Savory Quinoa Breakfast Bowl with Veggies
This Savory Quinoa Breakfast Bowl is the best way to start your day, loaded with protein, fiber, and flavor from the eggs, sautéed veggies, and avocado.
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 cup quinoa
- 2 cups vegetable broth
- 2 cups sliced baby bella or white button mushrooms 2 cups mushrooms = approx. 4 ounces
- 2 cups spinach
- 1 cup grape tomatoes 1 cup grape tomatoes = approx. 5 ounces
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon black pepper
- 2 large eggs
- 1 large avocado
Instructions
- Rinse quinoa with clean water in a sieve and add it to a medium pot with the vegetable broth. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat to low and cover. Cook for 15 minutes, then remove from heat and let sit, covered, for an additional 10 minutes.
- Meanwhile, prep your vegetables. Chop the spinach, slice the mushrooms, and cut the grape tomatoes in half longways.
- Add olive oil to a large frying pan over medium heat. Allow it to get hot for about 1-2 minutes before adding your prepped vegetables and a pinch of salt and pepper. Cook the vegetables over medium heat until the liquid has released and evaporated, stirring occasionally (about ten minutes).
- Remove the vegetables from the pan and set aside. There should be some olive oil left in the pan from sauteing the vegetables, but if that pan looks too dry add a dash more. With the pan still over medium heat, fry the eggs to desired temperature (over easy, over medium, or over hard*).
- Cut your avocado in half, discard the pit, and remove the flesh from both halves. Slice thin and season with salt and pepper.
- Assemble your quinoa breakfast bowls by starting with quinoa and layering on sauteed vegetables and egg. Top with avocado, add extra salt and pepper to taste, and enjoy hot.
Notes
- *For over easy eggs, allow the egg to fry until the white is opaque. Then, remove your pan from the heat, flip the egg, and allow the residual heat on the pan to cook the second side of the egg for about 1 minute.
- *For over medium eggs, use the same technique, but this time, do not remove your pan from the heat. Once you flip the egg, allow the egg to cook on the second side over medium-low heat for about 1 minute.
- *For over hard eggs, cook until the yolk is completely solid. More details in this over hard eggs recipe.
- For another delicious breakfast with an egg, check out this Smoked Salmon Eggs Benedict.