This quinoa energy bowl is the form of lunch I favored to tug collectively again within the days we’d work in our studio in San Francisco’s Chinatown. It was one thing I might make usually as a result of it checks all of the packing containers — attention-grabbing, seasonal, filling, and nutritious. The bottom is solely mung beans and quinoa topped numerous good things. I might argue, the magic *actually* comes from deeply sautéed and spiced celery. The celery brings an unbelievable quantity of taste and depth to the remainder of the dish, and welcomes all types of different toppings – roasted cherry tomatoes, salted dill yogurt, fast pickled purple onions, chopped olives.

The Key to an Straightforward Energy Bowl

I are inclined to hold a spread of cooked beans and grains available, and that’s one little trick that makes one thing like this straightforward to tug collectively. So, if you’d like one thing like this quinoa energy bowl to return collectively shortly, the bottom line is to make parts forward of time. Do a little bit of meal prep. I are inclined to prepare dinner parts for the week on the weekends, in massive batches, after which hold an quantity I believe we would eat within the fridge.  Freeze the the remaining after permitting it to chill fully. This fashion I at all times have cooked quinoa, barley, brown rice, mung beans, only a fast thaw away.

Maintain it Easy or Load it Up!

In terms of energy bowls, you can also make issues easy, or flared them out with as many toppings as you want (as pictured). This was a late summer season model, however I think about an autumn model with roasted delicata squash, or baked mushrooms, or herb jam can be nice later within the yr. Or do a selfmade labneh rather than the yogurt.

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