to snack on. My sister and I will clean out my garden and sit around devouring them all day. I’m not even kidding; sometimes we don’t even make it to the couch, we just stand over the tray on top of the stove grabbing handfuls!

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For this recipe I used homemade roasted kale, but store bought chickpeas. You can use store bought of both or roast both yourself! But the recipe will take longer if you roast chickpeas at home.

Vegetarian Quinoa Bowl with Roasted Kale, Chickpeas and a Lemon Tahini Dressing
 
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Prep time
15 mins
Cook time
15 mins
Total time
30 mins
 
This power quinoa bowl is bursting with flavors that your taste buds will love! Roasted kale and chickpeas are mixed with a garlicy lemon tahini dressing and topped with avocado and green onions
Author: Meg's Meal Planning
Serves: 1
Ingredients
  • ½ cup uncooked quinoa
  • 3 large kale leaves
  • Olive oil
  • Salt
  • ¼ cup roasted chickpeas
  • ½ avocado, cut into bite size pieces
  • 2 tbsp tahini
  • 2 tbsp water
  • 2 tbsp lemon juice
  • 1½ tbsp olive oil
  • Pepper
  • Pinch of roasted garlic seasoning
  • 1 green onion stalk, diced
Instructions
  1. Cook quinoa according to package directions, set aside to cool.
  2. Meanwhile, preheat oven to 350 degrees. Wash and rip kale leaves into bit size pieces.
  3. Layer on baking sheet, drizzle with olive oil, and salt. Bake about 10 minutes or until browning, tossing halfway through.
  4. Once quinoa has cooled, transfer to a medium size mixing bowl, add in the kale, chickpeas, and avocado.
  5. In small mixing bowl stir together the tahini, water, lemon juice, olive oil, salt, pepper, and roasted garlic seasoning.
  6. Pour dressing over the quinoa mixture and stir together. Top with green onion.
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Vegetarian Quinoa Bowls with Cilantro Lime Dressing

May 13, 2018 by mbmccarrick@gmail.com Leave a Comment

Vegetarian quinoa bowl and cilantro lime dressing

This cilantro lime dressing is tangy and just a little sweet. You’ll want to use it on top of everything, like this easy and healthy vegetarian quinoa bowl. 

Quinoa bowl

Finally the weather is getting nice and the only thing my son wants to do when we get home at the end of the day is “PLAY OUTSIDE” as he nicely tells me in his sweet two-year-old voice. I love it; we easily stay out until 6 or 6:30 pm, but just like a typical two year old, he has no patience to let me cook dinner. Insert easy vegetarian quinoa bowl to the rescue!

My favorite part about these quinoa bowls is many of the items can be prepped in advance or cooked a day or two before with another dinner. Having a baked sweet potato another night? Cook an extra one to use in this recipe.

cilantro lime dressing

The cook time for this recipe assumes you already have the sweet potato cooked. If you don’t, remember to allow for an extra 45 minutes for that to bake in the oven or you can cook it in the microwave.

Easy Vegetarian Quinoa Bowls with Cilantro Lime Dressing
 
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Prep time
15 mins
Cook time
12 mins
Total time
27 mins
 
Author: Meg's Meal Planning
Recipe type: Quinoa Bowl
Cuisine: American
Serves: 2
Ingredients
  • 1 cup uncooked quinoa
  • ½ cup red onion, chopped
  • 1 cup red bell pepper, chopped
  • 1 cup baked sweet potato, cubed
  • 1 cup avocado, diced
  • For the cilantro lime dressing:
  • ½ cup vanilla greek yogurt
  • 6 tbsp mayo
  • 6 tbsp lime juice
  • 3 garlic gloves, minced
  • 1 cup cilantro, chopped
  • Salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
  1. Cook the quinoa according to package directions.
  2. In a large bowl combine the red onion, red bell pepper, sweet potato, and avocado.
  3. In a small bowl combine the greek yogurt, mayo, lime juice, garlic, and cilantro. Season with salt and pepper. Set aside.
  4. Once the quinoa has finished cooking, add it to the large bowl. Then add the cilantro lime dressing. Toss together.
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